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Dec 12, 2023
SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY’S SHENSON SPOTLIGHT SERIES HIGHLIGHTS ASCENDANT ARTISTS THROUGH FOUR DEBUT RECITALS AT DAVIES SYMPHONY HALL, JANUARY–JUNE 2024
Dec 6, 2023
ESA-PEKKA SALONEN LEADS JULIA FISCHER AND THE ROYAL STOCKHOLM PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA IN NOBEL PRIZE CONCERT DECEMBER 8
Stream the Nobel Prize Concert live and on-demand beginning December 8 at 7:00 PM CET / 10:00 AM PT
Nov 16, 2023
FIRST VIOLIN YUKIKO KURAKATA AND PRINCIPAL HORN ROBERT WARD RETIRE IN DECEMBER 2023
Nov 14, 2023
THE SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY AND CARTIER PRESENT A MULTISENSORY PERFORMANCE OF ALEXANDER SCRIABIN’S PROMETHEUS, THE POEM OF FIRE
MARCH 1–3, 2024
A COLLABORATION BETWEEN SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY’S MUSIC DIRECTOR ESA-PEKKA SALONEN, PIANIST JEAN-YVES THIBAUDET, AND CARTIER IN-HOUSE PERFUMER MATHILDE LAURENT
Nov 10, 2023
SFS MEDIA RECORDINGS NOMINATED FOR TWO 2024 GRAMMY AWARDS
ESA-PEKKA SALONEN AND THE SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY NOMINATED FOR BEST ORCHESTRAL PERFORMANCE FOR IGOR STRAVINSKY: THE RITE OF SPRING
RAGNAR BOHLIN AND THE SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY CHORUS NOMINATED FOR 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 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
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Dec 12, 2023
SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY’S SHENSON SPOTLIGHT SERIES HIGHLIGHTS ASCENDANT ARTISTS THROUGH FOUR DEBUT RECITALS AT DAVIES SYMPHONY HALL, JANUARY–JUNE 2024
January 31, pianist Eric Lu performs Franz Schubert’s Four Impromptus, Opus 142 and Frédéric Chopin’s Piano Sonata No. 3
February 21, cellist Gabriel Martins is joined by pianist Victor Santiago Asunción for a program of Robert Schumann’s Fantasiestücke, Opus 73; Claude Debussy’s Cello Sonata No. 1; Anton Webern’s Drei kleine Stücke, Opus 11; and Johannes Brahms’ Cello Sonata No. 2
March 6, violinist Alexandra Conunova presents a recital performing Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Adagio in E major, Edvard Grieg’s Violin Sonata No. 3, Camille Saint-Saëns’ Rondo capriccioso, and Franz Waxman’s Carmen Fantasie
June 26, violinist Stella Chen and pianist George Li perform Franz Schubert’s Rondo in B minor; Eleanor Alberga’s No Man’s Lullaby; and Ludwig van Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata
Dec 6, 2023
ESA-PEKKA SALONEN LEADS JULIA FISCHER AND THE ROYAL STOCKHOLM PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA IN NOBEL PRIZE CONCERT DECEMBER 8
Stream the Nobel Prize Concert live and on-demand beginning December 8 at 7:00 PM CET / 10:00 AM PT
Nov 16, 2023
FIRST VIOLIN YUKIKO KURAKATA AND PRINCIPAL HORN ROBERT WARD RETIRE IN DECEMBER 2023
Nov 14, 2023
THE SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY AND CARTIER PRESENT A MULTISENSORY PERFORMANCE OF ALEXANDER SCRIABIN’S PROMETHEUS, THE POEM OF FIRE
MARCH 1–3, 2024
A COLLABORATION BETWEEN SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY’S MUSIC DIRECTOR ESA-PEKKA SALONEN, PIANIST JEAN-YVES THIBAUDET, AND CARTIER IN-HOUSE PERFUMER MATHILDE LAURENT
Nov 10, 2023
SFS MEDIA RECORDINGS NOMINATED FOR TWO 2024 GRAMMY AWARDS
ESA-PEKKA SALONEN AND THE SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY NOMINATED FOR BEST ORCHESTRAL PERFORMANCE FOR IGOR STRAVINSKY: THE RITE OF SPRING
RAGNAR BOHLIN AND THE SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY CHORUS NOMINATED FOR BEST CHORAL PERFORMANCE FOR GYÖRGY LIGETI: LUX AETERNA
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
