Steven Reineke is one of North America’s leading conductors of popular music and is in his second decade as Music Director of The New York Pops at Carnegie Hall. Additionally, he is Principal Pops Conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Houston Symphony, and Toronto Symphony Orchestra.

Reineke is a frequent guest conductor and can be seen on the podium with the Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, and Detroit Symphony Orchestras.

On stage, Reineke creates and collaborates with a range of leading artists from the worlds of hip-hop, R&B, Broadway, television, and rock including Killer Mike, Maxwell, Common, Kendrick Lamar, Nas, Ne-Yo, Barry Manilow, Cynthia Erivo, Ben Rector, Cody Fry, Sutton Foster, Amos Lee, Dispatch, Jason Mraz, and Ben Folds, amongst others.

As the creator of hundreds of orchestral arrangements, Reineke has seen his work performed worldwide, and it can be heard on numerous Cincinnati Pops Orchestra recordings. His wind ensemble compositions are published by the C.L. Barnhouse Company and are performed by concert bands perennially.

Adrienne Warren’s talent as a singer, actress, and dancer has established her as a dynamic triple threat. 

Warren is perhaps most well known for her Tony Award–winning performance as Tina Turner in Broadway’s Tina: The Tina Turner Musical. Warren originated the role in numerous workshops of the show, working together with Tina Turner herself to embody the titular role. Warren transferred the role to Broadway following the 2018 West End production, for which she earned 2019 Olivier, Evening Standard, and Joe Allen Award nominations. 

Warren’s performance in the Broadway run has been heralded as “extraordinary” (The Hollywood Reporter), “electrifying” (Rolling Stone) and “star-making” (The New York Times). In addition to the Tony Award, she also received a Chita Rivera Award nomination and the Drama Desk, Antonyo, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for her iconic performance.

Warren previously earned Tony and Chita Rivera Award nominations for her performance as Gertrude Saunders/Florence Mills in the Broadway production of Shuffle Along opposite Audra McDonald. Warren made her Broadway début in 2012’s Bring It On: The Musical and previously appeared onstage in The Wiz (Encores! at New York City Center) and Dreamgirls (The Apollo; NAACP Theatre Award nomination).

She made her Carnegie Hall début in 2017 with The New York Pops and continues to perform around the world. In 2023, she was featured on PBS’s annual “A Capitol Fourth” performing an electrifying tribute to the late Tina Turner.

Warren can be seen in the feature films Rustin, starring Colman Domingo, and The Woman King, starring Viola Davis. She starred as Benny in Hulu’s Black Cake, based on the best-selling book, and as Mamie Till-Mobley, who devoted her life to seeking justice for her son, Emmett Till, in Women of the Movement, a limited series for ABC. Other television and film credits include Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank, Helpsters, Quantico, Black Box, Blue Bloods, and Orange Is the New Black. Warren’s voice can also be heard as the iconic spokesperson for Maybelline cosmetics.

Warren is a co-founder of the Broadway Advocacy Coalition (BAC), which unites artists, experts, students, and community leaders to use storytelling and artistry to combat systemic racism. BAC received a special Tony Award in 2021.

Next up, Warren will return to Broadway opposite Nick Jonas in The Last Five Years. 

She is a graduate of Marymount Manhattan College and the Governor’s School for the Arts in Norfolk, Virginia.

Alvin Hough Jr. is a pianist, conductor, and arranger in New York City. He is currently the Associate Music Director of Disney’s The Lion King on Broadway and was the Associate Music Supervisor of Merrily We Roll Along, featuring Daniel Radcliffe, which just closed in July after winning the Tony for Best Revival.

Hough had the immense pleasure of working with Adrienne Warren on Tina: The Tina Turner Musical and is honoured to be performing again with her here in Toronto. Hough has also worked on numerous films and TV series, from Schmigadoon! season two and Spirited to Annie Live! and the South Park 25th-anniversary commercials. Classically trained by a private teacher from the age of 5, Hough has had the privilege of performing at the Kennedy Center, the Capitol, and the White House while growing up in Washington, DC.

One of the more important things Hough likes to share is that there is no special formula to end up on Broadway. As proof, even though he’s currently not using them, Hough holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard College in earth and planetary sciences, and a master’s degree in meteorology from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He sends love to his wife, Rebecca, and their two young children, Samuel (7) and Camille (5).