Concert History

2022–2023 Season

May 19, 2023

First Congregational Church, San Jose  

  • Sullivan: Overture to H.M.S. Pinafore
  • Sibelius: Finlandia
  • Dvořák: Symphony No. 6

March 10, 2023

Lincoln Glen Church, San Jose  

  • Beethoven: Violin Concerto, with Daniel Cher
  • Respighi: The Birds
  • Haydn: "Surprise" Symphony, Mvt. II

November 11, 2022

Lincoln Glen Church, San Jose  

  • Richard Strauss: Horn Concerto No. 1, with Roger Romani
  • Edvard Grieg: Symphonic Dances
  • John Lunn: Theme from Downton Abbey

2021–2022 Season

May 27, 2022

Lincoln Glen Church, San Jose  

  • Vaughan Williams: English Folk Song Suite
  • Borodin: Symphony No. 2

April 1, 2022

First Congregational Church of San Jose  

  • Warlock: Capriol Suite
  • Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings
  • Britney Spears: Toxic

November 5, 2021

First Congregational Church of San Jose  

  • Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
  • Holst: St. Paul's Suite
  • Copland:Hoe Down

2019–2020 Season

November 1, 2019

Foothill Presbyterian Church, San Jose  

  • Mozart: Overture to Don Giovanni
  • Vitali: Chaconne
  • Rossini: Overture to The Barber of Seville
  • Morricone: Gabriel's Oboe
  • Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien
  • Respighi: Finale from The Pines of Rome

2018–2019 Season

May 10, 2019

Foothill Presbyterian Church, San Jose 

  • Rossini: William Tell Overture
  • Dvorak: Cello Concerto
        with Harris Karsch
  • Shore: Suite from
      Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

March 1, 2019

Foothill Presbyterian Church, San Jose  

  • Bach: Double Violin Concerto
        with Gene Huang and Jasmine Reese
  • Beethoven: Egmont Overture
  • Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1
        with Gene Huang
  • Beethoven: Symphony No. 2

November 2, 2018

Foothill Presbyterian Church, San Jose  

  • Richard Meyer: Millenium
  • Carl Maria von Weber: Bassoon Concerto with Juliet Hamak
  • Bach/Stokowski: Toccata and Fugue in D mino
  • William Grant Still: Symphony No. 1

2017–2018 Season

May 11, 2018

Foothill Presbyterian Church, San Jose

  • Telemann: Viola Concerto in G Major with Karen Allendoerfer
  • Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 ("New World")

March 2, 2018

Foothill Presbyterian Church, San Jose

  • Linda Robbins Coleman: Journeys
  • Edward Gregson: Tuba Concerto, Mvt. I
      with John Whitecar
  • Nancy Bloomer Deussen: Transit of Venus
  • Louis Babin: Saint-Exupery: of Heart, Sand, and Stars
      US Premiere Performance

November 3, 2017

Foothill Presbyterian Church, San Jose

  • Williams: Overture to "The Cowboys"
  • Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue (arr. Brubaker)
      with Hana Shin, piano
  • Copland: Our Town
  • Williams: Music from Star Wars including "The Force Awakens"

2016–2017 Season

May 12, 2017

Foothill Presbyterian Church, San Jose

  • Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 8
  • David Popper: Hungarian Rhapsody
      with Harris Karsch, cello

March 3, 2017

Foothill Presbyterian Church, San Jose

  • Felix Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto (complete)
      with Gene Huang, violin
  • Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 8 "Unfinished"
    including Mvt. III, Scherzo, composed by Brian Newbould

November 11, 2016

Foothill Presbyterian Church, San Jose

  • Camille Saint-Saëns: Danse Macabre
  • Manuel de Falla: Spanish Danse No. 1
  • Charles Villiers Stanford: Irish Rhapsody No. 1
  • Camille Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 2

2015–2016 Season

May 13, 2016

Foothill Presbyterian Church, San Jose

  • Webber: Phantom of the Opera suite
  • Hsieh: Midnight Ride
  • Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain
  • Arensky: Egyptian Nights ballet suite

March 4, 2016

Foothill Presbyterian Church, San Jose

  • Dvořák: Slavonic Dance No. 7, from Op. 46
  • Dvořák: Two Songs from Op. 7
          with Kathryn Benedicto, soprano
  • Dvořák: Humoresque No. 7
  • Dvořák: Symphony No. 7

November 13, 2015

Foothill Presbyterian Church, San Jose

  • Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto, Mvt. I
      with Gene Huang, violin
  • Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

2014–2015 Season

May 8, 2015

Foothill Presbyterian Church, San Jose

  • Agnes Bashir: Dance
  • Serge Prokofiev: Pushkin Dances No. 1
  • Edward Elgar: Three Bavarian Dances, from "From the Bavarian Highlands"
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake Selections

