The Forum with Mason Bates: 2025 Artist in Residence (In-Person)

Name: The Forum with Mason Bates: 2025 Artist in Residence (In-Person)
Start: 2025-10-19T09:30:00-07:00
Location: 1100 California Street, San Francisco, CA, United States, California 94108

Schedule

Sun, 19 Oct, 2025 at 09:30 am

UTC-07:00

Location

1100 California Street, San Francisco, CA, United States, California 94108 | San Francisco, CA

Every year since 2012, we have offered a residency to artists to create work illuminating the cathedral’s vision and annual theme and reimagining church as they do so. Our 2025 Artist in Residence, for our Year of the Future, is composer, DJ, and curator Mason Bates.

Mason Bates is imaginatively transforming the way classical music is created and experienced. He is the composer of the Grammy-winning opera The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, which San Francisco Opera presented last year, and most recently The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, which premiered at the Metropolitan Opera last month. Named as the most-performed composer of his generation, Mason is a visible advocate for the modern orchestra, and imaginatively integrates it into contemporary culture.

Join Malcolm Clemens Young, Dean of Grace Cathedral, for a conversation with Bates about composing, his unique integration of electronic sounds into his work, the spectacular events he curates, and his residency with us.