Take the Podium with Joseph Young

Have you dreamed of conducting a professional orchestra? Here's your chance to conduct your Berkeley Symphony with Joseph Young, Music Director! Conduct onstage at Zellerbach Hall at a rehearsal for one of our Symphonic Series concerts.
No music degree or experience needed: You'll receive a conducting lesson and share lunch with Joseph to get all his tips and tricks for a command performance. Feel the electricity with the baton in your hand in front of the Symphony musicians for this "bucket list" experience!

Get the Berkeley Symphony VIP treatment! For the entire 2022-23 season, experience your Berkeley Symphony from great seats at Zellerbach Hall and the First Congregational Church of Berkeley. Includes a pair of tickets to each of Berkeley Symphony's four Symphonic series performances in Berkeley with reserved Sproul garage parking for the concerts at Zellerbach Hall. You'll also receive two tickets to each of the Symphony's five Chamber series performances at the Piedmont Center for the Arts.

Explore Haydn Connections during Music@Menlo's 20th Anniversary summer festival from July 14th through August 6th, excluding July 28-31, 2022. Enjoy dinner for four with your hosts Berkeley Symphony Board members Kathleen G. Henschel and John W. Dewes, plus four VIP reserved seats at one of the summer 2022 events of your choice.

Enjoy one of Chanticleer's concerts in the 22-23 season and a pre-concert dinner for four in Belvedere, Berkeley, or San Francisco.

Package includes four concert tickets plus a pre-concert dinner for four with your hosts Berkeley Symphony Board member John W. Dewes, and Chanticleer and Berkeley Symphony Board member Kathleen G. Henschel.

Spend a delightful afternoon at Landmark Vineyards' Kenwood Estate in Sonoma Valley. You'll enjoy spectacular views of the Mayacama Mountains as you sip and savor six of Landmark's most exclusive, single-vineyard Chardonnays and Pinot Noirs. Paired with the tasting flight is an artfully curated cheese plate that will elevate your palate and delight your senses. Prepare for your wine tasting by sampling a six-bottle suite of three of Landmark's 2020 Chardonnays.

Join Berkeley Symphony Principal Percussionist Ward Spangler in his personal studio in the Oakland Hills for a Sound Healing experience. As Ward puts it, "Sound healing is an immersion into sound for relaxation, restoration, and journeying into the mind and the world around us, similar to listening deeply to any music. Sound and vibrations can transport and transform." You will enjoy this 45-50 minute immersive experience with time available afterward to play with the instruments in Ward's studio and ask questions.

Date and time to be mutually agreed upon.

The Donum Estate boasts one of the world's largest accessible private sculpture collections, including works by internationally renowned artists Fernando Botero, Louise Bourgeois, Ai Weiwei, and Keith Harding.
Your 90-minute "Discover Experience" starts with a welcoming glass of rosé, followed by a walking tour of Donum's open-air sculpture collection; its on-site, working farm; and the expansive lavender fields that blanket the land. You will enjoy a private tasting, showcasing seasonal wines with thoughtfully paired bites, curated with fresh ingredients from the Donum Estate Gardens.
Your package includes a bottle of Donum Estate's 2019 pinot noir, Carneros East Slope, Donum: Gift of the Land, a limited-run collectors book celebrating the artwork and the artists that help make Donum magical; and a copy of The University of California/Sotheby Book of California Wine (from the library of Harry Weininger; autographed by Doris Muscatine), a seminal work published in 1984 and described as "weighty in both size and contents . . . it is in fact a sparkling concoction, delightful to consume."
Donated by Lisa Taylor and Yvette Vloeberghs
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Experience a one on one private lesson with Berkeley Symphony Principal Percussionist Ward Spangler as you or a loved one explores what it takes to play the drums. It is through private instruction that many of our musicians are able to impact the next generation of musicians! Your lesson will be catered to your skill level, whether you're an experienced drummer, or have never held a drumstick: Ward will ensure that you leave the lesson having learned a new skill that will be sure to spark your musical inspiration. Date and time to be mutually agreed upon.

These delightful children's books have all been featured in "Reading Is Instrumental," an online musical storytime program produced by Berkeley Symphony and the Berkeley Public Library Foundation. Parents, grandparents, and children alike will enjoy following along as these books are brought to life by Bay Area celebrity readers, with music performed by Berkeley Symphony musicians. Episodes of Reading Is Instrumental can be viewed on Facebook.

For our March 25th concert, we commissioned three Bay Area artists to create illustrations for our performance of Peter and the Wolf. This package includes two of the illustrations by Nidhi Chanani, which are signed and matted. Each print is 11x14.

For our March 25th concert, we commissioned three Bay Area artists to create illustrations for our performance of Peter and the Wolf. This package includes the two illustrations by Sean Hipkin, which are signed and matted. Each print is 11x14.

The highly-rated wines of Realm Cellars are equally highly sought after but devilishly difficult to procure - unless you have a good allocation on their mailing list. But you're in luck! We've scored a trio of Realm wines, each with a rating of 95 or higher from Robert Parker:

• Moonracer (2017; 95), a Cabernet Sauvignon-based blend, is "strong and powerful yet elegant, with refined tannins and plenty of depth."
• The Bard (2018; 96+), a Cabernet Sauvignon-dominated blend, is " a dense, weighty and concentrated wine that year in and year out showcases the very best Cabernet Sauvignon of Napa Valley."
• The Tempest (2019; 95+), a Merlot-based blend, "is a roiling cauldron of lush, bright, red fruit -a wine that shows what Merlot can be in the right hands, from the right vineyard."

The labels themselves are works of art. Be bold and bid on these wines and find out what the buzz is all about.

• Magnum 2012 Cliff Lede Stags Leap District Cabernet Sauvignon
  93 points Robert Parker's Wine Advocate (10/2014):
  The 2012 Cabernet Sauvignon is a beauty, showing all the generosity of the 2012 vintage. Composed of 78% Cabernet Sauvignon, 8% Petit Verdot, 6% Cabernet Franc, 5% Malbec and 3% Merlot, its dense purple color is followed by copious aromas of crème de cassis and spring flowers, supple tannins, and an opulent, fleshy style. A total intellectual and hedonistic turn-on, it is loaded with fruit and complexity, and reveals beautiful harmony among all the component parts. It is a terrific introduction to what Cliff Lede has achieved at such a high quality level. Consume it over the next 10-15 years.
• The "Discover Australia" gift box includes 3 iconic Penfolds wines including Bin 28 Shiraz a multi-district blend from South Australia, Bin 389 also known as "Baby Grange" a Cabernet Sauvignon / Shiraz blend from the Barossa and Coonarwara valleys, and Bin 407 our Cabernet Sauvignon from the McLaren Vale region. All are known for their collectivity and their ability to age.
• Stags Leap District Cabernet
• Vintage Port (1985)