New Year’s Eve with Seth MacFarlane and the SF Symphony
Overview
Celebrate in style with Grammy Award-nominated singer, actor, and director Seth MacFarlane, who brings a winning combination of rich crooning and cool pizazz that would do Frank and Dino proud. Watch him light up the stage with the SF Symphony in a performance of jazz standards and holiday favorites conducted by Edwin Outwater.
Conductor
Recent appearances include the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Diego Symphony, Seattle Symphony, and New World Symphony, as well as the Royal Philharmonic in a multi-concert series opening the Steinmetz Hall in Florida. He also served as a producer and musical advisor for the National Symphony’ s 50th anniversary concert at the Kennedy Center. In December 2022, he premiered A Christmas Gaiety at the Royal Albert Hall with Peaches Christ and the BBC Concert Orchestra and returned in 2023. Outwater has held a long association with San Francisco Symphony. He was appointed Resident Conductor and Wattis Foundation Music Director of the SF Symphony Youth Orchestra by Michael Tilson Thomas in 2001 and they remained friends and colleagues for 25 years.
Vocalist
Seth MacFarlane’s talents encompass every aspect of the entertainment industry. A true multi-hyphenate, he is behind some of today’s most popular content in television, music, and film, having garnered five Emmys, five Grammy nominations, and an Academy Award nomination.
Mr. MacFarlane has released seven studio albums: Music Is Better Than Words; Holiday for Swing; No One Ever Tells You; In Full Swing; Once in a While; Great Songs From Stage & Screen; and his most recent, Blue Skies, which he recorded at the historic Abbey Road studios. In addition to multiple Grammy nominations, these albums have garnered him several No. 1 debuts on the iTunes Jazz Charts and New Release Jazz pages. Mr. MacFarlane has lent his baritone voice performing a duet with Barbra Streisand and joining legendary composer John Williams onstage at the Hollywood Bowl. With a deep appreciation for the Great American Songbook, he purchased the entire Frank Sinatra chart library and has traveled the world singing with numerous celebrated orchestras and festivals, including BBC Proms, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Boston Pops, and Chicago Symphony. He made his San Francisco Symphony debut on New Year’s Eve 2014.
At age 24, Mr. MacFarlane became the youngest showrunner in television history when his animated series Family Guy aired on Fox. The show garnered him five Emmys and has made him tied for the record of most voiceover Emmy wins. Most recently, he premiered The Orville: New Horizons on Hulu, the third season of his Emmy-nominated space adventure series, which he created and stars in. On the feature side, he wrote and directed Ted, Ted 2, and A Million Ways to Die in the West. Through his production company, Fuzzy Door, Mr. MacFarlane is currently in production on the anticipated Ted TV series for Peacock, a prequel to the hugely successful films, in which he will reprise the voice of the iconic, foul-mouthed teddy bear.
(11/2022)
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