Mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke caused a sensation as Kitty Oppenheimer in the Metropolitan Opera première of John Adams’s Doctor Atomic, which won the 2012 Grammy Award^® for Best Opera Recording. She has collaborated in premières of works by Jack Beeson, William Bolcom, John Corigliano, Luigi Dallapiccola, John Musto and Augusta Read Thomas, and performed with orchestras including the Cleveland, the Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Detroit and New Zealand symphonies, the Shanghai, Hong Kong, New York and Los Angeles philharmonics, Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Orpheus, St Paul Chamber Orchestra, and Orchestre de Lyon, with conductors including Bernard Haitink, Louis Langree, Leonard Slatkin, Michael Tilson Thomas and Edo de Waart.