San Francisco Symphony

Mondays at 10:00 pm

Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony onstage at Davies Symphony Hall (Photo: Stefan Cohen)

Weekly concerts recorded live at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco

Since its beginning in 1911, the San Francisco Symphony has been known for innovative programs that offer a spectrum of traditional repertory and new music. Today, the orchestra’s artistic vitality, recordings, and groundbreaking multimedia educational projects carry its impact throughout American musical life. Under Michael Tilson Thomas, music director from 1995 to 2020, and Esa-Pekka Salonen, music director since 2020, the orchestra has been praised for its musicianship, for innovative programming, for bringing the works of American composers to the fore, and for bringing new audiences into Davies Symphony Hall.

The San Francisco Symphony program is part of the WFMT Orchestra Series

Mahler 2 and a World Premiere by Trevor Weston

April 1, 2024, 10:00 pm

Season Premiere: Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the SF Symphony in Gustav Mahler’s glorious Symphony No. 2 with vocalists Golda Schultz and Michelle DeYoung and the world premiere of Push by Trevor Weston.

Stravinsky, Sibelius, and Kidane

April 9, 2024, 10:00 pm

Igor Stravinsky’s explosive ballet score, The Firebird, along with Jean Sibelius’s cosmic Luonnotar with soprano Golda Schultz, and the United States premiere of Daniel Kidane’s SF Symphony commission, Sun Poem.

Yuja Wang Performs the World Premiere of Lindberg’s Third Piano Concerto

April 16, 2024, 10:00 pm

Plus Nielsen’s sun-drenched Helios Overture and Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra.

Chamayou Performs Liszt’s Totentanz

April 23, 2024, 10:00 pm

Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen and the San Francisco Symphony journey through Hector Berlioz’s phantasmic Symphonie fantastique, Franz Liszt’s devilish Totentanz with pianist Bertrand Chamayou, and Modest Mussorgsky’s supernatural Night on Bald Mountain.