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 ...

Esa-Pekka Salonen, the acclaimed Finnish conductor and composer who in 2020 succeeded Michael Tilson Thomas as music director of the San Francisco Symphony, will end his tenure with the orchestra when ...

It happened hours after Salonen revealed his plans to leave his position at the end of the 2024-25 season — and immediately after he and the musicians served up a reminder of the remarkable ...

Salonen, 65, has not provided any detailed explanation for his decision, saying only, “I do not share the same goals for the ...

The search to replace Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen, who departs the orchestra in June, has only recently gotten underway, and proposed budget cuts within the organization have begun to impact ...

If you’re San Francisco Symphony Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen, just add electronics, maracas and hand drums. On Friday-Sunday, Oct. 18-20, Salonen, an acclaimed composer as well as conductor ...

Salonen, a wife and mother of five, works as a freelance writer and speaker in Fargo. Email her at [email protected], and find more of her work at Peace Garden Passage, roxanesalonen.com ...

Sioux Falls East’s Trey Salonen stopped all 33 Yankton shots to lift the Flyers to a 2-0 victory over the Bucks in the opening round of the South ...

Fellow Finn and Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen was on the podium. Composed in three movements, the last two played without pause, Rautavaara’s concerto is packed with abundant invention ...