Past Performances Archive
| Sep 24 | Ai Weiwei with Peter Sellars and Orville Schell; Ai Weiwei’s World of Art Lost and Found: A Conversation About Life, Art, and Politics |
| Oct 1 | Jeremy Denk, piano |
| Oct 5 | Ezra Klein: A Liberalism That Builds |
| Oct 15 | Avi Avital, mandolin; Hanzhi Wang, accordion |
| Oct 21–22 | The Triplets of Belleville Cine-Concert |
| Oct 28 | Los Angeles Master Chorale; Music to Accompany a Departure |
| Oct 29 | Michelle Cann, piano |
| Nov 1 | Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello |
| Nov 4 | John Cameron Mitchell and Amber Martin in Cassette Roulette |
| Nov 5 | Jean Rondeau, harpsichord |
| Nov 8 | Le Consort; A Journey through Baroque Europe |
| Nov 10 | San Francisco Symphony; Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor; Carey Bell, clarinet |
| Nov 11 | Brad Mehldau Trio |
| Nov 12 | The Takács Quartet |
| Nov 15 | Kristin Chenoweth; For the Girls |
| Nov 17 | American Railroad; Silkroad Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens |
| Nov 19 | The English Concert; Handel’s Rodelinda |
| Dec 1–3 | Urban Bush Women; Hair & Other Stories |
| Dec 8 | Matthew Whitaker |
| Dec 13 | Tallis Scholars; While Shepherds Watched; Peter Phillips, director |
| Dec 17 | San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus; Holiday Spectacular |
| Jan 25 | Cécile McLorin Salvant |
| Jan 27–28 | Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo |
| Jan 28 | Filippo Gorini, piano |
| Feb 3 | Eco Ensemble; The Music of Cindy Cox; David Milnes, director |
| Feb 4 | Attacca Quartet |
| Feb 9 | Renée Fleming, soprano; Howard Watkins, piano |
| Feb 10 | Brad Mehldau: Fourteen Reveries |
| Feb 11 | David Finckel, cello; Wu Han, piano |
| Feb 16–18 | common ground[s]; The Rite of Spring |
| Feb 18 | Erin Morley, soprano; Malcolm Martineau, piano |
| Feb 23–25 | Taylor Mac & Matt Ray’s Bark of Millions |
| Feb 25 | Takács Quartet |
| Mar 1–3 | Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge; Elevator Repair Service |
| Mar 2 | Kronos Quartet; Five Decades |
| Mar 3 | Conrad Tao, piano |
| Mar 5 | Isidore String Quartet |
| Mar 7 | Nathalie Joachim; Ki moun ou ye (Who are you?) |
| Mar 8 | OKAN |
| Mar 9 | Wild Up; Julius Eastman’s Femenine; Christopher Rountree, conductor |
| Mar 10 | Ema Nikolovska, mezzo-soprano; Howard Watkins, piano |
| Mar 15–17 | The Joffrey Ballet; Anna Karenina |
| Mar 17 | Mark Padmore, tenor; Mitsuko Uchida, piano |
| Mar 24 | Mahler Chamber Orchestra; Mitsuko Uchida, piano and director; José Maria Blumenschein, concertmaster and leader |
| Apr 2–7 | Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater |
| Apr 9 | Jakub Józef Orliński, countertenor; Il Pomo d’Oro |
| Apr 11–12 | Drum Tao |
| Apr 12 | Jordi Savall and Hespèrion XXI |
| Apr 13 | Danish String Quartet; Johannes Rostamo, cello |
| Apr 16 | Quatuor Ébène |
| Apr 19–21 | Mark Morris Dance Group |
| Apr 23 | Amina Edris, soprano; Pene Pati, tenor; Robert Mollicone, piano |
| Apr 26 | Angélique Kidjo |
| May 4 | Víkingur Ólafsson, piano |
| May 5 | An Evening with David Sedaris |
| Aug 4 | Gustavo Dudamel conducts Encuentros Orchestra with special guest esperanza spalding |
| Sep 23–25 | Miami City Ballet; George Balanchine’s Jewels, |
| Sep 25 | Dover Quartet |
| Oct 14 | Maxim Vengerov, violin; Polina Osetinskaya, piano |
| Oct 21 | San Francisco Symphony; Esa-Pekka Salonen, music director; Bertrand Chamayou, piano |
| Oct 23 | Rachell Ellen Wong, violin; Coleman Itzkoff, cello; David Belkovski, harpsichord |
| Oct 29–30 | Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan; 13 Tongues |
| Oct 30 | Kristian Bezuidenhout, harpsichord and fortepianos |
| Nov 3 | Colin Currie Group; Synergy Vocals |
| Nov 3 | Ensemble Basiani |
| Nov 5 | Soweto Gospel Choir |
| Nov 10 | Jordi Savall and Hespèrion XXI |
| Nov 12 | Sō Percussion |
| Nov 20 | Zlatomir Fung, cello; Janice Carissa, piano |
| Nov 26 | Vienna Boys Choir; Oliver Stech, conductor |
| Dec 4 | Takács Quartet |
| Dec 8 | Seong-Jin Cho, piano |
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| Dec 14–16 | Camille A. Brown & Dancers; ink |
| Jan 18 | Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour; Celebrating 65 Years |
| Jan 21 | Joyce DiDonato: EDEN |
| Jan 22 | Joyce Yang, piano |
| Jan 25 | Emanuel Ax, piano; Leonidas Kavakos, violin; Yo-Yo Ma, cello |
| Jan 29 | Takács Quartet |
| Feb 4–5 | Kodo One Earth Tour; Tsuzumi |
| Feb 4 | Eco Ensemble; David Milnes, conductor |
| Feb 5 | David Finckel, cello; Wu Han, piano |
| Feb 11 | Seven Things I’ve Learned; An Evening with Ira Glass, |
| Feb 12 | Jeremy Denk, piano |
| Feb 17–19 | Mark Morris Dance Group |
| Feb 25 | Step Afrika! |
| Feb 26 | Alexi Kenney, violin; Shifting Ground |
| Feb 26 | A Conversation with Rita Moreno |
| Mar 2 | Preservation Hall Jazz Band |
| Mar 5 | The English Concert; Harry Bicket, conductor |
| Mar 7–9 | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Christian Thielemann, conductor |
| Mar 11 | Zakir Hussain and Masters of Percussion |
| Mar 10–19 | William Kentridge Residency; William Kentridge’s SIBYL; Ursonate Performed by William Kentridge; A Guided Tour of the Exhibition: For Soprano and Handbag Performed by Joanna Dudley |
| Mar 19 | Castalian Quartet |
| Mar 24 | Artemis |
| Mar 26 | Zurich Chamber Orchestra |
| Apr 1 | Kronos Quartet with special guest Wu Man, pipa |
| Apr 2 | Mahan Esfahani, harpsichord |
| Apr 11–16 | Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater |
| Apr 14 | Danish String Quartet |
| Apr 20 | Sō Percussion with Caroline Shaw, voice |
| Apr 21 | Paquito D’Rivera |
| Apr 24 | An Evening with Robert Reich |
| Apr 26 | George Hinchliffe’s Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain |
| Apr 29 | Tallis Scholars; Peter Phillips, director |
| Apr 28–29 | Michel van der Aa’s Blank Out |
| May 5–6 | Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower |
| May 7 | Nina Stemme, soprano; Magnus Svensson, piano |
| Aug 21 | Not Our First Goat Rodeo; Yo-Yo Ma – Stuart Duncan — Edgar Meyer – Chris Thile with guest Aoife O’Donovan |
| Oct 3 | Tessa Lark, violin; Amy Yang, piano |
| Oct 9 | Bria Skonberg |
| Oct 10 | Danish String Quartet |
| Oct 17 | Takács Quartet |
| Oct 21–22 | Pilobolus: BIG FIVE-OH! |
| Oct 24 | Jonas Kaufmann, tenor; Helmut Deutsch, piano |
| Oct 29 | Angélique Kidjo’s Remain in Light |
| Oct 31 | Manual Cinema’s Frankenstein |
| Nov 6 | Ballet Hispánico: Noche de Oro – A Celebration of 50 Years! |
| Nov 7 | The English Concert: Handel’s Alcina; Harry Bicket, artistic director |
| Nov 11 | Avi Avital, mandolin; MILOŠ, guitar |
| Nov 12 | Aaron Diehl Trio: Mirror |
| Nov 13 | Leonidas Kavakos, violin; Yuja Wang, piano |
| Nov 14 | David Finckel, cello; Wu Han, piano |
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| Dec 2 | Kronos Quartet with special guest Mahsa Vahdat |
| Dec 3 | Damien Sneed: Joy to the World: A Christmas Musical Journey |
| Dec 4 | Vân-Ánh Võ and Blood Moon Orchestra: Songs of Strength |
| Dec 5 | Caleb Teicher & Company; Conrad Tao, piano; More Forever |
| Dec 10 | Jazzmeia Horn |
| Dec 11 | Canadian Brass: Making Spirits Bright for 50 Years and Counting! |
| Dec 17–19 | Mark Morris Dance Group (DEC 18-19 CANCELLED) |
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| Jan 30 | Paul Appleby, tenor; Conor Hanick, piano |
| Feb 4–5 | Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo |
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| Feb 6 | Eric Lu, piano |
| Feb 12 | Wayne Shorter & Esperanza Spalding’s Iphigenia, A New Opera |
| Feb 13 | Spektral Quartet |
| Feb 17 | Two Wings: The Music of Black America in Migration; featuring Jason Moran and Alicia Hall Moran |
| Feb 20 | Takács Quartet; Stephen Hough, piano |
| Feb 25–26 | Memphis Jookin’: The Show, featuring Lil Buck |
| Mar 4 | Jordi Savall and Le Concert des Nations: Tous les matins du monde |
| Mar 4–6 | The Joffrey Ballet |
| Mar 6 | Angel Blue, soprano |
| Mar 12 | Ted Hearne and Saul Williams’ Place |
| Mar 13 | Jakub Józef Orliński, countertenor; Michał Biel, piano |
| Mar 17 | The Summit: The Manhattan Transfer Meets Take 6 |
| Mar 18–20 | Dorrance Dance: SOUNDspace |
| Mar 26 | Matthew Whitaker |
| Mar 27 | Mahler Chamber Orchestra; Mitsuko Uchida, piano and director; Mark Steinberg, concertmaster and leader |
| Mar 29–31 | Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater |
| Apr 1–3 | Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater |
| Apr 3 | Jamie Barton, mezzo-soprano; Jake Heggie, piano |
| Apr 8 | yMusic |
| Apr 9 | Vienna Piano Trio |
| Apr 10 | English Baroque Soloists; Sir John Eliot Gardiner, director |
| Apr 23 | Angélique Kidjo’s Yemandja: A Story of Africa |
| Apr 23 | Tetzlaff Quartet |
| Apr 28 | Daniil Trifonov, piano |
| Apr 29 | Danish String Quartet |
| May 5 | David Sedaris |
| May 6 | The Tallis Scholars; Peter Phillips, director |
| May 7 | Lila Downs |
| Jun 3–5 | Eifman Ballet: Russian Hamlet |
Events on our 2020–21 Season were part of our Cal Performances at Home streaming series.
