Press Releases

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• March 21, 2025 – Brazilian Dance Company Grupo Corpo Makes its Cal Performances Debut April 25–26, 2025
• March 12, 2025 – Story Boldly’s Defining Courage, An Immersive Live Event about the Nisei Soldiers of WWII, April 4, 2025
• March 5, 2025 – Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at Cal Performances, April 8–13, 2025
• February 25, 2025 – The English Concert performs Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto, Sunday, April 27 at Zellerbach Hall)
• January 31, 2025 – Premiere of William Kentridge’s The Great Yes, The Great No, March 14–16, 2025
• January 13, 2025 – Twyla Tharp Diamond Jubilee featuring Third Coast Percussion, Feb 7–9
• January 8, 2025 – Cal Performances 2025 Gala with Vienna Philharmonic, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Yefim Bronfman, Fri, March 7
• January 6, 2025 – Batsheva Dance Company performs the Bay Area Premeire of Ohad Naharin’s MOMO Feb 22–23, 2025
• January 3, 2025 – Jazz and Roots Musicians at Cal Performances Jan–March 2025: Antonio Sánchez, Samara Joy, Martha Redbone Roots Project and American Patchwork Quartet, Sullivan Fortner Trio
• February 25, 2025 – The English Concert conducted by Harry Bicket; Handel’s Guilio Cesare In Egitto, April 27 at Zellerbach Hall
• December 4, 2024 – Heather Cox Richardson In Conversation with Dylan Penningroth, Wed, Feb 26 at Zellerbach Hall
• October 23, 2024 – Cal Performances presents Soprano Lise Davidsen in her Bay Area debut, Tue, Feb 4 at Zellerbach Hall
• October 9, 2024 – Cal Performances presents Soprano Asmik Grigorian in her West Coast debut, Sun, Dec 15 at Hertz Hall
• September 24, 2024 – Dover Quartet performs a new work by Jerod Impichcha̱achaaha’ Tate, Sun, Nov 3 at 3pm in Hertz Hall
• September 20, 2024 – Cal Performances presents Step Afrika! in The Migration: Reflections on Jacob Lawrence, Nov 2–3, 2024
• September 19, 2024 – Cal Performances presents Family Events Oct–Jan Mummenschanz, Pilobolus, Disney Presents Encanto, Dorrance Dance and KODO
• September 17, 2024 – Cal Performances and The Goldman School of Public Policy present The Future of American Democracy: The 2024 Election and Beyond, Oct 29, 2024
• September 9, 2024 – Cal Performances presents Tessa Lark, Joshua Roman, and Edgar Meyer on Sun, Oct 20 in Hertz Hall
• August 21, 2024 – Cal Performances presents Ex Machina/Robert Lepage & Cirque FLIP Fabrique in SLAM! “When theater and cirque meet the mat” Oct 5–6 at Zellerbach Hall
• August 19, 2024 – Cal Performances Opens its 2024–25 Season with American Modern Opera Company performing the US premiere of its production of Olivier Messiaen’s Harawi, Sep 27, and Njioma Chinyere Grevious, violin, Sep 29
• May 22, 2024 – Cal Performances Produces the 22nd Annual Berkeley/Oakland AileyCamp June 17 – July 26, 2024
• April 16, 2024 – Cal Performances Announces 2024–25 Season

• March 13-2024 – Cal Performances presents Mark Morris Dance Group, April 19–21, 2024
• February 29, 2024 – Cal Performances presents Pianist Mitsuko Uchida, Artist in Residence, March 2024
• February 16, 2024 – Cal Performances presents The Joffrey Ballet in Anna Karenina, March 15-17, 2024 at Zellerbach Hall
• February 7, 2024 – Cal Performances presents Illuminations: “Individual and Community”: Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge, Nathalie Joachim Ki moun ou ye, OKAN, and Wild Up: Julius Eastman’s Femenine
• February 5, 2024 – Cal Performances presents Kronos Quartet, Five Decades, March 2, 2024 
• January 29, 2024 – Cal Performances presents the West Coast Premiere of Taylor Mac & Matt Ray’s Bark of Millions, Feb 23-25, 2024
• January 24, 2024 – Next Season! Vienna Philharmonic, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and Yefim Bronfman March 5-7, 2025
• January 3, 2024 – Bay Area Premieres of The Rite of Spring by Pina Bausch and common ground[s] by Germaine Acogny and Malou Airaudo, Feb 16-18
• December 20, 2023 – Cal Performances announces Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater April 2–7 and 2024 Gala Celebration Thurs, April 4 
• December 12, 2023 – Cal Performances Announces Performance Cancellation, John Malkovich in The Infernal Comedy Confessions of a Serial Killer, February 3, 2024
• December 8, 2023 – Cal Performances presents Les Ballets Trockadero De Monte Carlo, Jan 27-28 at Zellerbach Hall
