July 21, 2026 :: Tanya Gabrielian shot to fame at twenty with back-to-back victories in the Scottish International Piano Competition and Aram Khachaturyan International Piano Competition. Tanya talks with us about her musical journey, her California Symphony connections, and why it’s so meaninful for her to play Manuel de Falla’s Nights in the Gardens of Spain on our 2026/27 season finale concert, PINES OF ROME.
:: Program Annotator Scott Foglesong is the Chair of Musicianship and Music Theory at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and a Contributing Writer and Lecturer for the San Francisco Symphony. He also leads the California Symphony’s ground-breaking music education course for adults Fresh Look: The Symphony Exposed.
:: Helen Kim was prasied as "astoundingly gifted" by the San Francisco Chronicle with a versatile career as a performer and an educator. Helen talks with us about her journey towards playing violin and the first time she heard John Adams' Violin Concerto, on which she will make her California Symphony debut during BEETHOVEN'S SECOND.
:: Program Annotator Scott Foglesong is the Chair of Musicianship and Music Theory at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and a Contributing Writer and Lecturer for the San Francisco Symphony. He also leads the California Symphony’s ground-breaking music education course for adults Fresh Look: The Symphony Exposed.
July 20, 2026 :: Program Annotator Scott Foglesong is the Chair of Musicianship and Music Theory at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and a Contributing Writer and Lecturer for the San Francisco Symphony. He also leads the California Symphony’s ground-breaking music education course for adults Fresh Look: The Symphony Exposed.
:: Program Annotator Scott Foglesong is the Chair of Musicianship and Music Theory at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and a Contributing Writer and Lecturer for the San Francisco Symphony. He also leads the California Symphony’s ground-breaking music education course for adults Fresh Look: The Symphony Exposed.
:: Program Annotator Scott Foglesong is the Chair of Musicianship and Music Theory at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and a Contributing Writer and Lecturer for the San Francisco Symphony. He also leads the California Symphony’s ground-breaking music education course for adults Fresh Look: The Symphony Exposed.
January 6, 2026 :: Harmoniemusik in Vienna Music for wind band (harmoniemusik) was long a Viennese mainstay. In a land filled with music-loving aristocrats who couldn’t afford a resident full-time orchestra, a wind ensemble (harmonie), typically made up of pairs of oboes, clarinets, horns, and bassoons, provided a handy source for the ‘table music’ (tafelmusik) that accompanied dinners, garden...
December 12, 2025 :: SOLOIST NATHAN CHAN SHARES HIS THOUGHTS ON REUNITING WITH MENTOR DONATO CABRERA, PERFORMING GULDA’S CELLO CONCERTO AT SCHUBERT IN VIENNA, GROWING UP AS A MUSICAL PRODIGY, AND HOW TO GO VIRAL ON TIKTOK. What’s it like to come home and perform in the Bay Area with your former mentor, Donato Cabrera? It is with great excitement,...
November 6, 2025 :: Jessie Montgomery (b. 1981) Overture (2022) Musicians come in all sizes, shapes, and skillsets. Some are one-trick ponies, but their tricks are really good. Others might encompass multiple disciplines – pianist-composers, composer-conductors, performer-teachers, and the like. And there are those who embrace the whole. That’s where Jessie Montgomery comes in: violinist, teacher, and composer with...
