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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"