CALENDAR
San Francisco Conservatory of Music Orchestra
Saturday, May 1, 2021 at 7:30pm PT
Online
Guest Conductor leading music by Hannah Kendall, Stravinsky, and Beethoven
California Symphony – Poetry in Motion Episode One
Saturday, May 8, 2021 at 7pm PT
Online and on Walnut Creek TV
Viet Cuong (Young American Composer-in-Residence, 2020–2023): Next Week’s Trees (World Premiere)
California Symphony - Poetry in Motion Episode Two
Saturday, May 15, 2021 at 7pm PT
Online and on Walnut Creek TV
Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night)
California Symphony - Poetry in Motion Episode Three
Saturday, May 22, 2020 at 7pm PT
Online and on Walnut Creek TV
Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings
California Symphony - Emperor
Saturday, September 18, 2021 at 7:30pm & Sunday, September 19, 2021 at 4pm
Marianna Martines: Sinfonia
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 (Emperor) – Adam Golka, piano
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5
Opera San Jose - Rimsky-Korsakov's Mozart and Salieri
Streaming Online Beginning September 30, 2021
Las Vegas Philharmonic - Fanfare!
Saturday, October 23, 2021 at 7:30pm
Pre-concert conversation at 6:30pm in Reynolds Hall
Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man
Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op.104 – Joshua Roman, cello
Joan Tower: Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.5 in E Minor, Op.64
California Symphony - Four Seasons
Saturday, November 6, 2021 at 7:30pm & Sunday, November 7, 2021 at 4pm
Walker: Lyric for Strings
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons – Alexi Kenney, violin
Jessie Montgomery: Starburst
Schubert: Death and the Maiden (arr. Mahler)
Las Vegas Philharmonic - Beethoven Triple Concerto
Saturday, November 20, 2021 at 7:30pm
Pre-concert conversation at 6:30pm in Reynolds Hall
Missy Mazzoli: These Worlds In Us
Beethoven: Concerto for Violin, Cello and Piano in C Major, Op.56 – Tessa Lark, violin; Joshua Roman, cello; David Fung, piano
Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op.21
Las Vegas Philharmonic - Very Vegas Holiday
Saturday, December 4, 2021 – 2:00pm & 7:30pm
Pre-concert conversation at 1pm & 6:30pm in Reynolds Hall
Keith Thompson, host
Travis Cloer, vocals
Vita Corimbi, vocals
Clint Holmes, vocals
Michelle Johnson, vocals
The season will shine merry and bright when the talented performers from Very Vegas Showcase hosted by Keith Thompson, return to sing classic seasonal favorites and local originals with our symphony orchestra in a holiday spectacular like no other!
California Symphony - Take Flight
Saturday, January 29, 2022 at 7:30pm & Sunday, January 30, 2022 at 4pm
Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending – Jennifer Cho, violin
Haydn: Symphony No. 83 (“The Hen”)
Sibelius: Swan of Tuonela
Dvořák: Symphony No. 8
Las Vegas Philharmonic - Beethoven No. 6 & 8 and Shaw
Saturday, January 15, 2022 at 7:30PM
Pre-concert conversation at 6:30pm in Reynolds Hall
Mozart: A Musical Joke
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 in F Major, Op.93
Caroline Shaw: Entr’acte
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op.68
Las Vegas Philharmonic - Beethoven No. 4 & 5 and Montgomery
Saturday, February 12, 2022 at 7:30PM
Pre-concert conversation at 6:30pm in Reynolds Hall
Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major, Op. 60
Jessie Montgomery: Strum
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op.67
Monterey Symphony
Saturday, February 19, 2022 at 7:30PM
Sunday, February 20, 2022 at 3PM
John Christopher Wineglass: Alone Together
Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, Op. 107 – Julian Schwarz, cello
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64