• November 30, 2023 – Cal Performances Announces Batsheva Dance Company’s Performances are Postponed
• October 20, 2023 – Cal Performances presents Urban Bush Women: Hair & Other Stories, Dec 1-3 at Zellerbach Playhouse
• October 11, 2023 – Cal Performances presents The English Concert in Handel’s Rodelinda, Sun, Nov 19 at Zellerbach Hall
• October 9, 2023 – Cal Performances presents Brad Mehldau Trio, Sat, Nov 11 and Brad Mehldau, Fourteen Reveries, Sat, Feb 10 at Zellerbach Hall
• October 5, 2023 – Cal Performances presents Silkroad Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens, American Railroad, November 17, 2023
• October 3, 2023 – Cal Performances presents the Takács Quartet Sun, Nov 12 and Sun, Feb 25
• September 26, 2023 – Jeremy Denk to replace Tom Borrow at Season-Opening Recital, Sun, Oct 1 at Hertz Hall
• September 21, 2023 –Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello, Wed, Nov 1 at Zellerbach Hall
• September 20, 2023 – Concert Cancellation: Christine Goerke, A Celebration of the American Diva, October 8
• August 22, 2023 – Cal Performances Launches its 2023-24 Season With a Month of Expansive Classical Recitals, A Bay Area Premiere Production, Family Fun, and Two Speakers
• August 1, 2023 – Cal Performances announces Single Tickets on sale Aug 8, Ezra Klein Oct 5, and 2023–24 $10 Golden Bear Circle tickets for UCB students
• June 21, 2023 – 21st Annual Berkeley Oakland AileyCamp at Cal Performances June 20-July 28 2023
• June 15, 2023 – Added Event: Ai Weiwei’s World of Art Lost and Found: A Conversation About Life, Art, and Politics, Sept 24 at 2pm in Zellerbach Hall
• June 14, 2023 – Cal Performances and Student Musical Activities at UC Berkeley announce Dr. Paul Flight, Director of UC Choral Ensembles
• April 18, 2023 – Cal Performances Announces its 2023-24 Season

• April 6, 2023 — Michael van der Aa’s Blank Out Featuring Soprano Miah Persson, at Zellerbach Hall, April 28-29
• March 6, 2023 — Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, at Zellerbach Hall, April 11-16 
• March 2, 2023 — William Kentridge in Residency at UC Berkeley: added events, tickets on sale, and updates, Spring 2023
• March 1, 2023 — An Evening with Robert Reich, at Zellerbach Hall, April 24
• February 16, 2023 — Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted by Christian Thielemann, at Zellerbach Hall, March 7-9
• February 15, 2023 — The English Concert in Handel’s Oratorio, Solomon, at Zellerbach Hall, March 5, 2023
• February 15, 2023 — Human & Machine Song Contest, as part of its Illuminations: Human and Machine theme this season
• February 6, 2023 (updated March 20, 2023) — Announcing New Events and Updates to William Kentridge’s UC Berkeley Residency, Spring 2023
• February 1, 2023 — Alexi Kenney, Violin, In Shifting Ground, at Hertz Hall, February 26, 2023
• January 27, 2023 — A Conversation with Rita Moreno, at Zellerbach Hall, February 26, 2023
• January 23, 2023 — Mark Morris Dance Group The Look of Love, at Zellerbach Hall, February 17-19, 2023
• January 13, 2023 — Kodo, Tsuzumi: One Earth Tour, at Zellerbach Hall, February 4-5, 2023 
• January 10, 2023 — Joyce DiDonato: Eden, at Zellerbach Hall, January 21, 2023
• December 7, 2022 — Jazz at Cal Performances in 2023: Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Artemis, and Paquito D’Rivera
• November 14, 2022 — Zlatomir Fung, Cello, and Janice Carissa, Piano; Seong-Jin Cho, Piano; Ying Fang, Soprano, and Myra Huang, Piano
• October 31, 2022 — Announcing William Kentridge UC Berkeley Residency, Fall 2022–Spring 2023
• October 19, 2022 — Ensemble Basiani, at First Congregational Church of Berkeley, November 3, 2022
• October 18, 2022 — Sō Percussion Performing Bay Area Premieres by Angélica Negrón and Nathalie Joachim, at Zellerbach Hall, November 12, 2022
• September 26, 2022 — Virtuoso Keyboardist Kristian Bezuidenhout in The Evolution of the Fortepiano, at Hertz Hall, October 30, 2022
• September 22, 2022 — Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan Performing 13 Tongues, at Zellerbach Hall, October 29-30, 2022
• September 21, 2022 — San Francisco Symphony, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Conductor, Bertrand Chamayou, Piano, at Zellerbach Hall, October 21, 2022
• September 8, 2022 — Maxim Vengerov, Violin, Polina Osetinskaya, Piano, at Zellerbach Hall, October 14, 2022
