EVENTS
2023-24 Featured Performances
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San Francisco Symphony
Nov. 17 & 18, 2023 | Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco
Igor Stravinsky: Octet for Winds and Brass
Gabriella Smith: Breathing Forests for organ and orchestra
Igor Stravinsky: Les Noces (orch. Steven Stucky)San Francisco Symphony
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
James McVinnie, organpresented as part of the California Festival
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Nobel Prize Concert
Dec.8.2023 | Konserthuset Stockholm
Luigi Boccherini: Quattro versioni originali della Ritiara Notturna di Madrid (arr. Luciano Berio)
Johannes Brahms: Violin Concerto
Gabriella Smith: Tumblebird Contrails
Maurice Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé - Suite No. 2Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Julia Fischer, violin -
Kronos Quartet: Five Decades
Keep Going for Kronos Quartet by Gabriella Smith, commissioned in celebration of their 50th anniversary season
Movement 1 performed on Kronos Quartet’s Five Decades Tour and on their 50th anniversary celebration concerts at the Barbican (Oct 21), Carnegie Hall (Nov 3), the Philharmonie de Paris (Jan 12), and more
Jan.27.2024 | Bing Concert Hall - Stanford, California
Full World Premiere, presented by Stanford Live -
The Cleveland Orchestra
Apr. 4 & 6, 2024 | Mandel Concert Hall - Cleveland, Ohio
Gabriella Smith: Breathing Forests for organ and orchestra
Claude Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
John Adams: City NoirThe Cleveland Orchestra
John Adams, conductor
James McVinnie, organ
JACK Quartet in London
May.11.2024 | Wigmore Hall - London, UK
Austin Wulliman: Hoquetus David on Guillaume de Machaut
Gabriella Smith: Carrot Revolution
Ruth Crawford Seeger: String Quartet 1931
Morton Feldman: Structures
Cenk Ergün: Sonare
Liza Lim: String Creatures
performed by JACK Quartet
JACK Quartet in Berlin
May.12.2024 | Pierre Boulez Saal - Berlin, Germany
Austin Wulliman: Hoquetus David on Guillaume de Machaut
Gabriella Smith: Carrot Revolution
Ruth Crawford Seeger: String Quartet 1931
Morton Feldman: Structures
Cenk Ergün: Sonare
performed by JACK Quartet
Kronos Quartet: Five Decades
May.17.2024 | Volkshaus - Zurich, Switzerland
Sam Green: KRONOS at FIFTY
Jlin (arr. Jacob Garchik): Little Black Book
Angélique Kidjo (arr. Jacob Garchik): YanYanKliYan Senamido #2
Gabriella Smith: Keep Going: II. Isabel
Aleksandra Vrebalov: Gold Came From Space
Sofia Gubaidulina: Quartet No. 4
Laurie Anderson (arr. Jacob Garchik): Flow
Nicole Lizée: ZonelyHearts
performed by Kronos Quartet
Oregon Symphony
June 8, 9 &10, 2024 | Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall - Portland, Oregon
Villa-Lobos: Ciranda das Sete Notas, bassoon concerto
Gabriella Smith: One
Brahms: Symphony No. 1
Oregon Symphony
David Danzmayr, conductor
Carin Miller, bassoon
Cabrillo Festival
Aug.10.2024 | Civic Center Auditorium - Santa Cruz, California
Gabriella Smith: Lost Coast: concerto for cello and orchestra
Bora Yoon: New work [World Premiere and Festival Commission]
Cabrillo Festival Orchestra
Cristian Mǎcelaru, conductor
Gabriel Cabezas, cello
New York Philharmonic
Nov.14.2024 | David Geffen Hall - New York
Gabriella Smith: Lost Coast: concerto for cello and orchestra [East Coast Premiere]
Aaron Copland: Quiet City
John Adams: City Noir
New York Philharmonic
John Adams, conductor
Gabriel Cabezas, cello
New York Philharmonic
Nov.16.2024 | David Geffen Hall - New York
Gabriella Smith: Lost Coast: concerto for cello and orchestra [East Coast Premiere]
Aaron Copland: Quiet City
John Adams: City Noir
New York Philharmonic
John Adams, conductor
Gabriel Cabezas, cello
San Francisco Symphony
June.6.2025 | Davies Symphony Hall - San Francisco, California
Richard Strauss: Don Juan
Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 7
Gabriella Smith: New work [San Francisco Symphony Commission and World Premiere]
Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
San Francisco Symphony
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
San Francisco Symphony
June.7.2025 | Davies Symphony Hall - San Francisco, California
Richard Strauss: Don Juan
Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 7
Gabriella Smith: New work [San Francisco Symphony Commission and World Premiere]
Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
San Francisco Symphony
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
San Francisco Symphony
June.8.2025 | Davies Symphony Hall - San Francisco, California
Richard Strauss: Don Juan
Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 7
Gabriella Smith: New work [San Francisco Symphony Commission and World Premiere]
Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
San Francisco Symphony
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
JACK Quartet in Melbourne
Apr.10.2024 |Melbourne Recital Centre - Melbourne, Australia
Vicente Hansen Atria: new work
Johnny Macmillan: Songs from the Seventh Floor
Christopher Otto: Miserere, after Nathaniel Giles
Caleb Burhans: Contritus
Austin Wulliman: Dave’s Hocket
Gabriella Smith: Carrot Revolution
performed by JACK Quartet
The Cleveland Orchestra
Apr.6.2024 | Mandel Concert Hall, Severance Music Center - Cleveland, Ohio
Gabriella Smith: Breathing Forests for organ and orchestra
Claude Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
John Adams: City Noir
The Cleveland Orchestra
John Adams, conductor
James McVinnie, organ
Timothy McAllister, saxophone
The Cleveland Orchestra
Apr.4.2024 | Mandel Concert Hall, Severance Music Center - Cleveland, Ohio
Gabriella Smith: Breathing Forests for organ and orchestra
Claude Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
John Adams: City Noir
The Cleveland Orchestra
John Adams, conductor
James McVinnie, organ
Timothy McAllister, saxophone
Timo Andres at Carnegie Hall
Feb.23.2024 | Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall - New York
Robin Holcomb: Wherein Lies the Good
Ellington: "Single Petal of a Rose"
Timo Andres: New Work (World Premiere, commissioned by Carnegie Hall)
Ellington: “Prelude to a Kiss"
Copland: Piano Sonata
Ellington: "Reflections in D"
Gabriella Smith: Imaginary Pancake (NY Premiere, commissioned by Carnegie Hall)
Rzewski: Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues
Philip Glass: Etude No. 20
performed by Timo Andres, piano
Festival Présences | Quatuor Tana
Feb.11.2024 | Maison de la Radio et de la Musique, Studio 104 - Paris, France
Gabriella Smith: Carrot Revolution
Othman Louati: Nouvelle œuvre (création mondiale)
Steve Reich: Different Trains
performed by Quatuor Tana
Festival Présences | Orchestre National de France
Feb.10.2024 | Maison de la Radio et de la Musique - Auditorium, Paris, France
Gabriella Smith: Field Guide (création française)
Nico Muhly: Register, concerto pour orgue (création française)
Nico Muhly: Nouvelle œuvre pour voix égales et orchestre (commande de Radio France – création mondiale)
Régis Campo: Dancefloor with Pulsing (création française)
Steve Reich: Music for Ensemble and Orchestra (création française)
Orchestre National de France
Cristian Măcelaru, conductor
Iveta Apkalna, organ
Carolina Eyck, theremin
Kronos Quartet: Five Decades
Feb.4.2024 | Champaign-Urbana, Illinois: Foellinger Great Hall
Feb.22.2024 | Tucson, Arizona: Centennial Hall
Feb.23.2024 | Scottsdale, Arizona: Virginia G. Piper Theater
Apr.4.2024 | Rohnert Park, California: Weill Hall
Apr.9.2024 | Beaverton, Oregon: Reser Center
includes selections from Gabriella Smith’s Keep Going commissioned in celebration of Kronos Quartet’s 50th anniversary season, along with other works TBD
performed by Kronos Quartet
Kronos Quartet: Five Decades
Jan.27.2024 | Bing Concert Hall - Stanford, California
Gabriella Smith: Keep Going [World Premiere]
Mariana Sadovska: Chernobyl: The Harvest
plus other works to be announced
performed by Kronos Quartet
with special guest Mariana Sadovska, voice and harmonium
New Century Chamber Orchestra and Alexi Kenney
Jan.19 & 20, 2024 | Hume Concert Hall, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, San Francisco, California
Angélica Negrón: Marejada
Antonio Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in D Major, RV 228
Aaron Jay Kernis: Musica Celestis
Gabriella Smith: selections from Desert Ecology
Georges Enescu: Octet for Strings
New Century Chamber Orchestra
Alexi Kenney, guest leader and concertmaster
with musicians from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Kronos Quartet: Five Decades
Jan.12.2024 | Cité de la Musique - Paris, France
George Crumb: Black Angels
Aleksandra Vrebalov: ilektrikés rímes [French premiere]
Jlin: Little Black Book