| Oct 1–Dec 30 | Tessa Lark, violin; Andrew Armstrong, piano |
| Oct 6–Jan 4 | Alex Ross and John Adams in Conversation; Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music |
| Oct 8–Jan 6 | Tetzlaff Quartet |
| Oct 14–Jan 12 | Nathalie Joachim and Spektral Quartet; Fanm d’Ayiti |
| Oct 21–Jan 19 | Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society; Real Enemies |
| Oct 29–Jan 17 | Manual Cinema; Frankenstein |
| Nov 5–Feb 3 | Matthew Whitaker Quartet |
| Nov 12–Feb 10 | David Finckel, cello; Wu Han, piano |
| Nov 27–Dec 12 | Yo-Yo Ma & Kathryn Stott; Songs of Comfort and Hope |
| Dec 3–Jan 2 | Leif Ove Andsnes, piano |
| Dec 10–Mar 10 | Dover Quartet |
| Dec 17–19 | Manual Cinema’s Christmas Carol |
| Dec 31 | New Year’s Eve Musical Celebration |
| Jan 7–Apr 7 | Bria Skonberg |
| Jan 14–Apr 14 | Julia Bullock, classical singer; Laura Poe, piano |
| Feb 25–Apr 28 | Takács Quartet |
| Mar 4–Jun 2 | Mahan Esfahani, harpsichord |
| Mar 18–Jun 16 | Mitsuko Uchida, piano |
| Apr 1–Jun 30 | Christine Goerke, soprano; Craig Terry, piano |
| Apr 15–Jul 14 | Jeremy Denk, piano |
| Apr 22–Jul 21 | Jazzmeia Horn |
| Apr 29–Jul 28 | Renée Fleming’s “Music and the Mind” |
| May 6–Aug 4 | Bang on a Can; Julia Wolfe’s Steel Hammer |
| May 13–Jun 23 | Beatrice Rana, piano |
| May 20–Aug 18 | yMusic |
| Jun 3–Sep 1 | Jordi Savall, La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Le Concert des Nations; Madrigals of Love and War |
| Jun 10–Sep 8 | Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater |
| Jul 16–Aug 11 | At the Illusionist’s Table |
| Aug 30 | Welcome Back to A Cappella: A Free Event Featuring Cal Musical Ensembles |
| Sep 20–22 | Mark Morris Dance Group; Mozart Dances |
| Sep 21–22 | Jonathan Biss, piano; The Complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas |
| Sep 28 | Triptych (Eyes of One on Another) |
| Oct 3 | Trey McLaughlin & The Sounds of Zamar |
| Oct 5 | Renée Fleming, soprano; Richard Bado, piano |
| Oct 6 | Maggie Haberman |
| Oct 12–13 | Jonathan Biss, piano; The Complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas |
| Oct 12–13 | Sankai Juku; Meguri: Teeming Sea, Tranquil Land |
| Oct 20 | Hālau O Kekuhi |
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| Oct 30–Nov 3 | Mariinsky Ballet and Orchestra; La Bayadère |
| Nov 3 | Fretwork with Iestyn Davies, countertenor |
| Nov 4 | Farruquito |
| Nov 8 | Afropop Spectacular with Alsarah and the Nubatones and Natu Camara |
| Nov 9 | David Sedaris |
| Nov 10 | Danish String Quartet |
| Nov 15 | Ensemble Basiani |
| Nov 17 | Video Games Live with the UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra |
| Nov 24 | David Finckel, cello; Wu Han, piano |
| Nov 29–Dec 1 | Peking Acrobats |
| Dec 4 | Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello; Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano |
| Dec 5 | Dan Pfeiffer |
| Dec 7–8 | Takács Quartet; The Complete Bartók String Quartets |
| Dec 14 | Eighth Blackbird |
| Dec 15 | Jonathan Biss, piano; The Complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas |
| Jan 23 | Jemele Hill |
| Jan 26 | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Pinchas Zukerman, conductor and violin |
| Feb 1 | Jordi Savall with La Capella Reial de Catalunya and Hespèrion XXI, Splendor of the Iberian Baroque |
| Feb 9 | Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano; Malcolm Martineau, piano |
| Feb 9 | An Evening of Duos Onstage: Tim Berne, saxophone, Matt Mitchell, piano; Ingrid Laubrock, saxophone, Kris Davis, piano |
| Feb 13 | An Evening with Kronos Quartet; A Thousand Thoughts |
| Feb 20 | We Shall Overcome: A Celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. featuring Damien Sneed |
| Feb 21 | MILOŠ and Friends |
| Feb 22–23 | Cirque Éloize; Hotel |
| Feb 23 | Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin; Secrets of the Baroque |
| Feb 27 | David Pogue |
| Feb 28 | The Chieftains; The Irish Goodbye |
| Feb 29 | Eco Ensemble |
| Feb 29 | John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask; The Origin of Love Tour |
| Mar 1 | Louis Lortie, piano |
| Mar 6–8 | The Joffrey Ballet |
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| Aug 2 | AileyCamp 2018 Performance |
| Sep 23 | Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marshalls and special guest Jon Batiste; Celebrting Duke Ellington at the Greek |
| Sep 28–30 | Mark Morris Dance Group; Pepperland: Sgt. Pepper at 50 |
| Sep 30 | Yo-Yo Ma, cello; The Complete Bach Suites at the Greek |
| Oct 5 | Max Richter with the American Contemporary Music Ensemble performing music from The Blue Notebooks and Infra |
| Oct 6 | Aida Cuevas with Mariachi Juvenil Tecalitlán A Tribute to Juan Gabriel |
| Oct 7 | Sandeep Das and the HUM Ensemble; Delhi to Damascus |
| Oct 12–13 | Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People; Schaubühne, Berlin |
| Oct 13 | Jerusalem Quartet with Pinchas Zukerman and Amanda Forsyth |
| Oct 13 | Soweto Gospel Choir; Songs of the Free |
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Oct 20–21
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Sasha Waltz & Guests; Körper |
| Oct 25 | An Evening with Pat Metheny with Antonio Sánchez, Linda May Han Oh, and Gwilym Simcock |
| Oct 26–28 | Barber Shop Chronicles;A Fuel, National Theatre, and West Yorkshire Playhouse co-production |
| Nov 1 | Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Tamara Stefanovich, pianos |
| Nov 3 | Jordi Savall; The Routes of Slavery (1444-1888) |
| Nov 10 | Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra |
| Nov 16–17 | Compagnie Käfig; Pixel |
| Dec 2 | Shai Wosner, piano |
| Dec 6 | Charles Lloyd & The Marvels with special guest Lucinda Williams featuring Greg Leisz, Reuben Rogers, and Eric Harland |
| Dec 7‐9 | Pavel Zušstiak and Palissimo Company; Custodians of Beauty |
| Dec 13–16 | Big Dance Theater; 17c Buenos Aires |
| Jan 18–20 | Hubbard Street Dance Chicago |
| Jan 20 | David Finckel, cello; Wu Han, piano |
| Jan 25 | Kronos Quartet; Fifty for the Future |
| Jan 27 | Nicola Benedetti, violin; Alexei Grynyuk, piano |
| Feb 1 | Yefim Bronfman, piano |
| Feb 2–3 | Kodo; One Earth Tour: Evolution |
| Feb 8 | Cantus; Alone Together |
| Feb 17 | Danish String Quartet |
| Feb 20 | Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano; Songplay |
| Feb 22–24 | The 7 Fingers; Reversible |
| Feb 24 | Takács Quartet |
| Mar 2 | eco ensemble |
| Mar 2–3 | Akram Khan; XENOS |
| Mar 3 | Takács Quartet |
| Mar 6 | Front Row with W. Kamau Bell and Friends |
| Mar 10 | Nicolas Hodges, piano; Jennifer Koh, violin; Anssi Karttunen, cello |
| Mar 15–17 | Philharmonia Orchestra, London Esa-Pekka Salonen, principal conductor & artistic advisor |
| Mar 22–24 | Quote Unquote Collective; Mouthpiece |
| Mar 23 | An Evening with Ira Glass; Seven Things I’ve Learned |
| Mar 31 | Zakir Hussain and the Masters of Percussion |
| Apr 3 | Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour Featuring Cécile McLorin Salvant & Christian Sands, music director |
| Apr 4 | The Tallis Scholars; Music Inspired by the Sistine Chapel |
| Apr 7 | Sō Percussion; The Keyboard Reimagined |
| Apr 9–14 | Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater |
| Apr 13 | Havana Cuba All-Stars |
| Apr 15 | Murray Perahia, piano |
| Apr 27–28 | Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar; Théâtre National de Bretagne |
| Apr 29 | Gil Shaham, violin; Akira Eguchi, piano |
| May 1 | Alisa Weilerstein, cello; The Complete Bach Suites |
| May 3 | Silkroad Ensemble; Heroes Take Their Stands |
| May 5 | Michael Barenboim, violin |
| May 11–12 | Song of the Goat Theatre; Songs of Lear |
| May 17 | Los Angeles Master Chorale; Lagrime di San Pietro (Tears of Saint Peter) |
| May 31–Jun 2 |
Eifman Ballet; The Pygmalion Effect
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| Aug 3 | AileyCamp 2017 Performance |
| Aug 5 | Asian Youth Orchestra with Sarah Chang, violin |
| Sep 19 | |
| Sep 21–23 | Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group; Moses |
| Sep 30 | Lila Downs |
| Oct 6–7 | Flyaway Productions; the right to be believed |
| Oct 7 | Berkeley Talks: Matt Groening and Lynda Barry |
| Oct 11 | ODC/Dance; boulders and bones |
| Oct 13–15 | Chicago Symphony Orchestra |
| Oct 21–22 | Théâtre de la Ville, Paris; State of Siege |
| Oct 22 | Olli Mustonen, piano |
| Oct 23 | Berkeley Talks: Garrison Keillor |
| Oct 27 | Dorrance Dance |
| Oct 28 | Korean National Gugak Center Creative Traditional Orchestra, New works concert |
| Oct 28 | Korean National Gugak Center Creative Traditional Orchestra, Traditional Korean Court |
| Oct 29 | Anssi Karttunen, cello, Nicolas Hodges, piano |
