Visconti Arts has announced the signing of conductors Kazem Abdullah and Chia-Hsuan Lin and composer Brian Raphael Nabors to its international roster.

Abdullah joins following a run of landmark engagements, most recently opening the Metropolitan Opera’s 2023-24 season with Anthony Davis’s “X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X.” His 2025-26 season includes debut appearances with the Naples Philharmonic, Kansas City Symphony, and North Carolina Symphony, alongside return engagements with the Indianapolis Symphony and Seattle Opera. He previously served as Generalmusikdirektor in Aachen and as Assistant Conductor at the Metropolitan Opera.

Lin is now in her second season as Music Director of the Rochester Symphony in Minnesota and serves as Principal Guest Conductor of the Richmond Symphony. Upcoming highlights include debuts with the Orlando Philharmonic and a return to the Minnesota Orchestra for its Lunar New Year concert. She was among four conductors selected by the National Symphony Orchestra for its 2025 Emerging Conductors Concert.

Nabors, a Birmingham, Alabama native whose work draws on R&B, jazz, funk, and Black marching band traditions, has had his music performed by the Boston Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, and others at venues including Carnegie Hall and the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg. This season he performs his own Hammond Organ Concerto with the Oakland Symphony and Minnesota Orchestra. He is currently Assistant Professor of Composition at Louisiana State University.

The three join a roster that includes conductors Damien Geter, Mélisse Brunet, Rei Hotoda, and Roger Kalia, and composers Vijay Gupta and Tobias Picker.

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