Hawa Kassé Mady Diabate (arr. Jacob Garchik): Tegere Tulon – V. Janety
Trey Spruance: NEW WORK – excerpt [French premiere]
Gabriella Smith: Keep Going – I. [French premiere]
Steve Reich: Triple Quartet
performed by Kronos Quartet
Nobel Prize Concert | Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Dec.8.2023 | Konserthuset Stockholm
Luigi Boccherini: Quattro versioni originali della Ritiara Notturna di Madrid (arr. Luciano Berio)
Johannes Brahms: Violin Concerto
Gabriella Smith: Tumblebird Contrails
Maurice Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé - Suite No. 2
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Julia Fischer, violin
San Francisco Symphony | California Festival
Nov.18.2023 | Davies Symphony Hall - San Francisco, California
Igor Stravinsky: Octet for Winds and Brass
Gabriella Smith: Breathing Forests [First SF Symphony Performances] for organ and orchestra
Igor Stravinsky: Les Noces (orch. Steven Stucky)
San Francisco Symphony
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
James McVinnie, organ
San Francisco Symphony | California Festival
Nov.17.2023 | Davies Symphony Hall - San Francisco, California
Igor Stravinsky: Octet for Winds and Brass
Gabriella Smith: Breathing Forests [First SF Symphony Performances] for organ and orchestra
Igor Stravinsky: Les Noces (orch. Steven Stucky)
San Francisco Symphony
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
James McVinnie, organ
Pacific Symphony | California Festival
Nov. 16, 17 & 18, 2023 | Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall - Costa Mesa, California
Adam Schoenberg: Canto
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 4
Gabriella Smith: Bioluminescence Chaconne
Claude Debussy: La Mer
Pacific Symphony
Ludovic Morlot, conductor
Vadym Kholodenko, piano
James McVinnie Recital | California Festival
Nov.12.2023 | Walt Disney Concert Hall - Los Angeles, California
Gabriella Smith: Imaginary Pancake
Meredith Monk: Ellis Island
Nico Muhly: II. Palindromes and IV. Very Fast Music from Patterns
inti figgis-vizueta: build-it-yourself
J.S. Bach: Duetto 1, BWV 802
J.S. Bach: Prelude and Fugue in D-sharp minor, BWV 853
J.S. Bach: “Dies sind die Heiligen zehn Gebot,” BWV 678
J.S. Bach: Toccata in F major, BWV 540
Philip Glass: A Distant Figure (Passacaglia)
Philip Glass: Dance No. 4
Philip Glass: Music in Fifths
Philip Glass: Etude No. 20
Philip Glass: Mad Rush
James McVinnie, organ and piano
Kronos Quartet: Five Decades
Sep.7.2023 | Bogotá, Colombia: Teatro Colsubsidio
Sep.24.2023 | Gualala, California: Gualala Arts Center
Oct.10.2023 | Cincinnati, Ohio: Memorial Hall
Oct.11.2023 | Indianapolis, Indiana: Schrott Center for the Arts
Oct.15.2023 | Katowice, Poland: NOSPR
Oct.17.2023 | Antwerp, Belgium: Blauwe Zaal, De Singel
Oct.21.2023 | London, UK: Barbican Hall
Nov.3.2023 | New York: Stern Auditorium - Carnegie Hall
includes Keep Going (movement I. from Gabriella Smith’s new work for Kronos Quartet, commissioned in celebration of their 50th anniversary season)
plus other works to be announced
performed by Kronos Quartet
Cabrillo Festival
Aug.12.2023 | Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium - Santa Cruz, California
Gabriella Smith: f(x) = sin²x-1/x [West Coast Premiere]
Julia Wolfe: riSE and fLY (Colin Currie, percussion) [West Coast Premiere]
Gabriela Ortiz: Tzam [West Coast Premiere]
Robert Hughes: Uutiqtut
Olga Neuwirth: Dreydl [US Premiere]
Cabrillo Festival Orchestra
Cristian Măcelaru, conductor
Colin Currie, percussion
Los Angeles Philharmonic
May.28.2023 | The Granada Theater - Santa Barbara, California
Ellen Reid: West Coast Sky Eternal [world premiere, LA Phil commission]
Gabriella Smith: Lost Coast: concerto for cello and orchestra [world premiere, LA Phil commission]
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
Gabriel Cabezas, cello
Los Angeles Philharmonic
May 25, 26 & 27, 2023 | Walt Disney Concert Hall - Los Angeles, California
Ellen Reid: West Coast Sky Eternal [world premiere, LA Phil commission]
Gabriella Smith: Lost Coast: concerto for cello and orchestra [world premiere, LA Phil commission]
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
Gabriel Cabezas, cello
Czech Philharmonic
May.23.2023 | Rudolfinum, Dvořák Hall - Prague, Czech Republic
John Adams: I Still Dance
John Adams: Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes?
