Celebrity Series Debuts of 2018-19 Artists San Francisco Symphony | April 13, 1947 (Pierre Monteux, conductor, Boston debut) Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater | January 27, 1968 Itzhak Perlman | March 7, 1971 Michael Tilson Thomas | November 30, 1979 Emanuel Ax | November 1, 1980 Yo-Yo Ma | November 1, 1980 Wynton Marsalis | March 15, 1987 (with Eastman Wind Ensemble) Christian Tetzlaff | September 20, 1991 (with Junge Deutsche Philharmonie) Evgeny Kissin | October 24, 1991 Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra | October 11, 1992 Thomas Hampson | November 12, 1992 Joshua Bell | November 20, 1994 (with Houston Symphony) Rob Kapilow | January 13, 1996 (Family Musik) Anthony Roth Costanzo | January 27, 1996 (Family Musik) Joe Lovano | August 4, 1996 (Jazz at DeCordova) Luciana Souza | September 15, 1996 (Jazz at the DeCordova) Gil Shaham | October 16, 1998 Akira Eguchi | October 16, 1998 Mark Morris Dance Group | February 26, 1999 (with Yo-Yo Ma & Mikhail Baryshnikov) David Sedaris | October 11, 2002 Australian Chamber Orchestra | April 30, 2004 Soweto Gospel Choir | February 12, 2005