SummerFest
SummerFest 2025
July 25—August 23
Inon Barnatan, Music Director
4 Eventful Weeks.
20 Dynamic Performances.
Dozens of International Musicians.
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SUMMERFEST
Explore This Year’s Festival
Journey through “Milestones” this summer! Each concert highlights a key turning point or life stage, illuminating the spark of youthful experimentation, the mid-career breakthroughs that redefined boundaries, and the poignant final reflections that cemented legendary legacies.
Explore FREE Learning & Engagement Events
Read the Article in SD Union-Tribune
SYNERGY INITIATIVE
The Synergy Initiative is a series co-produced by Inon Barnatan and Clara Wu Tsai which invites top creators of music, dance, spoken word, and visual arts to collaborate across their different art forms to produce performances that inspire audiences in unexpected and powerful ways.
MIDWEEK MASTERWORKS CHEERS!
Every Wednesday
Enjoy a complimentary glass of sparkling wine at these mid-week concerts! Join your fellow concertgoers for a celebratory toast in the Wu Tsai QRT.yrd.
“SummerFest is ‘a gem of a chamber-music festival’”
— Wall Street Journal
“An upscale Coachella for classical lovers”
— San Diego Magazine
“San Diego sports the lushest summer festival of them all. Music Director Inon Barnatan has put together four weeks of programming where every concert is an event, and the performers are all top-notch.”
— San Francisco Classical Voice