March 6, 2015

Foothill Presbyterian Church, San Jose

  • Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Overture
    edited by Jerry Brubaker
  • Bellini: O quante volte, from "I Capuleti e i Montecchi"
    with Kathryn Benedicto, soprano
  • Svendsen: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy, Op. 18
  • Prokofiev: Capulets and Montagues
  • Rota: A Time for Us (theme)
  • Bernstein: Selections from West Side Story

November 7, 2014

Foothill Presbyterian Church, San Jose

  • Schumann: Piano Concerto, Mvt. II and III
    with Shannon Wang, piano
  • Schubert: Rosamunde Entr’acte No. 1
  • Sinding: Symphony No. 1, Mvt. IV
  • Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 (“Organ”) Finale
    with Paul Zawilski, organ

2013–2014 Season

May 9, 2014

Foothill Presbyterian Church, San Jose

  • Sibelius: Finlandia
  • Chabrier: España
  • Elgar: Excerpts from Enigma Variations
  • Mogensen: Quest for the Grail
  • Duke Ellington Medley
  • Selections from the Star Wars saga

February 28, 2014

Foothill Presbyterian Church, San Jose

  • Borodin: Polovtsian Dances
  • Dvořák: Symphony No. 5

November 1, 2013

Foothill Presbyterian Church, San Jose

  • Victorine: Fanfare for Brass
  • Schumann: Piano Concerto Mvt. I
      with Shannon Wang, piano
  • Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

2012–2013 Season

May 10, 2013

Foothill Presbyterian Church, San Jose

  • Karim Elmahmoudi: Mythos Overture
  • Samuel Barber: First Essay for Orchestra
  • Herb Gellis: Short Symphony on Eastern Modes
  • Suite from Pirates of the Caribbean

March 1, 2013

Foothill Presbyterian Church, San Jose

  • Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Mvt. III
  • Bizet: Carmen Suite No. 2
      Jay Jordana, guest conductor
  • Amy Scurria: What the Soul Remembers
  • Andrew Lloyd Webber: Selections from Evita

November 2, 2012

Foothill Presbyterian Church, San Jose

  • Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4, Mvt. I
  • Sibelius: Spring Song
  • Pierné: Basque Rapsodie from Ramuntcho
  • Lalo: Rapsodie norvégienne
  • Fauré: Berceuse and Le pas espagnol from Dolly Suite

2011–2012 Season

May 18, 2012

Foothill Presbyterian Church, San Jose

  • Henry Purcell: Voluntary on Old 100th (brass choir)
  • Gerald Finzi: Eclogue
    with Norina Sharpe, piano
  • Vassili Kalinnikov: Symphony No. 1

March 1, 2012

Foothill Presbyterian Church, San Jose

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 34, Mvt. III
  • Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 3, Mvt. II
  • Ralph Vaughan-Williams: Overture to "The Wasps"
  • Antonin Dvořák: Selections from Czech Suite

November 11, 2011

Foothill Presbyterian Church, San Jose

  • Edvard Grieg: Symphonic Dances No. I, II, & IV
  • Edvard Grieg: Last Spring (Elegiac Melodies, No. 2)
  • Carl Nielsen: Symphony No. 3, Mvt. IV
  • Ludolf Nielsen: Symphony No. 3, Mvt. I (U.S. premiere)

2010–2011 Season

May 13, 2011

Foothill Presbyterian Church, San Jose

  • Ron Miller: Overture to a Summer Afternoon
  • John Knowles Paine: Overture to "As You Like It"
  • Claude-Michel Schönberg: Selections from "Les Misérables"
    Arranged by Bob Lowden
  • Aaron Copland: Prairie Journal
  • George Gershwin: An American in Paris
    Arranged by John Whitney

February 25, 2011

Foothill Presbyterian Church, San Jose

  • Beethoven: Coriolan Overture
  • Beethoven: Turkish March
  • Beethoven: Symphony No. 2

November 12, 2010

Foothill Presbyterian Church, San Jose

  • Kalinnikov: Overture to "Tsar Boris"
      Jay Jordana, guest conductor
  • Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 2 ("Little Russian")

Debut Season 2009–2010

May 14, 2010

Foothill Presbyterian Church, San Jose

  • Rush: Spirit of Freedom
  • Mauldin: Three Jemez Landscapes
  • Mixon: Crescent City Collage
  • Still: Symphony No. 1 ("Afro-American")

February 26, 2010

Foothill Presbyterian Church, San Jose

  • Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 1
  • de Falla: Three Cornered Hat (suite)

November 13-14, 2009

Foothill Presbyterian Church, San Jose (11/13
First United Methodist Church, Palo Alto (11/14)

  • Dvořák Symphony No. 8
  • Elgar The Wand of Youth (excerpts)