★ Our picks
A few concerts we’d go to this week, and why.
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Thu 5:30 PM
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Choral Evensong
Concert hall
Free
Grace Cathedral, Nob Hill, San Francisco
The Grace Cathedral Choir of Men and Boys sings Choral Evensong, a free 45-minute sung service,
also livestreamed.
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Sun 2:30 PM
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Kronos Quartet with Mahsa and Marjan Vahdat: Placeless
Concert hall
Adventurous
Bing Concert Hall, Stanford
Kronos Quartet reunites with Iranian singers Mahsa and Marjan Vahdat for Placeless, after a
first half including Glass's Mishima quartet.
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Free and casual
Free concerts, student recitals, open rehearsals and sing-alongs.
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Thu 5:30 PM
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Choral Evensong
Concert hall
Free
Grace Cathedral, Nob Hill, San Francisco
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Sun 2:00 PM
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SFCM Baroque Ensemble
Up close
Some of each
Free
Caroline H. Hume Concert Hall, SF Conservatory of Music, Civic Center, San Francisco
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Sun 4:00 PM
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Choral Evensong
Concert hall
Free
Grace Cathedral, Nob Hill, San Francisco
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Day by day
Thursday, October 8
Friday, October 9
Saturday, October 10
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7:00 PM
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Italian Panache
Some of each
Cheap seats
St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Berkeley, Southside, Berkeley
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7:30 PM
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Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances
Concert hall
Some of each
Deals for students
Davies Symphony Hall, Civic Center, San Francisco
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Sunday, October 11
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2:00 PM
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SFCM Baroque Ensemble
Up close
Some of each
Free
Caroline H. Hume Concert Hall, SF Conservatory of Music, Civic Center, San Francisco
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2:00 PM
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Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances
Concert hall
Some of each
Deals for students
Davies Symphony Hall, Civic Center, San Francisco
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2:30 PM
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Kronos Quartet with Mahsa and Marjan Vahdat: Placeless
Concert hall
Adventurous
Bing Concert Hall, Stanford
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3:00 PM
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Takács Quartet with Jeremy Denk, piano
Concert hall
Some of each
Cheap seats
Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley, UC Berkeley campus, Berkeley
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4:00 PM
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Italian Panache
Concert hall
Some of each
Cheap seats
St. Mark's Lutheran Church, Cathedral Hill, San Francisco
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4:00 PM
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Choral Evensong
Concert hall
Free
Grace Cathedral, Nob Hill, San Francisco
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Tuesday, October 13
Watch and listen from anywhere
Livestreams, radio broadcasts, competitions and opera in cinemas. Times are Pacific. Links go to the
official pages.
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Oct 9 – 21
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Wieniawski Violin Competition: Stages 1-4 and semi-final
Competition
Free
Free live stream on the Wieniawski Society YouTube channel (youtube.com/@WieniawskiSociety);
also on The Violin Channel, medici.tv and Amadeus.tv
One of the oldest violin competitions (first held in 1935), held every five years; every round
streams, and the final is on Oct 22.
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Thu 8:00 PM PT
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NY Phil This Week: Dudamel conducts Beethoven 5 and Corigliano's Symphony No. 1
Radio
Recorded
Free
WFMT 98.7 FM Chicago and the live stream at wfmt.com
Dudamel in his first season as the New York Philharmonic's music director; Corigliano's First
Symphony is his memorial to friends lost to AIDS.
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Fri 10:00 AM PT
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Neue Stimmen singing competition: final
Competition
Free
Livestream on OperaVision (operavision.eu)
One of the main international competitions for young opera singers; its finalists regularly go
on to major opera houses.
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Fri 5:00 PM PT
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Berlin Phil, Kirill Petrenko and Víkingur Ólafsson live from Carnegie Hall
Radio
Free
WQXR 105.9 FM and wqxr.org (Carnegie Hall Live, also carried by NPR stations)
The Berlin Philharmonic's Carnegie Hall concert on its US tour, broadcast live, with Víkingur
Ólafsson in Brahms's First Piano Concerto.
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Sat 10:00 AM PT
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Zemlinsky's A Florentine Tragedy and Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle from the Vienna State Opera
Livestream
Free, sign-up
State Opera Play (play.wiener-staatsoper.at), in a browser or on the iOS/Apple TV and Fire TV
apps, with English subtitles. Available for up to 72 hours after the performance ends
A double bill of two short, intense one-act operas, with Asmik Grigorian, one of today's
leading opera singers.
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Sat 5:00 PM PT
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Nelsons and Gerstein: Francisco Coll's new Piano Concerto plus Beethoven 7
Radio
Free
CRB Classical 99.5 FM Boston and classicalwcrb.org. Encore broadcast Monday at 8 PM; the page
says episodes are available on demand
It is the U.S. premiere of a new piano concerto by Spanish composer Francisco Coll, paired with
Beethoven's Seventh.
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Sun 1:00 PM PT
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Garrick Ohlsson plays Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23 with the Cleveland Orchestra
Radio
Recorded
Free
WCLV 90.3 FM Cleveland and ideastream.org/wclv (recorded Nov 1, 2025). Sunday broadcasts are
generally available on demand for two weeks after they air
It is a full concert by the Cleveland Orchestra under its longtime music director, with a
Mozart concerto and Schumann's 'Rhenish' Symphony.
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