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COVID-19 Update: The San Francisco Symphony has resumed live performances inside Davies Symphony Hall.

The health and safety of our patrons, musicians, staff, and volunteers is our top priority. Please visit sfsymphony.org/safety to read
the San Francisco Symphony’s Health and Safety FAQ.

The following concerts are canceled:

2020-21 Season

September 27: Legion of Honor Chamber Music
October 2–3: Salonen: J.S. Bach & Sibelius 1
October 8–11: Salonen: Duke Bluebeard’s Castle
October 15–17: Respighi’s Pines of Rome
October 18: Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, & City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
October 19: Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Gidon Kremer, & City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
October 23 & 25: Buchbinder Performs Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 5
October 24: Buchbinder Performs Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos. 2, 3, & 4
October 25: Flute Recital with Sir James Galway
October 26: Piano Recital with Rudolf Buchbinder
October 27: Chick Corea with the SF Symphony
October 30–November 1: MTT: Mahler 1
November 5–6, 8: MTT: Beethoven’s Missa solemnis
November 8: China Philharmonic
November 10: Israel Philharmonic Performs Mozart & Rite of Spring
November 12, 14: The Fight for Equality: Julia Wolfe & Florence Price
November 14: Music for Families: Music Around the World–Percussion
November 15: Youth Orchestra
November 20–22: Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique
November 27–28: The Princess Bride in Concert Film with SF Symphony
November 29: Legion of Honor Chamber Music
November 29: Chamber Music: Natural Beauty–Schubert's Trout Quintet
December 2-3: Holiday Soul
December 6: Chamber Music with Batiashvili, Capuçon, & Thibaudet
December 11–12: Handel’s Messiah
December 12: Music for Families: Superheroes
December 13: Peter and the Wolf
December 13: A Merry-Achi Christmas with Mariachi Sol de México® de José Hernández
December 15–16: Love Actually Film with SF Symphony
December 17: Holiday Brass
December 19, 22–23: Home Alone Film with SF Symphony
December 20: ’Twas the Night–Festival of Carols
December 31: New Year’s Gaiety
January 8–9: Raiders of the Lost Ark in Concert Film with SF Symphony
January 10: An Evening with Itzhak Perlman
January 14–16: A New American Sound
January 17: Chamber Music: Dance Moves—Music of Piazzolla & Bartók
January 21–23: MTT: Emanuel Ax Plays Mozart
January 24: Bach Collegium Japan Performs Mozart’s Mass in C minor
January 27: Open Rehearsal: MTT: Yuja Plays Rach Piano Concerto No. 2
January 27–30: MTT: Yuja Plays Rach
February 1: Valery Gergiev & Mariinsky Orchestra
February 2: Gautier Capuçon and Yuja Wang in Recital
February 4: Open Rehearsal: Give Me Shelter
February 4, 6: Give Me Shelter: Gabriel Kahane’s Emergency Shelter Intake Form
February 6: Music for Families: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
February 7: Organ Concert Series
February 8: Violin Recital: Joshua Bell
February 11: Open Rehearsal: Lunar New Year: Celebrating Asia
February 11, 13: Lunar New Year: Celebrating Asia
February 12: An Evening with Bernadette Peters
February 14: Chamber Music: Homage—Dvořák’s Wind Serenade
February 14: Daniil Trifonov in Recital
February 18–19, 21: Blomstedt: Sibelius 4 & Hélène Grimaud
February 20: Chinese New Year Concert and Banquet
February 25, 27–28: Blomstedt: Mozart & Schubert
February 28: Piano Recital with Yefim Bronfman
March 5–7: Salonen Conducts Salonen & Ravel
March 7: Carlos Miguel Prieto & Orquestra Sinfónica Nacional
March 11–13: Salonen: Scriabin's Prometheus
March 14: Youth Orchestra
March 14: Chamber Music at the Legion of Honor
March 18, 20, 22: Salonen: R. Strauss' Elektra
March 21: Piano Recital: Lang Lang Plays Golberg Variations
March 26–28: Daniel Harding Conducts Ein Heldenleben
April 2–3: Skyfall in Concert Film with SF Symphony
April 4: Chamber Music at the Legion of Honor
April 5: Piano Recital: Thibaudet
April 8–10: Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique
April 11: Organ Concert Series with Adam Brakel
April 16–17: The Godfather in Concert Film with SF Symphony
April 18 : Chamber Music: On Endings—Beethoven’s B-flat String Quartet
April 22: Open Rehearsal: Jane Glover Conducts J.S. Bach Mass in B minor
April 22–24: Jane Glover Conducts J.S. Bach Mass in B minor
April 29–May 1: Juraj Valčuha & Joshua Bell
May 6: Open Rehearsal: James Gaffigan Conducts Schumann 4
May 6–8: James Gaffigan Conducts Schumann 4
May 8: Music for Families: Birthday Bash!
May 9: Chamber Music at the Legion of Honor
May 9: Organ Concert Series with Monica Czausz
May 13–15: Philippe Jordan Conducts Britten's War Requiem
May 16: Chamber Music: Exuberance—Music of Mendelssohn & Brahms
May 20: Open Rehearsal: Beethoven 5 & Julia Fischer
May 20–22: Beethoven 5 & Julia Fischer
May 23: Youth Orchestra
May 27–29: Ludovic Morlot Conducts the San Francisco Symphony
June 3–5: Elim Chan & Hilary Hahn
June 6: Chamber Music: 20th-Century Gems—Music of Ravel & Shostakovich
June 10, 12–13: Renee Fleming Four Last Songs
June 17 : Salonen: Make Art, Not War (Open Rehearsal)
June 17–20: Salonen: Make Art, Not War
June 24–26: Salonen: Weimar Nightfall

