The latest news on performances of Classical Music in San Francisco / Bay Area.
San Francisco Opera will present The Future Is Now: Adlers in Concert at Herbst Theatre, featuring 2026 Adler Fellows with the Company orchestra under Sebastian Weigle, and a San Francisco Opera Chorus in Concert at the Dianne and Tad Taube Atrium Theater.
Applications are open for The San Francisco Symphony's seventh annual Emerging Black Composers Project, which seeks inventive Black composers of any genre under 35.
San José Chamber Orchestra will perform PAUSE, featuring works by Samuel Barber, Dmitri Shostakovich, Juhi Bansal, and Caroline Shaw at St Francis Episcopal Church in San José.
The San Francisco Symphony will present a festive holiday lineup December 2–23, featuring classical performances, family events, holiday films, and guest artists including Bernadette Peters, Pink Martini, and All-4-One.
Acclaimed pianist George Li, a Silver Medalist at the International Tchaikovsky Competition, will perform his 'Gallery of Dreams' program featuring works by Schumann, Debussy, and Mussorgsky at the Visual and Performing Arts Center in Cupertino.
The Grammy-nominated NEAVE TRIO will perform works by Dora Pejačević, Schumann, and Brahms at Kohl Mansion in Burlingame.
The San Francisco Symphony will present its 19th annual Día de los Muertos celebration at Davies Symphony Hall, featuring Latin American music, lobby art installations, and community activities.
Symphony San Jose will present a Halloween-themed concert led by conductor Peter Jaffe, featuring vocalist Bianca Orsi and an on-stage costume contest at the California Theatre.
The San Francisco Symphony's November lineup includes three orchestral series programs, a collaboration with Alonzo King LINES Ballet featuring two world premieres, the symphony's 19th annual Día de los Muertos celebration, and performances by soloists Hélène Grimaud and Hilary Hahn.
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale will present the first U.
SFCM's 2026–27 season integrates artist residencies, professional internships, and side-by-side performances through its Global Creative Alliance, which includes Askonas Holt and Pentatone.
Symphony San Jose announced conductors Nathan Aspinall and Tatsuya Shimono, and pianist Jon Nakamatsu as its inaugural Artistic Partners in a multi-year collaboration designed to strengthen artistic consistency and creative vision.
Country music artist Orville Peck will headline the San Francisco Symphony's annual irreverent holiday variety show, featuring drag, burlesque, comedy, and orchestral music alongside conductor Edwin Outwater and drag icon Peaches Christ.
Music Director Designate Elim Chan will conduct three programs with the San Francisco Symphony, including works by Mendelssohn, Adams, Elgar, and Prokofiev, while spending additional weeks in the city for community engagement.
San José Chamber Orchestra will present a season-opening tribute to founder Barbara Day Turner, who is stepping down after 35 years of leadership.
The San Francisco Symphony appoints conductor Manfred Honeck as Festival Director, a newly created role in which he will conceive and lead an annual multi-week festival exploring themes of human experience through symphonic works.
Symphony San Jose launches its 25th anniversary season with a program celebrating 250 years of American spirit, featuring Aaron Copland's Billy the Kid, Jonathan Leshnoff's Rhapsody on America with pianist Joyce Yang, and Dvořák's New World Symphony.
The San Francisco Symphony will present orchestral series programs, special events, and performances featuring conductors Elim Chan, Karina Canellakis, and Santtu Matias-Rouvali, along with soloists including Renée Fleming and Lang Lang.
Liana Bérubé will take the baton from San José Chamber Orchestra founder Barbara Day Turner as the ensemble begins its 36th season with a tribute concert celebrating Turner's 35 seasons of leadership.
Music Director Laureate Kent Nagano will return to Berkeley Symphony, leading a Mendelssohn program with pianist Mari Kodama and the world premiere of Alex Nante's VATER UNSER.