| Nov 4–5 | Mariinsky Orchestra |
| Nov 5 | Anthony de Mare |
| Nov 9 | Les Arts Florissants |
| Nov 10 | Ian Bostridge, tenor; Wenwen Du, piano |
| Nov 11 | Tango Buenos Aires |
| Nov 12 | Tetzlaff Quartet |
| Nov 17–19 | The Joffrey Ballet |
| Nov 24–26 | Imago Theatre; La Belle |
| Dec 2–3 | Ragamala Dance Company; Written in Water |
| Dec 2 | Claire Chase, flute |
| Dec 3 | Simon O’Neill |
| Dec 8–10 | Camille A. Brown & Dancers; BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play |
| Dec 10 | Takács Quartet; Garrick Ohlsson, piano |
| Dec 15–24 | The Hard Nut; Mark Morris Dance Group |
| Jan 27–28 | Peking Acrobats |
| Jan 31–Feb 4 | Circa, Il Ritorno |
| Feb 7 | Cécile McLorin Savant |
| Feb 9–11 | The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra |
| Feb 9–10 | Spectrum Dance Theater |
| Feb 14 | Nicola Benedetti, violin; The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment |
| Feb 16–18 | Counting Sheep: A Guerrilla Folk Opera, Lemon Bucket Orchestra |
| Feb 16 | Dorothea Röschmann,soprano; Malcolm Martineau, piano |
| Feb 18 | St. Lawrence String Quartet |
| Feb 21 | Berkeley Talks: Tony Kushner and Sarah Vowell |
| Feb 24–25 | Company Wang Ramirez; Borderline |
| Feb 25 | Sérgio & Odair Assad and Avi Avital |
| Feb 28 | Emanuel Ax, piano; Leonidas Kavakos, violin; Yo-Yo Ma, cello |
| Mar 2 | NPR’s From the Top with Host Christopher O’Riley |
| Mar 4 | Kronos Quartet, Rinde Eckert, Vân-Ánh Võ; My Lai |
| Mar 7 | Eva Yerbabuena Company; ¡Ay! |
| Mar 9 | globalFEST: The New Golden Age of Latin Music |
| Mar 11 | Wu Man and the Huayin Shadow Puppet Band |
| Mar 16 | Berkeley Talks: W. Kamau Bell |
| Mar 16–18 | Manual Cinema; Ada/Ava |
| Mar 18 | David Finckel, cello; Wu Han, piano |
| Mar 21 | Front Row with Margaret Cho and Friends |
| Mar 22 | Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Chick Corea |
| Mar 25 | Julia Bullock, soprano; John Arida, piano |
| Apr 7–8 | Seattle Symphony |
| Apr 10–15 | Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater |
| Apr 14 | Armenian State Chamber Choir |
| Apr 19 | The Tallis Scholars; War and Peace |
| Apr 20 | Apollo’s Fire—The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra; Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo |
| Apr 21 | Boston Pops at the Greek |
| Apr 22 | Richard Goode, piano |
| May 4 | Leif Ove Andsnes, piano |
| May 4–5 | Ex Machina; 887 |
| May 6 | eco ensemble |
| May 6 | TAO; Drum Heart |
| May 8 | Berkeley Talks: An Evening with David Sedaris |
| Jun 14–16 | Ojai at Berkeley 2018; Patricia Kopatchinskaja, music director |
| Sep 10 | Shanghai Acrobats of the People’s Republic of China |
| Sep 21 | Berkeley Talks: Steve Kerr |
| Sep 29 | Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis |
| Sep 30–Oct 2 | Layla and Majnun, Mark Morris Dance Group, The Silk Road Ensemble |
| Oct 7–9 | Esa-Pekka Salonen, principal conductor & artistic advisor, Philharmonia Orchestra of London |
| Oct 14–16 | Takács Quartet |
| Oct 21 | Ensemble Basiani |
| Oct 22–23 | Cullberg Ballet |
| Oct 23 | Denis Matsuev, piano |
| Oct 26 | Zakir Hussain, tabla with Niladri Kumar, sitar |
| Oct 30 | Gustavo Dudamel and Youth Orchestra Los Angeles (YOLA) 10th Anniversary Tour |
| Nov 4 | Afropop Spectacular: Mahmoud Ahmed & Trio da Kali |
| Nov 10–13 | Robert Wilson / Mikhail Baryshnikov, Letter to a Man |
| Nov 19 | Myra Melford & Snowy Egret |
| Nov 18 | Havana Cuba All-Stars |
| Nov 20 | David Finckel, cello and Wu Han, piano |
| Nov 26 | Vienna Boys Choir |
| Dec 3 | Kronos Quartet, Fifty for the Future |
| Dec 4 | Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano, Il Pomo d’Oro, War and Peace |
| Dec 10 | Choir of Trinity Wall Street Trinity Baroque Orchestra |
| Jan 22 | Emanuel Ax, piano |
| Jan 27 | Jordi Savall and Hespèrion XXI |
| Jan 28–29 | Kodo |
| Jan 29 | Ensemble Signal, Steve Reich |
| Feb 3–4 | Available Light, John Adams, composer, Lucinda Childs, choreographer, Frank O. Gehry, stage design |
| Feb 9–11 | The 7 Fingers (Les 7 Doigts) |
| Feb 12 | Lucas Debargue, piano |
| Feb 13 | Black Arm Band |
| Feb 16 | The Nile Project |
| Feb 19 | Maria Schneider Orchestra |
| Feb 24 | Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin |
| Feb 26 | Julia Wolfe: Anthracite Fields, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Cappella SF |
| Mar 1 | Berkeley Talks: Marlon James |
| Mar 3–4 | Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo |
| Mar 5 | Balé Folclórico da Bahia |
| Mar 10–11 | Kidd Pivot and Electric Company Theatre |
| Mar 11 | The Hot Sardines and Jason Moran Celebrates Fats Waller |
| Mar 12 | Jeffrey Kahane, piano |
| Mar 14–19 | Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater |
| Mar 19 | Miah Persson, soprano, Florian Boesch, baritone, Malcolm Martineau, piano |
| Mar 22–26 | William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night |
| Mar 24 | Choir of King’s College, Cambridge |
| Mar 25 | Miloš, guitar |
| Mar 26 | National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine |
| Apr 4 | Bassem Youssef |
| Apr 6 | The Tallis Scholars |
| Apr 8–9 | Takács Quartet |
| Apr 13 | Jazz & Sondheim Side by Side |
| Apr 21 | Saleem Ashkar, piano |
| Apr 22 | Cappella SF |
| Apr 28–30 | Rameau: The Temple of Glory (Le temple de la Gloire), Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra |
| Apr 30 | Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Chris Thile at the Greek |
| May 6–7 | RIOULT Dance NY |
| May 10–12 | Scottish Ballet |
| Jun 15 | Ojai at Berkeley |
| Jun 16 | Ojai at Berkeley 2017: George Lewis’ Afterword, an opera |
| Jun 17 | Ojai at Berkeley 2017: Vijay Iyer and Friends |
| Jun 17 |
Ojai at Berkeley 2017: Stravinsky & Iyer
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| Sep 18 | Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis |
| Sep 20 | National Circus and Acrobats of the People’s Republic of China |
| Sep 24–26 | Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela Residency, Gustavo Dudamel, Music Director |
| Sep 24 | Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela at the Greek |
| Oct 1–4 | Mariinsky Ballet and Orchestra: Cinderella |
| Oct 11 | Bollywood Masala Orchestra and Dancers of India |
| Oct 11 | Takács Quartet |
| Oct 16–18 | Tharp 50th Anniversary Tour |
| Oct 23 | eco ensemble |
| Oct 24 | Bach Collegium Japan |
| Oct 29–30 | Circa: Opus |
| Nov 6–7 | Ensemble intercontemporain |
| Nov 7 | Youssou N’Dour |
| Nov 8 | Leila Josefowics |
| Nov 13–14 | Compañia Flamenca José Porcel |
| Nov 19–22 | Rude Mechs: Stop Hitting Yourself |
| Nov 22 | Danish String Quartet |
| Nov 27–29 | Mummenschanz |
| Dec 6 | Garrick Ohlsson, piano |
| Dec 12–13 | Ira Glass with Monica Bill Barnes and Anna Bass: Three Acts, Two Dancers, One Radio Host |
| Jan 22–23 | Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan: Rice |
| Jan 24 | Yefim Bronfman, piano |
| Jan 24 | Monterey Jazz Festival On Tour |
| Jan 29 | St. Louis Symphony |
| Feb 10 | Eric Schmidt |
| Feb 14 | eighth blackbird Hand Eye |
| Feb 21 | Takács Quartet |
| Feb 26 | Jordi Savall, viol & Frank McGuire, bodhrán |
| Feb 27–28 | Chitresh Das Dance Company: Shiva |
| Feb 28 | Danish String Quartet |
| Mar 2 | Front Row with Lars Ulrich |
| Mar 4–6 | Yefin Bronfman, piano |
| Mar 5 | Renée Fleming, soprano |
| Mar 6 | Binge-Worthy Journalism: Backstage with the Creators of SERIAL, Sarah Koenig and Julie Snyder |
| Mar 11–13 | Mark Morris Dance Group & Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Chorale:L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato |
| Mar 18–19 | Trajal Harrell: The Ghost of Montpellier Meets the Samurai |
| Mar 19 | Buika |
| Mar 19 | L’Arpeggiata |
| Mar 20 | Reid Hoffman |
| Mar 29–Apr 3 | Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater |
| Mar 26 | Montreal Symphony Orchestra |
| Apr 2 | Musicians from Marlboro |
| Apr 9 | The Tallis Scholars |
| Apr 10 | Brentano String Quartet |
| Apr 14 | Gil Shaham, violin with films by David Michalek |
| Apr 16 | Jaron Lanier |
| Apr 16 | globalFEST: Creole Carnival |
| Apr 17 | Murray Perahia, piano |
| Apr 24 | Billy Collins and Aimee Mann |
| Apr 29 | Jonathan Franzen |
| May 1 | Kronos Quartet |
| May 5–8 | Edgar Oliver: Helen & Edgar |
| May 7 | David Finckel, cello; Wu Han, piano |
| May 12 |
Philippe Jaroussky, countertenor; Jérôme Ducros, piano
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| Aug 12 | Yo-Yo Ma at the Greek: Bach Solo Cello Suites (selections) |
| Sep 20 | Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán |
| Sep 25–28 | Mark Morris Dance Group and Music Ensemble |
| Oct 10 | WORDLESS!: Art Spiegelman and Phillip Johnston |
