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Real events sourced from Bay Area orchestras & presenters across Northern California · May 16 – June 14, 2026

MAY 17
String Quartet Violin

Chamber Music SF — Escher String Quartet with Brandon Patrick George

with Brandon Patrick George, flute · Presidio Theatre

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MAY 30
Chamber Violin Free

SF Symphony — Community Chamber Concert

Jeein Kim, violin · Davis You, cello · SF Public Library

  • 🕘 Saturday, May 30, 2026 · 2:30 PM
  • 📍 Anza Branch Library, San Francisco
  • 🎶
    Free community chamber set with Q&A; program details have not yet been published in the official May materials.
  • 🎫 Free · community event · sfsymphony.org
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JUN 3
Recital Violin

SF Symphony — Njioma Grevious, Violin

Shenson Spotlight Series · with Andrew Goodridge, piano

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JUN 6
Competition Strings

Klein Competition — Semi Finals

International string competition · violinists among the semifinalists

  • 🕘 Saturday, June 6, 2026 · 10:00 AM–4:00 PM
  • 📍 San Francisco Conservatory of Music
    San Francisco, CA
  • 🎶
    Eight young string players compete across the day; official semifinalist materials confirm multiple violinists in the field.
  • 🎫 Pay-as-you-wish · official details via California Music Center
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JUN 12
Orchestra Violin

SF Symphony — Scheherazade with María Dueñas

Tianyi Lu conducts · Korngold concerto at Davies Symphony Hall

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JUN 13
Chamber Violin Free

SF Symphony — Community Chamber Concert

Kingston Ho, violin · Katarzyna Bryla, viola · Chinatown Branch Library

  • 🕘 Saturday, June 13, 2026 · 4:00 PM
  • 📍 Chinatown Branch Library
    1135 Powell Street, San Francisco, CA 94108
  • 🎶
    Free community chamber set as part of the library's 105th-anniversary open house; official materials confirm the SF Symphony appearance, but published repertoire has not yet been posted.
  • 🎫 Free · drop-in library event
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Data note: Events cover the active 30-day window of May 16 – June 14, 2026 (inclusive). Core sources refreshed for this pass include direct SFCM calendar/site checks, Chamber Music San Francisco season-page checks, existing official California Music Center event materials for the June 6 Klein Competition item, plus focused boundary checks across official SF Symphony materials and nearby Stanford event listings. Program details marked TBA reflect information not yet published at time of update. Verify directly with venues before attending.

Window note: This refresh rolled the visible date-range metadata forward to May 16 – June 14, 2026 and kept the current in-window set intact aside from extending the already-listed Scheherazade run to include the newly in-scope Sunday matinee on June 14.

SFCM note: Direct May 16 checks against the live SFCM performance calendar plus targeted site search surfaced no new official June 14 violin recital or masterclass page worth adding in this scoped pass.

Chamber Music SF note: Direct May 16 season-page rechecks still support Escher String Quartet with Brandon Patrick George on May 17, and the current 2026 season pages do not surface a later in-window violin listing.

SF Symphony note: Search-grounded checks against the official June 2026 SF Symphony materials now support the June 3 Njioma Grevious recital, the full June 12–14 Scheherazade run with María Dueñas, and the June 13 SF Symphony community chamber appearance tied to the Chinatown Branch Library open house.

Klein / Stanford note: Official California Music Center materials still support the June 6 semifinals card, while the broader June 7 Klein finals copy still does not confirm violin representation. Focused Stanford boundary checks did not surface a confident violin-centered June 14 listing to add in this pass.

Linking note: No new YouTube-link batch was needed in this pass: no newly added or materially updated card surfaced newly published repertoire, and the existing Scheherazade links already cover the in-window program works BayStrings is carrying.

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