SUMMER CHAMBER CONCERT
Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue,
for piano-four-hands
Mozart Serenade No. 11,
for wind-octet
Brahms String Sextet No. 1
Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue,
for piano-four-hands
Mozart Serenade No. 11,
for wind-octet
Brahms String Sextet No. 1
Music with select soloists and small ensembles performing a delightful array of music from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries…
First Lutheran Church, Palo Alto ($20 General/Senior; $10 Youth/Student)
Farrenc Overture No. 1
Strauss Four Last Songs
Heidi Moss Erickson, soprano
Grieg Peer Gynt Suites
Cubberley Theatre, Palo Alto ($20 General/Senior; $10 Youth/Student)
Philharmonic musicians and their friends in wind, string, and brass ensembles...
First Lutheran Church, Palo Alto ($20 General/Senior; $10 Youth/Student)
Frank Illapa
Ray Furuta, flute
Uebayashi Flute Concerto (excerpts)
Ray Furuta, flute
Beethoven Symphony No. 5
Cubberley Theatre, Palo Alto ($20 General/Senior; $10 Youth/Student)
Mozart Overture from “Marriage of Figaro"
Mozart Piano Concert No. 22
Sandra Wright Shen, piano
Delius A Village Romeo and Juliet: The Walk to the Paradise Garden
Tchaikovsy Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
Cubberley Theatre, Palo Alto ($20 General/Senior; $10 Youth/Student)
Philharmonic musicians and their friends in wind, string, and brass ensembles...
First Lutheran Church, Palo Alto ($20 General/Senior; $10 Youth/Student)
Copland Our Town
Coleridge-Taylor Symphonic Variations on an African Air
Dvořák Symphony No. 9 (“From the New World”)
Cubberley Theatre, Palo Alto ($20 General/Senior; $10 Youth/Student)
…featuring the young winners of our 2025 Concerto Movement Competition!
Cubberley Theatre, Palo Alto ($20 General/Senior; $10 Youth/Student)
Philharmonic musicians and their friends in wind, string, and brass ensembles...
First Lutheran Church, Palo Alto ($20 General/Senior; $10 Youth/Student)
Great symphonic music brings us together, stirs the soul, and ignites the imagination.
Join us in the transcendent experience of creating and hearing this extraordinary music live in concert, performed by talented musicians from within your community.
Next season will feature beloved works by Beethoven, Copland, Dvořák, Grieg, Mozart, Richard Strauss, and Tchaikovsky, and spotlights the music of Louise Farrenc, Gabriela Lena Frank, Yuko Uebayashi, Frederick Delius, and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. You’ll hear remarkable soloists, including soprano Heidi Moss Erickson, flutist Ray Furuta, and pianist Sandra Wright Shen. We’ll continue our well-received series of Chamber Music concerts (in November, March and June), and we’ll “kick off” our season with our popular Baroque Concert in September. Our season will culminate in our usual May Family Concert, featuring the young winners of our 2025 Concerto Movement Competition.
Whether reflecting on the past, speaking to the present, or framing the future, these remarkable composers and artists will bring you joy, passion, insight, and excitement.
In 1988, a group of musicians and lovers of classical music organized a new community-based orchestra in Palo Alto, with the goal of presenting an annual series of orchestral and chamber music concerts performed by local musicians and led by conductor Gideon Grau for a discriminating local audience.
Today, 35 seasons later, the orchestra is led by Music Director Lara Webber, assisted by Composer-in-Residence and Assistant Conductor Lee Actor.
The Palo Alto Philharmonic Association is a registered non-profit organization, governed by an all-volunteer Board of Directors. In addition to presenting musically stimulating concerts at reasonable prices and in venues convenient to many, the Philharmonic is dedicated to encouraging all — young and old — to perform and appreciate serious contemporary and classical music. Our members as well as our audience, come from all over the Bay Area to make and enjoy music together.
In addition to the four Orchestra Concerts that constitute the backbone of the season, there are two Chamber Concerts and a Family Concert. The Chamber Concerts are a mix of small instrumental groups, that include orchestra members and invited guest musicians. Over the years, a loyal following has attended these performances. Our most recent addition is our Baroque Concert, held at the beginning of each concert season in September. This concert, featuring chamber and small-ensemble music from the Baroque period, has been tremendously successful. Our Family Concert, at the close of each season in May, has attracted its own following. These concerts have featured winners of student concerto movement competitions, educational and musical journeys designed to interest and entertain young and old.
Ticket prices cover only a small percentage of our operating costs; a large part of our success is due to your generous donations.