2019-20 Season
- March 8: Michael Barenboim & the West-Eastern Divan Ensemble
- March 10: Piano Recital with Murray Perahia
- March 12–14: MTT, Capuçon, Shostakovich, & Stravinsky
- March 15: San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra Plays Britten & Mason Bates
- March 22: Buster Keaton’s The General—Silent Film with Organist Cameron Carpenter
- March 22: Piano Recital with Hélène Grimaud
- April 4: Music for Families: Meet the Orchestra
- April 4: San Francisco Symphony Chorus: J.S. Bach’s Magnificat
- April 11: Pure Yanni
  - April 16–18: Tchaik 5 & Mason Bates’ Philharmonia Fantastique
  - April 24–25: SoundBox: Lineage
- April 19: Chineke! Orchestra with Stewart Goodyear
- April 23–25: BEETHOVEN250: Beethoven 5 & Mozart Violin Concerto No. 3
- April 26: Chamber Music: Murder & Myths—Dvořák’s Piano Trio in E minor, Dumky
- April 30: Open Rehearsal: Morgan Conducts Price and Brahms
- April 30–May 2: Morgan Conducts Price & Brahms
  - May 3: Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán
- May 7: Open Rehearsal: Gaffigan Leads Marsalis & Dvořák’s New World
- May 7–9: Gaffigan Leads Marsalis & Dvořák’s New World
- May 10: San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra Plays Brahms Symphony No. 2
- May 14–17: MTT, Yuja, Sibelius, & Brahms
- May 22–24: MTT & Brahms’ A German Requiem
- May 24: BEETHOVEN250: Piano Recital with Igor Levit
- May 29–31: Gardner & Montero: Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1
- May 31: A Love Song to San Francisco
- June 4–6: BEETHOVEN250: MTT & Anne-Sophie Mutter
- June 11, 13, 15: Semi Staged Event: MTT & Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman
- June 18: Open Rehearsal: MTT, Shaham, & Shostakovich 5
- June 18, 20–21: MTT, Shaham, & Shostakovich 5
- June 25–28: MTT & MAHLER: Mahler’s Symphony of a Thousand
- July 2, 5: Apollo 13—Film with the San Francisco Symphony
  - July 9–10: FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE Orchestra World Tour
    - July 30–31: Pink Martini with the San Francisco Symphony
    - August 1: The Airborne Toxic Event with the SF Symphony

Ticket donors receive:

A tax deduction for the value of your ticket/s. The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 extends the universal charitable deduction of up to $300 for single filers and $600 if married filing jointly, even if you do not itemize. If you do itemize your deductions, the new law extends the allowance for cash contributions to qualified organizations - including the San Francisco Symphony - to be deducted (up to 100% of your adjusted gross income) for the 2021 calendar year.
Your 2020-21 season ticket donation will be matched. You can double the impact of ticket donations with a 1:1 match made possible by the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation.
Ticket donors at the Friends membership level or above ($75+) are eligible for donor membership benefits and opportunities. Our donors enjoy access to exclusive virtual events, performances, musician Q&As, and more. Keep an eye on your inbox for all the updates!

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If donating your 2020-21 season ticket/s is not possible, please consider requesting a gift certificate for the value of your tickets, which may be used at any time. You will receive:

An additional 20% credit applied to your gift certificate based on the value of previously purchased tickets, for use towards the purchase of tickets to future concerts. This credit will not expire.

If neither of these options are possible due to your current situation, we understand and will refund your purchase/s. We appreciate and are moved by the myriad ways our San Francisco Symphony family shows support for each other.

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We believe that music, no matter the platform, is ever connecting, inspiring, and transformative, and that it deeply resonates throughout the community. Thank you for banding with us to ensure that we return stronger and more vibrant than ever. There is much more exciting music to come for all of us!

All requests for ticket donations, gift certificates, exchanges, and refunds for the 2020–21 Season must be received by August 31, 2021. For assistance, please contact the Box Office by phone at 415.864.6000 or email [email protected]. Box Office hours (for phone and emails only) are Mon–Fri: 10am–6pm. Box Office windows continue to remain closed.

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