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Celebrate the Lunar New Year and the Year of the Dog with the Symphony's annual Chinese New Year concert, led by Resident Conductor Edwin Outwater. Featured soloists include internationally-renowned pipa (Chinese lute) virtuoso Wu Man and 18-year-old piano prodigy Yuja Wang. Learn more...

The San Francisco Saxophone Quartet returns to ring in the holiday season! The smooth sound of saxophone music joins with the angelic timbres of the harp, the mighty Ruffatti organ, and crystalline voice of soprano Nicolle Foland to create an unforgettable evening. The whole family will enjoy the yuletide season in this magical and heartwarming performance featuring Christmas classics and audience sing-alongs. Learn more...

Surround yourself in the spirit of the season with traditional Christmas melodies when the San Francisco Symphony presents their Choral Christmas Spectacular at Davis Symphony Hall. Learn more...

An evening in the theater with Stravinsky, whose instincts for the stage were second to no one's. First, his magical opera The Nightingale (Le Rossignol). Then his rendition of Greek tragedy, the opera/oratorio Oedipus Rex--focused, relentless, overwhelming. Here Stravinsky blends old forms with new vitality in a powerful and mesmerizing masterpiece. These semi-staged productions feature an international cast. Learn more...

San Francisco Symphony presents the legendary Vienna Choir Boys, performing the music of Mozart, Haydn, and Schubert, plus folk songs from around the world. Learn more...

Enjoy the Warner Bros. classic cartoons on the silver screen, with George Daugherty and the Orchestra backing up that "wascally wabbit" Bugs. You'll also see original Chuck Jones animation art and cels on display in the Davies Symphony Hall lobby. Learn more...

Join the San Francisco Symphony, featuring guest violinist Leila Josefowicz, for an evening of French classics' greatest hits, featuring Ravel's magnificent Bolero and Debussy's Clair de lune. Learn more...

Television sensation Mo Rocca (Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart) joins Broadway superstars Lisa Vroman (The Phantom of the Opera), Marin Mazzie (Kiss Me Kate), Jason Danieley (The Full Monty) and Stephen Bogardus (Man of La Mancha) in this double bill of two classic Gershwin musicals: Of Thee I Sing and Let 'Em Eat Cake, with musical accompaniment by the San Francisco Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas. Learn more...

This program spans a spectrum of styles: extroverted exuberance from Haydn, introspection with an edge from Bernstein, a revelation of new harmonic worlds from French composer Grisey, who spent four years of his short life teaching at UC Berkeley. Orli Shaham, hailed by the New York Times for her "enormous technical facility and high energy," returns to take the stage at Davies. Learn more...

This is Dvorak at his best, full of appealing tunes and fiery challenges to the San Francisco Symphony's virtuoso soloist, Leonidas Kavakos. Learn more...

Bruckner made huge statements, and his Eighth Symphony is his biggest production. Conductor Laureate Herbert Blomstedt leads the San Francisco Symphony. Learn more...

Conductor David Robertson brings us Tchaikovsky's enigmatic and widely-loved Pathetique, when the San Francisco Symphony performs at Davies Symphony Hall. Learn more...

Experience Schumann's grand drama of struggle and redemption when the San Francisco Symphony and SFS Chorus, under the direction of Maestro Ingo Metzmacher, performs Schumann's Das Paradies und die Peri, "an oratorio...for happy people." Learn more...

Celebrate the Chinese New Year with the San Francisco Symphony. This annual East meets West concert features Resident Conductor Edwin Outwater leading the San Francisco Symphony and Chinese-American composer Gang Situ premiering two of his works written for the occasion. Learn more...

The San Francisco Symphony presents Vienna Woods/New York Nights: Songs of Two Cities featuring star of stage and screen, Kristin Chenoweth, at Davies Symphony Hall. Learn more...

The San Francisco Symphony presents Peter Schickele meets P.D.Q. Bach in an evening of hilarity, mayhem, and wit. Learn more...