| Oct 11 |
Afropop Spectacular: Bassekou Kouyate and Krar Collective
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| Oct 12 | Takács Quartet Marc-André Hamelin, piano |
| Oct 16–19 | The Australian Ballet: Swan Lake |
| Oct 24–25 | Sasha Waltz & Guests: Impromptus |
| Oct 26 | Richard Goode, piano: The Last Three Piano Sonatas |
| Oct 29 | Bassem Youssef |
| Oct 30 | Mavis Staples |
| Nov 2 | Jorge Federico Osorio, piano |
| Nov 7–8 | Théâtre de la Ville: Six Characters in Search of an Author |
| Nov 9 | Czech Philharmonic Orchestra; Prague Philharmonic Choir: Dvořák: Stabat Mater |
| Nov 13 | Apollo’s Fire: Monteverdi’s Vespers for the Blessed Virgin, 1610 |
| Nov 14–15 | Britten: Curlew River: A Parable for Church Performance |
| Nov 15 | David Sedaris |
| Nov 15 | Academy of Ancient Music |
| Nov 16 | San Francisco Contemporary Music Players: Project TenFourteen |
| Nov 16 | Irvin Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra |
| Nov 21–23 | Robert Wilson, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Willem Dafoe: The Old Woman |
| Nov 23 | St. Lawrence String Quartet |
| Dec 4 | Cantus: All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914 |
| Dec 5–6 | Paul Dresher Electro-Acoustic Band and Amy X Neuburg: They Will Have Been So Beautiful: Songs and Images of Now |
| Dec 6 | Audra McDonald, soprano |
| Dec 7 | Takács Quartet; Erika Eckert, viola |
| Dec 10 | In Conversation with Yo-Yo Ma |
| Jan 13 | Gidon Kremer, violin; Daniil Trifonov, piano |
| Jan 18 | Kronos Quartet; Wu Man, pipa |
| Jan 24 & 25 | Peking Acrobats |
| Jan 25 | San Francisco Contemporary Music Players: Project TenFourteen |
| Jan 31 | Matthew Polenzani, tenor; Julius Drake, piano |
| Jan 31–Feb 1 | Kodo One Earth Tour: Mystery |
| Feb 4–7 | Les 7 Doigts de la Main Circus: Sequence 8 |
| Feb 8 | Peter Nero Trio: The Gershwin Project |
| Feb 13 | Michael Ondaatje |
| Feb 15 | Olli Mustonen, piano |
| Feb 19 | The Nile Project |
| Feb 20 | Jordi Savall and Hespèrion XXI |
| Feb 21 | Clarice Assad, piano |
| Feb 22 | San Francisco Contemporary Music Players: Project TenFourteen |
| Mar 1 | Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano; Malcolm Martineau, piano |
| Mar 1 | Cassandra Wilson: Coming Forth By Day: A Celebration of Billie Holiday |
| Mar 6 | The Intergalactic Nemesis: Book Two: Robot Planet Rising |
| Mar 8 | David Finckel, cello; Wu Han, piano: Russian Reflections |
| Mar 11 | Hugh Masekela and Vusi Mahlasela: 20 Years of Freedom |
| Mar 12 | Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano; Tamara Stefanovich, piano: The Piano Music of Pierre Boulez |
| Mar 14–15 | Joffrey Ballet |
| Mar 15 | Jennifer Koh, solo violin |
| Mar 19 | Chick Corea, piano; Herbie Hancock, piano |
| Mar 20-22 | Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra |
| Mar 28 | Davitt Moroney, harpsichord |
| Mar 28–29 | Chitresh Das Dance Company: Shiva |
| Mar 29 | San Francisco Contemporary Music Players: Project TenFourteen |
| Apr 10–11 | Column 2 Value 49 |
| Apr 12 | Ian Bostridge, tenor; Wenwen Du, piano: The Music and Poetry of the Great War |
| Apr 15 | An Evening With Bruce Hornsby |
| Apr 17 | Arlo Guthrie: Alice’s Restaurant: 50th Anniversary Tour |
| Apr 25 | eco ensemble |
| Apr 21–26 | Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater |
| May 1–3 | Handspring Puppet Company: Ubu and the Truth Commission |
| May 1 | Les Arts Florissants: Airs Serieux et à Boire |
| May 8 | Donal Fox Inventions Trio |
| May 10 | Christian Tetzlaff, violin; Lars Vogt, piano |
| May 15 | Sérgio and Odair Assad |
| Jun 18–20 | 2015 Ojai at Berkeley, Steven Schick music director |
| Aug 24 | Goat Rodeo Sessions: Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, and Christ Thile with guest Aoife O’Donovan at the Greek Theatre |
| Sep 29 | Fall Free For All: Open House at Cal Performances |
| Oct 4 | Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Jack DeJohnette |
| Oct 13 | Kelley O’Connor, mezzo-soprano; Jessica Rivera, soprano |
| Oct 20 | Les Violons du Roy; Stephanie Blythe, mezzo-soprano |
| Oct 23–24 | Nederlands Dans Theater |
| Oct 26 | Musicians from Marlboro |
| Oct 27 | The Silk Road Ensemble |
| Oct 30 | Mariza |
| Nov 1–2 | Shanghai Ballet: The Butterfly Lovers |
| Nov 3 | Paul Lewis, piano |
| Nov 3 | Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán |
| Nov 9 | Apollo’s Fire: Bach’s Brandenburgs |
| Nov 14 | The Intergalactic Nemesis: Book One: Target Earth |
| Nov 16 | Joshua Redman Quartet |
| Nov 17 | Danish String Quartet |
| Nov 17 | Unión Tanguera: Nuit Blanche |
| Nov 23–24 | Imago Theatre: Frogz! |
| Nov 24 | Shai Wosner, piano |
| Dec 1 | Davitt Moroney, harpsichord |
| Dec 7 | Kronos Quartet 40th Birthday Concert! |
| Dec 14 | Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra: Handel’s Messiah |
| Jan 18 | Chick Corea & Béla Fleck: Duets |
| Jan 19 | Richard Goode, piano |
| Jan 23 | Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano; Emanuel Ax, piano: Brahms & Beyond |
| Jan 25–26 | Peking Acrobats |
| Jan 26 | Wu Man, pipa |
| Jan 31–Feb 1 | Martha Graham Dance Company |
| Feb 2 | Gerald Finley, baritone & Julius Drake, piano |
| Feb 2 | Barefoot Divas: Walk a Mile in My Shoes |
| Feb 7 | Venice Baroque Orchestra & Philippe Jaroussky, countertenor |
| Feb 9 | Michael Cooper: Masked Marvels & Wondertales |
| Feb 12 | Sweet Honey in the Rock: 40th Anniversary: Forty and Fierce |
| Feb 16 | Jonathan Biss, piano |
| Jan 22 | Eco Ensemble |
| Feb 22–23 | Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet |
| Feb 23 | Calder Quartet |
| Feb 26 | Yo-Yo Ma, cello; Emanuel Ax, piano: Brahms & Beyond |
| Mar 1 | Jordi Savall with Hespèrion XXI & Tembembe Ensamble Continuo: Folias Antiquas & Criollas |
| Mar 2 | Ladysmith Black Mambazo |
| Mar 7–9 | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra |
| Mar 12 | Ballet Flamenco Eva Yerbabuena |
| Mar 14 | Estrella Morente |
| Mar 16 | Jerusalem Quartet |
| Mar 21–22 | Trey McIntyre Project |
| Mar 22–23 | Takács Quartet |
| Mar 23 | Zakir Hussain, the Masters of Percussion |
| Mar 25 | Mitsuko Uchida, piano |
| Mar 25 | Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo |
| Mar 28 | Iestyn Davies, countertenor; Thomas Dunford, lute |
| Mar 29 | Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin: Bach Family |
| Mar 29 | Ira Glass, Monica Bill Barnes, Anna Bass: Three Acts, Two Dancers, One Radio Host |
| Apr 1–6 | Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater |
| Apr 6 | David Gonzalez and the Yak Yak Band: Aesop Bops! |
| Apr 6 | Kronos Quartet with Combat Paper Project: A Meditation on War |
| Apr 8 | Pinchas Zukerman, violin, viola; Yefim Bronfman, piano |
| Apr 12 | Eco Ensemble |
| Apr 25–27 | Mark Morris Dance Group & Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Chorale: Acis and Galatea |
| May 2 | Marcus Shelby Orchestra: The Legacy of Duke Ellington: 50 Years of Swing! |
| May 3 | David Finckel, cello; Wu Han, piano |
| May 4 | Nate Silver |
| Jun 19–21 | Ojai North Music Festival; Jeremy Denk, music director |
| Sep 15–16 | National Circus of the People’s Republic of China |
| Sep 18 | Laurie Anderson: Dirtday! |
| Sep 27–29 | Théâtre de la Ville, Rhinocéros by Eugène Ionesco |
| Sep 30 | Fall Free for All: Open House at Cal Performances |
| Oct 10–14 | Mariinsky Ballet & Orchestra: Swan Lake |
| Oct 16 | The Delfeayo Marsalis Octet: Sweet Thunder |
| Oct 20 | Georgia’s Ensemble Basiani |
| Oct 26–28 | Exclusive Engagement: Einstein on the Beach An Opera in Four Acts by ROBERT WILSON – PHILIP GLASS Choreography by Lucinda Childs |
| Nov 3 | Dan Savage |
| Nov 3 | Concerto Köln |
| Nov 2–4 | Nancarrow at 100 |
| Nov 4 | Dell’Arte Company |
| Nov 6–10 | Basil Twist’s Dogugaeshi |
| Nov 7 | The Chucho Valdés Quintet |
| Nov 8 | Esa-Pekka Salonen: Composer Portrait |
| Nov 9–11 | Esa-Pekka Salonen; Philharmonia Orchestra |
| Nov 13 | Emanuel Ax, piano |
| Nov 15 | Fran Lebowitz |
| Nov 17 | Angélique Kidjo |
| Nov 23–25 | Mummenschanz |
| Nov 29–30 | The Jan Shrem; Maria Manetti Shrem Orchestra Residency |
| Dec 8 | Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra: Handel’s Messiah |
| Dec 14–23 | Mark Morris Dance Group: The Hard Nut |
| Jan 19 | Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour |
| Jan 24 | Yo-Yo Ma, cello; Kathryn Stott, piano |
| Jan 26 | Eco Ensemble |
| Jan 26–27 | Joffrey Ballet |
| Jan 27 | Nicolas Hodges, piano |
| Feb 1–2 | Hubbard Street Dance Chicago |
| Feb 3 | Kodo |
| Feb 8 | Soledad Barrio and Noche Flamenca |
| Feb 10 | Eric Owens, bass-baritone; Warren Jones, piano |
| Feb 10 | Ira Glass |
| Feb 12 | Christian Tetzlaff, solo violin |
| Feb 15–17 | Circus Oz |
