
San Francisco Symphony
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Carey Bell, clarinet
ESA-PEKKA SALONEN | Kínēma |
JENS IBSEN | Drowned in Light (World Premiere) |
STRAVINSKY | Symphony in Three Movements |
The dynamic and versatile San Francisco Symphony returns to Berkeley with music director Esa-Pekka Salonen in a one-of-a-kind program showcasing the unique musical chemistry between this orchestra and conductor. The SF Symphony plays the world premiere of a new work by Jens Ibsen, the most recent winner of the Emerging Black Composers Project, a collaboration with the San Francisco Conservatory of Music to foster the creation and performance of new music from early-career Black American composers. Ibsen focuses a wide range of life experience and influences into his music—he’s a classically trained, Ghana-born metalhead who sang as a principal soloist in the Vienna Boys Choir—and the panel that selected him praised his music for its “enthralling balance of rhythmic drive, elegant tonality, and beautiful settings of words.” Salonen also conducts his own Kínēma, a showcase for principal clarinetist Carey Bell; and Stravinsky’s cinematic and propulsive Symphony in Three Movements.
Major Support: Fred Levin/Shenson Foundation
Single tickets for 2023–24 Season events go on sale at noon as follows:
July 25: 2023–24 Season Subscribers and Donors of $100+
Aug 1: Email Club and UCB Community
Aug 8: General Public