• August 24, 2022 — 2022-23 SEASON OPENING WEEKEND: Miami City Ballet at Zellerbach Hall, September 23-25, 2022, and Dover Quartet at Hertz Hall, September 25, 2022
• August 9, 2022 — Boy Blue performances canceled; Camille A. Brown & Dancers added, Dec 14–16 at Zellerbach Playhouse
• July 12, 2022 — 20th Annual Berkeley Oakland AileyCamp at Cal Performances June 21-July 29 2022
• July 5, 2022 — Gustavo Dudamel Conducts Encuentros Orchestra with special guest esperanza spalding at the Greek Theatre, Aug 4, 2022

• June 10, 2022 — Two Free Video Streams in June: Mitsuko Uchida with Mahler Chamber Orchestra; Ted Hearne and Saul Williams’ Place
• May 5, 2022 — Free Video Stream: Mark Morris Dance Group performs Layla and Majnun World Premiere, May 12-18, 2022
• April 22, 2022 — Cal Performances presents Lila Downs, Sat, May 7 in Zellerbach Hall
• April 12, 2022 — Cal Performances presents the Danish String Quartet, Fri, April 29 in Zellerbach Hall
• March 25, 2022 — Cal Performances presents Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Climate Displacement, Mon, April 25 in Zellerbach Hall
• March 24, 2022 — Cal Performances presents Angélique Kidjo starring in Yemandja, Sat, April 23 in Zellerbach Hall
• March 8, 2022 — Cal Performances presents Jamie Barton, mezzo-soprano and Jake Heggie, piano, Sun, April 3 in Hertz Hall
• March 7, 2022 — Cal Performances presents London Symphony Orchestra, Sun, March 20 in Zellerbach Hall
• February 28, 2022 — Cal Performances presents Mitsuko Uchida with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Sun, March 27 in Zellerbach Hall
• February 25, 2022 — Cal Performances presents Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Tues, March 29 to Sun, April 3 in Zellerbach Hall
• February 18, 2022 — Cal Performances presents Ted Hearne and Saul Williams’ Place, Sat. March 12
• January 31, 2022 — Cal Performances presents Lil Buck in Memphis Jookin’: The Show, Feb 25-26 in Zellerbach Hall
• January 25, 2022 — Cal Performances presents Spektral Quartet Sun, Feb 13
• January 21, 2022 — Concert Cancellation: Eco Ensemble, Sun Feb 5 in Hertz Hall
• January 19, 2022 — Concert Cancellation: Ilmar Gavilán and Aldo López-Gavilán Sun, Jan 23
• January 13, 2022 — WAYNE SHORTER & ESPERANZA SPALDING’s …(Iphigenia) Feb 12 in Zellerbach Hall (Updated Feb 3)
• January 12, 2022 — Cal Performances Announces New Safety Protocols at all Performances beginning February 1, 2022
• January 11, 2022 — Performance Cancellation: Yamato: The Drummers of Japan Jan 29-30
• January 11, 2022 — Cal Performances Presents Two Wings: The Music of Black America in Migration Feb 17
• January 7, 2022 — Cal Performances Presents Eco Ensemble Toshio Hosokawa Portrait Concert Feb 5
• January 6, 2022 — Eifman Ballet Postponed to Cal Performances 2022-23 Season
• January 5, 2022 — Cal Performances Presents Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
• January 4, 2022 — Cal Performances Presents Ilmar Gavilán and Aldo López-Gavilán
• December 18, 2021 — Cancellation of Mark Morris Dance Group Performances Dec 18 & 19 in Zellerbach Hall
• December 17, 2021 — Cal Performances at Home Returns with Free On Demand video streams in January Press Release UPDATED
• November 22, 2021 — Cal Performances Presents the Mark Morris Dance Group
• November 10, 2021 — Cal Performances Presents Kronos Quartet with special guest Mahsa Vahdat
• November 4, 2021 — Cal Performances Presents Vân-Áhn Võ and Blood Moon Orchestra
• November 2, 2021 — Cal Performances Presents Leonidas Kavakos, violin and Yuja Wang, piano
• October 26, 2021 — Cal Performances Presents The English Concert
• October 15, 2021 — Cal Performances and Stanford Live Announce London Symphony Orchestra
• October 14, 2021 — Cal Performances Presents 2021-22 Season Artist-in-Residence Angélique Kidjo
• October 11, 2021 — Cal Performances Presents Ballet Hispánico
• September 29, 2021 — Cal Performances Presents Jonas Kaufmann and Helmut Deutsch
• September 17, 2021 — Cal Performances Presents 9/11: A Turning Point, A Livestreamed Panel Discussion
• September 13, 2021 — Cal Performances Presents the Danish String Quartet
• September 10, 2021 — Vienna Boys Choir Cancels November 27 Performance
• August 6, 2021 — Cal Performances Presents Not Our First Goat Rodeo
• June 8, 2021 — Cal Performances 2021/22 Season Announcement
• June 8, 2021 — Cal Performances 2021/22 Season Calendar
• June 8, 2021 — Cal Performances 2021/22 Season Announcement Press Kit