Press Releases

Critics, writers, editors, reporters and news directors will find this section useful for research and assignment scheduling. The 2007/08 Season Announcement contains an overview of upcoming events, the 2007/08 Season Calendar provides a chronological listing of events, and the individual press releases include information about specific programming and details of interest. 2007/08 Season Images are available for downloading. Archived Press Releases from our previous seasons are also available.

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• Cal Performances 2008/09 Season Calendar
• Cal performances Announces 2008/09 Season
• Nuccia Focile Returns to Cal Performances May 31, 2008
• Cal Performances Presents Robert Lepage's The Anderson Project May 28-June 1, 2008
• Audra McDonald Returns to Cal Performances June 1, 2008
• Paul Lewis Debuts at Cal Performances May 3, 2008
• Cal Performances and San Francisco Opera Present The Little Prince
• Cal Performances Receives $800,000 Kresge Foundation Grant [HTML]
• Bryn Terfel Returns to Cal Performances April 17, 2008
• Kate Royal Comes to Cal Performances April 13, 2008
• Sweet Honey in the Rock Returns to Cal Performances April 5, 2008
• Akademie Fur Alte Musik Berlin Returns to Cal Performances April 12, 2008
• Arlo Guthrie Returns to Cal Performances April 10, 2008
• Swedish Chamber Orchestra at Cal Performances April 6, 2008
• Cal Performances Presents Sonny Rollins April 3, 2008
• Europa Galante at Cal Performances April 4, 2008
• Tchaikovsky Perm Ballet & Orchestra at Cal Performances March 28-30, 2008
• 2008 Berkeley Festival & Exhibition Calendar of Events
• Cal Performances Presents the 2008 Berkeley Festival & Exhibition of Early Music June 3-8, 2008
• Cal Performances Presents Rudolf Buchbinder March 22 and 23, 2008
• The Wonderous Feats of the Peking Acrobats Return to Cal Performances March 21-23, 2008
• Peru Negro Returns to Cal Performances March 20, 2008
• Cal Performances Presents the Return of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater March 5-9, 2008
• Boundary-Breaking Soprano Dawn Upshaw Returns to Cal Performances March 1, 2008
• Award-Winning Saxophonist Joshua Redman Returns to Cal Performances February 28, 2008
• Avery Fisher Prize Winner Volinist Joshua Bell Performs at Cal Performances February 24, 2008
• The American Life Host Ira Glass and Contributor David Rakoff Come to Cal Performances February 23, 2008
• Jordi Savall Returns to Cal Performances with Hesperion XXI and La Capella Reial de Catalunya February 16, 2008
• Tokyo String Quartet Returns to Cal Performances February 17, 2008
• Cal Performances Presents the West Coast Debut of The State Ballet of Georgia February 14-17, 2008
• Garrison Keillor Brings His Keen Observations on Life to Zellerbach Hall February 12, 2008
• Moiseyev Dance Company Returns to Cal Performances February 8-10, 2008
• Cal Performances March - June Calendar of Events
• Guitar Virtuosos Sergio and Odair Assad Come to Cal Performances February 7, 2008
• Trumpeter Hugh Masekela Brings His Chissa All-Stars to Zellerbach Hall February 6, 2008
• The Incomparable Richard Goode Performs Sunday, February 3 at Cal Performances
• Pianist Christopher Taylor Performs at Cal Performances January 27, 2008
• Cal Performances Presents Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis January 26, 2008
• Israeli-American Violinist Gil Shaham Returns Sunday, January 20, 2008
• Countertenor David Daniels Makes His Recital Debut at Cal Performances January 13, 2008
• The Monterey Jazz Festival at Cal Performances January 12, 2008
• Polish Baritone Mariusz Kwiecien Comes to Cal Performances December 9, 2007
• The Consummate Artistry of the Takacs Quartet Returns December 2, 2007 & March 16, 2008
• The Tallis Scholars, England's Masters of Renaissance Polyphony, Return to Cal Performances November 30 & December 1, 2007
• Celebrated Author Azar Nafisi Speaks at Zellerbach Hall December 5, 2007
• The Brilliant and Zany Circus Oz Leaps into Zellerbach Hall November 29 - December 2, 2007
• Cal Performances Added Event: Radio Favorite From The Top Comes to Zellerbach Hall May 29, 2008
• Grammy Award-Winner Dan Zanes Returns to Cal Performances With His Friends November 24 & 25, 2007
• Composer Jorge Liderman Celebrates His 50th Birthday at Cal Performances November 18, 2007
• Pina Bausch Tanztheater Wuppertal Returns to Cal Performances November 16-18, 2007
• New Yorker Music Critic and Author Alex Ross Comes to Cal Performances October 18, 2007
• Cal Performances January & February 2008 Calendar of Events
• The Zehetmair Quartet Comes to Cal Performances November 11, 2007
• Cal Performances Presents American Ballet Theatre in Works by Twyla Tharp, Jerome Robbins, Stanton Welch and George Balanchine November 7-11, 2007
• Baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky Makes His Cal Performances Debut November 4, 2007
• Trumpeter Irvin Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra come to Cal Performances November 3, 2007
• Cal Performances Presents Miami City Ballet Friday-Sunday, October 26-28, 2007
• The Russian Patriarchate Choir Comes to Cal Performances October 26, 2007
• Cal Performances Presents the American Premiere of Guangzhou Ballet's Mei Lanfang October 19 - 21, 2007
• The Joffrey Ballet Kicks Off Cal Performances' Monthlong Tribute to Twyla Tharp, October 4-6, 2007
• Cal Performances Presents a Monthlong Tribute to the Genius of Twyla Tharp, October 4 - November 11, 2007
• Russian Mezzo-Soprano Olga Borodina Makes Her Cal Performances Debut September 20, 2007
• Jazz Pianist, Vocalist and Songwriter Patricia Barber Comes to Cal Performances September 29, 2007
• Global Drum Project Comes to Cal Performances September 28, 2007
• Cal Performances Presents the West Coast Premiere of Mark Morris's Mozart Dances September 20 - 23, 2007
• Cal Performances November & December 2007 Calendar of Events
• Cal Performances September & October 2007 Calendar of Events
• Cal Performances Announces the Cancellation of Tenor Rolando Villazon's Performance on Thursday, September 27, 2007
• Robert Cole, Director of Cal Performances, to Step Down at the Close of the 2008-09 Season
• Cal Performances 2007/08 Season Calendar
• Cal Performances Announces the 2007/08 Season