Las Vegas Philharmonic - Beethoven No. 3 and Frank
Saturday, March 19, 2022 at 7:30PM
Pre-concert conversation at 6:30pm in Reynolds Hall
Gabriela Lena Frank: Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op.55
California Symphony - French Impressions
Saturday, March 26, 2022 at 7:30pm & Sunday, March 27, 2022 at 4pm
Thomas Adès: Three Studies from Couperin
Katherine Balch: Illuminate (World Premiere) – Kelly Guerra, mezzo-soprano; Molly Netter, soprano; Alexandra Smither, soprano
Debussy: Danse (orch. Ravel)
Ravel: Ma Mère l'Oye (Mother Goose)
Las Vegas Philharmonic - Beethoven No. 2 & 7 and Clyne
Saturday, April 16, 2022 at 7:30PM
Pre-concert conversation at 6:30pm in Reynolds Hall
Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op.36
Anna Clyne: Stride
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op.92
Las Vegas Philharmonic - Contreras Premiere & Beethoven No. 9 Finale
Saturday, May 7, 2022 at 7:30PM
Pre-concert conversation at 6:30pm in Reynolds Hall
Las Vegas Master Singers – Joseph Svendsen, director
Felicia Moore, soprano
Kelly O’Connor, alto
Nicholas Phan, tenor
Kevin Deas, bass
Juan Pablo Contreras: World Premiere
A co-commission led by the Las Vegas Philharmonic through New Music USA’s Amplifying Voices, supported by the Sphinx Venture Fund
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op.125
California Symphony - Epic Finale
Saturday, May 14, 2022 at 7:30pm & Sunday, May 15, 2022 at 4pm
Viet Cuong: World Premiere
Elgar: Cello Concerto – Nathan Chan, cello
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
Las Vegas Philharmonic - Cabrera Conducts American Classics
Saturday, September 17, 2022 at 7:30pm
William Grant Still: Festive Overture
Wynton Marsalis: Concerto in D Major for Violin and Orchestra
George Antheil: Hot-time Dance
Ferde Grofé: Grand Canyon Suite
Las Vegas Philharmonic - Cabrera Conducts Appalachian Spring
Saturday, October 15, 2022 at 7:30pm
Samuel Barber: Essay No.2, Op.17
Jennifer Higdon: Concerto 4-3
Virgil Thomson: The Plow That Broke the Plains Suite
Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring Suite
Las Vegas Philharmonic - Cabrera Conducts Elgar & Sibelius
Saturday, November 19, 2022 at 7:30pm
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: The Bamboula, Op.75 (Rhapsodic Dance No.1)
Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85
Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 2
Las Vegas Philharmonic - Handel's Messiah
Saturday, December 3, 2022 at 7:30pm
Katrina Galka, soprano
Hannah Ludwig, mezzo
Ricardo Garcia, tenor
Efrain Solis, bass
George Frideric Handel: Messiah
Las Vegas Philharmonic - Cabrera Conducts Saint-Georges, Chopin and Mozart
Saturday, February 11, 2023 at 7:30pm
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 11 (The Anonymous Lover)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 31 in D Major (Paris Symphony)
Frédéric Chopin: Piano Concerto No.1 in E Minor, Op. 11
Las Vegas Philharmonic - The Music of John Williams
Saturday, March 4, 2023 at 7:30pm
Olympic Fanfare and Theme
Suite from Jaws
Superman March from Superman
Harry’s Wondrous World from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Theme from Schindler’s List
Adventures on Earth from E.T.
Princess Leia’s Theme from Star Wars Suite
Las Vegas Philharmonic - A Night at the Opera
Saturday, April 1, 2023 at 7:30pm
Selections from the following composers:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Gaetano Donizetti
Léo Delibes
Georges Bizet
Pieto Mascagni
Giacomo Puccini
John Adams
Giuseppe Verdi
Las Vegas Philharmonic - Cabrera Conducts Tchaikovsky
Saturday, May 6, 2023 at 7:30pm
Jean Sibelius: Finlandia, Op. 26
Sergei Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major, Op. 26
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36