GIVING DAY AT SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY
Thursday, April 29th
Mark your calendars! The Sonoma State Department of Music and SSU Symphony Orchestra is proud to participate in Sonoma State University's inaugural Giving Day on April 29, 2021.
Please consider donating to our department and/or more specifically our Symphony Orchestra.
The Sonoma State Symphony Orchestra will be raising funds to support the following initiatives:
-Our annual concerto competition
-Our annual composition competition
-Our annual Family concert, which brings in families from throughout Sonoma County and beyond (February 2022)
-Our lesson scholarship fund, which allows us to provide free private music lessons to members of the orchestra who are not Music majors
Please consider making a donation.
For more information on the Orchestra program please contact Alexander Kahn; for more on how you can contribute please contact Stephen Arneson, Director of Development for the School of Arts and Humanities.
We’re #AllForSonomaState!
THE SONOMA STATE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Proudly announces its
2021–2022 CONCERT SEASON
(all repertoire subject to change)
Sunday, September 26, 2021, 2pm, Season Opener:
Raise the Curtain
Composition contest winner TBD, Come Together (world premiere)
Concerto competition winner TBD
Beethoven, Symphony No. 5
Saturday, Nov 20, 2021, 7:30pm: Native American Voices
Collaboration with DDAT
Jerod Tate, Chokfi for String Orchestra and 2 percussion
Louis Ballard, Scenes from Native American Life
Franklind Piland, World Premiere
Franklin Piland, DDAT Suite
Sunday February 27, 2022, 2pm Family concert – At the Movies (SSU Family Day)
Film and video game music by John Williams, Howard Shore, Daniel Rosenfled, John Powell, and others TBD
Saturday, April 30, 2022, 2pm Season Finale – An Afternoon in Buenos Aires
Osvaldo Golijov, Sidereus
Astor Piazzolla, The four Seasons of Buenos Aires (soloist TBD)
Osvaldo Golijov, Tenebrae
Alberto Ginastera, Estancia: Four Dances
Astor Piazzolla, Libertango
*If you are interested in joining the orchestra (music majors, non-majors, and community members are all welcome) please visit our Symphony Orchestra Page for details on the rehearsal schedule and audition process or drop me a line.