Music Director @SanDiegoSymph · Music Director @OSMconcerts · Conductor Laureate @UlsterOrchestra · Hon. Conductor @SinfoCracovia · PC @CastletonFest · 🇻🇪
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I am thrilled to share that my tenure as Music & Artistic Director of @SanDiegoSymph extends through the 28/29 season. Our journey continues this weekend with our Tales of Enchantment program featuring Augustin Hadelich in Sibelius's Violin Concerto (11/14-15).
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Montréal meets San Diego 🇨🇦🎶
On Oct. 29, @rafaelpayare brings @OSMconcerts to JMC with vivid orchestral color, Romantic virtuosity and Stravinsky’s magical The Firebird. 🐦🔥
🎻Plus, violinist Leonidas Kavakos takes on Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto
🎟️ sdsymph.org/osm-jmc
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@SanDiegoSymph soared at its Sunday concert, led by @rafaelpayare. Noted pianist @YefimBronfman was the featured soloist. Here's my review. What's yours? sandiegouniontribune.com/202…
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🌎 “Music is so beautiful because it can connect beyond words.”
@rafaelpayare & Laura Reynolds joined @fox5sandiego to discuss our new #BeyondBorders initiative, connecting Mexico, the U.S. & Canada through music, learning and cultural exchange. 🎶
▶️youtu.be/Pw_PzkqXSYs
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📰 IN THE NEWS: @sdut takes a closer look at our new Beyond Borders initiative, connecting communities across Mexico, the U.S. & Canada through music. 🌎🎶
“The beautiful thing is music has no borders.” — @rafaelpayare
Read more: sandiegouniontribune.com/202…
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's The Song of Hiawatha made its Festival debut last night, brought vividly to life by Orchestre symphonique de Montréal & @rafaelpayare
📸 © André Luis Melo Godinho
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Some things can’t be streamed. They have to be experienced. 🎶
Single tickets to all 2026–27 Masterworks concerts at Jacobs Music Center are ON SALE NOW—including our returning Friday 11 AM Coffee Concerts! ☕️☀️
🎟️ Explore the season: sdsymph.org/JMC
#ExperienceJMC
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The @SanDiegoSymph will do its first-ever tour of Europe next spring with concerts in Germany, France, Ireland and Spain. "I could not be prouder," @rafaelpayare, the orchestra's music and artistic director, tells us. Here's the scoop... sandiegouniontribune.com/202…
Mi amada Venezuela, no hay palabras. Mi corazón contigo siempre 💔 💔 🖤 🖤 🖤 🖤
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My beloved Venezuela, there are no words. My heart is always with you.
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Mon cher Venezuela, les mots me manquent . Mon cœur est toujours avec toi.
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Announcing our new recording—Shostakovich Symphony No. 7!
@rafaelpayare and the San Diego Symphony’s first release from Jacobs Music Center.
Exclusively on Apple Music Classical June 26. Available worldwide August 28.
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Be the first to hear @SanDiegoSymph and @rafaelpayare perform Shostakovich's monumental Seventh Symphony, exclusively on Apple Music Classical: apple.co/Shostakovich7
Shostakovich’s Seventh doesn't just test an orchestra’s stamina—it tests its soul. Recorded live last May at the Jacobs Music Center, my phenomenal @SanDiegoSymph captures the nuance and tension that make this masterpiece still feel painfully current.
Listen to the worldwide digital release of our premiere recording with @DelosMusic/@Outheremusic on August 28th and stream the album exclusively on @appleclassical starting tomorrow, June 26th.
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Two voices. Seven locked doors. 🔑
Karen Cargill and Mark Stone star in Bartók’s haunting Bluebeard’s Castle alongside Strauss’s monumental Also sprach Zarathustra — the San Diego Symphony’s season finale with @rafaelpayare
📅 May 22 & 24
📍 Jacobs Music Center
#StayClassical
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“It speaks to universal messages about bringing us together as human beings… it’s a wonderful work of art.” — @AWeilerstein on @GOrtizcomposer's GRAMMY-winning cello concerto "Dzonot."
Hear it May 9 & 10 at Jacobs Music Center with @rafaelpayare!
🔗 timesofsandiego.com/arts/202…
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We’re headed back to Tijuana, Mexico!🎶 Led by @rafaelpayare, the SDSO will perform a FREE community concert at Centro Cultural Tijuana on May 12! This performance continues our role as a cultural connector across the Cali-Baja region.
More info: cecut.gob.mx/teatro.php
Magnifiques représentations Les Noces de Figaro de Mozart la semaine dernière avec mon @osmconcerts. Merci à tous !
📸 Gabriel Fournier
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Magnificent performances of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro last week with my OSM. Thank you all!
Je suis ravi de faire mes débuts avec le @ConcertgbOrkest du 18 au 20 février ! Au programme : « Fairy Tale Poem » de Gubaidulina, le Concerto pour violon de Frank Martin avec le soliste Frank Peter Zimmermann et la Symphonie n° 10 de Chostakovitch .
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I am excited to make my debut with the @ConcertgbOrkest February 18-20! On the program: Gubaidulina's "Fairy Tale Poem," Frank Martin's Violin Concerto with soloist Frank Peter Zimmermann and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10.
Thrilled to return to @philorch this week to lead a program that includes Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with David Kim, Falla’s El amor brujo with Marina Heredia, and the first Philadelphia Orchestra performance of Ballard's Devil’s Promenade.
