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 ...

Signing Salonen in 2018 was a considerable coup. At 60, he had become one of the most sought-after conductors and composers. His 17-year tenure as the Los Angeles Philharmonic music director had ...

How does a contemporary composer breathe new life into a 450-year-old musical genre? If you’re San Francisco Symphony Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen, just add electronics, maracas and hand drums.

The 43-year-old composer, who lives in New York City, wrote it while acting as one of eight collaborative partners recruited by Salonen to create and curate new music for the ensemble in an effort ...

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

For most composers, musical instruments and maybe ... Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen and the San Francisco Symphony gave those ideas a real-world run-through with a performance of “Prometheus ...

Imagine combining the power of music with the evocative nature of scent. For San Francisco Symphony Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen, the possibility of using fragrance as part of a performance of ...

and that we should go for quality rather than judging things by their genre,” Salonen said. He recalled being present in Stockholm when Boulez, the composer and conductor associated with postwar ...

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 ...