2011-2012 Season
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All concert programming, dates, guest artists are subject to change.
Santa Barbara Youth Symphony Children's Concert
Saturday, March 3, 2012 at 2:00PM - 3:00PM
Santa Barbara Zoo
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The Santa Barbara Youth Symphony, Junior Strings and String Workshop students are featured in this special outdoors Children's Concert at the Santa Barbara Zoo! Bring the whole family for a fun day of animals and music! The Music Van (aka our instrument petting zoo) will be there for kids (and adults too) to try out different instruments.
Concert is free with Santa Barbara Zoo admission. Click here for more information about the Santa Barbara Zoo.
Andy Radford, Youth Symphony Music Director
Marisa McLeod, Junior Strings Conductor
- Mozart: Eine Kliene
- Saint-Saëns:The Carnival of the Animals
- Sibelius: Finlandia
- Mission Impossible
- Kinetic Energy
Santa Barbara Youth Symphony Spring Concert
Sunday, March 11, 2012 at 3:00PM - 5:00PM
Lobero Theatre
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Experience the talented young musicians of the Santa Barbara Youth Symphony in concert at the Lobero Theatre. Jessica Kozachuk, concerto winner, performs Chaminade's Concertino for Flute and Orchestra and more!
Andy Radford, Music Director
Jessica Kozachuk, Flute
- Chaminade: Concertino for Flute and Orchestra
- Nikolai: Overture to Merry Wives of Windsor
- Dvorak: Czech Suite
- Sibelius: Findlandia
Latin Passion - Evening
Saturday, March 17, 2012 at 8:00PM - 10:00PM
The Granada Theatre
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Derived from the famous ballet “The Three-Cornered Hat”, this orchestral suite brings thrilling Andalusian folk music to the stage. And Bizet's Carmen is re-scored by Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin. With Daugherty and Moncayo, you will hear colorful and bright contemporary music led by guest conductor, Carlos Miguel Prieto, famed for his dynamism, and rising Canadian violin star, Alexandre Da Costa.
Carlos Miguel Prieto, Guest Conductor
Alexandre Da Costa, Violin
- De Falla Three Dances from "The Three Cornered Hat"
- Michael Daugherty Fire & Blood
- Bizet-Shchedrin Carmen Suite
- Moncayo Huapango
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Mary Beth Larkin and Chris Lancashire |
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Latin Passion - Matinee
Sunday, March 18, 2012 at 3:00PM - 5:00PM
The Granada Theatre
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Derived from the famous ballet “The Three-Cornered Hat”, this orchestral suite brings thrilling Andalusian folk music to the stage. And Bizet's Carmen is re-scored by Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin. With Daugherty and Moncayo, you will hear colorful and bright contemporary music led by guest conductor, Carlos Miguel Prieto, famed for his dynamism, and rising Canadian violin star, Alexandre Da Costa.
Carlos Miguel Prieto, Guest Conductor
Alexandre Da Costa, Violin
- De Falla Three Dances from "The Three Cornered Hat"
- Michael Daugherty Fire & Blood
- Bizet-Shchedrin Carmen Suite
- Moncayo Huapango
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Mozart Coronation Mass - Evening
Saturday, April 21, 2012 at 8:00PM - 10:00PM
The Granada Theatre
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Experience this exciting collaboration of the Santa Barbara Symphony and Santa Barbara Choral Society in the famous "Coronation" Mass, one of Mozart’s most radiating works, sparkling with color and energetic drive. The Mass is complemented by Tchaikovsky’s Serenade, a beautiful homage to Mozart’s serenades, and the Study for String Orchestra by Pavel Haas was written during World War II in the Terezin concentration camp.
Nir Kabaretti, Conductor
TBA, Soprano
Nina Yoshida Nelsen, Mezzo-soprano
Benjamin Brecher, Tenor
DeAndre Simmons, Bass
with the Santa Barbara Choral Society
JoAnne Wasserman, Director
- Haas Study for String Orchestra
- Tchaikovsky Serenade for Strings Op. 48
- Mozart "Coronation" Mass
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Dick and Marilyn Mazess |
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Mozart Coronation Mass - Matinee
Sunday, April 22, 2012 at 3:00PM - 5:00PM
The Granada Theatre
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Experience this exciting collaboration of the Santa Barbara Symphony and Santa Barbara Choral Society in the famous "Coronation" Mass, one of Mozart’s most radiating works, sparkling with color and energetic drive. The Mass is complemented by Tchaikovsky’s Serenade, a beautiful homage to Mozart’s serenades, and the Study for String Orchestra by Pavel Haas was written during World War II in the Terezin concentration camp.
Nir Kabaretti, Conductor
TBA, Soprano
Nina Yoshida Nelsen, Mezzo-soprano
Benjamin Brecher, Tenor
DeAndre Simmons, Bass
with the Santa Barbara Choral Society
JoAnne Wasserman, Music Director
- Haas Study for String Orchestra
- Tchaikovsky Serenade for Strings Op. 48
- Mozart "Coronation" Mass
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Dvořák Symphony 8 - Evening
Saturday, May 12, 2012 at 8:00PM - 10:00PM
The Granada Theatre
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The season closes with a new composition by Grammy® award-winning Argentinean composer, Osvaldo Golijov--a mixture of melancholy and optimism, followed by Mozart's Concerto for Horn No. 2, a chase between the orchestra and the soloist. In closing, delight in Dvořák's warm, spontaneous symphonic masterpiece full of poetic moments and exuberant folk music.
Nir Kabaretti, Conductor
Teag Reaves, Horn
- Golijov Sidereus (Henry Fogel Commission Consortium)
- Mozart Horn Concerto No. 2
- Dvořák Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88
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Dvořák Symphony 8 - Matinee
Sunday, May 13, 2012 at 3:00PM - 5:00PM
The Granada Theatre
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The season closes with a new composition by Grammy® award-winning Argentinean composer, Osvaldo Golijov--a mixture of melancholy and optimism, followed by Mozart's Concerto for Horn No. 2, a chase between the orchestra and the soloist. In closing, delight in Dvořák's warm, spontaneous symphonic masterpiece full of poetic moments and exuberant folk music.
Nir Kabaretti, Conductor
Teag Reaves, Horn
- Golijov Sidereus (Henry Fogel Commission Consortium)
- Mozart Horn Concerto No. 2
- Dvořák Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88
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