Old First Concerts

Old First Concerts presents fine chamber music at modest prices, showcasing accomplished, professional emerging and mid-career artists in an acoustically superb setting and providing them with the opportunity to create their own performance repertoire. For both new and established performers, Old First is a welcome alternative to costly and time consuming self-produced concerts. For concertgoers, the organization provides musical variety and quality at a relatively risk-free ticket cost. Recent years have seen a growing programmatic diversity, including contemporary, jazz and world music. Its year-round calendar of over sixty concerts, performed by 300 artists, reaches more than 5,000 audience members annually in performance at Old First Church in San Francisco. Support for a strategic planning process, the first since 2004, will enable the entire staff and board to take a step back and review what is working for the organization, and what needs to be updated to reflect the needs and wishes of audiences and artists.

Old First Concerts presents classical chamber music concerts at modest prices, showcasing emerging and established artists, and providing them with the opportunity to create their own performance repertoire. Diversity in Old First's programming has expanded in recent years to include contemporary, jazz, and world music; in 2011, Old First will present its first hip-hop opera. Its year-round calendar of events presented at Old First Church consists of more than sixty concerts performed by 250 artists, attracting more than 6,000 audience members annually.