Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar/SZA, Ali Wong, Ricky Gervais, Buddhist art, a queer photography retrospective, the Ojai and Seoul (in ...

Twenty-three guest conductors will lead the San Francisco Symphony in place of departing Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen during its upcoming 114th season. Six will make their orchestral series ...

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 ...

The orchestra will welcome such guest artists violinist Itzhak Perlman and cellist Yo-Yo Ma, pianists Emanuel Ax, Seong-Jin ...

With music director Esa-Pekka Salonen having relinquished his tenure as music director at the end of the 24-25 season, 23 guest conductors – including six making their orchestra series debuts ...

Our critics choose highlights from a lineup that includes Joshua Bell, Nathalie Joachim, Barbara Hannigan and more.