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COPLEY SYMPHONY HALL TICKET OFFICE
750 B Street
San Diego, CA 92101

Phone: 619.235.0804
Fax: 619.231.3848

Normal business hours:
Monday – Friday:
10am - 6pm
Saturday & Sunday:
12noon - 4pm
(Sat-Sun hours vary in summer)

Note: Subscription and Single Tickets for
San Diego Symphony's Ashford University
Summer Pops 2012 will be mailed out
around the
 2nd or 3rd week of June

 

CLICK BELOW FOR OUR JACOBS MASTERWORKS INTERACTIVE BROCHURE!:

 

 

 

 ANNOUNCING...JACOBS MASTERWORKS SEASON 2012-2013!

The Symphony's outstanding Jacobs Masterworks Season 2012-2013 Season lineup consists of 14 separate classical music programs. Among the composers represented this season are: Jean Sibelius (Violin Concerto), Hector Berlioz (Symphonie fantastique), Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (Scheherazade), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ("Elvira Madigan" Piano Concerto), Piotr Tchaikovsky (Violin Concerto, Piano Concerto No. 2, Symphony No. 4), Gustav Mahler (Symphony No. 5), Dmitri Shostakovich (Violin Concerto No. 1), Johannes Brahms (Symphony No. 4, Violin Concerto), Sergei Rachmaninoff (Piano Concerto No. 1), Modest Mussorgsky (Pictures at an Exhibition) and Ludwig Van Beethoven (Emperor Concerto, Pastoral Symphony, Eroica Symphony).

A fine array of guest artists will be visiting Copley Symphony Hall during this season, including Lang Lang, Garrick Ohlsson, Ray Chen, Ralph Kirshbaum, Viviane Hagner, Karen Gomyo, Jeremy Denk, Olga Kern, The Romeros and Joshua Bell. Guest conductors this season include Christof Perick, James Gaffigan, Mei-Ann Chen and John Williams.

San Diego Symphony's Music Director is Jahja Ling.

Jacobs Masterworks concerts are performed Friday and Saturday nights at 8pm, and Sunday afternoons at 2pm.

All Jacobs Masterworks concerts are preceded by a "What's The Score?" pre-concert talk by Nuvi Mehta, given 45 minutes before the concert's downbeat.

ORDER OR RENEW YOUR JACOBS MASTERWORKS SEASON 2012-2013 SUBSCRIPTION NOW!

 

Click the box above or call the Ticket Office NOW at 619.235.0804 to renew your Jacobs Masterworks series or to buy a new series. Subscriptions start at just $102! (Note: single tickets for Jacobs Masterworks 2012-2013 will not be on sale until August 6.)  

CLICK HERE for U-T San Diego's story about Jahja Ling and
the Symphony's 2012-13 Jacobs Masterworks season!

 

LANG LANG PLAYS BEETHOVEN’S EMPEROR
October 5, 7
Jahja Ling, conductor
Lang Lang, piano
BEETHOVEN: Overture to Fidelio
BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 5: Emperor
MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition

OPUS 2012 CONCERT & GALA:
LANG LANG PLAYS TCHAIKOVSKY

October 6
Jahja Ling, conductor
Lang Lang, piano
TCHAIKOVSKY: Sleeping Beauty Suite
TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No. 1

OHLSSON PLAYS TCHAIKOVSKY
October 12, 13, 14
Jahja Ling, conductor
Garrick Ohlsson, piano
RESPIGHI: Ancient Airs and Dances: Suite No. 1
HAYDN: Symphony No. 102
TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No. 2

BRAHMS’ FOURTH
October 26, 27, 28
Jahja Ling, conductor
Ray Chen, violin
KERNIS: Too Hot Toccata
SIBELIUS: Violin Concerto
BRAHMS: Symphony No. 4

MAHLER’S FIFTH
November 2, 3, 4
Jahja Ling, conductor
Ralph Kirshbaum, cello
HAYDN: Cello Concerto in D Major
MAHLER: Symphony No. 5

BEETHOVEN’S PASTORAL
November 16, 17, 18
Christof Perick, conductor
Jeff Thayer, violin
R. STRAUSS: Don Juan
GOLDMARK: Violin Concerto
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 6: Pastoral

JOHN WILLIAMS IN CONCERT - A CLASSICAL SPECIAL CONCERT
December 7, 8
John Williams, conductor; Johannes Moser, cello
WILLIAMS: Cello Concerto
WILLIAMS: Also features John Williams’ greatest movie hits.

A portion of the each John Williams concert benefits the San Diego Symphony musician’s fund. (Note: only subscribers may purchase!)


SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE
December 14, 15, 16
Jahja Ling, conductor
Jeremy Denk, piano
VERDI: Overture to La forza del destino
MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 21
BERLIOZ: Symphonie fantastique

MENDELSSOHN’S VIOLIN CONCERTO
January 11, 12, 13
Jahja Ling, conductor
Viviane Hagner, violin
ROSSINI: Overture to La gazza ladra
MENDELSSOHN: Violin Concerto in E minor
NIELSEN: Symphony No. 5

GIL SHAHAM IN RECITAL
February 7
Gil Shaham, violin; Akira Eguchi, piano
WALTON: Violin Sonata
BACH: Partita No. 3
BEETHOVEN: Violin Sonata No. 9: Kreutzer
BOLCOM: (New work: Music Accord Commission)

SCHEHERAZADE
February 8, 9, 10
Mei-Ann Chen, conductor
Benjamin Jaber, horn
PRICE: Mississippi River Suite
R. STRAUSS: Horn Concerto No. 1
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade

DVOŘÁK’S SIXTH
March 1, 2, 3
Jahja Ling, conductor; Karen Gomyo, violin
MUSSORGSKY: Introduction ("Dawn on the Moscow River"), from Khovantschina
SHOSTAKOVICH: Violin Concerto No. 1
DVOŘÁK: Symphony No. 6

JAHJA & JESSIE: CONCERTO FOR TWO PIANOS
March 15, 16, 17
James Gaffigan, conductor
Jahja Ling and Jessie Chang, pianos
BACH: Orchestral Suite No. 4
POULENC: Concerto for Two Pianos
SCHUMANN: Symphony No. 4

BRAHMS’ VIOLIN CONCERTO
April 12, 13, 14
Jahja Ling, conductor
Kyoko Takezawa, violin
WEBERN: Im Sommerwind
SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 5
BRAHMS: Violin Concerto

OLGA KERN PLAYS RACHMANINOFF
May 3, 4, 5
Jahja Ling, conductor
Olga Kern, piano
IVES: The Unanswered Question
RACHMANINOFF: Piano Concerto No. 1
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 4

THE ROMEROS RETURN! - A CLASSICAL SPECIAL CONCERT
May 17, 18, 19
Jahja Ling; Pepe Romero, guitar
The Romeros, guitar
Denyce Graves, mezzo-soprano
GRANADOS: Tres danzas españolas
CELEDONIO ROMERO: Concierto de Malaga
GOULD: Troubador Music for Four Guitars and Orchestra
FALLA: El amor brujo
(Note: concert included only with certain Saturday subscriptions.)

JOSHUA BELL PLAYS TCHAIKOVSKY
May 24, 25, 26
Jahja Ling, conductor
Joshua Bell, violin
SMETANA: Overture to The Bartered Bride
TCHAIKOVSKY: Violin Concerto
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 3: Eroica