Sat, Nov 4 at 8pm
Jacobs Music Center
Music Director Rafael Payare and the Symphony celebrate the Orchestra’s return to Jacobs Music Center in a program that showcases the musicians and the exceptional new aural and visual experience of the venue.
Fri, Dec 8 at 8:00PM
Jacobs Music Center
Known for their dramatic blend of rock and electronic music with orchestral arrangements, The Airborne Toxic Event joins the San Diego Symphony in an electrifying concert.
Sun, Mar 10 at 7:30PM
Jacobs Music Center
Get ready to rock ‘n roll down memory lane with an evening of music and memories straight from the radio featuring the biggest pop songs of all time.
Sat, Nov 11 at 8pm
Sun, Nov 12 at 2pm
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Experience the grandeur of the “new” Jacobs Music Center as Music Director Rafael Payare and the Orchestra present Mahler’s towering Symphony No. 2, “Resurrection.”
Fri, Nov 17 at 8pm
Sat, Nov 18 at 8pm
Jacobs Music Center
Experience an evening featuring Stravinsky’s whirling The Rite of Spring, which still astounds audiences more than a century after its riotous Parisian premiere in 1913.
Fri, Dec 1 at 8pm
Sat, Dec 2 at 8pm
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Conductor Joshua Weilerstein leads Dvořák’s enchanting Symphony No. 9, “From the New World.”
Sat, Dec 9 at 8pm
Sun, Dec 10 at 2pm
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Principal Guest Conductor Edo de Waart leads this program filled with sounds that perfectly complement the beauty of December.
Sat, Jan 13 at 8pm
Sun, Jan 14, 2024 at 2pm
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Canadian pianist Jan Lisiecki takes the Jacobs Music Center stage to perform Mozart’s sublime Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor.
Fri Jan 19 at 8pm
Sat, Jan 20 at 8pm
Sun, Jan 21 at 2pm
Jacobs Music Center
Grammy® Award-winning soloist Augustin Hadelich performs Jean Sibelius’ Violin Concerto, with conductor Paolo Bortolameolli.
Fri, Jan 26 at 8pm
Sat, Jan 27 at 8pm
Jacobs Music Center
Music Director Rafael Payare takes the podium to lead two timeless masterworks by Mozart and Bruckner, composed more than one century apart.
Fri, Feb 16 at 8pm
Sat, Feb 17 at 8pm
Jacobs Music Center
Trumpeter Pacho Flores returns to San Diego to perform Altar de bronce by Mexican composer Gabriela Ortiz.
Sat, Feb 24 at 8pm
Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 2pm
Jacobs Music Center
Grammy® Award-winning violinist Gil Shaham returns to San Diego for the West Coast Premiere of Mason Bates’ Violin Concerto, an explosive work showcasing Bates’ masterful modern style.
Fri, Mar 1 at 8pm
Sat, Mar 2 at 8pm
Jacobs Music Center
French conductor Ludovic Morlot leads the Orchestra in Pictures at an Exhibition and works from two venerable American composers: Ned Rorem and Samuel Barber.
Fri, March 15 at 8pm
Sat, March 16 at 8pm
Sun, March 17 at 2pm
Jacobs Music Center
Experience Sergei Rachmaninoff’s iconic Piano Concerto No. 2, among the greatest piano showpieces in classical repertoire, performed by pianist Sir Stephen Hough.
Sat, Mar 23 at 8pm
Sun, Mar 24 at 2pm
Jacobs Music Center
Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas is featured with San Diego Symphony as both conductor and composer, featuring Grammy® Award-winning bass-baritone Dashon Burton.
Fri, March 29 at 8pm
Sat, March 30 at 8pm
Jacobs Music Center
A feast of gorgeous music from Prokofiev’s much-loved 1935 ballet score complete with beautiful projections and excerpts highlighting the immortal story of Shakespeare’s tragedy.
Fri, April 12 at 8pm
Jacobs Music Center
Virtuosic pianist Lang Lang returns to San Diego, performing Saint-Saëns’ stunning Piano Concerto No. 2.
Sun, April 14 at 2pm
Jacobs Music Center
Soar through a mythical story of princes and princesses, magic and heroics as Dutch conductor Otto Tausk leads Stravinsky’s enchanting Firebird Suite.
Tue, May 7 at 8pm
Jacobs Music Center
Special Event
The transcendent cellist Yo-Yo Ma performs Elgar’s achingly beautiful concerto, one of the most well-known and revered of cello concertos, in this one-night-only performance.
Sat, May 11 at 8pm
Sun, May 12 at 2pm
Jacobs Music Center
Rafael Payare leads this brilliant Romantic-meets-Modern program that features Jean-Yves Thibaudet’s dazzling style and theatricality to Maurice Ravel’s Piano Concerto.
Sat, May 18 at 8pm
Sun, May 19 at 2pm
Jacobs Music Center
Violinist Daniel Lozakovich makes his San Diego Symphony debut performing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto.
Fri, May 24 at 8pm
Sat, May 25 at 6pm
Jacobs Music Center
Pianist Jeremy Denk joins Music Director Rafael Payare and the Symphony for Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 to close the season.
Sat, Nov 25 at 8pm
Jacobs Music Center
You’ll have “the world on a string” as we pay tribute to three of the most iconic divas in all of jazz in this tribute to Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan
Sat, Feb 3 at 8pm
Jacobs Music Center
Join Gil and his band as they celebrate Miles Davis and his all-star band.
Sat, May 4 at 8pm
Jacobs Music Center
An evening spanning one hundred years of jazz piano styles.
Sun, Nov 5 at 12pm
Jacobs Music Center
Be inspired as you sing, dance, and read along with the orchestra.
Sat, Feb 3 at 11:30am
Jacobs Music Center
Transport yourself into a timeless story about friendship with a musical adaptation of The Mountain
that Loved a Bird by Alice McLerran.
Sat, Apr 27 at 11:30am
Jacobs Music Center
Guided by a magical Sprite, you’ll explore the fundamental connections between music, sound, performance, creativity and technology.
Tue, Nov 28 at 7:30pm
Jacobs Music Center
Part of the Currents Series, Difficult Grace is a multimedia concert tour de force conceived by and featuring Seth Parker Woods in the triple role of cellist, narrator/guide and movement artist.
Sat, Jan 6 at 7:30pm
Jacobs Music Center
Part of the Currents Series, Tres Minutos is a chamber opera inspired by a real program that reunites families separated by immigration policies at the U.S.-Mexico Border, but only for three minutes.
Wed, Mar 20 at 7:30pm
Jacobs Music Center
Part of the Currents Series, Iranian-American composer Gity Razaz curates an evening of music honoring the mystical beauty of Persian culture and the power of women to shape history both past and present.