The San Francisco Symphony will honor Michael Tilson Thomas with a memorial concert featuring longtime collaborators including Audra McDonald, Yuja Wang, and Jamie Bernstein at Davies Symphony Hall.
Jung-Eun Shin, Michael Stevens, and James Benoit will join the San Francisco Symphony orchestra, alongside previously revealed cellist Starla Breshears, as new members of the roster.
Ensemble for These Times selected 13 composers for its third Call for Scores for Solo Piano, with works to be performed by pianist Dale Tsang in San Francisco and Berkeley.
Giancarlo Guerrero will conduct San Francisco Symphony's annual community tribute concert, featuring bassoonist Joshua Elmore in a solo debut with the orchestra.
Symphony San Jose will present a Halloween-themed concert led by conductor Peter Jaffe, featuring vocalist Bianca Orsi and an on-stage costume contest at the California Theatre.
Giancarlo Guerrero will conduct the San Francisco Symphony's season-opening gala, with violinist Hilary Hahn performing Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto at Davies Symphony Hall.
Violinist Hilary Hahn will join the San Francisco Symphony for its season-opening gala, part of a month of programming led by Giancarlo Guerrero featuring Samara Joy, Gregory Alan Isakov and Fantastic Negrito.
An Evening with Sutton Foster and Kelli O’Hara at the San Francisco Symphony is exactly the kind of event that reminds you why live performance is so magical.
As Festival Napa Valley celebrates its 20th Anniversary Summer Season, running July 4–19, the opening weekend perfectly illustrated why the festival has become one of the country's most sought-after cultural destinations
Music at Kohl Mansion and Executive Director Patricia Kristof Moy have been named Chamber Music America's 2026 Community Impact/Presenter of the Year.
Single tickets for the San Francisco Symphony's 2026–27 season are set to go on sale, with newly added programs including a memorial concert for Michael Tilson Thomas, Lang Lang in Recital, and Carmina burana.
The San Francisco Symphony will present a memorial concert honoring Michael Tilson Thomas, featuring Audra McDonald, Yuja Wang, and others, with tributes, archival footage, and performances.
Carnegie Hall's NYO JAZZ will tour Asia this summer under bandleader Kris Johnson, with Grammy-winning vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater as special guest, following concerts at Carnegie Hall and SFJAZZ.
The San Francisco Conservatory of Music announced three faculty appointments: Joseph Pereira of the LA Philharmonic, Tim Keeler of Chanticleer, and Michael Cox of SF Opera and Ballet Orchestras.
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale is launching a new chapter in its artistic history with a semi-staged production of Handel's Tolomeo.
Senbla and SEGA announced Sonic Live In Concert, a new concert experience celebrating 35 years of the franchise, with US and UK premieres featuring a live orchestra, rock musicians, and vocalists performing music from across the Sonic universe.
Elim Chan will become The San Francisco Symphony's next Music Director, beginning in September 2027.
Symphony San Jose will present SYMPHONIC WORLD CUP as its season finale at the California Theatre in downtown San Jose, featuring harpist Katherine Siochi performing Ginastera's Harp Concerto alongside works by Nielsen and Shostakovich.
The San Francisco Conservatory of Music's Kaimana Quartet will perform and teach at the alumni-founded Hawai'i Chamber Music Festival, continuing a multi-year partnership with the tuition-free Young Artists Program in Honolulu.
San Francisco Opera has released a video featuring Scene Shop Foreperson John Del Bono, who reflects on his nearly 30-year career with the company and how donor support makes grand opera possible on the West Coast.
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American Composers Orchestra: New Virtuoso: Low End Theory at Carnegie Hall Carnegie Hall (3/18-3/18) |
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NYFOS Next: This Now Naked Life The Theater at 150 W 17th Street (11/15-11/15) |
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Carnegie Hall Presents: Santiago Cañón-Valencia and Victor Santiago Asuncion Carnegie Hall (11/10-11/10) |
