San Francisco Symphony

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

🎉 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

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.

📲 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

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

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

The San Francisco Symphony congratulates Music Director Laureate Michael Tilson Thomas on receiving Gramophone’s 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award, announced today at their awards ceremony in London!

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

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

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.