| Feb 17 | Leonidas Kavakos, violin |
| Feb 19 | Miloš, guitar |
| Feb 23 | Eco Ensemble |
| Feb 24 | Oakland Folkharmonic & Teslim |
| Feb 24 | Susanna Phillips, soprano |
| Mar 1–10 | San Francisco Opera: The Secret Garden |
| Mar 2 | Voices of Afghanistan, featuring Ustad Farida Mahwash, Homayoun Sakhi, and The Sakhi Ensemble |
| Mar 3 | Brentano Quartet |
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March 9
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Nathan Gunn, baritone; Julie Gunn, piano |
| Mar 10 | Jeffrey Kahane, piano |
| Mar 15 | Trisha Brown Dance Company |
| Mar 17 | Afiara String Quartet |
| Mar 17 | Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra |
| Mar 17 | Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra |
| Mar 22–23 | Australian Chamber Orchestra |
| Mar 23 | The Tallis Scholars |
| Mar 24 | Mohammad Reza Shajarian and the Pournazeri Brothers |
| Mar 30 | Afropop Spectacular with Oliver Mtukudzi and Fatoumata Diawara |
| Apr 7 | Davitt Moroney, harpsichord |
| Apr 10 | Paquito D’Rivera & The Assad Brothers |
| Apr 13 | Ray Kurzweil |
| Apr 14 | Trout Fishing in America |
| Apr 14 | Simon Trpčeski, piano |
| Apr 18 | Arlo Guthrie |
| Apr 23–28 | Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater |
| Apr 26–27 | Handel and Haydn Society |
| May 3–5 | Les 7 Doigts de la Main Circus |
| May 10–12 | Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg |
| May 17 | San Francisco Opera Orchestra Nicola Luisotti, conductor |
| Jun 12–15 | Ojai North!: Mark Morris, music director |
| Sep 16–18 | Mark Morris Dance Group: Dido and Aeneas with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Chorale; Mark Morris, conductor |
| Sep 21 | Herbie Hancock, piano; Vinnie Colaiuta, drums; James Genus, bass; Lionel Loueke, guitar |
| Sep 25 | Fall Free for All: Open House at Cal Performances |
| Oct 2 | Calder Quartet; Thomas Adès, piano; Works by Adès, Liszt and Stravinsky |
| Oct 2 | Cambodia’s Khmer Arts Ensemble: The Lives of Giants |
| Oct 9 | Kronos Quartet; Music of Steve Reich |
| Oct 11 | Yefim Bronfman, piano; Works by Brahms, Liszt, and Prokofiev |
| Oct 14–16 | Mariinsky Orchestra; Valery Gergiev, artistic director, conductor |
| Oct 21 | John Malkovich; Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra: The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer |
| Oct 23 | The Cashore Marionettes: Simple Gifts |
| Oct 26–29 | Toni Morrison; Rokia Traoré; Peter Sellars’s: Desdemona |
| Oct 28 | San Francisco Opera Orchestra; Nicola Luisotti, conductor: Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 5 and 7 |
| Oct 29 | Keith Jarrett, piano; Gary Peacock, bass; Jack DeJohnette, drums |
| Oct 30 | Philippe Jaroussky, countertenor with Apollo’s Fire; Jeannette Sorrell, director, harpsichord: Handel and Vivaldi Fireworks |
| Nov 2 | Lang Lang, piano: Works by Bach, Schubert, and Chopin |
| Nov 6 | Takács Quartet: Works by Dvořák and Haydn |
| Nov 13 | Davitt Moroney, harpsichord: J.S. Bach: The Complete French Suites |
| Nov 13 | Abraham Inc. |
| Nov 17–20 | Gate Theatre of Dublin; Samuel Beckett’s Endgame & Watt; Starring Barry McGovern |
| Nov 18 | Trey McIntyre Project |
| Nov 19 | Compañia Flamenca José Porcel |
| Nov 19 | An Evening of Images & Conversation with Roz Chast |
| Nov 20 | Eric Owens, bass-baritone; Craig Rutenberg, piano |
| Nov 25–27 | Tomáš Kubínek; Certified Lunatic and Master of the Impossible |
| Dec 2–3 | Tanztheater Wuppertal; Pina Bausch: Danzón |
| Dec 4 | Takács Quartet: Works by Janáček, Britten and Ravel |
| Dec 10 | Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra; Nicholas McGegan, conductor: Handel’s Messiah |
| Jan 14 | Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano |
| Jan 21–22 | Peking Acrobats |
| Jan 21 | Eco Ensemble; David Milnes, conductor |
| Jan 27 | Europa Galante; Fabio Biondi, conductor & violin |
| Jan 28 | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Charles Dutoit, conductor; Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano: Liszt Piano Concerto No. 2 • Brahms Symphony No. 1 |
| Jan 29 | Alfredo Rodríguez, piano |
| Feb 3–4 | The Polychoral Splendors of Renaissance Florence; Davitt Moroney, director: Striggio’s Missa sopra Ecco sì beato giorno • Works by Cavazzoni, Rossetto, and Striggio |
| Feb 5 | Kronos Quartet; Alim Qasimov Ensemble |
| Feb 11 | Eco Ensemble; David Milnes, conductor |
| Feb 12 | David Holt: Songs and Stories of Appalachia |
| Feb 12 | Kirill Gerstein, piano: Works by Bach, Mozart, Knussen, Weber, and Schumann |
| Feb 17 | The Assad Brothers |
| Feb 18 | Ana Moura |
| Feb 19 | Takács Quartet: Works by Janáček, Britten and Debussy |
| Feb 19 | An Evening with David Rakoff |
| Feb 21 | An Evening with SNL‘s Seth Meyers |
| Feb 24–25 | Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company: Story/Time |
| Feb 29 | András Schiff, piano: Works by Bach, Bartók, and Beethoven |
| Mar 3 | Irvin Mayfield & the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra |
| Mar 3 | Takács Quartet: Works by Schubert, Dvořák and Beethoven |
| Mar 4 | Wolfgang Holzmair, baritone; Russell Ryan, piano: Schubert: Winterreise |
| Mar 7 | An Evening with Garrison Keillor |
| Mar 8 | Danú: Traditional Music and Song from Ireland |
| Mar 10 | Ton Koopman; Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra: Choir Bach’s Mass in B Minor |
| Mar 11 | Murray Perahia, piano |
| Mar 13–18 | Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater |
| Mar 24 | David Milnes, conductor |
| Mar 24 | Zakir Hussain; Masters of Percussion |
| Mar 24 | David Finckel, cello; Wu Han, piano |
| Mar 25 | Richard Goode, piano: Works by Mozart and Chopin |
| Mar 30 | Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Marin Alsop, conductor; Colin Currie, percussion: Works by Copland, Tower, Higdon, and Prokofiev |
| Mar 31 | Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Richard Einhorn’s Voices of Light featuring Carl Dreyer’s film: The Passion of Joan of Arc |
| Apr 1 | Jonathan Biss, piano: Works by Beethoven, Janáček, and Ludwig |
| Apr 1 | Keith Jarrett, piano; An Evening of Solo Piano Improvisations |
| Apr 13 | Quatuor Mosaïques: Works by Haydn, Mendelssohn, and Schubert |
| Apr 19 | Seun Kuti and Fela’s Egypt 80 |
| April 22 | Musicians from Marlboro: Works by Haydn, Mendelssohn, and Shostakovich |
| Apr 29 | Sandrine Piau, soprano; Susan Manoff, piano |
| May 1 | San Francisco Symphony; Jane Glover, conductor: Baroque Delights: Brandenburg Concertos and Handel |
| May 4 | Dianne Reeves |
| May 6 | Word for Word; Performing Arts Company: Stories from Sonoma Mountain |
| May 6 | Sweet Honey In The Rock |
| May 8 | Peter Serkin, piano |
| Jun 2 | Voices of Afghanistan, featuring Ustad Farida Mahwash Homayoun Sakhi; The Sakhi Ensemble |
| Jun 3 | San Francisco Opera Orchestra; Nicola Luisotti, conductor |
| Jun 9–10 | Jordi Savall, rebec & rebab: A Dialogue of Souls |
| Jun 11–14 | Ojai North!: Leif Ove Andsnes, music director |
| Jun 13 | Maria Schneider Orchestra |
| Sep 24 | Bayanihan Philippine National Dance Company |
| Sep 26 | Fall Free for All: Open House at Cal Performances |
| Sep 30–Oct 3 | Mark Morris Dance Group |
| Oct 7–10 | Circus Oz |
| Oct 10 | David Finckel, cello; Wu Han, piano: Beethoven: The Complete Sonatas for Cello and Piano |
| Oct 14 | Alex Ross: Chacona, Lamento, Walking Blues: Bass Lines of Music History |
| Oct 15 | Jerusalem Quartet |
| Oct 22 | Gamelan Çudamani: Bamboo to Bronze |
| Oct 24 | Jeremy Denk, piano |
| Oct 26–30 | Benjamin Bagby, voice; Anglo-Saxon, harp: Beowulf: The Epic in Performance |
| Oct 29–30 | Hubbard Street Dance Chicago |
| Oct 31 | Kremerata Baltica; Gidon Kremer, artistic leader & soloist |
| Oct 31 | Alfred Brendel: Does Classical Music Have to be Entirely Serious? |
| Nov 5 | Buika |
| Nov 7 | Ensemble Zellig |
| Nov 13–14 | Zenshinza Theatre Company |
| Nov 20 | Bryn Terfel, bass-baritone; Malcolm Martineau, piano |
| Nov 21 | Will Shortz: An Evening with the Puzzle Master |
| Nov 26–28 | Mummenschanz |
| Dec 4 | Christian Tetzlaff, violin: Bach: The Complete Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin |
| Dec 5 | Pomegranates & Figs: A Feast of Jewish Music |
| Dec 5 | Takács Quartet |
| Dec 11 | John McLaughlin: 4th Dimension |
| Dec 12 | Nicolas Hodges, piano |
| Jan 21 | Tango Buenos Aires |
| Jan 22 | Joshua Redman, saxophone |
| Jan 23 | An Evening with Wallace Shawn: Real World, Fake World, Dream World |
| Jan 26 | Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano |
| Feb 3–4 | Kodo |
| Feb 9–10 | Ex Machina: Eonnagata, conceived and performed by Sylvie Guillem, Robert Lepage; Russell Maliphant |
