Program:

BEYOND BORDER WALLS 2025: Voices from Near & Far

Tickets: www.cityboxoffice.com/ggsoc

Hear music transcend boundaries as Filipino voices blend with the much-loved Misa Criolla from Argentina, and a WORLD PREMIERE from Bay Area composer Benjamin Gribble, titled Last Light - Symphony No. 1. 

The Golden Gate Symphony Orchestra & Chorus’ musical journey spans continents, featuring works by one of SF’s favorite composers, John Calloway, alongside Lucio San Pedro's Filipino masterpiece Lahing Kayumanggi featuring the Bay Area’s very own Kulintang Dialect.

Kulintang Dialect—led by Conrad Benedicto honors the legacy of traditional Filipino gong music, and they perform alongside the full Golden Gate Symphony Orchestra & Chorus with soloists Gabrielle Goozee-Nichols (soprano) Celeste Camarena (mezzo-soprano), and Timothy Echavez Salaver (baritone)  and under the direction of Maestro Urs Leonhardt Steiner.

This marks the fourth installment in GGSOC's Beyond the Border Wall concert series, a meaningful tradition designed to remind audiences that music unites us across all barriers. Each concert in this series celebrates the universal language of music that flows freely between cultures, creating bridges where walls might divide.

Two Performances:

• Saturday, Nov 8 - 2:00 PM - Benicia Clock Tower, Benicia, CA

• Sunday, Nov 9 - 5:00 PM - 1st Unitarian Universalist Church, SF

• Tickets: www.cityboxoffice.com/ggsoc

Program:

BEYOND BORDER WALLS 2025: Voices from Near & Far

Tickets: www.cityboxoffice.com/ggsoc

Hear music transcend boundaries as Filipino voices blend with the much-loved Misa Criolla from Argentina, and a WORLD PREMIERE from Bay Area composer Benjamin Gribble, titled Last Light - Symphony No. 1. 

The Golden Gate Symphony Orchestra & Chorus’ musical journey spans continents, featuring works by one of SF’s favorite composers, John Calloway, alongside Lucio San Pedro's Filipino masterpiece Lahing Kayumanggi featuring the Bay Area’s very own Kulintang Dialect.

Kulintang Dialect—led by Conrad Benedicto honors the legacy of traditional Filipino gong music, and they perform alongside the full Golden Gate Symphony Orchestra & Chorus with soloists Gabrielle Goozee-Nichols (soprano) Celeste Camarena (mezzo-soprano), and Timothy Echavez Salaver (baritone)  and under the direction of Maestro Urs Leonhardt Steiner.

This marks the fourth installment in GGSOC's Beyond the Border Wall concert series, a meaningful tradition designed to remind audiences that music unites us across all barriers. Each concert in this series celebrates the universal language of music that flows freely between cultures, creating bridges where walls might divide.

Two Performances:

• Saturday, Nov 8 - 2:00 PM - Benicia Clock Tower, Benicia, CA

• Sunday, Nov 9 - 5:00 PM - 1st Unitarian Universalist Church, SF

Tickets: www.cityboxoffice.com/ggsoc

LISTEN UP, MUSIC LOVERS!

Maestro Urs Leonhardt Steiner’s BIRTHDAY BASH & FUNdraiser is going to BE A HUMMM-dinger!!!  Come help us eat, drink, & keep music alive in the San Francisco Bay Area and BEYOND!

Saturday, September 27th - 2:00 pm to sundown - or whenever…
719 Hampshire St x 20th St - San Francisco

NO GIFTS PLEASE - just come ready for FUN - and to help support the Golden Gate Symphony Orchestra & Chorus with whatever you can do. 

No gift is too large - or too small - and every penny helps keep the music playing.

OR IF YOU CAN'T MAKE IT… Help Urs celebrate by supporting the GGSOC with a tax-deductible contribution - and HELP KEEP THE MUSIC PLAYING!

Celebrate three BIG birthdays with the Golden Gate Symphony and Music Director Urs Leonhardt Steiner! This classical music birthday bash salutes the 200- and 100-year anniversaries of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, and will feature LIVE performances in both the SF Bay Area, and the mountains of Maestro Steiner’s native state of Graubünden, Switzerland. Founded in 1524, Graubünden celebrates this year its 500th anniversary, adding yet another birthday to this transatlantic party. 

Performers from Graubünden, including renowned pianist Cinzia Regensburger, will join the celebration by introducing Bay Area audiences to folks songs sung in Romansh, a native language of the Swiss region. Other featured performers include Beethoven’s Ninth soloists: Jessica House Steward, Lauren Biglow, Meté Tasin, and Bradley Kynard. 

