Earl Killian’s Performance List

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

This is simply an inverse chronologic list of the live performances (ballet, concerts, theater, etc.) I’ve seen since late 2012, when I started keeping track. A partial list of performances I plan to see in the future is Earl Killian’s Performance Plan.

2017

April 2017
- 29th (Saturday) 20:00 San Francisco Ballet Program 8: Cinderella
  - Cinderella
- 8th (Saturday) 20:00 San Francisco Ballet Program 7: Made for SF Ballet
  - Trio
  - Ghost in the Machine (World Premiere)
  - Within the Golden Hour
March 2017
- 18th (Saturday) 20:00 San Francisco Ballet Program 4: Must-see Balanchine
  - Stravinsky Violin Concerto
  - Prodigal Son
  - Diamonds
February 2017
- 18th (Saturday) 20:00 San Francisco Ballet Program 3: Frankenstein
  - Frankenstein
- 4th (Saturday) 20:00 San Francisco Ballet Program 1: The Joy of Dance
  - Haffner Symphony
  - Fragile Vessels
  - In the Countenance of Kings

2016

April 2016
- 16th (Saturday) 20:00 San Francisco Ballet Program 6
  - Prism
  - Seven Sonatas
  - Rush
- 9th (Saturday) 20:00 San Francisco Ballet Program 7
  - Continuum
  - In the Countenance of Kings
  - Theme and Variations
February 2016
- 21st (Sunday) 14:00 San Francisco Ballet Program 3
  - Swan Lake
January 2016
- 27th (Wednesday) 19:30 San Francisco Ballet Program 2
  - Rubies
  - Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes
  - Fearful Symmetries (World Premiere)
- 24th (Sunday) 14:00 San Francisco Ballet Program 1
  - 7 for Eight
  - Magrittomania
  - Pas/Parts 2016

2015

May 2015
- 30th (Saturday) 20:00 Dutoit conducts Pictures at an Exhibition
  - Stravinsky: Jeu de cartes
  - Elgar: Cello Concerto
  - Mussorgsky-Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition
- 16th (Saturday) 20:00 American Maverick: John Cage
  - Cage: The Seasons
  - Cage: Renga
- 2nd (Saturday) 20:00 SF Ballet Romeo & Juliet
April 2015
- 24th (Friday) 20:00 Rachmaninoff’s Second Concerto
  - Barber: Overture to The School for Scandal
  - Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2
  - Shostakovich: Symphony No. 12, The Year 1917
- 18th (Saturday) 20:00 SF Ballet Program 7
  - Caprice
  - The Four Temperaments
  - Swimmer
- 11th (Saturday) 20:00 SF Ballet Program 6 Shostakovich Trilogy
  - Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9
  - Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony
  - Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 1
March 2015
- 26th (Thursday) 13:30 Fingersmith at Oregon Shakespeare Festival Ashland
- 22nd (Sunday) 19:00 Michael Tilson Thomas & the London Symphony Orchestra
  - Britten: Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
  - Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 1
  - Sibelius: Symphony No. 2
- 21st (Saturday) 20:00 SF Ballet Don Quixote
- 16th (Monday) 20:00 Jeremy Denk & the Academy of St Martin in the Fields
  - Stravinsky: Concerto in D major for String Orchestra
  - Bach: Keyboard Concerto No. 1
  - Bach: Keyboard Concerto No. 5
  - Stravinsky: Apollon musagète
- 15th (Sunday) 15:00 Jennifer Koh
  - Bach: Sonata No 2 in A minor BMV 1003
  - Berio: Sequenza for Solo Violin
  - Harbison: For Violin Alone
  - Bach: Sonata No 3 in C major BMV 1005
- 14th (Saturday) 20:00 Joffrey Ballet
  - Incantations
  - Son of Chamber Symphony
  - Episode 31
- 8th (Sunday) 14:00 SF Ballet Program 4
  - Dances at a Gathering
  - Hummingbird
February 2015
- 28th (Saturday) 20:00 MTT & Anne-Sophie Mutter
  - J.L. Adams: The Light That Fills the World
  - Brahms: Violin Concerto
  - Schumann: Symphony No. 1, Spring
- 15th (Sunday) 14:00 András Schiff in Recital
  - Haydn: Piano Sonata No. 60
  - Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 30, Opus 109
  - Mozart: Piano Sonata in C major, K.545
  - Schubert: Piano Sonata in C minor, D. 958
  - Schubert: Hungarian Melody in B minor, D. 817
- 7th (Saturday) 20:00 SF Ballet Program 1
  - Serenade
  - RAkU
  - Lambarena
January 2015
- 31st (Saturday) 20:00 Kodo
- 25th (Sunday) 19:00 All Brahms with Iván Fischer & the Budapest Festival Orchestra
  - Brahms Symphony No. 1
  - Brahms Symphony No. 3
- 11th (Sunday) 19:00 Emanuel Ax in Recital
  - Debussy Estampes
  - Rameau Pièces de clavecin
  - Debussy Images, Series 1
  - Chopin Four Scherzi

