Holiday Brass

Edwin Outwater regularly works with the world’s top orchestras, institutions, and artists to reinvent the concert experience. His ability to cross genres has led to collaborations with Metallica, Wynton Marsalis, Renée Fleming, and Yo-Yo Ma. He is music director of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and music director laureate of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony.

Recent appearances include the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Diego Symphony, Seattle Symphony, and the New World Symphony, as well as the Royal Philharmonic in a multi-concert series opening the Steinmetz Hall in Florida. He also served as a producer and musical advisor for the National Symphony Orchestra’s 50th Anniversary Concert at the Kennedy Center. In December 2022, he premiered A Christmas Gaiety at the Royal Albert Hall with Peaches Christ and the BBC Concert Orchestra, and returned in 2023. 

Outwater has held a long association with San Francisco Symphony since making his debut in November 2001, having served as Resident Conductor, Director of Summer Concerts, and Music Director of the SF Symphony Youth Orchestra.

Jon Miller has been the play-by-play announcer for the San Francisco Giants since 1997, broadcasting on KNBR Radio, NBC Bay Area, and NBC Sports Bay Area. In 2024, he marked the 50th anniversary of his first Major League Baseball broadcast when he debuted with the Oakland Athletics. He was honored by the National Baseball Hall of Fame as the 2010 Ford C. Frick award winner for baseball broadcasting excellence, was named “one of the 50 most significant off-field figures in baseball in the past 50 years” by the Society of American Baseball Research, and has been inducted into the Hall of Fame of the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association and the National Radio Hall of Fame. Miller has won multiple Northern California Emmy Awards and was twice nominated for national Emmys for his work on ESPN. He has broadcast 16 World Series as well as NHL hockey, NBA basketball, and championship socccer games on national television. “The Voice of the Giants” made his San Francisco Symphony debut in July 2011, narrating Casey at the Bat at Shoreline Amphitheatre.