Opus 3 Artists

Opus 3 is thrilled to welcome back Composer, Conductor, and Producer Steve Hackman for worldwide representation! A true creative force, Hackman blends classical and modern styles, redefining 21st-century art music. Known for groundbreaking orchestral fusions like “Brahms X Radiohead” and “The Resurrection Mixtape (Mahler X Notorious B.I.G. X Tupac)”, his sold-out performances with major U.S. orchestras are bringing classical music to new audiences. Learn more here: https://bit.ly/3CB8rOt

Huge congratulations to all of the Opus 3 2025 GRAMMY nominees! Béla Fleck, Marin Alsop, JoAnn Falletta, Daniela Mack, Ryan McKinny, Michael Chioldi, Nicholas Phan, Yo-Yo Ma, Leonidas Kavakos, Emanuel Ax, Mason Bates and Christopher Rountree. A special shout out also goes to John Holiday and William Burden who appeared on Best Opera Recording nominee "Puts: The Hours". https://lnkd.in/eR2ZDq4h

Join the team! We are hiring an Administrative & Personal Assistant. Details here: https://lnkd.in/ezfbKrZ9

Yuja Wang signs general management to Opus 3 Artists and Askonas Holt. Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/404OCZu

We are pleased to welcome Sean Mayes to our roster for worldwide general management. Born in Toronto and based in New York City, he enjoys an active and varied career internationally with his work as a conductor, music director, orchestrator, arranger, composer, author, and educator—spanning numerous musical styles throughout the world’s largest theaters and concert halls.?Mayes is the incoming Worldwide Music Supervisor for Disney’s "The Lion King" and Music Supervisor & Co-Orchestrator for the Broadway bound "ALI: The Musical," composed by conductor Teddy Abrams & hip-hop legend Q-Tip, to premiere at the Nederlander Theater in Chicago in Spring 2025. Mr Mayes is also Music Director for Broadway luminary André De Shields. Recent highlights as a conductor and music director include leading the Tony Award?-winning productions "MJ: The Musical" and "Hadestown," the American Pops Orchestra in "Black Broadway: A Proud History, A Limitless Future" on PBS, "The Voice of Whitney: A Symphonic Celebration" at the Ravinia Festival with the Chicago Philharmonic, the new musical "Mandela," at the Young Vic, and the Finnish premiere of "Come From Away. Equally at ease in the classical world, Sean Mayes composed and orchestrated Aportia Chryptych: A Black Opera for Portia White alongside Canadian multidisciplinary artist HAUI. He also conducted its world premiere at the Canadian Opera Company in the 2023/2024 season. The Globe & Mail hailed its "sweeping, chameleonic score, solidifying Aportia Chryptych as a full-sized, big-room opera.” He is a member of the Recording Academy and has published three books on theater and music industry artists and leaders of color. Learn more ?? https://lnkd.in/gWN84Cpj

We are delighted to welcome Bass-Baritone Jongwon Han to the roster for general management. Hailed for his “smoothly powerful” and “excellent” voice, he is making a name for himself as one of the top young artists on the rise. Currently an Adler Fellow at the San Francisco Opera, Mr. Han made his debut there in the summer of 2023 as The Bonze in Madama Butterfly. During the 24/25 season he appears as Tom in Un Ballo in Maschera and covers both Escamillo in Carmen and the bass soloist in the Beethoven Symphony No. 9, and will be featured in both the San Francisco Opera’s annual Opera in the Park concert and the Adler Fellowship’s annual Rising Stars concert. Other engagements this season include Colline and Sprecher with Opera Naples, The Bonze at the Utah Opera, and concerts in Hawaii. He won Third Prize at the 2022 Operalia World Opera Competition and was a Grand Finalist in the 2021 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, among many other notable prizes. Learn more ? https://lnkd.in/e9n6aQKf

Congratulations to the wonderful Giancarlo Guerrero, who has been named the Grant Park Music Festival's Artistic Director and Principal Conductor. Guerrero, a six-time GRAMMY Award-winning conductor, led the Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus for three concerts during the 2024 season. He is currently completing a 16-year tenure as Music Director of the Nashville Symphony and is the Music Director Designate of Sarasota Orchestra. Guerrero will join the Festival effective immediately to program the concert schedule for the 10-week 2025 season in the Jay Pritzker Pavilion, and is slated to conduct for four weeks next summer. The Festival has presented free classical concerts since 1935, and attracts hundreds of thousands of Chicagoans and visitors each year. Learn more ?? https://lnkd.in/eqkVAGss

We are thrilled to welcome Soprano Kathleen O’Mara to the roster for general management. Kathleen is the 2024 1st Prize and Birgit Nilsson Prize winner of the Operalia Competition and recipient of the prestigious Sara Tucker Study Grant from the Richard Tucker Music Foundation. Her upcoming season engagements include debuts with The Metropolitan Opera, San Diego Opera, the LA Philharmonic, and The Dallas Opera. She is currently a member of the LA Opera Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program. Learn more about this soprano on the rise ? https://lnkd.in/eq6EjbRG

We are very excited to welcome prolific Countertenor Reginald Mobley?to our roster for North America. The GRAMMY-nominated American singer is globally renowned for his interpretation of baroque, classical and modern repertoire. An advocate for diversity in music and its programming, Reginald became the first ever Programming Consultant for the Handel & Haydn Society, holds the position of Visiting Artist for Diversity Outreach with Apollo’s Fire, and has recently been appointed as Artistic Advisor at the Portland Baroque Orchestra. Reginald is also leading a research project in the UK funded by the AHRC to uncover music by composers from diverse backgrounds. Recent and upcoming highlights include appearances with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Early Music Vancouver, Collegium San Diego, Agave, Seraphic Fire, Washington Bach Consort, Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists, Bach Akademie, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, and leading orchestras including Pittsburgh Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Washington National Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and many more. His first solo recording with ALPHA Classics was released in June 2023 to coincide with a major series of concerts with pianist Baptiste Trotignon at the Aix-en-Provence and BBC Proms festivals. It was awarded the Opus Klassik Awards in the ‘Classics without limits’ category. Learn more ? https://lnkd.in/eUVtvJuA

Giancarlo Guerrero has been announced as Sarasota Orchestra's Seventh Music Director! He will serve as Music Director Designate in the upcoming season and officially begin his tenure with the 2025-2026 season. “In the search committee’s work to identify our next music director, it was clear to us that Giancarlo’s time with the Nashville Symphony has been extraordinary,” said Daniel Jordan, Sarasota Orchestra concertmaster and search committee member. “When committee members visited Giancarlo and saw his performances, it was obvious he has the special ‘it’ factor that allows him to truly connect with audiences. Our Sarasota community then got to experience that firsthand this past season during his exhilarating Masterworks week.?I could not be more thrilled!” Learn more ? https://lnkd.in/e63miDm7