Human: Alive in the AI Age (26-27 Signature Series)
What exactly makes us human? We spend our days with machines that speak, write, and compose, and the oldest question has become urgent again. This season looks for the answer in the one art form that cannot be automated without ceasing to exist. Four themed concerts climb the oldest ladder there is, one rung at a time, from the body, to the elements our world is made of, to the mind, and finally inward, to the soul. Around them stand the traditions that anchor our year, and, new this season, Tahoe's first opera.
This is not a season about artificial intelligence. It is a season about us, and about the ancient conversation on who we are, made newly urgent by the machines we are building.
This season, we welcome Hannah von Wiehler as our new Artistic Director! American conductor, trained at Moscow Conservatory, Georgetown, and Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and seasoned on podiums from Carnegie Hall to the Opéra National de Bordeaux, Hannah von Wiehler begins a three-year tenure (2026–2029) as TOCCATA's Artistic Director and Principal Conductor with the 2026–2027 season.
Appointed following an international search, von Wiehler is the first full-time Artistic Director appointment in TOCCATA's history, chosen by the Board of Directors to lead the orchestra and chorus into a new era.
