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SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY MUSICIANS AND BOARD APPROVE NEW TWO-YEAR CONTRACT

THE SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY’S 2023–24 CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES PRESENTS 10 PERFORMANCES AT DAVIES SYMPHONY HALL AND THE GUNN THEATER AT THE LEGION OF HONOR

MUSIC DIRECTOR LAUREATE MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS CONDUCTS THE SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY IN BEETHOVEN’S SYMPHONY NO. 9, OCTOBER 19 & 21–22, 2023, AT DAVIES SYMPHONY HALL

Sep 26, 2023

CONDUCTOR ELIM CHAN REPLACES DANIEL HARDING IN SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY PERFORMANCES OF GUSTAV HOLST’S THE PLANETS AT DAVIES SYMPHONY HALL, OCTOBER 26–28

Chan also conducts Benjamin Britten’s Les Illuminations, featuring tenor Andrew Staples; Les Illuminations replaces Ralph Vaughan Williams’ On Wenlock Edge on this program

Harding has withdrawn from these performances to step in for Cleveland Orchestra Music Director Franz Welser-Möst on the Orchestra’s three-concert Israel debut in October

Sep 21, 2023

San Francisco Symphony enters entitlement process for potential renovations to Davies Symphony Hall

Sep 18, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY AND MUSIC DIRECTOR ESA-PEKKA SALONEN ANNOUNCE JENNY WONG AS NEXT SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY CHORUS DIRECTOR

Wong is the San Francisco Symphony Chorus’s fourth Director in the Chorus’s 50-year history

The San Francisco Symphony Chorus celebrates its 50th year during the 2023–24 season

Sep 13, 2023

ESA-PEKKA SALONEN AND SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY ANNOUNCE FOUR NEW MUSICIANS JOINING THE ORCHESTRA DURING THE 2023-24 SEASON

New musicians include Second Violin Olivia Chen, Second Bassoon Justin Cummings, Associate Principal Flute Blair Francis Paponiu, and Assistant Librarian Matthew Searing

Chen, Cummings, Francis Paponiu, and Searing are joined by new SF Symphony musicians Principal Flute Yubeen Kim and Principal Harp Katherine Siochi, whose appointments were announced in August

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SF Symphony 2023-24 Season

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ESA-PEKKA SALONEN & COLLABORATIVE PARTNERS

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SF Symphony 2022-23 Season

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SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY

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Opening Night Gala 2022

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SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY

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MUSIC DIRECTOR ESA-PEKKA SALONEN & COLLABORATIVE PARTNERS

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DAVIES SYMPHONY HALL

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key leadership bios

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Music Director

Priscilla B. Geeslin

President

Matthew Spivey

Chief Executive Officer