| Feb 11–12 | Pinchas Zukerman, violin; The Zukerman Chamber Players |
| Feb 20 | Paul Lewis, piano |
| Feb 25–27 | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Semyon Bychkov, conductor |
| Mar 3-5 | Merce Cunningham Dance Company: The Legacy Tour |
| Mar 4 | Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin |
| Mar 6 | Scharoun Ensemble Berlin |
| Mar 6 | Balé Folclórico da Bahia |
| Mar 11 | Branford Marsalis, saxophone; Terence Blanchard, trumpet |
| Mar 13 | Les Percussions de Strasbourg |
| Mar 13 | Jonas Kaufmann, tenor |
| Mar 14 | David Milnes, conductor Eco Ensemble; Graeme Jennings, violin: Composer Portrait: Pierre Boulez |
| Mar 18–19 | Nederlands Dans Theater |
| Mar 20 | Joyce Yang, piano |
| Mar 24–25 | Castleton Festival Opera; Lorin Maazel, artistic director; conductor: Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia |
| Mar 26–27 | Castleton Festival Opera; Lorin Maazel, artistic director, conductor: Britten’s Albert Herring |
| Mar 26–27 | The Tallis Scholars: The Victoria Project |
| Mar 29–Apr 3 | Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater |
| Apr 3 | Jessica Rivera, soprano; Molly Morkoski, piano: MEME |
| Apr 6 | The Silk Road Ensemble; Yo-Yo Ma, cello |
| Apr 11 | Sarah Silverman |
| Apr 19 | Afro-Cuban All Stars |
| Apr 23 | Kurt Elling: Dedicated to You: Kurt Elling Sings the Music of Coltrane and Hartman |
| May 1 | Bernard Labadie, music director; Ian Bostridge, tenor: Les Violons du Roy |
| May 3 | Bernard Labadie, music director; Richard Paré, harpsichord: Les Violons du Roy |
| May 4–8, 10–14 | Druid: Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishmaan |
| May 31–Jun 4 | The Royal Danish Ballet |
| Jun 13 | Ojai North!: Maria Schneider Orchestra |
| Jun 14 | Ojai North!: Dawn Upshaw, soprano; The Australian Chamber Orchestra; Richard Tognetti, artistic director & conductor |
| Jun 16–18 | Ojai North!: Dawn Upshaw, soprano; Peter Sellars |
| Sep 17–20 | Mark Morris Dance Group |
| Sep 22 | Wynton Marsalis; the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra |
| Sep 26–27 | Bang on a Can All-Stars: A House in Bali |
| Sep 27 | Christine Brewer, soprano |
| Sep 30 | Michael Pollan |
| Oct 11 | Takács Quartet |
| Oct 17 | Wayne Shorter Quartet, featuring Brian Blade, John Patitucci, Danilo Perez |
| Oct 18 | Michael Schade, tenor |
| Oct 24–25 | Davitt Moroney, harpsichord: Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier |
| Oct 24–25 | The Suzanne Farrell Ballet |
| Oct 28 | An Evening with Garrison Keillor |
| Oct 30 | Alfred Brendel: On Character in Music |
| Nov 1 | Louis Lortie, piano |
| Nov 4–8 | Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre: Love’s Labour’s Lost |
| Nov 8 | Brentano String Quartet |
| Nov 15 | Nuccia Focile, soprano, & David Lomelí, tenor; Berkeley Symphony Orchestra; Robert Cole, conductor |
| Nov 18–22 | Druid Ireland: The Walworth Farce |
| Nov 19 | Mariza |
| Nov 21 | Taylor Eigsti & Julian Lage Duo |
| Nov 22 | Shanghai Symphony Orchestra; Long Yu, music director & conductor; Yuja Wang, piano |
| Dec 4 | The Tallis Scholars |
| Dec 5 | Ira Glass: Radio Stories & Other Stories |
| Dec 6 | Renée Fleming, soprano |
| Dec 11–13 | Mark Morris Dance Group; Berkeley Symphony Orchestra; Robert Cole, conductor: The Hard Nut |
| Dec 13 | Kronos Quartet with Joan Jeanrenaud, cello |
| Dec 17–20 | Mark Morris Dance Group; Berkeley Symphony Orchestra; Robert Cole, conductor: The Hard Nut |
| Jan 10 | Garrick Ohlsson, piano |
| Jan 23–24 | Peking Acrobats |
| Jan 23 | Europa Galante with Fabio Biondi, director & violin |
| Feb 13 | Masters of Persian Music |
| Feb 14 | Takács Quartet |
| Feb 19 | Russian National Orchestra; Mikhail Pletnev conductor; Stefan Jackiw, violin; Lisa Delan, soprano; Volti, Robert Geary, artistic director |
| Feb 20 | Angélique Kidjo |
| Feb 21 | Joshua Bell, violin; Jeremy Denk, piano |
| Feb 23 | Lisa Delan, soprano |
| Feb 28 | Swedish Radio Choir; Ragnar Bohlin, guest conductor |
| Mar 6–7 | Dan Zanes & Friend |
| Mar 9–14 | Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater |
| Mar 16 | Hespèrion XXI; Jordi Savall, director & viola da gamba |
| Mar 17 | Gilberto Gil: The String Concert, featuring Jaques Morelenbaum & Bem Gil |
| Mar 19 | Altan |
| Mar 20 | Moscow State Radio Symphony Orchestra; Robert Cole, conductor; Alexei Nabiolin, piano; Julian Schwarz, cello |
| Mar 21 | Ian Bostridge |
| Mar 26–27 | Merce Cunningham |
| Apr 20 | Baaba Maal |
| Apr 22 | Sweet Honey In The Rock |
| Apr 23 | Arlo Guthrie: Guthrie Family Rides Again |
| Apr 24 | Pat Metheny: The Orchestrion Tour |
| May 1 | Concerto Kökn |
| May 2 | Ballet Folklorico “Quetzalli” de Veracruz |
| May 7–8 | Laurie Anderson: Delusion |
| May 13 | Sonny Rollins, saxaphone |
| Sep 26 | Angela Gheorghiu, soprano; San Francisco Opera Orchestra, Marco Armilato, conductor |
| Sep 21 | Rudolf Buchbinder, piano |
| Sep 25–28 | Mark Morris Dance Group: Romeo & Juliet, On Motifs of Shakespeare |
| Oct 1 | Alexander McCall Smith |
| Oct 5 | Richard Goode, piano |
| Oct 7 | Seymour Hersh |
| Oct 8–12 | Druid Theatre Company of Galway: The Playboy of the Western World & The Shadow of the Glen |
| Oct 9–10 | Cesaria Evora |
| Oct 11 | Haruki Murakami |
| Oct 14–19 | Kirov Ballet & Orchestra of the Mariinksy Theatre |
| Oct 19 | Piotr Anderszewski, piano |
| Oct 24–25 | Laurie Anderson, Homeland |
| Oct 26 | Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra |
| Nov 1 | Milton Nascimento & The Jobim Trio |
| Nov 2 | Conrad Tao, piano |
| Nov 7–9 | Merce Cunningham Dance Company |
| Nov 9 | Vadim Repin, violin; Nikolai Lugansky, piano |
| Nov 14–15 | Merce Cunningham Dance Compny |
| Nov 23–24 | Peter Sellars’s production of Kafka Fragments with Dawn Upshaw |
| Nov 28–30 | Golden Dragon Acrobats |
| Dec 5–6 | Ballet Flamenco José Porcel |
| Dec 11–14 | Jake Heggie’s Three Decembers (Last Acts) starring Frederic von Stade |
| Dec 20 | Pomegranates & Figs: A Feast of Jewish Music featuring Nikitov & Teslim |
| Dec 21 | Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano: Fiesta Navidad |
| Jan 15 | Blue Note Records 70th Anniversary – On Tour |
| Jan 17–18 | National Acrobats of China |
| Jan 18 | Sergey Khachatryan, violin; Lusine Khachatryan, piano |
| Jan 23–24 | Soledad Barrio; Noche Flamenca |
| Jan 23 | Noche Flamenca: Latin Music Series |
| Jan 25 | Sarah Cahill, piano |
| Jan 30–31 | Pascal Rioult Dance Theatre |
| Feb 1 | Kronos Quartet |
| Feb 5-8 | Circus Oz 30th Birthday Bash! |
| Feb 8 | Danielle de Niese, soprano |
| Feb 14 | Academy of St. Martin in the Fields; Julia Fischer, violin & leader |
| Feb 15 | Takács Quartet; Richard Stoltzman, clarinet |
| Feb 19–20 | Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me! |
| Feb 22 | Cecilia Bartoli, mezzo-soprano |
| Feb 25 | Afro-Cuban All Stars |
| Feb 27–28 | Le Concert des Nations; Jordi Savall, viola da gamba & director |
| Mar 1 | Nicole Cabell, soprano |
| Mar 3-8 | Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater with Sweet Honey in the Rock (Mar 3 & 4) |
| Mar 8 | Takács Quartet; Peter Wyrick, cello |
| Mar 12 | Ladysmith Black Mambazo |
| Mar 13 | Brentano String Quartet; Peter Serkin, piano & Richard Lalli, baritone |
| Mar 14 | Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, and Jack DeJohnette |
| Mar 16 | Ang Lee; James Schamus |
| Mar 17 | Simon Shaheen: Aswat (Voices), Celebrating the Golden Age of Arab Music |
| Mar 19 | Murray Perahia, piano |
| Mar 21 | Chick Corea; John McLaughlin; Five Peace Band; Christian McBride; Kenny Garrett; Vinnie Colaiuta |
| Mar 28 | Nā Lei Hulu I Ka Wēkiu |
| Mar 28 | The Tallis Scholars |
| Mar 29 | Estonian National Symphony Orchestra with Joyce Yang, piano |
| Apr 3 | Habib Koité & Bamada |
| Mar 4 | David Rakoff |
| Mar 5 | American String Quartet with Menahem Pressler, piano |
| Apr 22 | Quatuor Mosaïques |
| Apr 24 | Krystian Zimerman, piano |
| Apr 25 | Dianne Reeves |
| Apr 26 | Australian Chamber Orchestra; Richard Tognetti, artistic director & leader; Andreas Scholl, countertenor |
| Mar 26 | David Sedaris |
| May 1–3 | Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg: Onegin |
| May 3 | Cypress String Quartet |
| May 15 | Yo-Yo Ma, cello |
| May 29–31 | Mark Morris Dance Group: L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato |
| Jun 4–7 | Bolshoi Ballet: La Bayadère |
| Jun 9–13 | Ex Machina: The Blue Dragon |
| Sep 20–23 | Mark Morris Dance Group: Mozart Dances |
| Sep 26 | Garry Willis |
| Sep 28 | Global Drum Project Tour, featuring Mickey Hart, Zakir Hussain, Sikiru Adepoju & Giovanni Hidalgo |
| Sep 29 | Patricia Barber Ensemble |
| Sep 30 | Olga Borodina, mezzo-soprano |
| Oct 4–6 | Joffrey Ballet |
