A talented team of entertainers and gymnasts descend upon Davies Symphony Hall for an awe-inspiring evening of great music and spectacular acrobatics. Hear the San Francisco Symphony perform a festive selection of holiday hits while watching men and women fly, tumble, and dance the evening away. Don’t miss this stunning performance where music takes flight!

With award-winning novelist Armistead Maupin and San Francisco’s premiere drag sensation Peaches Christ, this variety show guarantees an evening of festive fun and fabulous flair. Hear Maupin—famed for his groundbreaking Tales of the City book series—read wickedly funny excerpts from his coming of age memoirs, feel the yuletide cheer with holiday hits from the SF […]

Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the entire Peanuts gang are back at Davies Symphony Hall! The show begins with your favorite characters dancing along to holiday classics and colorful video. Then, the gang returns to the stage to bring A Charlie Brown Christmas to life! With singers, dancers, and actors performing in front of an animated […]

Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the entire Peanuts gang are back at Davies Symphony Hall! The show begins with your favorite characters dancing along to holiday classics and colorful video. Then, the gang returns to the stage to bring A Charlie Brown Christmas to life! With singers, dancers, and actors performing in front of an animated […]

Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the entire Peanuts gang are back at Davies Symphony Hall! The show begins with your favorite characters dancing along to holiday classics and colorful video. Then, the gang returns to the stage to bring A Charlie Brown Christmas to life! With singers, dancers, and actors performing in front of an animated […]

Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the entire Peanuts gang are back at Davies Symphony Hall! The show begins with your favorite characters dancing along to holiday classics and colorful video. Then, the gang returns to the stage to bring A Charlie Brown Christmas to life! With singers, dancers, and actors performing in front of an animated […]

Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the entire Peanuts gang are back at Davies Symphony Hall! The show begins with your favorite characters dancing along to holiday classics and colorful video. Then, the gang returns to the stage to bring A Charlie Brown Christmas to life! With singers, dancers, and actors performing in front of an animated […]

Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the entire Peanuts gang are back at Davies Symphony Hall! The show begins with your favorite characters dancing along to holiday classics and colorful video. Then, the gang returns to the stage to bring A Charlie Brown Christmas to life! With singers, dancers, and actors performing in front of an animated […]

Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the entire Peanuts gang are back at Davies Symphony Hall! The show begins with your favorite characters dancing along to holiday classics and colorful video. Then, the gang returns to the stage to bring A Charlie Brown Christmas to life! With singers, dancers, and actors performing in front of an animated […]

Celebrate in timeless style with Academy and Grammy Award-nominated singer, songwriter, actor, producer, and director Seth MacFarlane, who brings a winning combination of rich crooning and cool pizazz that would do Frank and Dino proud. Watch him light up the stage with the San Francisco Symphony in a dazzling concert of finger-snapping jazz standards and […]

What a treat to play again with the wonderful guitarist, Peter Sprague, who played on my first Concord Jazz album decades ago! We will be joined by Justin Grinnell on bass and Duncan Moore on drums. A fun evening of jazz!

Iconic recording artist Johnny Mathis returns to Luther Burbank Center for the Arts to celebrate 62nd years of hits! Spend the evening with the world’s most romantic singer as he performs the greatest hits throughout his entire career including Chances Are, It’s Not for Me to Say, Misty, Twelfth of Never, Wonderful! Wonderful! and many […]

On the 40th Anniversary of the Jazz Garden Big Band's 1978 premiere performance at the Eulipia Cafe in San Jose––and on the occasion of Dave Eshelman's 70th birthday––Composer/leader Eshelman leads the Bay Area's finest through a program of progressive/mainstream big band jazz for jazz lovers and newcomers featuring his originals and arrangements of music by […]

Composing and conducting are big jobs: composers imagine the music and write it down, and conductors work with orchestras to bring the music to life. But how do they come up with and communicate their ideas, and what inspires their musical talents? Get a glimpse of the diverse backgrounds and creative lives of these musical […]

Aaron Germain Chance Ensemble - jazz club! when lights are low... When Sat, May 26, 7:30pm – 10:00pm Description The Jazz Philanthropists Union presents... Aaron Germain, bass, leads the Chance Ensemble, Featuring Mary Fettig, saxophone and flute Murray Low, piano Jon Krosnik, drums A Guaranteed Fair Wage Fund date supported by Jazz in the Neighborhood!

