Season subscriptions will only be available for purchase through our Ticket Office directly.

Single tickets will go sale to Donors of $75+ on July 27; to Email Club members on August 3; and online to the general public on August 10, 2008.

For a full listing of 08/09 events, see our season calendar.

Cal Performances adds Youssou N'Dour to schedule. (July 26 in Zellerbach Hall)
Cal Performances is thrilled to announce the return of Senegalese singer-composer Youssou N'Dour to Berkeley for one night only: Saturday, July 26, 8 pm, in Zellerbach Hall.

Tickets will be available to Donors and Subscribers beginning Tue, Apr 22; and current Email Club beginning Fri, Apr 25. Tickets, if available, go on sale to the general public on Sun, Apr 27.

"One of the world's greatest singers" (New York Times), Youssou N'Dour is a global superstar and considered by many to be West Africa's cultural ambassador to the world. Named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people in 2007, he has thrilled audiences world-wide for nearly three decades with his contemporary version of Senegalese mbalax music, and has collaborated with such artists as Peter Gabriel, Neneh Cherry ("7 Seconds"), Paul Simon, Branford Marsalis, Wyclef Jean, and Bruce Springsteen. Showcasing his innovative and highly personal synthesis of musical language and culture, N'Dour returns to Cal Performances with his long time band The Super Etoile to perform music from his latest album, Rokku Mi Rokka (Give and Take), which pays homage to the music and people from the desert-swept region of north Senegal.

Cal Performances receives $800,000 Kresge Foundation grant
Cal Performances Director Robert Cole announced March 11 that the organization has achieved its $15 million Centennial Campaign fundraising goal and, consequently, has received an $800,000 challenge grant from The Kresge Foundation. "Actually, The Kresge grant was so effective in its encouragement of our fundraising activities," says Cole, "that we surpassed our goal by one million dollars." This is the single largest challenge grant The Kresge Foundation has ever made to a department on the UC Berkeley campus. The grant required that Cal Performances raise $14.2 million in private funds before receiving The Kresge Foundation funds. Cal Performances raised a total of $15.9 million before the closing date of February 2008. Read more in our Press Release.

Berkeley Festival & Exhibition returns June 3-8
Come be a part of one of the world's most exciting celebrations of early music! Experience 16th-century Florentine art at its most spectacular with the American premiere of the largest known contrapuntal choral work in Western music. Le Poème Harmonique, the hit of the 2006 Berkeley Festival, returns with a celebration of the Golden Age of Venice. And there's much more as the Berkeley Festival & Exhibition once again brings to life the glorious sights and sounds of centuries past.

The Berkeley Festival & Exhibition is produced by Cal Performances in association with the San Francisco Early Music Society, Early Music America, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, American Bach Soloists, and the Department of Music at UC Berkeley.

For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit the 2008 Berkeley Festival & Exhibition website.

Name a Seat in Zellerbach Hall!
Be honored or honor someone special for years to come—have your name or that of someone special engraved on a brass name plaque at the top front edge of one or more of our new Zellerbach Hall seats by making a seat naming gift to Cal Performances today.

We invite you to name a seat in Zellerbach Hall and help The Centennial Campaign support the next 100 years of artistic excellence at Cal Performances.