| Esa-Pekka Salonen Leads A Bold New Season Join Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen and the SF Symphony for a season that scales the dark and divine, the phenomenal and phantasmic, breathtaking beauty and effervescent wit, iconic behemoths and the allure of the underground.
KQED Members get 25% off tickets to The Firebird and Frankenstein & Psycho. Just use promo code KQED22 at checkout.*
Sep 24: Also sprach Zarathustra
Epic & Elegant: Richard Strauss’ mighty Also sprach Zarathustra opens the new season in epic fashion. Randall Goosby performs Florence Price’s lush and agile Violin Concerto No. 2, and the concert closes with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Overture to his comic opera The Impresario. One night only!
TICKETS HERE
Sep 29, Oct 1–2: Mahler 2
Affirmation & Ascendance: Soprano Golda Schultz and mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung highlight Gustav Mahler’s glorious Symphony No. 2, Resurrection. Emerging Black Composers Project winner Trevor Weston unveils a new orchestral work, Push, led by Salonen in its world premiere.
TICKETS HERE
Oct 7–9: The Firebird
Gutsy & Gorgeous: The Symphony ignites the hall with Igor Stravinsky’s explosive ballet score, The Firebird. Soprano Golda Schultz returns to perform Jean Sibelius’s cosmic Luonnotar, while the excitement of impending fatherhood imbues the U.S. premiere of Daniel Kidane’s SF Symphony commission, Sun Poem.
TICKETS HERE
Oct 13–15: Esa-Pekka Salonen & Yuja Wang Vibrant & Virtuosic: Carl Nielsen’s sun-drenched Helios Overture opens the program with visions of the Aegean coast. Yuja Wang performs the world premiere of a new piano concerto by Magnus Lindberg, and the evening concludes with Béla Bartók’s symphonic showcase, Concerto for Orchestra.
TICKETS HERE
Oct 20 & 22: Symphonie Fantastique
Decadent & Devilish: Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique paints scenes of lavish beauty and ghastly visions. Pianist Bertrand Chamayou takes on the devilish charm of Franz Liszt’s Totentanz, and Modest Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain evokes a supernatural sabbath.
TICKETS HERE
Oct 27-29: Frankenstein & Psycho
Weird & Wicked: Béla Bartók’s The Miraculous Mandarin tells a tale of fraud, seduction, and murder. Bernard Herrmann’s legendary Suite from Psycho plunges into the darkest corners of the human psyche, and HK Gruber’s raucous Frankenstein!! merges genres from jazz to cabaret.
TICKETS HERE
Learn more at sfsymphony.org/esa-pekka
*KQED22 25% discount applies to 10/7, 10/8, 10/9, 10/27, 10/28, and 10/29 performances. Offer includes all sections except for Side Boxes, Center Terrace, and Loge. Discount cannot be combined with any other offers. Only valid on adult ticket prices. Not valid on previously purchased tickets. Other restrictions may apply. Subject to availability.FOR TICKETS |