Camp Faculty Saxophone Section Kim Richmond Mary Fettig Chip McNeill Gary Anderson Darren Pettit Trumpet Section John Harner Jason Johnson Mike "Gooch" Gurciullo Dave Scott Trombone Section Scott Whitfield Brett Stamps Pete Madsen Steve Wilson Rhythm Section Ken Kehner Rod Fleeman Gary Hobbs Jim Widner

Join us on the beautiful Pebble Beach campus of Stevenson School for our fun and immersive summer jazz camp. We offer both day and residency camp options for all students. Play with talented and motivated students just like you, and study with world-class artists and educators. Open to all instrumentalists and vocalists in grade six […]

SF SYMPHONY PLAYS GERSHWIN The SF Symphony lights up the stage with the unforgettable music of a Jazz Age legend: George Gershwin. Featuring the show-stopping talents of Broadway vocalist Capathia Jenkins, and award-winning pianist Andrew von Oeyen, hear a dazzling selection of classic Gershwin showpieces, including “Summertime,” “Fascinatin’ Rhythm,” An American in Paris, and his […]

Celebrate the Fourth of July with a festive outdoor performance of hero-themed favorites perfect for summer! Led by conductor Edwin Outwater at Shoreline Amphitheatre, the SF Symphony fills the night air with the exhilarating music of Star Wars, chart-topping pop performed by renowned Broadway vocalist Capathia Jenkins, hit songs from Pixar, a salute to our […]

Registration for the 2018 Workshop is open! 2018 fees, which covers a full week’s worth of master classes, music theory, jam sessions, combos, lunch and snacks each day: Tuition is $650 until March 1. After March 1, if registered by May 1, tuition is $670. After May 1, tuition is $690. Notice: $200 NON-REFUNDABLE registration […]

“Hey, Maceo! Blow!” funk pioneer James Brown would shout as his band was hitting its peak. Today saxophonist Maceo Parker embodies the legacy of soul, blues, and funk like no other musician, having collaborated with seminal icons like James Brown, George Clinton, and Prince. Joining him for this 3rd Annual Blues at the Green is […]

Andrea Motis Quintet with Wycliffe Gordon and the SJW 50/50 Jazz Orchestra, directed by Joan Chamorro Hot trumpet and sweet vocals, blazing trombone, combo and big band — don’t miss this show! Music fans who love jazz standards in small band and big band settings, interpreted with improvisation at the highest level in an exquisite […]

The Jazz Garden Big Band 2018 marks the 40th anniversary of the 1978 Jazz Garden Big Band premier to a standing room only audience at the Eulipia Café in downtown San Jose. Over the four decades since, it has performed in dozens of bay area jazz clubs, concert halls and festivals. The band has backed […]

Watch Jack Skellington plot to take over Christmas in Tim Burton’s fantastical tale The Nightmare Before Christmas. This “instant classic for both kids and grownups” (WOR Radio) comes to life like never before as the SF Symphony performs Danny Elfman’s delightfully quirky score live with the film on the big screen. MPAA rating: PG https://www.sfsymphony.org/Buy-Tickets/2018-19/Film-Tim-Burton%E2%80%99s-The-Nightmare-Before-Christmas.aspx

Watch Jack Skellington plot to take over Christmas in Tim Burton’s fantastical tale The Nightmare Before Christmas. This “instant classic for both kids and grownups” (WOR Radio) comes to life like never before as the SF Symphony performs Danny Elfman’s delightfully quirky score live with the film on the big screen. MPAA rating: PG https://www.sfsymphony.org/Buy-Tickets/2018-19/Film-Tim-Burton%E2%80%99s-The-Nightmare-Before-Christmas.aspx