Concert Season Archive
2024-25
Saturday, Oct 5, 2024, 7:30pm, Weill Hall
New Worlds, New Sounds
- Gabriella Smith, Field Guide
- John Mackey, Percussion Concerto (Colin Bartlett, soloist and 2024 Concerto Competition Winner)
- Antonin Dvorak Symphony No. 9, “From the New World”
Friday, Nov 22, 2024, 7:30pm
Viva Mexico
- Collaboration w/Luther Burbank Center Mariachi program (Matthew Bowker, Director)
- Works for Mariachi ensemble TBD
- Arturo Rodriguez, Mosaico Mexicano
- Gabriella Ortiz, Kauyumari
- Matthew Bowker, El Charro Negro (world premiere; Matthew Bowker guest conductor)
- Silvestre Revueltas, La Noche de los Mayas
- Works for Mariachi ensemble and orchestra TBD
March 12-14, 2025
Band & Orchestra Festival
- Composition contest winner TBD
- Ottorino Respighi, Pines of Rome
Saturday, April 26, 3:00pm, 2025
Season Finale: Titan
- Side-by-Side with Santa Rosa Junior College Orchestra
- Work(s) TBD (SRJC Symphony Orchestra, Cindy Weichel, conductor)
- Mahler, Symphony 1, “Titan” (SSU Symphony Orchestra)
2023-24
Saturday, September 30, 2023, 7:30pm
Season Opener
- Jean Sibelius, Little Suite (SSU Brass Ensemble, Dan Norris, conductor)
- Gordon Jacob, Concerto for Horn and Strings (Jason Whitney, soloist and 2023 Concerto Competition winner)
- Johannes Brahms, Symphony No. 4 in E Minor
Thursday, November 16, 2023, 5:30pm
SSU Jewish Music Series Concert
- Bloch, Concerto Grosso No. 2 for String Quartet and String Orchestra
- Sunday, Nov 19, 2023, 2pm (14 rehearsals) New Wine in Old Bottles – Side by Side with Young People’s
- Chamber Orchestra
- Handel, Overture to Agrippina (YPCO only)
- Márton Levente Horvath, Arcus for string orchestra (2019) (YPCO only)
- Ernest Bloch, Concerto Grosso no. 2 for string quartet and strings (collaboration)
- Michael Abels, Delights and Dances (2010) (collaboration)
- Stravinsky, Pulcinella Suite (SSU only)
Sunday, March 3, 2024, 3:00pm
Copland’s Appalachian Spring - Side by Side with SRS Youth Orchestra
- Aaron Copland, Fanfare for the Common Man
- Aaron Copland, Appalachian Spring Suite
March 13-15, 2024
Band & Orchestra Festival
- Aaron Copland, Fanfare for the Common Man
- Aaron Copland, Appalachian Spring Suite
Saturday, April 27, 2024, 7:30pm
Season Finale: Perspectives on America
- Charlie Gomez, The Tempered Valley (2024 Composition contest winner)
- Aaron Copland, Old American Songs (Charlie Whitaker, soloist and 2023 Concerto Competition winner)
- Aaron Copland Appalachian Spring Suite
- Valerie Coleman, Umoja
2022-23
Saturday, September 24, 2022, 7:30pm, Weill Hall
Season Opener: Collaboration with DDAT
- Franklind Piland, IKTOMI (world premiere)
- Frank Piland, DDAT Suite
Saturday, November 19, 2022, 7:30pm, Weill Hall
Shostakovich Squared
- Dmitri Shostakovich, Piano Concerto No. 2 (Hikaru Hallberg, soloist and 2022 Concerto Competition winner)
- Dmitri Shostakovich, Symphony No. 5
Sunday, February 26, 2023, 2pm, Weill Hall
Family Concert: Invitation to the Dance
- Toe-tapping selections by Tchaikovsky, Grieg, Elizondo, Price, and others
Saturday, April 29, 2023, 7:30pm, Weill Hall
Season Finale: Seminario- An Evening in Buenos Aires
- Performances by Valley Vibes, Simply Strings, and ELM
- Astor Piazzolla, The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires (Gail Hernandez Rosa, soloist)
- Alberto Ginastera, Estancia: Four Dances
- Carlos Gardel, Por una Cabeza
- Astor Piazzolla, Libertango
2021-22
Sunday, September 26, 2021, 2pm, Weill Hall
Season Opener: Raise the Curtain
- Eric Ewazaen, Grand Valley Fanfare – SSU Brass Ensemble, Dan Norris, conductor
- Mozart, Concerto No 1 for Flute and Orchestra (Isabella Grimes, soloist and 2021 Concerto Competition Winner)
- Ibert, Concertino da Camera for Saxophone and Orchestra (Matthew Bowker, soloist and 2021 Concerto Competition Winner)
- Mozart, Symphony No. 36, "Linz"
Saturday, February 26, 2022, 2pm, Weill Hall
Family Concert: Fantastic Tales
- Ravel, Mother Goose Suite
- Stravinsky, Firebird Suite
- Grieg, Peer Gynt Suite No. 1
Saturday, April 30, 2022, 7:30pm, Weill Hall
Season Finale: Unfinished Business
- Angelica Negron, Marajeda
- Schubert, Symphony No. 8, "Unfinished"
- Beethoven, Symphony No. 5
2019-20
Saturday, Sept 28, 2019, 7:30pm, Weill Hall
Season Opener: Back to Bach
- JS Bach, Concerto for Two Violins (Aaron Westman and Anna Washburn, violin soloists)
