2024 Opening Night Dinner

Sunday, November 10, 2024 at 6:00PM

Pauley Ballroom, UC Berkeley 2495 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94720

Ticket purchases for the 2024 Opening Night Dinner are now closed. For any questions about the Opening Night Dinner, please email Gillian Eorwyn, Director of Development and Communications, or call 510-841-2800 x304. Thank you for supporting Berkeley Symphony, and we look forward to greeting you on Opening Night!

Continue the fun by joining us for our 2024 Opening Night Dinner following our first Symphonic Series concert, Stories from Home! Enjoy the after-party of the season, with a delicious meal and an exclusive encore performance celebrating our Guest of Honor, longtime Berkeley Symphony supporter and collaborator Gordon Getty. You won’t want to miss this event!

Standard tickets for the Opening Night Dinner are $250. Proceeds from this special fundraiser support the Berkeley Symphony’s innovative artistic programming, including commissioned works from Bay Area composers, award-winning soloists, and more.

We are especially grateful to members of our community who contribute to the Symphony by sponsoring Opening Night Dinner tables! Please see below for sponsorship levels.

2024 Opening Night Dinner Table Sponsorship Levels

Tables are seated for eight guests. We are happy to provide complimentary tickets to Stories from Home for table sponsors and their guests. All sponsors will be recognized in concert program materials and event signage.

COMPOSERS CIRCLE - $15,000 ($13,800 tax deductible)

CONDUCTORS CIRCLE - $10,000 ($8,800 tax deductible)

SOLOISTS CIRCLE - $5,000 ($3,800 tax deductible)

MUSICIANS CIRCLE – $2,500 ($1,300 tax deductible)

AFICIONADO CIRCLE (Half Table) - $1,250 ($650 tax deductible)

INDIVIDUAL TICKETS – $250 per person for the Opening Night Dinner ($100 tax deductible)

ACCESSIBLE SLIDING SCALE PRICING – $150 per person for the Opening Night Dinner

We are pleased to offer a sliding scale ticket option for our Opening Night Dinner, suggested for attendees who serve our community as arts teachers, working musicians, and others for whom the standard ticket price is inaccessible. Thank you for being a part of our community!

About the Artists

Gordon Getty

Gordon Getty’s life in music is the subject of Peter Rosen’s documentary There Will Be Music, premiered in 2016 and screened widely at festivals and in theaters. He has been awarded the Gold Baton of the American Symphony Orchestra League and was honored as an Outstanding American Composer at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. In 2019, he received the European Culture Prize, and in 2020 he was announced as Legacy Honoree and Artist in Residence by the Young People’s Chorus of New York City. In that same year, Opera America named Getty as one of ten inaugural inductees to the Opera Hall of Fame, alongside Dawn Upshaw, Grace Bumbry, David Gockley, and Simon Estes, among other opera luminaries. The composer’s work is published by Rork Music.