Gabriella Smith: Tumblebird Contrails
Igor Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements
John Adams, conductor
Víkingur Ólafsson, piano
Gabriel Cabezas and Gabriella Smith at National Sawdust
Mar.23.2023 | National Sawdust - Brooklyn, New York
music from Lost Coast and more
Gabriel Cabezas: cello, electronics
Gabriella Smith: voice, violin, electronics
in collaboration with Billion Oyster Project
Manchester Collective
Mar.16.2023 | The White Hotel - Salford, UK
Mar.17.2023 | Future Yard - Birkenhead, UK
Mar.18.2023 | Howard Assembly Room - Leeds, UK
Mar.22.2023 | Strange Brew - Bristol, UK
Mar.23.2023 | Lakeside Arts - Nottingham, UK
Mar.24.2023 | Kings Place - London, UK
Gabriella Smith: Carrot Revolution
Edmund Finnis: String Quartet No. 2
Moor Mother: DREAM CULTURE [World Premiere]
Franz Schubert: Death and the Maiden, II.
George Crumb: Black Angels
Rakhi Singh, music director
Manchester Collective, amplified string quartet
Benjamin Beilman
Mar.14.2023 | Indianapolis [World Premiere]
Mar. 17 & 19, 2023 | Ordway Concert Hall - St. Paul, Minnesota
Mar.31.2023 | Harvard Musical Association - Boston, Massachusetts
May.2.2023 | Barbro Osher Recital Hall, Bowes Center, San Francisco Conservatory of Music [West Coast Premiere]
June 9, 2023 | Spoleto Festival, Dock Street Theater - Charleston, South Carolina
Gabriella Smith: sanguineum
and other works
Benjamin Beilman, violin
San Francisco Symphony European Tour
Mar.11.2023 | Grande Salle Pierre Boulez, Philharmonie de Paris
Mar.13.2023 | Grand Auditorium, Philharmonie de Luxembourg
Mar.16.2023 | Elbphilharmonie Hamburg
Gabriella Smith: Tumblebird Contrails
Serge Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3
Béla Bartók: Concerto for orchestra
San Francisco Symphony
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Yuja Wang, piano
more info: Paris | Luxembourg | Hamburg
Kamus Quartet
Mar.2.2023 | Espoo Cultural Centre, Tapiola hall - Espoo, Finland
Veli-Matti Puumala: String Quartet no.2 (Premiere)
Gabriella Smith: Carrot Revolution
performed by Kamus Quartet:
Terhi Paldanius, violin
Jukka Untamala, violin
Jussi Tuhkanen, viola
Petja Kainulainen, cello
San Francisco Symphony
Mar. 1 & 2, 2023 | Davies Symphony Hall - San Francisco, California
Gabriella Smith: Tumblebird Contrails
Esa-Pekka Salonen: Nyx
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3
San Francisco Symphony
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Yuja Wang, piano
Treelogy: Delirium Musicum
Feb.23.2023 | The Soraya - Los Angeles, California
Feb.26.2023 | San Jose State University - San Jose, California
Feb.28.2023 | Laxson Auditorium - Chico, California
Mar.2.2023 | Weill Hall, Green Music Center - Rohnert Park, California
Treelogy is a celebration of California's iconic trees. Premieres by Billy Childs, Steve Mackey, and Gabriella Smith.
Billy Childs: My Roots Spread Far and Wide
Gabriella Smith: Desert Ecology
Steven Mackey: Red Wood
performed by Delirium Musicum
Barcelona Symphony Orchestra
October 21 & 22, 2022 | L’Auditori, Hall 1 Pau Casals - Barcelona, Spain
Gabriella Smith: f(x) = sin²x-1/x [European premiere]
Béla Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 2
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 15
Barcelona Symphony Orchestra
Ludovic Morlot, conductor
Vilde Frang, violin
The New York Times “A New Climate” in San Francisco
Oct.12.2022 | Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
New York Times’ climate conference at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco
“Hear from tech leaders, engineers, storytellers, musicians and creative pioneers, alongside innovators at the intersection of food and climate.”
Featuring:
Hannah Estrada, Activist, Youth vs. Apocalypse
Ana Teresa Fernández, Artist
Claudio Núñez, Santa Lucia Conservancy
Louie Psihoyos, Filmmaker and Executive Director, Oceanic Preservation Society
Somini Sengupta, International Climate Reporter, The New York Times
Gabriella Smith, Composer
Thor Steingraber, Executive and Artistic Director, Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts, Los Angeles
Leah Thomas, Founder, Intersectional Environmentalist
Katharine Wilkinson, Climate Author, Strategist, Teacher and Co-Founder, All We Can Save
Britt Wray, Author and Eco-Anxiety Researcher, Stanford University
and more
music by Gabriella Smith, Billy Childs, and Steve Mackey
performed by Delirium Musicum