Concert History

2023–2024 Season

May 17, 2024

First Congregational Church, San Jose  

• Florence Price:Dances in the Canebrakes
• Fauré: Dolly Suite
• Dvořák: Symphonic Variations

March 22, 2024

First Congregational Church, San Jose>
SBP Eras Tour

• Rossini:Introduction, Theme, and Variations, with Tina Tsai, clarinet
• Actor: Meditation, with Gene Huang, violins
• Haydn: Symphony No. 94 ("Surprise")
• Sibelius: Valse triste

November 10, 2022

First Congregational Church, San Jose  

• Rachmaninoff:Vocalise, with Kathryn Benedicto, soprano
• Schubert: Symphony No. 8 ("Unfinished")
• Rachmaninoff: Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2
  with Russell Hancock, piano

2022–2023 Season

November 10, 2023

Valley Presbyterian Church, Portola Valley
Chamber Music Concert

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)