Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen leads 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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Learn more at sfsymphony.org/esa-pekka