2025-2026 Season

FALL CONCERT: 'Symphony and the Big Band'

Sunday, December 7, 3:00 p.m.
Miossi Hall, Performing Arts Center

 

Photo of Ellington, Nelson, Baptiste, Gershwin

The Cal Poly Symphony teams up with the University Jazz Band in a program that explores the intersection of symphonic and jazz traditions.  

Repertoire:

Dmitri Shostakovich: Waltz No. 2  from Suite for Variety Orchestra No. 1
Sverre Indris Joner (after Beethoven): Cinco Salsa
Antônio Carlos Jobim: Wave
Debussy, arr. Jack Matthias: Arabesque
Bert Ligon: Bookends
Duke Ellington: Three Black Kings (Ana Nelson, tenor saxophone)
Jamaal Baptiste: A Walk to Remember (Ana Nelson, tenor saxophone)
George Gershwin: An American in Paris

 

WINTER CONCERT: Student Soloist Showcase and Pines of Rome

Sunday, March 15, 3:00 p.m.
Miossi Hall, Performing Arts Center

 

Photo of student soloist

Every year, the Symphony holds auditions for student soloists and composers of any major. The prize for several of them - a performance with the Symphony, of course! Come hear this year’s winners and celebrate musical talent from across the University.

The Symphony will also perform Ottorino Respighi's colorful tone poem, Pines of Rome.

Repertoire:

J.S. Bach: Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in D minor, mvt.1 (Apollo Wong, piano)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Ah, se in ciel, benigne stelle, K. 538 (Amethyst Shanks, soprano)
Cécile Chaminade: Concertino for Flute and Orchestra, Op. 107 (Sophia Catania, flute)
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Suite for Viola and Orchestra: Prelude and Ballad (Erik Petrovich, viola)
Gustave Charpentier: "Depuis le jour" from Louise (Helena Fuller, soprano)
Dmitry Kabalevsky: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, mvt. 1 (Rose Candelaria, violin)
Edwin Muñoz: As the Seasons Change (world premiere)
Ottorino Respighi: Pines of Rome

 

Spring Concert with Choirs: Symphonic Expressions

Saturday, June 6, 7:30 p.m.
Miossi Hall, Performing Arts Center

 

Photo of Beethoven, Stravinsky

Cal Poly's Choirs and Symphony will combine to present two monumental symphonic works for choir and orchestra: Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9.

Repertoire:

Igor Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
 

 

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