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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 2025–26 season
Blache was anonymously selected by Capuçon from the 2023 Emerging Black Composers Project applications
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
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
Nov 1, 2023
THE SAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC AND SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY ANNOUNCE CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR FOURTH ANNUAL EMERGING BLACK COMPOSERS PROJECT
This year’s competition looks to further identify and promote inventive Black musicians, of any music genre, under age 35; applications are due by February 1, 2024
Nov 1, 2023
CALIFORNIA FESTIVAL: A CELEBRATION OF NEW MUSIC
LAUNCHES NOVEMBER 3, 2023
100+ Participating Organizations in 90+ Venues Across California
Showcase Music Written in Past Five Years
180+ Works, Including 36 World Premieres,
To Be Performed November 3–19
Oct 26, 2023
GUSTAVO DUDAMEL CONDUCTS THE SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY AT DAVIES SYMPHONY HALL, NOVEMBER 24–26
Cuatro player Jorge Glem makes his Orchestral Series debut in the first SF Symphony performances of Gonzalo Grau’s Odisea: Concerto for Venezuelan Cuatro and Orchestra
The program also features Gabriela Ortiz’s Kauyumari and Johannes Brahms’ Symphony No. 2
Oct 24, 2023
MAYOR BREED PROPOSES HONORING LONGTIME SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY MUSIC DIRECTOR MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS WITH STREET NAME
“MTT Way”, home to the iconic Davies Symphony Hall, would be added to the list of Commemorative Streets Names in San Francisco.
Oct 19, 2023
MUSIC DIRECTOR ESA-PEKKA SALONEN CONDUCTS THE SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY IN TWO CALIFORNIA FESTIVAL PROGRAMS AT DAVIES SYMPHONY HALL, NOVEMBER 10–18, 2023
The California Festival: A Celebration of New Music, taking place November 3–19, is a two-week, statewide festival featuring 100 organizations and ensembles across the state celebrating the most innovative and compelling music composed around the world in the last five years
November 10–12 performances feature the world premiere of Emerging Black Composers Project winner Jens Ibsen’s Drowned in Light, Salonen’s kínēma featuring San Francisco Symphony Principal Clarinet Carey Bell, and Igor Stravinsky’s Symphony in Three Movements
November 17–18 performances feature Gabriella Smith’s Breathing Forests with organist James McVinnie alongside two works by Igor Stravinsky: Octet for Winds and Brass and Les Noces, featuring animated shorts by artist Hillary Leben
Additional San Francisco Symphony’s California Festival programming includes performances of works by Clarice Assad, Jason Hainsworth, Betsy Jolas, and Sarn Oliver, as well as SF Symphony Youth Orchestra performance of Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s Metacosmos
Oct 17, 2023
SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY’S EXPERIMENTAL SOUNDBOX SERIES RETURNS FOR TENTH SEASON
2023–24 season includes performances curated by violinist, singer, and composer Mazz Swift, December 8–9; SF Symphony Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen, March 8–9; and SF Symphony Collaborative Partner and roboticist Carol Reiley, April 5–6
New this season: SoundBox concerts begin at 8:30pm
Oct 16, 2023
COLBURN SCHOOL AND SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY ANNOUNCE TWO NEW SALONEN CONDUCTING FELLOWS
Elias Peter Brown and Aleksandra Melaniuk join San Francisco Symphony conducting staff in the 2023–24 season as an extension of their work as Salonen Fellows in the Colburn School Conservatory of Music’s Negaunee Conducting Program
Oct 13, 2023
