Yuja Wang, one of today’s most celebrated and beloved pianists, returns to Davies Symphony Hall for a solo recital highlighting the effortless charisma that has made her a force to behold onstage

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Piano Recital with Yuja Wang

Davies Symphony Hall

Experience each turn of phrase—every sigh, every look, every joy—within the intimate realm of chamber music. It’s personal—music curated and performed by small ensembles of San Francisco Symphony musicians

Chamber Music at Davies Symphony Hall

Share the joy of music with all your loved ones. Discover how music speaks to us all—young listeners ages 5-12 and longtime fans alike—through enriching performances created for enthusiasts of all ages and with your entire family in mind!

Music for Families: The Planets

Dutch violinist Noa Wildschut opens her debut Davies Symphony Hall recital with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s wistful and moving Violin Sonata in E minor, K.304. The program also features music by Maurice Ravel and Paul Schoenfield both inspired by American jazz and blues traditions, along with Joey Rouken’s Sarasvati, written for Wilsdchut and her collaborator, German pianist Elisabeth Brauß, evoking ancient Hindu myths, placid musical scenes, and ending in a virtuosic blaze of fire and energy.

Spotlight: Noa Wildschut & Elisabeth Brauss

Podcast link: https://youtu.be/4hagYvrYbuM

The Artelize Podcast and Kasper Holten - Pedefining Opera for the modern world

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The Artelize Podcast - A legacy of innovation in Opera: Celebrating Marc A. Scorca

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The Artelize Podcast: A love letter that was never sent

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The Artelize Podcast and Adolfo Corrado: Mediterranean flavors, opera and social media

Conductor Giancarlo Guerrero makes his SF Symphony debut with a program of Symphony premieres highlighting some of the most captivating 20th and 21st century music from the Americas. Works by Adolphus Hailstork, Antonio Estévez, and Astor Piazzolla paint vivid scenes of a bustling Virginia port, rolling Venezuelan countryside, and raucous Argentine tango club. Timothy McAllister, one of the greatest classical saxophonists of his generation, takes center stage for John Corigliano’s Saxophone Concerto, an SF Symphony commission and world premiere

Guerrero Conducts Corigliano & Piazzolla

Twenty-five-year-old conductor Klaus Mäkelä leads the SF Symphony in Jimmy López’ Perú Negro, a fantasy on Afro-Peruvian folksongs, while violinist Vilde Frang performs Alban Berg’s Violin Concerto, a work rife with the emotion of a composer grappling with the fragility of life. The program closes with Dmitri Shostakovich’s tragic Tenth Symphony, widely seen as a depiction of the composer’s terrifying life in Stalinist Russia

Mäkelä Conducts Shostakovich 10

Gustavo Dudamel leads the SF Symphony in a program that balances Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s dramatic Symphony No. 38, Prague and Gustav Mahler’s masterful Fifth Symphony. Opening with a lone trumpet call that devolves into a most unusual funeral dirge, Mahler’s monumental work winds its way through frenetic bursts of energy, bucolic scenes, a yearning and gorgeous slow movement, and, finally, the jubilant and triumphant finale—a fitting culmination for one of the composer’s most beloved works

Dudamel Conducts Mahler 5

Experience the distinctive artistry of a small ensemble as select musicians of the SF Symphony display their talents within the intimate realm of chamber music. This series showcases the 1742 Guarnerius del Gesù violin, on loan to Alexander Barantschik and the San Francisco Symphony from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

Chamber Music at Gunn Theater at the Legion of Honor

Legion of Honor

The Early Baroque era of Italian music brought a zenith of dramatic and technical display in the hands of new generations of virtuoso singers and instrumentalists. Composers and performers united in their course of revealing new depths of expression, color, and theatrical effects through music that is immediately thrilling and enthralling.  From the delicate and spatial interplay of three violins in Marini’s Sonata in Ecco to the full-throated and lovelorn dramatic vocal works of Monteverdi — including two epic narratives from his Madrigals of Love and War — this is a program that moves from mystery to magic and from the sacred to the secular.  Headliner works are Isabella Leonarda’s entrancing Sonata XII, Monteverdi’s Magnificat a 6 from the Vespers of 1610, and the same composer’s powerfully arresting setting of Torquato Tasso’s Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda. An ensemble of evocative ABS artists brings this passionate music to light in a program featuring vocal and violinistic fireworks. 

