SAN FRANCISCO / BAY AREA CLASSICAL MUSIC NEWS COVERAGE

Symphony San Jose has revealed its 2026/2027 season, one that will mark such historic milestones as the 25th anniversary of the Symphony, the 100th anniversary of the California Theatre, and more....

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale has announced its lineup for The Power of Music—its first season curated by newly appointed Music Director Peter Whelan....

Radu Paponiu has extended his contract as Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra through the 2028–29 season. The Wattis Foundation Music Director joined the SFSYO in 2024 and leads four concerts annually....

Symphony San Jose will present The Enigmatic Voice on March 7–8, 2026 at the California Theatre. The program features Handel’s Zadok the Priest, Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem, and Elgar’s Enigma Variations under conductor Grant Llewellyn....

Symphony San Jose's March program will bring together three widely-recognized classical works that each evoke powerful emotions and are tied to specific historical and cultural moments or traditions. ...

The San Francisco Symphony will present a June program conducted by Elim Chan and featuring mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke. The concerts include music by Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Wagner, and Debussy. Performances will take place at Davies Symphony Hall....

Symphony San Jose will present Hopelessly Romantic, a program featuring works by Schubert, Sibelius, and Schumann, on Saturday, January 24, 2026, at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, January 25, 2026, at 2:30 p.m....

Symphony San Jose will present HOPELESSLY ROMANTIC, a concert program featuring music by Schubert, Sibelius, and Schumann. The performances will showcase Geneva Lewis as soloist in Sibelius’ Violin Concerto, conducted by François López-Ferrer....

Berkeley Symphony will conclude its 2025–26 Symphonic Series with FABLES AND FOLKLORE, led by conductor Carolyn Kuan. The program features music by Huang Ruo, Clarice Assad, and Antonín Dvořák, with guitarist Marc Teicholz as guest soloist....

San José Chamber Orchestra will present its annual CELEBRATION New Year’s Eve concert featuring conductor Barbara Day Turner and guest artists Jon Nakamatsu, Evan Kahn, and Jon and Alec Manasse. ...

The San Francisco Symphony has announced its January programming, including three Orchestral Series concerts led by guest conductors, a Shenson Spotlight recital, and live-to-picture film performances. ...

San José Chamber Orchestra will present Celebration on December 31 at St. Francis Episcopal in San José. Led by Music Director Barbara Day Turner, the New Year’s Eve program will feature guest artists Jon Nakamatsu, Evan Kahn, and Jon and Alec Manasse....

Celebrate “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year” at the majestic and beautifully decorated California Theatre with Symphony San Jose, Symphony San Jose Chorale, Cantabíle Youth Singers, and New Ballet, and special guests....

SF contemporary chamber music group Ensemble for These Times will start the New Year with the seventh edition of its popular annual series, a program of music by women and nonbinary composers....

Cellist Gautier Capuçon brings his groundbreaking project GAÏA to Davies Symphony Hall on November 16, 2025, featuring 16 world-premiere works inspired by the Earth and commissioned by the San Francisco Symphony....

Berkeley Symphony continues its 54th season with Worlds Beyond, November 16, 2025, conducted by Ming Luke. The program features works by Juan Pablo Contreras, Richard Strauss, Missy Mazzoli, and Dmitri Shostakovich at the First Congregational Church of Berkeley....

Berkeley Symphony will continue its 54th season with Refracted Light, the second concert in its 2025–26 Symphonic Series, on Sunday, October 5, 2025, at 4 p.m. at the First Congregational Church of Berkeley (2345 Channing Way)....

The San Francisco Symphony has announced that single tickets for all 2025–26 season concerts will go on sale Saturday, July 19. Tickets will be available in person at the Davies Symphony Hall box office starting at 10:00am PT.....

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale has selected acclaimed conductor, harpsichordist, solo bassoonist, and Olivier Award winner Peter Whelan as its next Music Director....

Music at Kohl Mansion has announced its highly anticipated 43rd season of chamber music concerts, bringing an exciting lineup of acclaimed ensembles from across the globe to the historic Kohl Mansion in Burlingame, CA....

As San Francisco Ballet prepares to mark the 50th anniversary of its orchestra in the 2025–2026 season, the company has announced two major developments: a newly ratified labor agreement with the orchestra’s union, and the naming of its Music Director and Principal Conductor position in honor of...

As Symphony San Jose wraps up its 2025/2026 season with this weekend's performances, its board of directors has announced that it has signed CEO and Executive Artistic Director Robert Massey to a three-year contract extension, securing the orchestra's leadership through the 2027/2028 season....

Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen and the San Francisco Symphony are releasing four new SFS Media digital-only spatial audio recordings via the Apple Music Classical app in the coming months, beginning with Jean Sibelius's Finlandia, recorded live in concert March 14–16, 2024 and available for list...

The season closes with España — a musical trip through Spain led by Spanish conductor Jose Luis Gomez and featuring Gabriela Lena Frank’s Escaramuza, and Joaquin Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez performed by Spanish guitarist Rafael Aguirre....

From June 26 to August 3, the San Francisco Symphony's summer season includes three classical programs with violinist Blake Pouliot, Grammy Award-winning ensemble Time for Three, and violin duo TwoSet Violin; two film concerts with the Orchestra playing the scores of How to Train Your Dragon and The...

This May and June, Esa-Pekka Salonen and the San Francisco Symphony close out the 2024–25 season with four dynamic programs, marking the culmination of Salonen's influential five-year tenure as Music Director.  ...

Berkeley Symphony will close its 2024–25 Symphonic Series with Triumph on Sunday, June 1 at 4 p.m. at Zellerbach Hall (101 Zellerbach Hall #4800, Berkeley, CA 94720)....

Chamber Music Marin has announced the line-up for their 2025-2026 Chamber Music Concert Series which takes place October 19, 2025 through May 17, 2026 at Mt. Tamalpais United Methodist Church in Mill Valley, CA....

Award-winning SF contemporary chamber group Ensemble for These Times (E4TT) its holding its first-ever Call for Scores for music for piano four-hands. Learn more!...