EVENTS
San Francisco Symphony
June 6, 7 & 8, 2025 | Davies Symphony Hall - San Francisco, California
Richard Strauss: Don Juan
Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 7
Intermission
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
Boston Symphony Orchestra | Tanglewood
Jul.13.2025 | Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA
Gabriella Smith: Tumblebird Contrails
Sibelius: Violin Concerto
Sibelius: Symphony No. 5
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Pekka Kuusisto, violin
Seattle Symphony
Oct.23.2025 | Benaroya Hall - Seattle, Washington
Gabriella Smith: Lost Coast
Ralph Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony
Gemma New, conductor
Gabriel Cabezas, cello
Seattle Symphony
Oct.25.2025 | Benaroya Hall - Seattle, Washington
Gabriella Smith: Lost Coast
Ralph Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony
Gemma New, conductor
Gabriel Cabezas, cello
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Jan.9.2026 | Walt Disney Concert Hall - Los Angeles, California
Gabriella Smith: Violin Concerto [World Premiere, LA Phil commission]
Intermission
Debussy: La damoiselle élue
Scriabin: Prometheus, Poem of Fire
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Pekka Kuusisto, violin
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
Liv Redpath, soprano
Jingjing Xu, mezzo-soprano
Los Angeles Master Chorale
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Jan.10.2026 | Walt Disney Concert Hall - Los Angeles, California
Gabriella Smith: Violin Concerto [World Premiere, LA Phil commission]
Intermission
Debussy: La damoiselle élue
Scriabin: Prometheus, Poem of Fire
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Pekka Kuusisto, violin
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
Liv Redpath, soprano
Jingjing Xu, mezzo-soprano
Los Angeles Master Chorale
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Jan.11.2026 | Walt Disney Concert Hall - Los Angeles, California
Gabriella Smith: Violin Concerto [World Premiere, LA Phil commission]
Intermission
Debussy: La damoiselle élue
Scriabin: Prometheus, Poem of Fire
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Pekka Kuusisto, violin
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
Liv Redpath, soprano
Jingjing Xu, mezzo-soprano
Los Angeles Master Chorale
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Feb.5.2026 | Symphony Center - Chicago, Illinois
Debussy: Images
Gabriella Smith: Lost Coast
Debussy: La Mer
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Gabriel Cabezas, cello
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Feb.6.2026 | Symphony Center - Chicago, Illinois
Debussy: Images
Gabriella Smith: Lost Coast
Debussy: La Mer
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Gabriel Cabezas, cello
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Feb.7.2026 | Symphony Center - Chicago, Illinois
Debussy: Images
Gabriella Smith: Lost Coast
Debussy: La Mer
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Gabriel Cabezas, cello
San Diego Symphony
Jan. 10 & 11, 2025 | Jacobs Music Center - San Diego, California
Gabriella Smith: Bioluminescence Chaconne
Saint-Saëns: Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor, Op. 61
Augusta Holmès: “La nuit et l'amour” from Ludus pro patria
Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78, Organ Symphony
San Diego Symphony
Ludovic Morlot, conductor
Jeff Thayer, violin
Iceland Symphony Orchestra
Sep.19.2024 | Harpa - Reykjavík, Iceland
Gabriella Smith: Tumblebird Contrails
Franz Liszt: Piano Concerto no. 1
Antonín Dvořák: Symphony no. 7
Iceland Symphony Orchestra
Cabrillo Festival
Aug.10.2024 | Civic Center Auditorium - Santa Cruz, California
Gabriella Smith: Lost Coast: concerto for cello and orchestra
Wynton Marsalis: Concerto for Trumpet [West Coast Premiere]
Bora Yoon: PARHELION [World Premiere and Festival Commission]
Cabrillo Festival Orchestra
Cristian Mǎcelaru, conductor
Gabriel Cabezas, cello
Michael Sachs, trumpet
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jun.28.2024 | Maida Vale Studios, London, UK
Gabriella Smith: Tumblebird Contrails
Andrea Tarrodi: Concerto for Orchestra [UK premiere]
Ðjuro Živković: Unceasing Prayers [cello concerto, UK premiere]
Daniel Bjarnason: Fragile Hope [UK premiere]
Anders Hillborg: Dreaming River [UK premiere]
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Christian Karlsen, conductor
Petar Pejčić, cello
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
Oregon Symphony Open Music hosted by Gabriel Kahane
June 5, 2024 | Alberta Rose Theater - Portland, Oregon
evening of music and conversation with Gabriel Kahane and Gabriella Smith
featuring music by Gabriella Smith, Billy Childs, Paul Wiancko, Kaija Saariaho, John Cage, and more
Gabriel Kahane: piano, voice, co-curator, host
Gabriella Smith: amplified plants, co-curator
Musicians of the Oregon Symphony:
Ron Blessinger, Violin
Greg Ewer, Violin
Amanda Grimm, Viola
Maia Hoffman, Viola
Marilyn de Oliveira, Cello
Trevor Fitzpatrick, Cello
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. 17 & 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
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
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 25, 26 & 27, 2023 | Walt Disney Concert Hall - Los Angeles, California
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
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
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
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