Twenty-three guest conductors will lead the San Francisco Symphony in place of departing music director Esa-Pekka Salonen ...

Esa-Pekka Salonen, the esteemed outgoing music director of the San Francisco Symphony, isn’t named on the orchestra’s 2025-26 season schedule — a striking absence that underscores a shift from the ...

There’s a great gaping absence in the San Francisco Symphony’s 2025-26 season: Esa-Pekka Salonen. The outgoing music director — who was supposed to carry on a four-decade tradition of excellence at ...

I n the face of growing public concern over the news that Esa-Pekka Salonen plans to part ways with the San Francisco ...

The search to replace Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen, who departs the orchestra in June, has only recently gotten underway, and proposed budget cuts within the organization have begun to impact ...

If you’re San Francisco Symphony Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen, just add electronics, maracas and hand drums. On Friday-Sunday, Oct. 18-20, Salonen, an acclaimed composer as well as conductor ...

Fellow Finn and Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen was on the podium. Composed in three movements, the last two played without pause, Rautavaara’s concerto is packed with abundant invention ...