| Oct 10–12 | Bach Festival: Angela Hewitt, piano |
| Oct 11 | Bach Festival: Angela Hewitt, piano; Daniel Muller-Schütt, cello |
| Oct 13 | Taylor Eigsti Trio |
| Oct 13–14 | Bunraku-The National Puppet Theatre of Japan |
| Oct 16 | Hilary Hahn, violin |
| Oct 19–21 | Guangzhou Ballet, Mei Lanfang |
| Oct 23 | Mariza |
| Oct 26 | Russian Patriarchate Choir |
| Oct 26–28 | Miami City Ballet |
| Nov 1 | Irvin Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra: Do You Know What It Means? |
| Nov 4 | Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone; Constantine Orbelian, conductor; the Moscow Chamber Orchestra; the Academy of Choral Art, Moscow |
| Nov 7–11 | American Ballet Theatre |
| Nov 11 | Zehetmair Quartet |
| Nov 15 | Yo-Yo Ma, cello; Kathryn Stott, piano |
| Nov 16–18 | Pina Bausch Tanztheater Wuppertal, Ten Chi |
| Nov 18 | Jorge Liderman’s 50th Birthday Celebration, featuring Cuarteto Latinoamericano; David Tanenbaum, guitar; Sonia Rubinsky, piano |
| Nov 24–25 | Dan Zanes & Friends |
| Nov 29–30 | Circus Oz |
| Nov 30 | Tallis Scholars |
| Dec 1–2 | Circus Oz |
| Dec 1 | Tallis Scholars |
| Dec 2 | Takács Quartet with Joyce Yang, piano |
| Dec 5 | Azar Nafisi |
| Dec 9 | Mariusz Kwiecien, baritone |
| Dec 14–23 | Mark Morris Dance Group: The Hard Nut-The Nutcracker with a Twist |
| Jan 12 | Monterey Jazz Festival-50th Anniversary Tour |
| Jan 13 | David Daniels, countertenor |
| Jan 20 | Gil Shaham, violin |
| Jan 26 | Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra; Wynton Marsalis, trumpet |
| Jan 27 | Christopher Taylor, piano: Olivier Messiaen’s Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus |
| Feb 3 | Richard Goode, piano |
| Feb 6 | Hugh Masekela’s Chissa All-Stars, featuring Hugh Masekela, trumpet |
| Feb 7 | Brazilian Guitar Festival with Sergio, Badi, & Odair Assad |
| Feb 8–10 | Moiseyev Dance Company |
| Feb 12 | Garrison Keillor |
| Feb 14–17 | Nina Ananiashvili & the State Ballet of Georgia: Giselle Mixed Repertory |
| Feb 16 | Hespérion XXI – La Capella Reial de Catalunya; Jordi Savall, director & viola da gamba: Lost Paradises |
| Feb 17 | Tokyo String Quartet |
| Feb 23 | Ira Glass & David Rakoff |
| Feb 24 | Joshua Bell, violin |
| Feb 28 | The Joshua Redman Trio; Reuben Rogers, bass; Greg Hutchinson, drums |
| Mar 1 | Dawn Upshaw, soprano; eighth blackbird; Gustavo Santaolalla, guitar: Ayre-A Song Cycle by Osvaldo Golijov |
| Mar 5–9 | Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater |
| Mar 14 | Angélique Kidjo |
| Mar 15 | SFJAZZ Collective |
| Mar 16 | Takács Quartet |
| Mar 20 | Perú Negro |
| Mar 21–23 | Peking Acrobats |
| Mar 22–23 | Rudolf Buchbinder, piano |
| Mar 28–30 | Tchaikovsky Perm Ballet & Orchestra with Guest Artists: Natalia Makarova’s Swan Lake |
| Apr 3 | Sonny Rollins, saxophone |
| Apr 4 | Europa Galante; Fabio Biondi, conductor & violin |
| Apr 5 | Sweet Honey in the Rock |
| Apr 6 | Swedish Chamber Orchestra; Piotr Anderszewski, piano |
| Apr 10 | Arlo Guthrie, Solo Reunion Tour: Together at Last |
| Apr 12 | Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin |
| Apr 13 | Kate Royal, soprano |
| Apr 17 | Bryn Terfel, bass-baritone; Malcolm Martineau, piano |
| May 2–11 | San Francisco Opera: Rachel Portman’s The Little Prince |
| May 4 | Paul Lewis, piano |
| May 28–31 | Robert Lepage’s The Andersen Project |
| May 29 | From the Top |
| May 31 | Nuccia Focile, soprano; Paul Charles Clarke, tenor |
| Jun 1 | Audra McDonald, soprano |
| Jun 1 | Robert Lepage’s The Andersen Project |
| Jun 3 | Berkeley Festival & Exhibition: Wildcat Viols |
| Jun 3 | Berkeley Festival & Exhibition: Le Poème Harmonique, Venezia delle strade ai Palazzi |
| Jun 4 | Berkeley Festival & Exhibition: The Concord Ensemble |
| Jun 5 | Berkeley Festival & Exhibition: American Bach Soloists & Henry I. Goldberg International Young Artists Competition for Baroque Violin: Semi-Finals |
| Jun 5 | Berkeley Festival & Exhibition: Le Poème Harmonique, Venezia delle strade ai Palazzi |
| Jun 6 | Berkeley Festival & Exhibition: L’Estro Armonico |
| Jun 6 | Berkeley Festival & Exhibition: Piffaro, The Renaissance Band & The Concord Ensemble |
| Jun 6 | Berkeley Festival & Exhibition: Philharmonia Chamber Players |
| Jun 7 | Berkeley Festival & Exhibition: Piffaro, The Renaissance Band |
| Jun 7 | Berkeley Festival & Exhibition: Le Poème Harmonique, Venezia delle strade ai Palazzi |
| Jun 7 | Berkeley Festival & Exhibition: Alessandro Striggio’s Missa sopra Ecco sì beato giorno in 40 and 60 parts |
| Jun 8 | Berkeley Festival & Exhibition: American Bach Soloists & Henry I. Goldberg International Young Artists Competition for Baroque Violin: Finals |
| Jun 8 | Berkeley Festival & Exhibition: Alessandro Striggio’s Missa sopra Ecco sì beato giorno in 40 and 60 parts |
| Sep 15–17 | The Peony Pavilion |
| Sep 17 | Nuccia Focile, soprano; Members of Berkeley Symphony Orchestra |
| Sep 21 | Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano; Frederica von Stade, mezzo-soprano |
| Sep 22 | Classical Savion |
| Sep 23 | Bayanihan Philippine National Dance Company |
| Sep 24 | Rolando Villazón, tenor |
| Sep 30 | Purcell’s King Arthur |
| Oct 3, 5–7 | Purcell’s King Arthur |
| Oct 8 | Maxim Vengerov, violin |
| Oct 14 | Gamelan Sekar Jaya, Kali Yuga: A Contemporary Dance Drama |
| Oct 15 | Paula Poundstone |
| Oct 16 | Kirov Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre; Valery Gergiev, conductor; Alexander Toradze, piano |
| Oct 18 | Putumayo World Music Presents: Acoustic Africa featuring Habib Koité & Bamada, Vusi Mahlasela, & Dobet Gnahoré |
| Oct 20–21 | Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan: Wild Cursive |
| Oct 22 | Orpheus Chamber Orchestra; Emanuel Ax, piano |
| Oct 25 | Wynton Marsalis Quintet |
| Oct 27–28 | Lyon Opera Ballet |
| Oct 29 | The English Concert; Andrew Manze, director & violin |
| Nov 1 | Yefim Bronfman, piano; Gil Shaham, violin; Lynn Harrell, cello |
| Nov 1–5 | Gate Theatre of Dublin, Beckett’s Waiting for Godot |
| Nov 3–5 | Moscow Circus |
| Nov 4 | Jason Moran Trio; The Vijay Iyer Quartet |
| Nov 5 | Artists of the Mariinsky Academy |
| Nov 8 | Musica Antiqua Köln; Marijana Mijanovic, contralto |
| Nov 10–11 | Chorus Repertory Theatre: Ratan Thiyam’s Nine Hills One Valley |
| Nov 12 | Composer Portrait: John Zorn |
| Nov 16 | Gidon Kremer, violin; Andrei Pushkarev, percussion; Andrius Zlabys, piano |
| Nov 24–26 | Chinese Golden Dragon Acrobats |
| Dec 1 | The Tallis Scholars |
| Dec 3 | Takács Quartet |
| Dec 5 | Canadian Brass |
| Dec 7–10 | Chekhov International Theatre Festival: Declan Donnellan’s Twelfth Night |
| Dec 8–9 | Ballet Flamenco Eva Yerbabuena |
| Jan 24 | Bobby McFerrin with Voicestra |
| Jan 26–27 | Trisha Brown Dance Company |
| Jan 28 | The Symphonica Toscanini; Lorin Maazel, music director and conductor |
| Jan 30 | Itzhak Perlman, violin |
| Jan 31–Feb 1 | Paco de Lucía, guitar |
| Feb 2–4 | Kodo |
| Feb 8–9 | Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me! |
| Feb 10 | Spanish Harlem Orchestra |
| Feb 11 | Dawn Upshaw, soprano |
| Feb 16 | Simon Shaheen & Qantara |
| Feb 17 | Chick Corea with Gary Burton |
| Feb 18 | Sergey Khachatryan, violin |
| Feb 22–23 | The Forsythe Company |
| Feb 24–25 | Ballet Flamenco Sara Baras, Sabores |
| Feb 25 | Rudolf Buchbinder, piano |
| Feb 28, Mar 1–4 | Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater |
| Mar 4 | Rudolf Buchbinder, piano |
| Mar 7–11 | Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg |
| Mar 11 | Composer Portrait: Conlon Nancarrow featuring Alarm Will Sound |
| Mar 13 | Stephen Hawking |
| Mar 14 | Gyuto Monks, Tibetan Tantric Choir |
| Mar 16–17 | The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma, cello |
| Mar 18 | Alfred Brendel, piano |
| Mar 23–24 | Shen Wei Dance Arts |
| Mar 25 | Gilberto Gil |
| Mar 25 | Takács Quartet |
| Mar 28 | Pat Metheny with the Brad Mehldau Trio |
| Mar 31 | Inti-Illimani |
| Apr 1 | Highland, Heath & Holler: Celtic Music’s Voyage to Appalachia |
| Apr 1 | Measha Brueggergosman, soprano |
| Apr 7 | Sarah Chang, violin; Ashley Wass, piano |
| Apr 15 | Kronos Quartet |
| Apr 15 | Michael McKean |
| Apr 20 | Lura |
| Apr 21 | Netherlands Bach Society |
| Apr 25 | Salif Keita |
| Apr 27 | David Sedaris |
| Apr 28 | Sweet Honey in the Rock |
| Apr 29 | Ravi Shankar, sitar |
| Apr 29 | Theater in Song: Music by Jake Heggie and Ricky Ian Gordon |
| May 3 | Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano |
| May 4–5 | Jordi Savall, viola da gamba; Pierre Hantai, harpsichord; Xavier Diaz, theorbo & guitar: L’Ange et le Diable (The Angel & the Devil) |
| May 5–6 | Sylvie Guillem; Akram Khan, Sacred Monsters |
