Sep 27, 2023
MUSIC DIRECTOR LAUREATE MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS CONDUCTS THE SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY IN BEETHOVEN’S SYMPHONY NO. 9, OCTOBER 19 & 21–22, 2023, AT DAVIES SYMPHONY HALL
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Sep 26, 2023
CONDUCTOR ELIM CHAN REPLACES DANIEL HARDING IN SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY PERFORMANCES OF GUSTAV HOLST’S THE PLANETS AT DAVIES SYMPHONY HALL, OCTOBER 26–28
Chan also conducts Benjamin Britten’s Les Illuminations, featuring tenor Andrew Staples; Les Illuminations replaces Ralph Vaughan Williams’ On Wenlock Edge on this program
Harding has withdrawn from these performances to step in for Cleveland Orchestra Music Director Franz Welser-Möst on the Orchestra’s three-concert Israel debut in October
Sep 21, 2023
San Francisco Symphony enters entitlement process for potential renovations to Davies Symphony Hall
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Sep 18, 2023
SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY AND MUSIC DIRECTOR ESA-PEKKA SALONEN ANNOUNCE JENNY WONG AS NEXT SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY CHORUS DIRECTOR
Wong is the San Francisco Symphony Chorus’s fourth Director in the Chorus’s 50-year history
The San Francisco Symphony Chorus celebrates its 50th year during the 2023–24 season
Sep 13, 2023
ESA-PEKKA SALONEN AND SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY ANNOUNCE FOUR NEW MUSICIANS JOINING THE ORCHESTRA DURING THE 2023-24 SEASON
New musicians include Second Violin Olivia Chen, Second Bassoon Justin Cummings, Associate Principal Flute Blair Francis Paponiu, and Assistant Librarian Matthew Searing
Chen, Cummings, Francis Paponiu, and Searing are joined by new SF Symphony musicians Principal Flute Yubeen Kim and Principal Harp Katherine Siochi, whose appointments were announced in August
Sep 8, 2023
THOMAS ADÈS WITHDRAWS FROM FEBRUARY 2024 SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY AND SOUNDBOX PERFORMANCES DUE TO SCHEDULING CONFLICT
Artists and programming for these concerts will be announced at a later date
Sep 7, 2023
THE SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY’S 2023–24 GREAT PERFORMERS SERIES PRESENTS EIGHT PERFORMANCES FEATURING ACCLAIMED SOLOISTS AND ENSEMBLES
Violinist Lisa Batiashvili, cellist Gautier Capuçon, and pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet kick off 2023–24 Great Performers Series with special chamber music performance, October 15
Great Performers Series also features pianists Yefim Bronfman, Evgeny Kissin, Daniil Trifonov, and Yuja Wang; violinist Ray Chen; Joshua Bell & the Academy of St Martin in the Fields; and San Francisco Symphony Brass
Sep 6, 2023
ELLIE GOULDING ANNOUNCES SPECIAL INTIMATE U.S. SHOWS THIS FALL WITH ORCHESTRA, THREE NIGHTS ONLY
Goulding appears with San Francisco Symphony at Davies Symphony Hall
Monday, November 20
Additional performances:
November 16 – New York City – Kings Theatre
November 22 – Los Angeles – Walt Disney Concert Hall
Ellie Goulding’s latest critically acclaimed album Higher Than Heaven out now
Sep 5, 2023
SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY CONCERT BROADCASTS ON CLASSICAL KDFC MOVE TO SUNDAYS AT 7PM AS PART OF NEW “NORCAL SUNDAY NIGHTS” PROGRAMMING, BEGINNING SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 10
San Francisco Symphony’s 2023–24 season broadcasts begin with Opening Night Gala concert, airing on October 8; KDFC will air archival recordings from the 2021-22 season September 10–October 1
This month marks KDFC’s 75th anniversary serving the Bay Area
Aug 31, 2023
MUSIC DIRECTOR ESA-PEKKA SALONEN LEADS THE SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY IN THREE PROGRAMS AT DAVIES SYMPHONY HALL, SEPTEMBER 29–OCTOBER 14, 2023
September 29–October 1 concerts include West Coast premiere of Wynton Marsalis’s Herald, Holler and Hallelujah!, Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with Leonidas Kavakos, and Richard Strauss’s An Alpine Symphony
October 6 & 7 concerts feature world premiere of Jesper Nordin’s SF Symphony-commissioned Convergence with violinist and San Francisco Symphony Collaborative Partner Pekka Kuusisto and John Adams’ Naïve and Sentimental Music
October 12–14 concerts include world premiere of Anders Hillborg’s SF Symphony-commissioned Piano Concerto No. 2, featuring Emanuel Ax, Johannes Brahms’ Variations on a Theme of Joseph Haydn, and Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2
Aug 17, 2023
PIERRE-LAURENT AIMARD, SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY, AND ESA-PEKKA SALONEN PRESENT: BARTÓK PIANO CONCERTOS, RELEASED ON PENTATONE SEPTEMBER 2023
Bartók Piano Concertos will be available for physical release in September 2023 and digital release on September 15
Album released as 1 SACD and in digital formats for streaming and high-resolution downloads
Audio resolution for digital files: Spatial Audio 192/24, Spatial Audio 192/24 Stereo & 44.1/16 PCM Stereo
Aug 17, 2023
