It’s been too long since we’ve seen Esa-Pekka Salonen on the podium. The conductor-composer, a youthful 66, had to bail on his annual Chicago Symphony booking last season to receive the Polar Music ...

In mid-June, Finnish-born conductor-composer Esa-Pekka Salonen led the San Francisco Symphony and Chorus in Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 in his final program as music director, after five years with ...

Children’s Trust is working to raise awareness about the alarming issue of child abuse and neglect in our region, one pinwheel at a time. Read full article: Children’s Trust plants more than 3,000 ...

Renowned composer and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, head of the Colburn School’s Negaunee Conducting Program and Maestro Ernst H. Katz Chair of Conducting Studies, will conduct the Colburn Orchestra in ...

When Esa-Pekka Salonen announced recently that he would step down as music director of the San Francisco Symphony next year, he did not say it was to spend more time with his family. He told the truth ...

For all the talk of global warming lately, the classical-music scene in this city has been experiencing a very different kind of climate change. Ever since Esa-Pekka Salonen succeeded the ...

Orange County Sheriff's Office cruiser. FILE - Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen arrives at the premiere of "The Soloist" in Los Angeles, on April 20, 2009. Salonen will leave the San Francisco Symphony ...