Pious & Profane

St. Stephen's Episcopal Church

First Congregational Church

Davis Community Church

St. Mark's Lutheran Church, San Francisco

Spring Chorus Concert: Passover & Eastertide

The Cathedral of Christ the Light

Traditional Spanish music is well known for its vibrant and unique sound, but is less frequently heard in the classical realm. Originally inspired by Greek Orthodox music in the sixth century, classical Spanish music evolved to reach huge popularity by the late nineteenth century. Celebrated composers including Pablo de Sarasate and Enrique Granados honored the typical harmonies and rhythmic integrity of traditional Spanish music, incorporating them into their compositions. This “Behind the Music” session offers an opportunity to take a closer look into the history of Spanish folk music, and how it has impacted the writing of revered Spanish composers. We’ll take a deep dive into exactly why Spanish music is so vibrant and easily identifiable, and we will also explore the types of folk dances that are so essential to the rhythms of Spanish music.

A Spanish Journey, Behind the Music

Menlo School Campus

Founded in 1946 and hailed by the Boston Globe as "the most important American quartet in history," the Juilliard String Quartet draws on a deep and vital engagement to the classics, while embracing the mission of championing new works, a vibrant combination of the familiar and the daring.

Juilliard String Quartet

Francisco State University

With one of the largest fortunes in all of Europe, Anna Glawari is the most eligible widow in all of Paris. Dozens of suitors try to waltz their way into her heart, in Lehár’s delightfully romantic operetta.

The Merry Widow

Hillside Club

Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts

At our "A Baroque New Year's Eve at the Opera" concert in 2019, Sarah Coit brought the house down with her dazzling performances of arias from Handel's Giulio Cesare, Riccardo I ré d’Inghilterra, Theodora, and Ariodante. Two months later, she became the recipient of the 2020 Jeffrey Thomas Award, and she will be heard in December 2021 in ABS's concerts of Handel's Messiah in Grace Cathedral and the Green Music Center. A prize-winner from the George London Foundation and the Handel Aria Competition, her repertoire ranges from the Baroque to operas including The Marriage of Figaro with Michigan Opera Theatre (Cherubino) and The Barber of Seville with Utah Opera (Rosina). An experienced and captivating recital artist, Sarah will present a varied program of some of her favorite works ranging from bravura arias from Baroque opera and musical drama — including Handel's Ariodante and Hercules, Monteverdi's L’incoronazione di Poppea, and Vivaldi's Juditha Triumphans — to the deeply moving song cycle by Dominick Argento, "From the Diary of Virginia Woolf."

ABS Artist Showcase Series

San Francisco War Memorial

The Grammy Award-winning Catalyst Quartet returns to complete its series uncovering important American chamber music with what the New York Times calls “invariably energetic and finely burnished playing with earthy vigor.” Pianist Michelle Cann has championed the lush and complex works of Florence Price and is admired by other pianists for her “eloquence and authority.”

Catalyst Quartet with Michelle Cann Piano

War Memorial and Performing Arts Center

“It’s easy to understand why David Russell gets invited back, season after season,” observed SF Classical Voice. His name is synonymous with sublime performances of a range of music, unflaggingly delivered with thoughtful interpretation and riveting precision. “I aim to help my listener really enjoy and see the same things that I see in the music, then I’m happy,” he says.

David Russell Guitar

The superb Quatuor Ébène has made a name for itself not only as an elegant purveyor of classical fare but also for jazz performances, according to the New York Times. The members of this young ensemble are musical omnivores, sharing a feast of wonderful music from many eras and genres with intense technical precision and energetic performances.

Ébène Quartet

Join the SFCO and two acclaimed choirs, San Francisco’s stellar Volti and the amazing young singers of the Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir for the world premiere of Michael Gilbertson’s final commission as our BMI Composer-in-Residence.  Denial, set to both ancient and contemporary texts, is a powerful meditation on climate change and our current political deadlock.

MainStage IV - Beethoven's Seventh and Michael Gilbertson's Denial

In this multi-discipline program, Sean Jones and friends explore the cultural and spiritual crossroads of the African diaspora focusing on the life and music of Dizzy Gillespie to tell the story of the jazz it ultimately produced. “Jones is one of the finest young trumpeters in the business, recognized for his lyrical fluidity and high-tier facility,” says All About Jazz.

Sean Jones -Trumpet

A supple and expressive voice and the uncanny ability to tell stories through music have made Matthias Goerne a favorite of SF Performances audiences. The San Francisco Chronicle has reported on his seriousness and sensual allure, “probing each song for its emotional undercurrent, then bringing that vein to the surface in musical paragraphs of weightiness and simple elegance.” Seong-Jin Cho “is a master. He displayed an impressive variety of tonal colors and remarkable technique, dispatched with jaw-dropping panache” (The Wall Street Journal).

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