Performance: Celebrate Make Music Day with Members of the SF Symphony

Saturday, 6/21/2025
3:00 - 4:00
Atrium
Main Library

100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
United States

415-557-4400

In celebration of Make Music Day, the San Francisco Symphony will present a chamber concert featuring members of the Orchestra performing classical pieces from a range of composers and sharing their experiences as professional musicians. This event is free and open to all library patrons and is brought to you by the San Francisco Symphony’s Community Chamber Concert program.

Featured musicians are Amos Yang, Assistant Principal Cello (Urbanek Chair)  and Charles Chandler, bass.

Amos Yang, cello

Amos Yang joined the San Francisco Symphony in 2007 as Assistant Principal Cello and was previously a member of the Seattle Symphony and a member of the Maia String Quartet. Born and raised in San Francisco, he was a member of the SF Symphony Youth Orchestra and San Francisco Boys Choir, and earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Juilliard School. He now serves on the faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the San Francisco Academy Orchestra.

Charles Chandler, bass

Charles Chandler is the first member of the SFS Youth Orchestra to have become a member of the San Francisco Symphony. He studied with Shinji Eshima of the San Francisco Opera Orchestra and with David Walter at Juilliard. Prior to joining the SFS in 1992, he performed at the Schleswig-Holstein Festival and served as associate principal bass of the Phoenix Symphony.

Make Music Day is a free celebration of music around the world on June 21st. Launched in 1982 in France as the Fête de la Musique, it is now held on the same day in more than 1,000 cities in 120 countries.

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