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 Jazz Orchestra No. 2
Works for the University Jazz Band and Symphony strings
Duke Ellington: Three Black Kings (Ana Nelson, tenor sax)
Jamaal Baptiste: New work
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:

Student Solos BD
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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