Ariana Kim, one of three hosts and writers for the 2022-23 season of This Is Minnesota Orchestra, the Emmy Award-winning Twin Cities PBS broadcast and online livestream series, is an acclaimed violinist and a tenured professor at Cornell University. Her career has brought her around the world—performing across the country in San Francisco, New Orleans and New York City, and abroad in South Korea, Italy and beyond. Although currently based in New York, she continues to maintain Minnesota ties as she leads the Chamber Music Society of Minnesota as co-artistic director and returns for appearances on popular series like Liquid Music and The Great Northern. She earned a 2019 Grammy nomination with the Aizuri Quartet and has served as acting concertmaster of the Louisiana Philharmonic, performs with the New York-based musical collective The Knights and was a member of the new music ensemble Ne(x)tworks for 10 seasons. At age 16 she made her debut with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra performing Mozart’s Fifth Violin Concerto. In 2021 she taught as a visiting artist at Seoul National University.

William Eddins has a multi-faceted musical career as a conductor and pianist. He is the music director emeritus of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, a former associate conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra and a frequent guest conductor of major orchestras throughout the world. In September 2022 he led the Orchestra’s season opening concerts in a program that included the Minnesota premiere of Wynton Marsalis’ Swing Symphony, performed with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.

Sarah Hicks is the Minnesota Orchestra’s principal conductor of Live at Orchestra Hall, a role in which she oversees planning for and conducts many concerts in the broad-spectrum series of popular music, jazz, Broadway classics, movie scores and other genres. She also conducted the Inside the Classics and Sam & Sarah series for ten seasons.