Holiday Gaiety
Holiday Gaiety is presented as part of the San Francisco Symphony's 2026 Holidays with the Symphony season.
Davies Symphony Hall — Page 2
201 Van Ness Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94102
Davies Symphony Hall is a theatre in San Francisco / Bay Area.
Upcoming Shows
Elf - Live in Concert
The San Francisco Symphony performs John Debney's score from Jon Favreau's Elf live to picture as the film is projected onto a large screen above the stage, with Debney himself conducting.
Holidays with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra performs as part of the San Francisco Symphony's 2026 Holidays with the Symphony season.
Holly Jolly Pops with the SF Symphony
Holly Jolly Pops with the SF Symphony closes out the 2026 Holidays with the Symphony season at Davies Symphony Hall.
Elim Chan Conducts Elgar's Enigma Variations
Elim Chan replaces Conductor Laureate Herbert Blomstedt, who withdrew on his doctors' advice against long-distance travel, leading a program including Noriko Koide's Swaddling Silk and Gossamer Rain, Mozart's Sinfonia concertante for Violin and Viola with SF Symphony...
Beethoven, Mascagni, and Sibelius with Prism Rhapsody for Marimba and Orchestra
Percussionist Aeneas Yu, winner of the SFSYO's 2025-26 Concerto Competition, performs Keiko Abe's Prism Rhapsody for Marimba and Orchestra. Paponiu and the Youth Orchestra open with Beethoven's Coriolan Overture, inspired by a play about a Roman general's vengeful attack on his...
San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra: February Concert
Radu Paponiu conducts the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra in a program featuring Ludwig van Beethoven's Coriolan Overture, Pietro Mascagni's Intermezzo from Cavalleria rusticana, Keiko Abe's Prism Rhapsody for Marimba and Orchestra featuring 2026 SFSYO Concerto...
Bay Area Youth Orchestra Festival
The San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra hosts the 11th Bay Area Youth Orchestra Festival, showcasing talented youth orchestral ensembles including the SFSYO, Golden State Youth Orchestra, Marin Symphony Youth Orchestra, Oakland Symphony Youth Orchestra, and Peninsula Youth...
Carmina burana with the SF Symphony Chorus
The San Francisco Symphony Chorus and Chorus Director Jenny Wong perform Carl Orff's Carmina burana in Wilhelm Killmayer's arrangement for two pianos and percussion. Based on medieval German poetry, the piece is well known for its iconic opening O Fortuna, which has become a pop...
Prokofiev, Ravel, and Gabriella Smith Concert
Radu Paponiu conducts Gabriella Smith's Tidalwave Kitchen, written while the composer was homesick for the Northern California coast. The SFSYO also performs Ravel's Ma Mère l'Oye, inspired by Charles Perrault's children's stories, and closes with Prokofiev's Symphony No. 5...
San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra: Season Closing Concert
The San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra closes its 2026–27 season under Radu Paponiu with a program featuring Gabriella Smith's Tidalwave Kitchen, performed in connection with Smith's work as San Francisco Symphony Creative Partner, along with Maurice Ravel's Ma Mère l'Oye...
Elim Chan and Yefim Bronfman
Elim Chan conducts the final program of the 2026–27 Orchestral Series, leading Augusta Read Thomas's Sunlight Echoes, Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 with pianist Yefim Bronfman, and Sergei Prokofiev's Symphony No. 5. Gustavo Gimeno withdrew from this program to allow Chan...
Past Shows
43 total · showing 21–30
Matilda—Film with Live Orchestra
Director and star Danny DeVito joins the San Francisco Symphony to host and narrate the film Matilda live, while composer David Newman conducts his score live-to-picture. Based on the book by Roald Dahl, Matilda tells the story of a little girl gifted with genius intelligence...
An Evening with Sutton Foster and Kelli O'Hara
Tony Award-winning performers Sutton Foster and Kelli O'Hara join the San Francisco Symphony for a special tribute to Broadway and beyond, inspired by the 1962 CBS special Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall. With conductor Michael Rafter and pianist Dan Lipton, Foster and O'Hara...
FeaturedWest Side Story—Film with Live Orchestra
Sarah Hicks conducts the San Francisco Symphony performing Leonard Bernstein's score to the 1961 film West Side Story live, while the remastered film is shown in high definition with the original vocals and dialogue intact. The 10-time Academy Award-winning romantic tragedy was...
A.R. Rahman & San Francisco Symphony
This summer, experience the interesting collaboration between Oscar-winning composer A.R. Rahman and the world-renowned San Francisco Symphony at concerts this year, next year, and even a few years after that. The first concert in this series takes place this summer on a...
A.R. Rahman with the San Francisco Symphony
A Grammy and two-time Academy Award winner, A.R. Rahman is one of the world's most prolific composers and the musical genius behind the score of Slumdog Millionaire. He brings his genre-spanning compositions—ranging from Eastern classical, pop, world music, and rap—to new...
Mendelssohn 5 & Bruch Violin Concerto
Chloé Van Soeterstède makes her conducting debut with the San Francisco Symphony, leading the first SF Symphony performance of Concert Overture in D major by Elfrida Andrée, a 19th-century composer and activist who fought for gender equality in Sweden. Violinist Paul Huang...
Chamber Music at Davies Symphony Hall
In the final chamber music concert of the 2025–26 season, San Francisco Symphony musicians perform works by Gareth Farr, Sarn Oliver, Joan Tower, and Gabriel Fauré. The program includes Farr's Taheke, Oliver's CAT (Contemporary Artful Tonalities) String Quartet, Tower's...
Denève Conducts Saint-Saëns' Organ Symphony
Conductor Stéphane Denève leads the San Francisco Symphony in a program featuring the first SF Symphony performances of Guillaume Connesson's Flammenschrift, a work the composer described as a psychological portrait of Beethoven. Organist Olivier Latry makes his Orchestral...
Gaffigan Conducts Beethoven 9
James Gaffigan, general music director of Komische Oper Berlin and Music Director Designate of the Houston Grand Opera, leads the San Francisco Symphony in Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. Soprano Jessica Faselt, mezzo-soprano Kelley O'Connor, tenor Thomas Cooley, bass Peixin Chen...
Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass & Other Delights
Grammy Award-winning musician Herb Alpert and his Tijuana Brass perform songs from the iconic album Whipped Cream & Other Delights in celebration of its 60th anniversary. The concert also features other classics including "The Lonely Bull," "Spanish Flea," "Taste of Honey,"...
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