GET TIX HERE:  www.cityboxoffice.com/ggsoc

• Saturday, May 25, 3pm:  Historic Clock Tower in Benicia, CA 

• Sunday, May 26, 2pm:  Herbst Theatre in San Francisco, CA

• June 13-16:  Scuol, Switzerland - click here for tix in Switzerland

ODE TO JOY is a collaboration between the Golden Gate Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, the non-profit organization Scuol Classics, and theScuol/Tarasp Tourist Bureau in the Engadin Valley of Switzerland.

Celebrate three BIG birthdays with the Golden Gate Symphony and Music Director Urs Leonhardt Steiner! This classical music birthday bash salutes the 200- and 100-year anniversaries of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, and will feature LIVE performances in both the SF Bay Area, and the mountains of Maestro Steiner’s native state of Graubünden, Switzerland. Founded in 1524, Graubünden celebrates this year its 500th anniversary, adding yet another birthday to this transatlantic party. 

Performers from Graubünden, including renowned pianist Cinzia Regensburger, will join the celebration by introducing Bay Area audiences to folks songs sung in Romansh, a native language of the Swiss region. Other featured performers include Beethoven’s Ninth soloists: Jessica House Steward, Lauren Biglow, Meté Tasin, and Bradley Kynard. 

GET TIX HERE:  www.cityboxoffice.com/ggsoc

• Saturday, May 25, 3pm:  Historic Clock Tower in Benicia, CA 

• Sunday, May 26, 2pm:  Herbst Theatre in San Francisco, CA

• June 13-16:  Scuol, Switzerland - click here for tix in Switzerland

ODE TO JOY is a collaboration between the Golden Gate Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, the non-profit organization Scuol Classics, and theScuol/Tarasp Tourist Bureau in the Engadin Valley of Switzerland.

Journey south of the border with ¡Las Voces de México! Maestro Urs Leonhardt Steiner and the Golden Gate Symphony Orchestra & Chorus (GGSOC) present a musical adventure featuring favorites like Copland’s “El Salón México,” Moncayo’s “Huapango,” and the world premiere of “Indigenous Symphony” by Oaxacan composer, Carlos Pazos. Top it off with danzones from SF’s own Anthony Blea Afro Cuban Sextet, and a Mariachi Sing Along, and you have a perfect Sunday afternoon adventure with the GGSOC!

Sunday, March 17 - 2:00 PM

Herbst Theatre, San Francisco 

Tickets:  www.cityboxoffice.com/ggsoc or at the door, w/ discounts for seniors & kids under 18 

¡Las Voces de México! is part of the Golden Gate Symphony’s ongoing Beyond the Border Walls Initiative. The program throws open the doors of the formal concert hall to underrepresented audiences, musicians and composers and provides 300+ free tickets to every Golden Gate Symphony event.

Lose yourself in MUSIC FOR A NEW WORLD, featuring the lushness of Antonin Dvorak’s New World Symphony, the brilliance of Viktor Ullman’s Piano Concerto, and the delight of Morton Gould’s Tap Dance Concerto .

Join Maestro Urs Leonhardt Steiner and the Golden Gate Symphony at our season opener at the Herbst Theatre on SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5TH @ 2:00. 

www.cityboxoffice.com/ggsoc for tickets and more info!

• New World Symphony, Antonin Dvorak

• Piano Concerto, Victor Ullman - Allison Lovejoy, piano

• Tap Dance Concerto, Morton Gould - Sam Weber, tap dance

Piano Concerto, Viktor Ullmann - Allison Lovejoy, soloist

Piano Concerto in G, Maurice Ravel - Kymry Esainko, soloist

Piano Concerto #1, Frederik Chopin - Elektra Schmidt, soloist

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Maurice Ravel, Piano Concerto in G
Kymry Esainko, soloist

Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 3 “Eroica”

Jason Gibbs, Foray for Orchestra - World Premiere

Michael Kimbell, Lacrimae Symphony - World Premiere

This concert has been CANCELLED with regret. Given the recent surge in COVID and other illnesses in the Bay Area, we have decided to cancel this year’s sing-along in the best interest of eveyrone’s health and safety.

See you next year!

Program
Georg Frideric Handel: Messiah
Yi Triplett, Soprano
Lisa van der Ploeg, Alto
William Wiggins, Tenor
Andrew Thomas Pardini, Bass

Program:

Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1
George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Cinzia Regensburger, soloist