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Classical music has taken a new spin. TwoSet Violin is an Australian violin duo known for their prowess in making classical music more relevant to a new audience online. Now, with over 9,500,000 followers across social media and over one billion views, TwoSet inspires musicians worldwide with humor and a relatable imperfectness. Don’t miss them team up with the San Francisco Symphony for a night of Sacrilegious Games!

Sarah Hicks conducts an evening of unforgettable movie music from legendary film composer Hans Zimmer, featuring selections from the scores to The Lion King, The Pirates of the Caribbean, Batman: The Dark Knight, Gladiator, and more.

Legendary American singer-songwriter Paul Simon takes the stage at Davies Symphony Hall for a solo performance featuring the live debut of the critically acclaimed, Grammy-nominated album Seven Psalms, along with new arrangements of familiar favorites. The evolution of this extraordinary artist continues to unfold with this offering, in which Simon performs in intimate venues with pristine acoustics. Get ready for a quiet celebration that brings Simon’s beloved music to the hall in a concert you won’t want to miss.

Genre-bending string trio Time for Three joins conductor Robert Moody and the SF Symphony for a lively program featuring Mason Bates’s Silicon Hymnal, a Symphony commission. Described as “a book of songs with a heart of electronica,” Bates’s triple concerto is tailor-made for Time for Three’s signature sound. Leonard Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story closes the program with Broadway panache.

Morgan Freeman’s Symphonic Blues Experience takes audiences on a journey through the soul-stirring history of the Delta Blues, merging the raw emotion of blues music with the expressive depth of an orchestra. Featuring a live appearance and multimedia narration by Hollywood icon and Mississippi son, Morgan Freeman, and featuring performances by respected Delta Blues musicians from Ground Zero Blues Club in Clarksdale, Mississippi, Symphonic Blues is an unforgettable celebration of music, culture, and storytelling.

Lights, Camera, Music!: Watch favorite films on the big screen at Davies Symphony Hall as the scores are performed live by the SF Symphony.

The All San Francisco Concert is dedicated to and presented for people involved with Bay Area nonprofits, social services groups, and community organizations, in recognition of and gratitude for the work they do to serve and enrich the lives of Bay Area citizens.

Superstar pianist Yuja Wang takes the stage with Jaap van Zweden and the San Francisco Symphony in a celebratory program to open the new season.

Immerse yourself in our country’s most distinctive cultural resource: its music. George Gershwin, Duke Ellington, and Carlos Simon guide you on an exhilarating, globe-trotting tour of Harlem and points beyond, in a program conducted by James Gaffigan. In works like the Piano Concerto in F and American in Paris, Gershwin captured our national sound by blending all the styles he knew—jazz, blues, classical, sacred Hebrew laments, Eastern European hoedowns, and Broadway balladeering. Sophisticated and streetwise, Ellington’s Harlem celebrates the multi-ethnic capital of Black culture via sweet swing rhythms and salty avant-garde harmonies. Simon grew up in Atlanta, but his 2018 orchestral study The Block is pure Harlem, inspired by the work of African American painter and songwriter Romare Bearden.

Mezzo-soprano Irene Roberts joins Scottish conductor Donald Runnicles and the San Francisco Symphony for Berg’s Seven Early Songs. Although Berg was in his early 20s at the time and a devoted disciple of Schoenberg, these surging and sumptuous songs reveal his late-Romantic leanings, too. Occasional touches of Strauss, Mahler, Brahms, Debussy, and Wagner combine with Berg’s rigorous originality in an appealing package. Mahler understood the value of his First Symphony right away, confessing that conducting it “sent shivers down my spine.” Mahler ensures all our senses will be fully engaged from the opening movement, a deliciously drawn-out meditation on D major that deploys harmonics in the strings to create its cosmic drone—an effect he described as “a shimmering and glimmering of the air.” You can best believe it’s still bejeweled.