2014

November 2014
- 8th (Saturday) 20:00 MTT & Gil Shaham
  - Samuel Carl Adams Drift and Providence
  - Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 2
  - Ravel Daphnis et Chloé
October 2014
- 31st (Friday) 20:00 Mahler's Symphony No. 2 by The Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall
- 28th (Tuesday) 19:30 Carmen at the Met
- 26th (Sunday) 15:00 Richard Goode
- 25th (Saturday) 20:00 Sasha Waltz
- 18th (Saturday) 19:30 Michael Clark Company at Newmark Theater, Portland
- 13th (Monday) 20:00 Jurowski & the London Philharmonic Orchestra
  - Magnus Lindberg Chorale
  - Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
  - Shostakovich Symphony No. 8
September 2014
- 27th (Saturday) 20:00 Mark Morris Dance Group
- 20th (Saturday) 20:00 Persians by Aeschylus at Getty Villa
- 6th (Saturday) 20:00 MTT conducts Ravel & Stravinsky
  - Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet Fantasy-Overture
  - Ravel Piano Concerto in G major
  - Stravinsky Scherzo à la russe
  - Prokofiev Excerpts from Romeo and Juliet
August 2014
- 12th (Tuesday) 20:00 Yo-Yo Ma at the Greek — Bach Cello Suites
July 2014
- 19th (Saturday) 20:30 Dan Hoyle: Each and Every Thing at The Marsh
June 2014
- 28th (Saturday) 20:00 The Orphan of Zhao at A.C.T
- 22nd (Sunday) 14:00 Ballet Preljocaj at the Dorothy Chandler Music Center
  - Les Nuits
- 8th (Sunday) 14:00 Chamber Music with members of SF Symphony
  - Bax String Quartet in G major
  - Dvořák Piano Trio No. 4 in E minor, Opus 90, Dumky
  - Shostakovich Piano Quintet in G minor, Opus 57
May 2014
- 25th (Sunday) 14:00 MTT and Yuja Wang
  - Tchaikovsky The Tempest
  - Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 1
  - Litolff Scherzo from Concerto symphonique No. 4
  - Debussy Images
- 3rd (Saturday) 20:00 San Francisco Ballet Program 8
  - Agon
  - Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet
  - Robbins' Glass Pieces
April 2014
- 13th (Sunday) 14:00 Chamber Music with members of SF Symphony
  - Mozart Quintet in E-flat major for Piano and Winds, K.452
  - Janáček String Quartet No. 1, Kreutzer Sonata
  - Shostakovich Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Opus 67
  - Brahms String Quintet in G major, Opus 111
- 11th (Friday) 20:00 Venus in Fur at ACT
March 2014
- 15th (Saturday) 20:00 San Francisco Ballet Cinderella
  - Cinderella
- 8th (Saturday) 20:00 MTT and Julia Fischer
  - Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 1
  - Berlioz Symphonie fantastique
February 2014
- 22nd (Saturday) 20:00 San Francisco Ballet Program 3
  - Firebird
  - Ghosts
  - The Kingdom of the Shades
- 13th (Thursday) 20:00 Hamburg Ballet
  - A Midsummer Night's Dream
January 2014
- 26th (Sunday) 19:00 Pinchas Zukerman and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
  - Beethoven Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus
  - Beethoven Violin Concerto
  - Beethoven Symphony No. 5
- 25th (Saturday) 20:00 San Francisco Ballet Giselle
  - Giselle
- 12th (Sunday) 14:00 Berkeley Rep: Tristan & Yseult

