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California Symphony Launches its 2024-2025
Season with BEETHOVEN’S NINTH
Opening with Louise Farrenc’s Powerful Overture No. 2
Led by Donato Cabrera,
Artistic & Music Director
Featuring
Laquita Mitchell, soprano; Kelley O’Connor, mezzo-soprano;
Nicholas Phan, tenor; Sidney Outlaw, baritone
With the
San Francisco Conservatory of Music Chorus
Eric
Choate, Director
In Concert
September 21 at 7:30pm & September 22 at 4pm
At Walnut
Creek’s Lesher Center for the Arts
Free
Public Pop Up Event with Amateur Music Network September 21
at 5pm
At Walnut
Creek’s Water Light Public Plaza
California
Symphony’s 2024-2025 Season Showcases the Crowning
Achievements of Composers at the Peak of Their Powers:
Watch
Donato Cabrera’s Introduction
Tickets &
Information:
www.californiasymphony.org
WALNUT CREEK, CA – California
Symphony and Artistic and Music Director Donato
Cabrera launch the 2024-2025 season, showcasing the
crowning achievements of composers at the peak of their
powers, with two thrilling concerts celebrating the 200th
anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 on Saturday,
September 21, 2024 at 7:30pm and Sunday,
September 22, 2024 at 4pm at Hofmann Theatre at
the Lesher Center for the Arts (1601 Civic
Drive, Walnut Creek). The concerts open with a vivacious and
powerful overture by pioneering 19th-century French
composer Louise Farrenc, who was well known
during her lifetime but whose work is only now being
performed widely. Following Farrenc’s overture is
Beethoven’s instantly recognizable final symphony, which is
widely regarded as one of the greatest masterpieces in
classical music. Powerful and uplifting, the work’s final
movement Ode to Joy has become an enduring anthem
for unity.
Four internationally acclaimed singers with
Bay Area connections – Laquita Mitchell,
soprano; Kelley O’Connor, mezzo-soprano; Nicholas
Phan, tenor; and Sidney Outlaw,
baritone – join the California Symphony and the 100-member
strong San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM)
Chorus for these performances.
California Symphony’s Saturday performance on
September 21 will be preceded by a free Pop Up event
in partnership with the Amateur Music Network.
From 5-5:30pm at Water Light Public
Plaza (1501 Locust St., Walnut Creek), Donato
Cabrera will lead an open workshop of Ode to Joy for
amateur musicians. Registration (which is free, but
required)
is open
now.
Founded in 1986, California Symphony has
been led by Donato Cabrera since 2013. Its concert season at
the Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek, California
serves a growing number of music lovers from across the Bay
Area. California Symphony believes that the concert
experience should be fun and inviting, and its mission is to
create a welcoming, engaging, and inclusive environment for
the entire community. Through this commitment to community,
imaginative programming, and its support of emerging
composers, California Symphony is a leader among orchestras
in California and a model for regional orchestras
everywhere.
Three, four, and five-concert subscriptions
start at $120 and are available now. Single tickets start at
$50 and at $25 for students 25 and under.
A 30-minute pre-concert talk and Q&A led by lecturer Scott
Fogelsong will begin one hour before each performance. More
information is available at CaliforniaSymphony.org.
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