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GUEST CONDUCTORS JANE GLOVER, CRISTIAN MĂCELARU, AND DALIA STASEVSKA LEAD THE SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY IN CONCERTS AT DAVIES SYMPHONY HALL IN APRIL 2023

ESA-PEKKA SALONEN AND THE SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY EMBARK ON 2023 SPRING TOUR TO EUROPE, WITH EXTENDED RESIDENCIES IN PARIS AND HAMBURG, MARCH 9–17

Announcing the California Festival: A Celebration of New Music

<b>Announcing the California Festival: A Celebration of New Music</b> <b>A Two-Week Statewide Festival Celebrating the Most Innovative and Compelling Music Composed Around the World in the Last Five Years</b><br /> <br /> <b>Music Directors of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Diego Symphony, and San Francisco Symphony Join Forces to Conceive of Sweeping Program</b>

Jan 26, 2023

MUSIC DIRECTOR ESA-PEKKA SALONEN LEADS THE SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY IN FOUR PROGRAMS HIGHLIGHTING THE PIANO AT DAVIES SYMPHONY HALL, FEBRUARY 17–MARCH 2, 2023

February 17–19 pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard performs Béla Bartók’s Piano Concerto No. 2 on a program with Maurice Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin and selections from Sergei Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet

February 20 Lang Lang joins the Orchestra for one evening, performing Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto on a program with Jean Sibelius’s Symphony No. 5

February 23, 25 & 26 pianist Conor Hanick makes his San Francisco Symphony debut as soloist in the world premiere of Samuel Adams’ No Such Spring, on a program with Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 6

March 1 & 2 features Gabriella Smith’s Tumblebird Contrails, Salonen’s Nyx, and Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with soloist Yuja Wang

These four programs—along with Nico Muhly’s SoundBox program, Codes, featuring Yuja Wang and Esa-Pekka Salonen—precede Salonen and the Orchestra’s March 9–17 European residencies tour, featuring performances at the Philharmonie de Paris in France; the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Germany; and the Philharmonie Luxembourg

Jan 19, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY PRESENTS LUNAR NEW YEAR: YEAR OF THE RABBIT, FEBRUARY 5, 2023 AT DAVIES SYMPHONY HALL

Earl Lee leads the Orchestra in a program highlighting works by Asian composers including An-Lun Huang, Huang Ruo, Tyzen Hsiao, and Zhou Tian

Renowned soprano Sumi Jo joins Lee and the Orchestra for works by Du-Nam Cho, Huang Tzu, Hong-ryeol Lee, and Geung-Su Lim

Jan 12, 2023

HERBERT BLOMSTEDT CONDUCTS THE SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY, FEBRUARY 9–10 AND 12, AT DAVIES SYMPHONY HALL

The program includes Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8 and the San Francisco Symphony premiere of Jan Václav Voříšek’s Symphony in D major

Jan 11, 2023

EDWIN OUTWATER CONDUCTS THE SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY PREMIERE OF GABRIEL KAHANE’S EMERGENCY SHELTER INTAKE FORM, A SONG CYCLE EXPLORING INEQUALITY THROUGH THE LENS OF HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS, FEBRUARY 2 & 3 AT DAVIES SYMPHONY HALL

emergency shelter intake form features mezzo-soprano Alicia Hall Moran; vocalists Gabriel Kahane, Kristen Toedtman, and Holcombe Waller as the Chorus of Inconvenient Statistics; and a chorus made up of community members from Community Music Center and Skywatchers

The program opens with George Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F featuring soloist Conrad Tao in his SF Symphony Orchestral Series Debut

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