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Known For
Acting
Also Known As
SFS
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
San Francisco Symphony
Biography
The San Francisco Symphony (SFS), founded in 1911, is an American orchestra based in San Francisco, California. Since 1980 the orchestra has been resident at the Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall in the city's Hayes Valley neighborhood. The San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra (founded in 1981) and the San Francisco Symphony Chorus (1972) are part of the organization. Since 1995, Michael Tilson Thomas has been the orchestra's music director. Tilson Thomas is scheduled to conclude his tenure as the orchestra's music director in 2020, when Esa-Pekka Salonen is scheduled to become the orchestra's next music director.
Among the orchestra's awards and honors are an Emmy Award and 15 Grammy Awards in the past 26 years.
Known For
Film
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in Concert
2001
Film
Metallica and San Francisco Symphony: S&M
Self
1999
Film
Metallica and San Francisco Symphony: S&M2
2019
Film
Keeping Score: Beethoven's Eroica
2006
Film
Keeping Score: Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4
Film
Keeping Score: Shostakovich Symphony No. 5
2009
Film
Keeping Score: Stravinsky's Rite of Spring
2006
Film
Keeping Score - Hector Berlioz Symphonie fantastique
2009
Film
Keeping Score - Mahler Origins and Legacy
2011
Filmography
2019FilmMetallica and San Francisco Symphony: S&M22011FilmKeeping Score - Mahler Origins and Legacy2009FilmKeeping Score: Shostakovich Symphony No. 52009FilmKeeping Score - Hector Berlioz Symphonie fantastique2006FilmKeeping Score: Stravinsky's Rite of Spring2006FilmKeeping Score: Beethoven's Eroica2001FilmSweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in Concert1999FilmMetallica and San Francisco Symphony: S&Mas Self—FilmKeeping Score: Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4