Flower Piano Lounge: San Francisco Ballet Orchestra

Date: Friday, September 13

Time:

Lounge Session: 4pm – 7pm

Concert Performance: 5pm – 6:30pm

Location: Celebration Garden

San Francisco Ballet Orchestra

Join us in the Celebration Garden for a piano quintet event featuring San Francisco Ballet company pianist Britton Day and members of the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra. We are pleased to announce that San Francisco Ballet Orchestra’s Concertmaster Cordula Merks and Principal Cellist Eric Sung will be taking part in this performance.

During intermission, you are invited to experience chair dancing led by SF Ballet School faculty member Cecelia Beam, SF Ballet School pianist Billy Wolfe, and dancers from SF Ballet School’s Dance Class for People with Parkinson’s.

ABOUT SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ORCHESTRA

Martin West, Music Director & Principal Conductor
San Francisco Ballet Orchestra is recognized as one of the foremost ballet orchestras in the world, founded in 1975 as Performing Arts Orchestra under Music Director Denis de Coteau and under the direction of Martin West since 2005. The Orchestra performs all of San Francisco Ballet’s repertory programs at the War Memorial Opera House and has accompanied other companies including Hamburg Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, American Ballet Theater, Bolshoi Ballet, and The Royal Ballet. The Orchestra has established a critically acclaimed discography of recordings, beginning with Paul Chihara’s The Tempest in 1982. In 2015, the Orchestra won two Grammy awards in the classical music category for Ask Your Mama, composer Laura Karpman’s setting of Langston Hughes’ poem “Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz.” The Orchestra has appeared in televised recordings such as the inaugural Lincoln Center at the Movies: Great American Dance broadcast of Helgi Tomasson’s Romeo & Juliet, and PBS’s Great Performances: Dance in America broadcasts of John Neumeier’s The Little Mermaid, Lar Lubovitch’s Othello, and Helgi Tomasson’s Nutcracker.

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Attendees will have access to craft cocktails, local food makers, and enjoy a private concert series in our all-ages Celebration Garden event! Includes general admission for Flower Piano.