San Francisco classical music events

Karyn White

Thursday, Jun 27 8:00p

Yoshi's San Francisco Live Music & Restaurant, San Francisco

She possesses one of the most memorable, distinctive voices ever heard in popular music...

Bernhoft plus Sun Rai

Tuesday, Jun 25 8:00p

Yoshi's San Francisco Live Music & Restaurant, San Francisco

Since releasing his sophomore album "Solidarity Breaks" in early 2011, Norwegian retro-soul singer/multi-instrumentalist Bernhoft has thrilled crowds around the world with his stripped-down yet amp...

Chamber Music with members of the San Francisco Symphony

Sunday, Jun 2 2:00p

Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco

Dalit Warshaw Transformations for String Quartet, and Theremin John Chishom violin, Chunming Mo violin; Yun Jie Liu viola; Barbara Bogatin cello; Dalit Warshaw theremin Dalit Warshaw Nizk’...

MTT and Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring and Gil Shaham

Wednesday, Jun 19 8:00p

Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco

Stravinsky’s music has been a passion of Michael Tilson Thomas’s since he met the composer while studying at USC. Fitting that the music of Stravinsky plays a prominent part in the season...

Dr. L. Subramaniam Global Fusion with Larry Coryell

Thursday, Jun 20 8:00p

Yoshi's San Francisco Live Music & Restaurant, San Francisco

Subramaniam, India’s violin icon, “The Paganini of Indian Classical music”, “the God of Indian Violin” is the serenity of an Indian musician combined with the magnetism of a western “star”...

Jonathan Biss plays Schumann

Thursday, Jun 13 2:00p

Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco

Schumann’s lilting, effervescent concerto started out as a shorter piece, but virtuoso pianist Clara Wieck—his wife—urged him to expand it...

John Goldman Tribute Concert

Monday, Jun 17 8:00p

Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco

Join us in celebrating the extraordinary leadership of outgoing Symphony President John Goldman...

Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder

Friday, Jun 14 8:00p

Yoshi's San Francisco Live Music & Restaurant, San Francisco

A life full of music is the story of Ricky Skaggs...

Barantschik and Vinocour play Britten's Double

Thursday, Jun 6 2:00p

Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco

Britten composed the concerto for violin and his own instrument, viola, at 18; its youthful vigor will challenge the virtuosity of the SFS’s Concertmaster and Principal Violist...

MTT and Stravinsky: Stravinsky's Russian Roots

Friday, Jun 21 6:30p

Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco

The joyous Les Noces “depicts” a wedding the way an Altman film uses scraps of conversation to tell a tale, and boasts four pianists on stage...

Robertson leads Ravel and Gershwin

Friday, May 24 6:30p

Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco

Ravel, who heard jazz in Harlem with Gershwin, was dumbfounded by the dazzling Rhapsody in Blue, which Gershwin played at a birthday party for the French composer...

Dvořák's Cello Concerto with Gautier Capuçon

Wednesday, May 29 8:00p

Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco

Music from three Eastern Europeans gives this program a delightfully colorful sound palette...

Dvořák's Cello Concerto with Gautier Capuçon - Katharine Hanrahan Open Rehearsal

Wednesday, May 29 10:00a

Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco

Music from three Eastern Europeans gives this program a delightfully colorful sound palette...

Dvořák's Cello Concerto and New World Symphony

Saturday, Jun 1 8:00p

Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco

Thrilling yet moving, powerful yet tender, Dvořák’s New World Symphony is an enormously popular work sure to enthrall listeners young and old...

Mamak Khadem

Sunday, Jul 14 7:30p

Yoshi's San Francisco Live Music & Restaurant, San Francisco

The poet Rumi referred to “the place where everything is music...

Peter White

Friday, May 24 8:00p

Yoshi's San Francisco Live Music & Restaurant, San Francisco

Over the years, Peter White has maintained a reputation as one of the most versatile and prolific acoustic guitarists on the contemporary jazz landscape...

Hamed Nikpay

Sunday, Jun 9 7:00p

Yoshi's San Francisco Live Music & Restaurant, San Francisco

A fusion vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter, Hamed Nikpay has been a pioneering & experimental artist for over a decade...

The East-West Collective

Tuesday, Jun 18 8:00p

Yoshi's San Francisco Live Music & Restaurant, San Francisco

The EAST-WEST COLLECTIVE will commence its première tour of North America on June 14 at the Vision Festival in New York...

The Artist Sessions: Christopher O'Riley

Wednesday, May 29 8:00p

Yoshi's San Francisco Live Music & Restaurant, San Francisco

Since the triumphant release of True Love Waits, pianist Christopher O’Riley’s reimagining of works by Radiohead, Elliott Smith and Nick Drake have garnered critical accolades and international acc...