| May 7 | Will Shortz: An Evening with the Puzzle Master |
| Jun 7–10 | 2007 Berkeley Edge Fest |
| Sep 9 | Sheng Xiang |
| Sep 14 | Horacio Franco, recorder |
| Sep 16-18 | National Ballet of China: Raise the Red Lantern |
| Sep 18 | Rudolf Buchbinder, piano |
| Sep 22–24 | Mark Morris Dance Group: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years |
| Sep 25 | Rudolf Buchbinder, piano |
| Sep 26 | John Adams and Peter Sellars in Conversation: Science and the Soul: Robert Oppenheimer and Doctor Atomic |
| Sep 29–Oct 1 | Mark Morris Dance Group: Four Saints in Three Acts |
| Oct 6 | Cecilia Bartoli, mezzo-soprano; Zurich Orchestra La Scintilla |
| Oct 9 | Takács Quartet; Garrick Ohlsson, piano |
| Oct 12–16 | Kirov Ballet; Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre: The Sleeping Beauty |
| Oct 14 | The Yuri Yunakov Ensemble, featuring Ivo Papasov |
| Oct 16 | Christopher Maltman, baritone |
| Oct 19 | Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano |
| Oct 21 | Mariza |
| Oct 21–30 | Piccolo Teatro di Milano Arlecchino: Servant of Two Masters: Commedia dell’arte Conference: Exhibitions |
| Oct 22 | Piccolo Teatro di Milano Arlecchino: Servant of Two Masters: Commedia dell’arte Conference: Commedia in the Bay Area |
| Oct 23 | András Schiff, piano |
| Oct 23 | Sequentia |
| Oct 26–30 | Piccolo Teatro di Milano, Arlecchino: Servant of Two Masters |
| Oct 27 | Piccolo Teatro di Milano Arlecchino: Servant of Two Masters: Commedia dell’arte Conference: Making Theater with Ferruccio Soleri of Piccolo Teatro di Milano |
| Oct 28 | Piccolo Teatro di Milano Arlecchino: Servant of Two Masters: Commedia dell’arte Conference: Taboo and Humor Today: What’s Funny and What’s Forbidden |
| Oct 29 | Hilary Hahn, violin |
| Oct 30 | Arlo Guthrie: 40th Anniversary Celebration of Alice’s Restaurant |
| Nov 3 | Beijing People’s Art Theatre, The Teahouse: Lecture: “Lao She’s The Teahouse and Modern China” by Peter Li, Rutgers University |
| Nov 5 | Beijing People’s Art Theatre, The Teahouse: Conversation with Pu Cunxin, China’s AIDS Ambassador |
| Nov 5 | Composer Portrait: György Ligeti/Christopher Taylor, piano: Music & Mathematics: Christopher Taylor in Conversation with Bob Osserman |
| Nov 5–6 | Beijing People’s Art Theatre, The Teahouse |
| Nov 6 | Composer Portrait: György Ligeti/Christopher Taylor, piano |
| Nov 9–13 | Propeller, The Winter’s Tale |
| Nov 11 | Youssou N’Dour; The Egyptian Orchestra |
| Nov 12 | Borodin Quartet |
| Nov 12 | An Evening with Ira Glass & Chris Ware |
| Nov 13 | Jonathan Lemalu, bass-baritone |
| Nov 17 | Tania Libertad |
| Nov 18 | Radio Kaboul: Ustad Mahwash and Friends |
| Nov 19 | Randy Cohen |
| Nov 20 | Deborah Voigt, soprano |
| Dec 3 | The Tallis Scholars |
| Dec 4 | Artists of the Mariinsky Academy |
| Dec 9–18 | Mark Morris Dance Group, The Hard Nut |
| Jan 8 | Julia Fischer, violin |
| Jan 20–21 | Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company |
| Jan 22 | Brad Mehldau Trio; Bill Frisell Quintet |
| Jan 29 | Composer Portrait: Magnus Lindberg/International Contemporary Ensemble |
| Feb 4 | Imago Theatre, Biglittlethings |
| Feb 8–9 | An Evening with John Cleese |
| Feb 10 | Eileen Ivers and Immigrant Soul with special guest Burhan Öçal |
| Feb 11 | Chick Corea & Touchstone |
| Feb 11 | Mark Dresser, Myra Melford, Bob Ostertag & David Wessel |
| Feb 12 | Les Violons du Roy; Magdalena Kožená, mezzo-soprano |
| Feb 17 | Perú Negro |
| Feb 18–19 | Noche Flamenca |
| Feb 19 | Jonathan Biss, piano |
| Feb 24 | Sweet Honey in the Rock |
| Feb 25–26 | Moscow Circus, A Russian Winter’s Tale |
| Feb 28–Mar 5 | Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater |
| Mar 5 | Composer Portrait: John Adams/Alarm Will Sound |
| Mar 8–9 | Julio Bocca’s Ballet Argentino & Octango, Boccatango |
| Mar 9 | Hespérion XXI/La Capella Reial de Catalunya/Jordi Savall, director and viola da gamba, The Music of Don Quixote |
| Mar 11 | Maria del Mar Bonet & Mônica Salmaso |
| Mar 11 | Hespérion XXI, La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Jordi Savall, director & viola da gamba: Musical Encounters of Fire and Water from the Old World and the New |
| Mar 12 | Masters of Persian Classical Music |
| Mar 12 | Takács Quartet |
| Mar 15 | Dave Brubeck Quartet; Ramsey Lewis Trio |
| Mar 18 | Masaaki Suzuki, conductor: Bach Collegium Japan |
| Mar 18 | Nā Lei Hulu I Ka Wēkiu |
| Mar 24–25 | Cesaria Evora |
| Mar 26 | Vadim Repin, violin; Nikolai Lugansky, piano |
| Mar 30 | Ladysmith Black Mambazo |
| Mar 31 | Yukimi Kambe Viol Consort: Yukimi Kambe Viol Consort/SCRIPTUM Modern Japanese Prints |
| Apr 1 | Eddie Palmieri Septet; Nicholas Payton, trumpet |
| Apr 1 | Yukimi Kambe Viol Consort |
| Apr 2 | Brentano String Quartet; Hsin-Yun Huang, viola |
| Apr 6–9 | Tchaikovsky Perm Ballet & Orchestra; Natalia Makarova’s Swan Lake |
| Apr 10 | Frank Rich |
| Apr 23 | Krystian Zimerman, piano |
| Apr 28 | PRI’s Michael Feldman’s Whad’Ya Know? |
| Apr 29 | Zakir Hussain’s Masters of Percussion |
| April 30 | Ballet Folklorico “Quetzalli” de Veracruz |
| May 5–6 | Hubbard Street Dance Chicago |
| May 7 | Jerusalem Quartet |
| May 7 | Ravi Shankar, sitar; Anoushka Shankar, sitar |
| May 12 | Centennial Season Celebration & Gala |
| Jun 4–11 | 2006 Berkeley Festival & Exhibition |
| Jun 4–11 | Le Poème Harmonique Michel Richard de Lalande: Tenebrae |
| Jun 9–10 | Le Poème Harmonique & Le Centre National des Arts du Cirque Baroque Carnival |
| Jun 15–18 | Baryshnikov Dance Foundation presents Hell’s Kitchen Dance |
| Sep 11 | Bobby McFerrin |
| Sep 12 | Music from Japan’s 30th Anniversary Project |
| Sep 17–18 | Suzanne Farrell Ballet |
| Sep 19 | Virsky Ukrainian National Dance Company |
| Sep 25–26 | Shen Wei Dance Arts |
| Sep 26 | Lucerne Festival Strings |
| Sep 30–Oct 3 | National Ballet of Canada |
| Oct 7–8 | Balé Folcló da Bahia |
| Oct 9 | Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig, Herbert Blomstedt, conductor |
| Oct 10 | Rudolf Buchbinder, piano |
| Oct 14 | Paul Krugman |
| Oct 16 | Chava Alberstein |
| Oct 17 | Gods, Goddesses & Ancestors: Music, Dance & Rituals from Kerala, India |
| Oct 17 | Brentano String Quartet |
| Oct 22–24 | Mark Morris Dance Group (Series A) |
| Oct 28–30 | Mark Morris Dance Group (Series B) |
| Nov 3–7 | Bolshoi Ballet; Orchestra |
| Nov 9 | David Sedaris |
| Nov 10–14 | Royal Court Theatre: 4.48 Psychosis |
| Nov 11–12 | Laurie Anderson |
| Nov 12 | Le Concert Spirituel |
| Nov 13 | Lang Lang, piano |
| Nov 14 | Michael Schade, tenor |
| Nov 17 | The Whirling Dervishes of Damascus & Sheikh Hamza Shakkûr and Ensemble al-Kindî |
| Nov 26–Dec 5 | Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker! |
| Dec 3 | Tallis Scholars |
| Dec 5 | Ekaterina Semenchuk, mezzo-soprano |
| Dec 7 | Arlo Guthrie & The Klezmatics |
| Dec 9 | Yo-Yo Ma, cello; Emanuel Ax, piano |
| Jan 16 | Richard Goode, piano |
| Jan 21–22 | Peking Acrobats |
| Jan 23 | Renée Fleming, soprano |
| Jan 27 | Paquito d’Rivera; The Assads 29-30 Cirque Éloize |
| Feb 3 | Ladysmith Black Mambazo & Vusi Mahlasela: Long Walk To Freedom |
| Feb 4–6 | Kodo |
| Feb 6 | Tackács Quartet |
| Feb 8 | Directions in Music: Herbie Hancock, Michael Brecker & Roy Hargrove |
| Feb 12–13 | Ballet Flamenco Sara Baras |
| Feb 13 | Daniel Müller-Schott, cello |
| Feb 17 | National Public Radio’s |
| Feb 25–26 | Trisha Brown Dance Company |
| Feb 27 | Ethel |
| Feb 27 | Masters of Persian Classical Music |
| Mar 4 | Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, violin |
| Mar 5–6 | Compañía Flamenca Andrés Marín |
| Mar 6 | Musicians from Marlboro |
| Mar 9 | Keith Jarrett; Gary Peacock; Jack DeJohnette |
| Mar 11–20 | Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater |
| Mar 20 | Miró Quartet |
| Mar 25 | Miró Quartet |
| Mar 26 | Emanuel Ax, piano; Yefim Bronfman, piano |
| Apr 1 | Çudamani: Music & Dance from Bali |
| Apr 3 | Takács Quartet |
| Apr 8 | Sweet Honey in the Rock |
| Apr 9 | The Kirov Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre; Valery Gergiev, conductor |
| Apr 10 | Wayne Shorter Quartet |
| Apr 13 | Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano |
| Apr 16 | Il Giardino Armonico |
| Apr 29 | Seasons of Migration: Dance & Music from Cambodia |
| Apr 30 | Peter Cincotti |
| May 1 | Kronos Quartet |
| May 5-7 | Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo |
| May 8 | Gypsy Crossings featuring Biréli Lagrène & Taraf de Haïdouks |
| May 15 | Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin |
| May 27 | Audra McDonald, soprano |
| May 28 | Kurt Elling |
| Jun 8–12 | Eifman Ballet |
| Jun 16–26 | Robert Lepage’s The Busker’s Opera |