Elizabeth Eck on a recent concert of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Esa-Pekka Salonen.

It’s been too long since we’ve seen Esa-Pekka Salonen on the podium.The conductor-composer, a youthful 66, had to bail on his annual Chicago Symphony booking last season to receive the Polar ...

Esa-Pekka Salonen, the acclaimed Finnish conductor and composer who in 2020 succeeded Michael Tilson Thomas as music director of the San Francisco Symphony, will end his tenure with the orchestra ...

When Esa-Pekka Salonen announced recently that he would step down as music director of the San Francisco Symphony next year, he did not say it was to spend more time with his family. He told the ...

The San Francisco Symphony is appointing its first Black principal player in more than 50 years, marking a significant step ...

I n the face of growing public concern over the news that Esa-Pekka Salonen plans to part ways with the San Francisco ...

The search to replace Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen, who departs the orchestra in June, has only recently gotten underway, and proposed budget cuts within the organization have begun to impact ...

Joshua Kosman: Esa-Pekka Salonen’s tenure as S.F. Symphony music director was brilliant but all too brief “Finlandia” landed as a fervid but impeccably controlled onslaught, cresting on ...

For Yuja Wang’s legion of fans, the pianist’s prodigious, seemingly inexhaustible gifts are a settled matter. The sound and fury, range and finesse, drama and delicacy she summons from a Steinway ...

Just hours after being named principal bassoon of the San Francisco Symphony, Joshua Elmore sat in the first chair at Davies Symphony Hall, all eyes on him. He began to play the most renowned ...

San Francisco Symphony Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen has won the Polar Music Prize, the prestigious Swedish award given annually to a pair of musicians representing the worlds of pop and classical.