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201 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94102

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FIRST VIOLIN YUKIKO KURAKATA AND PRINCIPAL HORN ROBERT WARD RETIRE IN DECEMBER 2023

FEBRUARY 2024 SOUNDBOX PROGRAM CANCELLATION

THE SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY AND CARTIER PRESENT A MULTISENSORY PERFORMANCE OF ALEXANDER SCRIABIN’S PROMETHEUS, THE POEM OF FIRE MARCH 1–3, 2024

Nov 10, 2023

ESA-PEKKA SALONEN AND THE SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY’S
SFS MEDIA RECORDINGS NOMINATED FOR TWO 2024 GRAMMY AWARDS

BEST ORCHESTRAL PERFORMANCE FOR IGOR STRAVINSKY: THE RITE OF SPRING

BEST CHORAL PERFORMANCE FOR GYÖRGY LIGETI: LUX AETERNA

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Nov 7, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC AND SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY’S EMERGING BLACK COMPOSERS PROJECT TO PARTNER WITH GAUTIER CAPUÇON FOR NEW COMMISSION

Composer Quenton Xavier Blache will receive $5,000 commission for a new piece to be featured on an upcoming album from Capuçon and premiered by the cellist at Davies Symphony Hall in the 2024–25 season

Blache was anonymously selected by Capuçon from the 2023 Emerging Black Composers Project applications

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Nov 6, 2023

THE SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY ANNOUNCES FULL 2023 HOLIDAY CONCERT SEASON, NOVEMBER 30–DECEMBER 23, 2023, AT DAVIES SYMPHONY HALL

Special guests include vocalists Oleta Adams, Peabo Bryson, Jennifer Holliday, and Ruben Studdard in The Colors of Christmas; Mariachi Sol de México® de José Hernández in A Merry-Achi Christmas; Troupe Vertigo in Cirque Nutcracker; and Peaches Christ, Rory Davies, Bianca Del Rio, Renée Lubin, Dylan Mulvaney, Edwin Outwater, Michael Phillis, Nikola Printz, Sister Roma from The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, and the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus in Holiday Gaiety

Family-friendly performances include the Symphony’s annual Deck the Hall celebrations, Cirque Nutcracker, Peter and the Wolf performed by the SF Symphony Youth Orchestra with guest narrator Tom Kenny, holiday films The Nightmare Before Christmas and Home Alone, and A Charlie Brown Christmas—Live!

The SF Symphony performs live accompaniment to three iconic holiday films: The Nightmare Before Christmas, Love Actually, and Home Alone

Conductor Jonathan Cohen leads SF Symphony, Chorus, and vocal soloists in George Frideric Handel’s Messiah and Symphony’s popular Holiday Brass program returns

Tickets for holiday concerts available at sfsymphony.org/holiday

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Nov 2, 2023

THE SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY YOUTH ORCHESTRA AND WATTIS FOUNDATION MUSIC DIRECTOR DANIEL STEWART PERFORM FIVE CONCERTS IN THE 2023–24 SEASON

November 19 season-opening concert includes Leonard Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s Metacosmos, and Richard Wagner’s Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde

Other 2023–24 SFSYO performances include the ensemble’s annual Peter and the Wolf performance, this year with narrator Tom Kenny (December 10); a concert of works by Felix Mendelssohn, Arvo Pärt, Maurice Ravel, and Alexander Glazunov’s Violin Concerto featuring SFSYO Concerto Competition winner Hiro Yoshimura (March 17); and a performance of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 (May 19)

The SFSYO and Music Director Daniel Stewart host the Bay Area Youth Orchestra Festival on January 14, featuring five local youth ensembles

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