Two San Francisco Syphony virtuosos team up under the direction of Yan Pascal Tortelier, one of the most exciting artists to emerge from France, for Benjamin Britten's searing Double Concerto for Violin and Viola. Learn more...

Bay Area Cabaret presents, for one night only, Barbara Cook (The Music Man, Candide) on-stage in her show Barbara Cook's Broadway at Davies Symphony Hall. Learn more...

Grammy Award-winning chamber orchestra Kremerata Baltica, led by violinist Gidon Kremer, plays Shostakovich and Schubert, at Davies Symphony Hall. Learn more...

Thomas Quasthoff, one of the world's finest tenors, performs music of Schubert with the San Francisco Symphony, under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas. Also on the program: works by Sibelius and Reich. Learn more...

Be swept away by the music of Tchaikovsky -- one of the most-loved composers of all time -- when the San Francisco Symphony performs at Davies Symphony Hall. Program includes the grandest of grand finales, the 1812 Overture! Learn more...

Experience the magnificence and magic of Mozart at Davies Symphony Hall, including the warm and romantic Eine kleine Nachtmusik. Learn more...

The SF Symphony presents A Night at the Opera at Davies Symphony Hall. You'll fall in love again with the most famous Opera arias of all time -- scenes that portray romance and the drama of love and betrayal! Learn more...

The SF Symphony presents Kids' Classics at Davies Symphony Hall. Bring the entire family to this program featuring Jodi Benson, the voice of Disney's The Little Mermaid, singing your favorite Disney classics! Learn more...

The SF Symphony presents A Night at the Movies at Davies Symphony Hall. Don't miss Broadway sensation Lisa Vroman, star of The Phantom of the Opera, as she returns to dazzle audiences with a salute to some of the greatest music ever written for the silver screen! Learn more...

The San Francisco Symphony performs Holst's amazing work The Planets under the direction of Maestro Andrew Davis. They will also be joined by the Nexus percussion ensemble in a performance of a piece by Toru Takemitsu. Learn more...

David Daniels, today's leading countertenor, joins the San Francisco Symphony under the direction of Andrew Davis for a program of Bach, plus Dvorak's 7th Symphony, at Davies Symphony Hall. Learn more...

Pianist Garrick Ohlsson plays the music of Beethoven and Weber for one performance only. Experience some of Beethoven's most profound emotions in his Piano Sonata No. 28 and the Eroica Variations. Learn more...

The San Francisco Symphony and guest pianist Anton Nel present an all-Beethoven concert. Follow a journey that traces Beethoven's path from young upstart to mystical prophet with works that span the breadth of the composer's styles, including marches, sonatas and folk songs. Learn more...

Celebrated Violinist and Conductor Dmitri Sitkovetsky, leads the SFS in an all Bach program featuring his higly praised string orchestra transcription of Bach's Goldberg Variations, at Davies Symphony Hall. Learn more...

World renowned soprano Deborah Voigt performs a recital program with pianist Brian Zeger featuring works by Schubert, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, and Wolf. Learn more...

MTT conducts music by a native San Franciscan and concertmaster Alexander Barantschik plays Mozart. Learn more...

Mozart, Mozart and More Mozart! Join the SFS with conductor Neville Marriner and pianist Jonathan Biss for an evening of Mozart's most magnificent scores. Learn more...

Mozart, Mozart and More Mozart! Join the SFS with conductor Hugh Wolff and pianist Peter Serkin for an evening of Mozart's most magnificent scores. Learn more...

Join Daniel Barenboim as he takes a break from his role as Music Director of the Chicago Symphony to conduct the Berlin Staatskapelle, Berlin's oldest orchestra. Learn more...

The beautiful sound of harps combined with the smooth sound of saxophones creates a concert to ring in the Christmas season. Learn more...

Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony invite you to join them as they explore the music of Igor Stravinsky, the composer who who shaped the music of the 20th century. Learn more...

Join the San Francisco Symphony for an evening of musical adventures featuring Ravel's Spirits of the Night -- music as ravishing to hear as it is challenging to play -- at Davies Symphony Hall. Learn more...