2013

October 2013
- 25th (Friday) 18:30 Outwater Conducts Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3
  - Ligeti Concert Românesc
  - Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3
  - Dvořák Legends for Orchestra, Nos. 2, 6, and 10
  - Lutosławski Concerto for Orchestra
- 15th (Tuesday) 20:00 Yuja Wang in Concert
  - Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 3
  - Chopin Sonata No. 2
  - Chopin Nocturne in C-sharp minor
  - Chopin Fantasy in F minor
  - Stravinsky Three Movements from Petrushka
September 2013
- 28th (Saturday) 20:00 Prometheus Bound, Getty Villa Outdoor Theater
July 2013
- 4th of July at Shoreline
June 2013
- 9th (Sunday) 14:00 Arcadia at A.C.T.
- 8th (Saturday) 20:00 SF Symphony Britten’s Double Concerto
- 1st (Saturday) 20:00 SF Symphony Dvořák’s New World Symphony
  - Dvořák’s Cello Concerto with Gautier Capuçon
  - Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9
May 2013
- 31st (Friday) 19:30 War Horse, New London Theatre
- 25th (Saturday) 20:30 Le Sacre du Printemps, Ballet Preljocaj, Grand Theatre de Provence
  - Royaume Uni
  - Le Sacre du Printemps
- 24th (Friday) 20:00 Russian National Orchestra - Mikhail Pletnev - Vadim Repin, Salle Pleyel
  - Jean Sibelius Concerto pour violon
  - Alexandre Glazounov Les Saisons
- 23rd (Thursday) 20:00 Renaud Capuçon violon, Kathia Buniatishvili piano, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées
  - Bartók Sonate no 2 pour violon et piano
  - Enesco Sonate no 3 pour violon et piano
  - Franck Sonate pour violon et piano
- 11th (Saturday) 20:00 Eifman Ballet at Zellerbach
  - Rodin
April 2013
- 20th (Saturday) 20:00 SF Symphony Beethoven Violin Concerto
- 13th (Saturday) 20:00 SF Ballet Program 7
  - Criss-Cross
  - Francesca da Rimini
  - Symphony in Three Movements
March 2013
- 15th (Friday) 20:00 Cal Performances Trisha Brown Dance Company
  - Les Yeux et l’áme
  - Newark
  - I’m going to toss my arms—if you catch them they’re yours
- 9th (Saturday) 20:00 Sarah Chang at Chamber Music San Francisco
- 3rd (Sunday) 14:00 SF Ballet Program 4
  - Scotch Symphony
  - Within the Golden Hour
  - From Foreign Lands
- 2nd (Saturday) 20:00 SF Ballet Program 3
  - Guide to Strange Places
  - Beaux
  - Possokhov’s The Rite of Spring
February 2013
- 10th (Sunday) 20:00 4000 Miles at A.C.T.
- 8th (Friday) 20:00 SF Symphony Gil Shaham Recital
- 3rd (Sunday) 14:00 Chamber Music with Members of the San Francisco Symphony
  - Bruce Broughton Hornworks
  - Ravel String Quartet in F major
  - Brahms Piano Quartet in C minor, Op. 60
- The Joffrey Ballet at The Music Center
  - In the Night
  - In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated
  - The Rite of Spring
January 2013
- 30th (Wednesday) 19:30 San Francisco Ballet program 1
  - Suite en Blanc
  - In the Night
  - Borderlands
- Joffrey Ballet at Cal Performances
  - Age of Innocence
  - After the Rain
  - The Green Table
- 19th (Saturday) 20:00 Peer Gynt at San Francisco Symphony
- Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty’s Theatre, London
- Ballet Preljocaj at Palais Garnier
  - Helikopter
  - ElDorado
- Sara Baras Ballet Flamenco

2012 [partial]

December
- William Forsythe / Trisha Brown at Palais Garnier
- White Snake at Berkeley Rep
- Angles of Enchantment at ODC Dance
November
- Emanuel Ax at Cal Performances
- Elektra at A.C.T.
- An Iliad at Berkeley Rep
- Philharmonia Baroque and Emanuel Ax in Menlo Park
- Sony Holland Quintet at Yoshi’s San Francisco
- Goapele at Yoshi’s Oakland
October
- San Francisco Symphony
  - Harrison The Family of the Court from Pacifika Rondo
  - Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 2 with Yuja Wang
  - Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2
- San Francisco Symphony
  - Wagner Prelude to Act I of Lohengrin
  - Mozart Piano Concerto No. 22
  - Brahms Symphony No. 4
- The Other Place at The Magic Theatre
September
- The Death of the Novel at San Jose Rep
August
- One Man, Two Guvnors at Music Box Theatre
- Beethoven’s 5th Piano Concerto at Avery Fisher Hall
- pilobolus dance theater at the Joyce
- Tribes at the Barrow St theater
June
- Bruja at The Magic Theatre
March
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra at Cal Performances
- Takacs Quartet at Cal Performances
- Alvin Ailey at Cal Performances
February
- Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance at Cal Performances
January
- Les Miserables at The Queens Theatre

2011 [partial]

December
- Merce Cunningham Dance Company at Theatre de la Ville
  - Rainforest
  - Duets
  - Biped
- Ballet Preljocaj Blanche Neige at Versailles Royal Opera
- Cendrillon at Opéra Bastille
- Onéguine at Palais Garnier
- Yuja Wang at Salle Pleyel
November
- Olivier Franc Quintet at Le Petit Journal
- Ravel/Copland at Théâtre des Champs Élysées
- Quatuor Ludwig at Cité de la musique
- Wicked at Apollo Victoria Theatre

2010 [partial]

March
- Oedipus El Rey at the Magic Theatre

Earl Killian’s Performance List

Contents

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012 [partial]

2011 [partial]

2010 [partial]