Ice Cream Social

5:00 pm @ Palo Alto JCC

THE TALENT IS SERVED A LA MODE

All-you-can-eat ice cream party and concert featuring GSYO Beginning and Intermediate Ensembles. Come for the music and stay for the ice cream!

Sinfonietta Spring Dance

7:30 pm @ Visual and Performing Arts Center, De Anza College

John Eells, Conductor

From Norway to Naples

Artful and expressive, the orchestral works by Berlioz, Debussy, Saint-Saens, and Grieg draw inspiration from poetry, folk song, and dance.

• BERLIOZ “Hungarian March” from The Damnation of Faust
• DEBUSSY Selections from Petite Suite
• SAINT-SAENS Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso; Jade Zhang, violin
• GRIEG Symphonic Dances

Symphony Season Finale

7:00 pm @ California Theatre

Dr. Jindong Cai, Conductor

Tales & Legends

Acclaimed soloist Emil Miland joins the Symphony for a passionate performance of Schelomo: Rhapsodie Hébraïque by Ernest Bloch, inspired by the story of King Solomon. A virtuosic work for cello and orchestra, Bloch’s masterpiece is emotionally thrilling and spiritually satisfying.

• BLOCH Schelomo: Rhapsodie Hébraïque; Emil Miland, cello
• VOLKERT Fanfare for Golden State Youth Orchestra
• COPLAND Appalachian Spring
• GERSHWIN Porgy and Bess Symphonic Picture

Symphony Bon Voyage Concert

7:30 pm @ Menlo-Atherton Performing Arts Center

Dr. Jindong Cai, Conductor

Baltic Tour Preview

Join us for a local preview of the exciting program we will perform in Stockholm, Helsinki, St. Petersburg and Moscow. Rising piano star Vladislav Kern is our soloist in Tchaikovsky’s first piano concerto.

• TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1; Vladislav Kern, piano
• RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Russian Easter Overture
• COPLAND Appalachian Spring
• GERSHWIN Porgy and Bess Symphonic Picture

Summer Conservatory at GSYO

All Day @ First Presbyterian Church

Recommended for musicians ages 6-14

GSYO invites members and non-members to participate in the acclaimed Golden State Youth Orchestra Summer Music Conservatory Program. From Beginning Orchestra, the ideal “first orchestra” experience, to Intermediate Chamber Orchestra and Chamber Winds for advanced-intermediate students, this two-week workshop is a great way to stay tuned up over the summer. The Summer Conservatory will conclude with an evening concert on July 26 at 7:00 pm.

All programs are weekdays, Monday – Friday; students participate both weeks.

Conservatory classes are held at the First Presbyterian Church of Palo Alto.