Welcome to the 2024–25 season! Step into a nexus of creativity as Esa-Pekka Salonen embarks on his final season as SF Symphony Music Director. Veteran virtuosos cross paths with enterprising young talents. Silver-screen titans encounter fresh creations & can’t-live-without classics. And small-scale soirees take their place next to go-for-broke blockbusters. Join us for the SF Symphony’s 2024–25 season. Explore the new season: sfsymphony.org/2024-25
About us
The San Francisco Symphony is among the most adventurous and innovative arts institutions in the United States, celebrated for its artistic excellence, creative performance concepts, award-winning recordings, and standard-setting education programs. In the 2020–21 season, the San Francisco Symphony welcomed conductor and composer Esa-Pekka Salonen as its 12th Music Director, embarking on a new vision for the present and future of the orchestral landscape. In their inaugural season together, Mr. Salonen and the San Francisco Symphony introduced a groundbreaking artistic leadership model anchored by eight Collaborative Partners from a variety of cultural disciplines: Nicholas Britell, Julia Bullock, Claire Chase, Bryce Dessner, Pekka Kuusisto, Nico Muhly, Carol Reiley, and esperanza spalding. This group of visionary artists, thinkers, and doers, along with Salonen and the San Francisco Symphony, have set out to explore and develop new ideas inspired by the Collaborative Partners’ unique areas of expertise, including innovative digital projects, expansive and imaginative performance concepts in a variety of concert formats, commissions of new music, and projects that foster collaboration across artistic and administrative areas.
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- 51-200 employees
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- San Francisco, California
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- 1911
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San Francisco, California 94102, US
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Updates
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📲 New on Apple Music Classical: Album booklets 🎼 The latest version of the Apple Music Classical app has added album booklets for thousands of releases, including the new Dolby ATMOS recordings of Michael Tilson Thomas's 'From the Diary of Anne Frank' & 'Meditations on Rilke'. Booklets offer multi-language liner notes, composer biographies, sung texts, & information about the performers, enriching the listener’s understanding of the music. When a booklet is available for an album you’ve selected, you’ll see an open book icon in the top-right corner of the screen. Tapping that will download the booklet. 🎧 Enjoy this fantastic new feature on #AppleMusicClassical! https://apple.co/3FKZLDU
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Out Today! In celebration of Michael Tilson Thomas’s 80th birthday & his extensive contributions to music, the PENTATONE record label has released 'GRACE: The Music of Michael Tilson Thomas,' a four-disc set spanning more than five decades of MTT's compositional career. It features 18 works, from premiere recordings to remastered archival recordings available for the first time. The deluxe collection also includes a comprehensive booklet containing composer’s notes, original essays, & a timeline of archival photos chronicling MTT’s life as a pianist, conductor, composer, recording artist, & teacher. All proceeds from 'GRACE: The Music of Michael Tilson Thomas' will be donated to brain cancer research at the UCSF Brain Tumor Center. For more information visit https://lnkd.in/giATdKhy
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As we celebrate Kids Music Day, we are pleased to unveil a revamped version of SFSKids.org, the Symphony's free, online learning resource designed for young students & teachers. The website features games & exercises that cover the fundamental aspects of orchestral music—such as learning about the different instrument families—& aims to spark a general interest in music. SFSKids.org is designed for classroom use throughout the US but all are welcome to explore! #KidsMusicDay
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Discover Esa-Pekka Salonen & the San Francisco Symphony's newest digital-only spatial audio recordings from SFS Media, available via the Apple Music Classical app: Experience Stravinsky’s mystical 'The Firebird', Prokofiev’s radiant 'Romeo and Juliet', & Berlioz’s sinister 'Symphonie fantastique'. Immerse yourself in this vivid music now on Apple Music: https://lnkd.in/gpS8nXXh #AppleMusic #AppleMusicClassical
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Congratulations to Principal Harp Katherine Siochi, Principal Flute Yubeen Kim, Associate Principal & E-flat Clarinet Matthew Griffith, & bassoonist Justin Cummings on being granted tenure in spring 2024. We look forward to many more seasons of their fabulous playing! 📷 1 & 3: Kristen Loken 📷 2: Taeuk Kang 📷 4: Allison DeFrancesco
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We are thrilled to add to our Symphony family! Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen & the San Francisco Symphony welcome seven new musicians to the Orchestra’s roster beginning with the 2024–25 season. Bass Trombone Christopher Bassett, Fourth Chair Bass Bowen Ha, Section First Violin Jeein Kim, Section Bass Orion Miller, Associate Principal Cello Anne Richardson, Second Clarinet Yuhsin Galaxy Su, & Fourth Chair Cello Davis You join the Orchestra in September 2024. They will all perform their first concerts with the Orchestra in the Music from Studio Ghibli program on September 5–8.
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The San Francisco Symphony is honored to welcome delegates to our vibrant & dynamic city for the Association of California Symphony Orchestras (ACSO) Annual Conference this week. We can't wait to reconnect with ACSO members & the broader music community! ACSO provides essential leadership & resources to classical music advocates & organizations, encouraging & supporting their artistic, organizational, & fiscal development. Learn more: https://www.acso.org/
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🎵 A symphony of thanks! 🎵 We are honored by the words of Mission Bit, our community partner that inspires youth of color by offering project-based computer science education that celebrates their identities. We look forward to many more years of inspiring collaboration!
🎵 A symphony of thanks! 🎵 We are incredibly grateful to the San Francisco Symphony for their remarkable support and collaboration. This July, Mission Bit was honored to be featured in the SF Symphony's program and showcased around their building on electronic signage. Your commitment to highlighting our mission is truly inspiring and helps us reach more young minds eager to dive into the world of technology. As part of their generous gesture, the SF Symphony gifted us complimentary tickets to two of their amazing July performances. Our team thoroughly enjoyed these shows and the opportunity to experience the magic of the symphony firsthand. A special thank you to May Stearman for coordinating this wonderful partnership. Your efforts have been instrumental in making this collaboration a success. Thank you, San Francisco Symphony, for your unwavering support and belief in our mission to inspire and educate the next generation of tech leaders. Your partnership amplifies our efforts to provide free, accessible computer science education to students from diverse backgrounds. Together, we are creating a symphony of opportunities and making a lasting impact on the lives of young innovators. Here’s to many more harmonious collaborations! 🎶 #MissionBit #SFSymphony #Partnership #ThankYou #STEMEducation #InspireYouth #CommunitySupport
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