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.
- Website
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http://www.sfsymphony.org
External link for San Francisco Symphony
- Industry
- Performing Arts
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, California
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1911
Locations
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Primary
201 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, California 94102, US
Employees at San Francisco Symphony
Updates
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🎉 We’re thrilled to receive Grammy nominations for two recent SF Symphony recordings conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen! Stravinsky’s 'The Firebird,' (SFS Media) was nominated for Best Orchestral Performance, while Kaija Saariaho’s ‘Adriana Mater,' taken from a staged production by Peter Sellars & featuring the SF Symphony & Chorus with soloists Fleur Barron, Axelle Fanyo, Nicholas Phan, & Christopher Purves (Deutsche Grammophon) received nominations for Best Opera Recording & Best Contemporary Classical Composition. These digital recordings are available on all major streaming platforms. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gZdWPh55
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The SF Symphony, in partnership with the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, announces that applications are now open for the fifth annual Emerging Black Composers Project Michael Morgan Prize & the Cabrillo Emerging Black Composers Prize. The competition looks to further identify & promote inventive Black composers, of any music genre, under the age of 35. This year’s EBCP submission deadline is February 1, 2025; winners will be announced in spring 2025. Learn more & apply here: https://lnkd.in/gvd_dAP9.
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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