{"id":472125,"date":"2026-09-22T17:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T17:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/472125\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T17:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T17:54:12","slug":"elim-chan-has-been-added-to-two-more-programs-at-sf-symphony-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/472125\/","title":{"rendered":"Elim Chan Has Been Added to Two More Programs at SF Symphony This Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The orchestra&#8217;s first-ever female music director has already amassed a fan club.<\/p>\n<p>Sep 22, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Updated 10:19 am PT<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2526concerts_060526_elimchanstefancohen_027.jpg\"   width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Elim Chan conducts at Davies Symphony Hall on June 5, 2026.\u00a0(Stefan Cohen)<\/p>\n<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\">Fans of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/arts\/tag\/elim-chan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elim Chan<\/a> will have two more chances to see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/arts\/tag\/san-francisco-symphony\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Symphony<\/a>\u2018s incoming music director conduct the orchestra this season. In addition to her scheduled October concerts, Chan will now conduct additional programs in January and June 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\">\u201cIt is really important to me to be in San Francisco for a few additional weeks this season because we\u2019re embarking on a very important new chapter together,\u201d said Chan in a statement. \u201cThere is so much to do, and I cannot wait to get started.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\">In the Bay Area, Chan has already amassed a fan club. This past June, shortly after being appointed as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/arts\/13990101\/san-francisco-symphony-new-music-director-elim-chan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Symphony\u2019s first-ever female music director<\/a>, Chan conducted a program of Wagner, Berlioz and Debussy that resulted in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/arts\/13990508\/elim-chan-review-davies-wagner-berlioz-debussy-san-francisco-symphony\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">standing ovations and a circle of selfie-seeking patrons of all ages<\/a> who gathered afterwards outside of Davies Symphony Hall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The orchestra&#8217;s first-ever female music director has already amassed a fan club. Sep 22, 2026 Updated 10:19 am&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-472125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}