FACT SHEET
Date of First Performance: December 6, 1910
Current Operating Budget: $26 million
Musicians: 82 full-time
Number of People Attending All Paid Concerts Last Season: 183,409
Learning and Engagement Programming Reach: 60,000 students and adults
Music Directors: Rafael Payare (Beginning 2020), Conductor Laureate Jahja Ling (2004–2017), Jung Ho Pak (1998-2002), Yoav Talmi (1989-1996), David Atherton (1980-1987), Peter Eros (1972-1979), Zoltan Rozsnyai (1967-1971), Earl Bernard Murray (1959-1966), Robert Shaw (1955-1958), Fabien Sevitzky (1949- 1952), Nikolai Sokoloff (1938-1941), Nino Marcelli (1936-1937), B. Roscoe Schryock (1912-1920).
Principal Home Venues: Copley Symphony Hall at the Jacobs Music Center, from 1985 to present. The Embarcadero Marina Park South for the Bayside Summer Nights series.
Number of Performances: More than 100 performances per year including Jacobs Masterworks, City Lights, Chamber Music Series, Family, Film and Bayside Summer Nights.
Other concerts and programs: 166 Outreach performances including Linda and Shearn Platt Kinder Koncerts, open rehearsals, outreach, coaching, masterclasses and Berton Family Young People’s Concerts.
Free Concerts: Bayside Summer Nights Community Day, The Annual Donor Concert, Linda and Shearn Platt Kinder Koncerts, Star Spangled Pops Salute to the Military and Home for the Holidays.
Opera: The Symphony performs during the San Diego Opera’s International Opera season at the Civic Theater.
Other Organizations by San Diego Symphony Musicians: Art of Élan, Camera Lucida, Myriad Trio, Westwind Brass, Luscious Noise, San Diego Symphony String Quartet, Mainly Mozart, Hornswaggle, La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest.
Most Recent Tour: 2013 Friendship Tour to Carnegie Hall and China.
Radio Broadcasts: KPBS airs all Jacobs Masterworks programs from the preceding season every Sunday evening on KPBS 89.5 FM.
Recordings: 10 within the last six years on the Naxos, Pro Arte and Telarc labels.
Updated April 2018