Polar Music Prize Goes to SF Symphony Director
San Francisco Symphony Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen has been announced as a recipient of the 2024 Polar Music Prize; also named was Grammy Award-winning songwriter, … Read more
San Francisco Symphony Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen has been announced as a recipient of the 2024 Polar Music Prize; also named was Grammy Award-winning songwriter, … Read more
Visiting artist Lisa Batiashvili will perform in the San Francisco Symphony’s “all-Sibelius” program virtuosic Violin Concerto on March 14-16. This was the only concerto Sibelius … Read more
Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen and the San Francisco Symphony launched their 2023– 24 season with a celebratory opening weekend featuring the Opening Night Gala concert … Read more
A series of guest conductors for the San Francisco Symphony gets underway this spring with a number of intriguing interludes. The April 21–23 concerts are … Read more
Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen and the San Francisco Symphony kick off their 2022–23 season with two performances featuring San Francisco-based African-American Shakespeare Company (AASC). On … Read more
2020 marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Beethoven, a composer who casts a long shadow over music—challenging, inspiring, haunting, and setting the bar … Read more
Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas (MTT) leads the San Francisco Symphony (SFS) in two multi-faceted programs this January at Davies Symphony Hall. On January 9–12, Artist-in-Residence mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke and … Read more
As we have noted elsewhere in Cultural Currents, Mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke has earned acclaim for a wide variety of roles with San Francisco Opera, and … Read more
Four years ago, Cultural Currents gave this story the headline: Lang Lang is Great Great…. San Francisco Symphony subscribers were out in full force last … Read more
Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony celebrated the start of their 25th season together on Wednesday, September 4, with an Opening Night Gala … Read more