- Brahms Fugue, WoO 9 in A minor (featuring the Sylvestris Quartet)
- Elgar String Quartet in E minor (featuring the Sylvestris Quartet)
- Mendelssohn, Symphony No. 5, “Reformation”
Saturday, Nov 16, 2019, 7:30pm, Weill Hall
American Voices
- Copland, Fanfare for the Common Man (Brian Wilson, guest conductor)
- Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue (Nick Maritz, soloist and 2019 Concerto Competition Winner)
- Howard Hanson, Symphony No. 2, “Romantic”
Sunday, March 1, 2020, 2pm, Weill Hall
Family concert: North, South, East, and West
- Sibelius, Finlandia
- Arturo Marquez, Danzon No. 2
- Ali Akbar Khan, Garden of Dreams, featuring Musicians from the Ali Akbar College of Music
- Copland, Rodeo
- Thomas Gosnell, home (World premiere, Composition contest winner)
2018-19
September 29, 2018, 7:30pm, Weill Hall
Season Opener: Collaboration concert with the Musicians from the Valley of the Moon Festival
- Haydn, Piano Trio in E Major (featuring Musicians of the Valley of the Moon Festival)
- Georg Phillip Telemann, Concerto Grosso for Two Horns (Spencer Causey and JJ Mayer, soloists and 2018 Concerto Competition Winners)
- Antonio Vivaldi, Concerto Grosso opus 3 No. 8 (Maria Romero and Carla Moore, soloists)
- Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 7
November 17, 2018, 7:30pm, Weill Hall
Music from the New World: “Seminario” Joint Concert with ELM, Simply Strings, Valley Vibes, and California Symphony I Sound Minds
- Antonin Dvorak Symphony No. 9, “New World”
- Leonard Bernstein, Mambo (arr. Gareth Glyn and Andrew J. Smith)
- Leonard Bernstein, “Somewhere”
March 3, 2019, 2:00pm, Weill Hall
Family concert: Picture This!
- AJ Gonzales, La Osa y la Amapola (Student Composition Competition winner and world premiere)
- Mussorgsky/Ravel, Pictures at Exhibition (with artwork by Sonoma County elementary school students)
April 27, 2019, 7:30pm, Weill Hall
Season Finale: Brahms’ Late Idyll
- Johannes Brahms, Academic Festival Overture
- Camille Saint-Saens, Concerto No. 1 for Cello in A Minor (Brynn Dally, soloist and 2018 Concerto Competition Winner)
- Johannes Brahms, Symphony No. 2
2017-18
Sunday, October 1, 2017, 2:00pm, Weill Hall
The Art of the Concerto
- WA Mozart, Concerto No. 2 for Horn and Orchestra (Spencer Causey, soloist and 2017 Concerto Competition winner)
- Richard Strauss, Songs for Voice and Orchestra (Jamelia Brown, soloist and 2017 Concerto Competition winner)
Friday, November 17, 2017, 7:30pm, Weill Hall
Masterworks for Voice and Orchestra
- Joint Concert with the Sonoma State Choral Program
Sunday, March 4, 2:00pm, 2018, Weill Hall
To the Movies!
- Family concert featuring film scores by John Williams, Howard Shore, Erich Korngold, and others
Sunday, April 29, 2018, 2:00pm
Season Finale: Saint-Saens Organ Symphony
- Paul Dukas, Fanfare to “La Peri”
- Francis Poulenc, Concerto for Organ and Strings (Jonathan Dimmock, soloist)
- Camille Saint Saens, Symphony No. 3, “Organ” (Jonathan Dimmock, soloist)
2016-17
Friday, September 30, 2016, 7:30pm, Weill Hall
A Concerted Effort
Joint production with the Santa Rosa Junior College Symphony Orchestra
- Gabrieli, Canzone per sonare #2
- Sibelius, Karelia Suite
- Beethoven, Romance for Violin and Orchestra (Aaron Westman, guest soloist/leader)
- Dvorak, Symphony No. 8, Movement 4
- Telemann, Concerto in A Major, "The Frogs" TWV 51:A4 (Aaron Westman, guest soloist/leader)
- Glazunov, Concerto in Saxophone and Strings (Megan Rice, soloist and 2016 Concerto Competition winner)
- Arutiunian, Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra (Zach Hall, soloist and 2016 Concerto Competition winner)
Saturday, November 18, 2016, 7:30pm, Weill Hall
Modes of Transportation
- Alexander Borodin, On the Steppes of Central Asia
- Brian Wilson, Symphony No. 2, "Modes of Transportation"
- Gustav Mahler, Songs of a Wayfarer (Zachary Gordon, soloist)
- Bedrich Smetana, The Moldau
Sunday, February 26, 2017, 2:00pm, Weill Hall
Carnival of the Animals
Joint production with Fratello Marionettes
- Camille Saint-Saens, Carnival of the Animals
- Peter Illych Tchaikovsky, Selections from The Nutcracker
- Rimsky-Korsokov, Dance of the Tumblers
Saturday, April 22, 2017, 7:30pm, Weill Hall
Songs for the Earth
- Cameron Kaiser, Moritura Terra (Composition contest winner)
- Jean Sibelius, Tapiola
- Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 6, "Pastoral"