2009-2010 Concert Season

Csaba Onczay, Cellist

Conductor and Music Director Thomas Shoebotham will lead the Palo Alto Philharmonic in an exciting new season beginning October 24, 2009. The first concert will celebrate the Hungarian Cultural Year featuring Hungarian cellist, Csaba Onczay playing Ernst von Dohnányi's Konzertstück for cello and orchestra. Béla Bartók's Hungarian Sketches, Zoltán Kodály's Hary Janos Suite, and Beethoven's Overture to King Stephen are also on this program.

The December 5, 2009, concert will begin with the Carmen Suite No.1 by Bizet, to be followed by Howard Hanson's Symphony No. 2 (Romantic). The second half will start with Fanfare from La Péri by Paul Dukas and conclude with Johannes Brahms' Double Concerto with Claudia Bloom, violin, and Thomas Shoebotham, cello.

Daniel Glover, Pianist

The season's third concert, February 20, 2010, features piano soloist Daniel Glover performing both the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in C# minor by Rimsky-Korsakov and Concerto No.1 for Piano and Orchestra in Db Major by Prokofiev. This concert opens with Siegfried's Rhine Journey by Richard Wagner and concludes witih Enigma Variations by Edward Elgar.

For the fourth concert of the season the Philharmonic performs a work commissioned by the orchestra from composer-in-residence Lee Actor. This world premiere will be conducted by the composer and will be presented at two venues on April 10 and April 11, 2010. Also on this program, Maestro Shoebotham will lead the orchestra in Dvorák's Romance for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 11 with violinst Heidi Kim and Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 (Eroica).