2010-2011 Concert Season

The Philharmonic opens the 2010-11 season on Saturday, September 18, with a special Concert of Baroque Music, at the Palo Alto Art Center Auditorium. Music Director Thomas Shoebotham leads a select chamber orchestra in music by European composers from the 17th and 18th centuries.

The first full orchestra concert (October 30th) features Sandra Wright Shen playing Ravel's Piano Concerto in G Major. The concert also includes Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 2 by Prokofiev, Danse Macabre by Saint-Saens, and A Field in Pennsylvania by Bay Area Composer Nancy Bloomer Deussen.

The Fall Chamber concert at the Palo Alto Arts Center, on November 20th will feature Serenade for Winds and Terzetto for two violins and viola by Dvořák.

On December 11, The Philharmonic presents an All Beethoven concert: the Coriolan Overture, Symphony No. 6 ("Pastoral"), and the Violin Concerto in D Major, performed by Victor Romasevich.

For the season's third concert, February 19, 2011, the Philharmonic plays Mahler's Symphony No. 4. Soprano Nanette McGuinness will be the soloist in the Mahler and will also perform the Songs of the Auvergne, Book 1 by the 19th century French composer Joseph Canteloube.

The Spring Chamber Concert on March 12th will be performed in Cubberley Room M-2

The season's fourth concert on April 9 and April 10 features horn soloist Bernhard Scully playing Concerto for Horn and Orchestra by the Philharmonic's Composer-in-Residence, Lee Actor. This concert also includes the popular L'Arlesienne Suite No. 1 by Bizet; Serenade for Strings by Elgar; and, Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussorgsky.

The season finale on May 15 will be the Family Concert showcasing the winners of the 2010 Concerto Movement Competition.