2022-23 Season

SPRING 2023

SSO SPRING CONCERT

Friday, 19 May 2023 · 7:30 pm · Bing Concert Hall
Saturday, 20 May 2023 · 7:30 pm · Bing Concert Hall
Stanford Symphony Orchestra · Paul Phillips, conductor
Roger Xia ’24, piano · 2023 Concerto Competition winner


JENNIFER HIGDON Cold Mountain Suite California Premiere
SERGEI RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor
HECTOR BERLIOZ Symphonie Fantastique

SP SPRING CONCERT

Saturday, 13 May 2023 · 7:30 pm · Bing Concert Hall
Stanford Philharmonia · Paul Phillips, conductor
Jenny Xiong ’24, flute · Daniel Sun ’25, flute · 2023 Concerto Competition winners
Zachary Lin ’26, alto saxophone · 2023 Concerto Competition winner


ROBERT SCHUMANN Manfred Overture
FRANZ DOPPLER Concerto for Two Flutes in D Minor
ANDRÉ WAIGNEIN Rhapsody for Saxophone and Orchestra
JEAN SIBELIUS Symphony No. 7 in C Major


WINTER 2023

SSO-SSC JOINT WINTER CONCERT

Friday, 10 March 2023 · 7:30 pm · Bing Concert Hall
Sunday, 12 May 2023 · 2:30 pm · Bing Concert Hall
Stanford Symphony Orchestra · Paul Phillips, conductor
Stanford Symphonic Chorus · Steve Sano, director
Christopher Costanza, cello soloist
Samantha Williams, mezzo soprano · Alexander Taite, tenor · Wilford Kelly, baritone


MAURICE RAVEL Alborada del Gracioso
RICHARD STRAUSS Don Quixote
ADOLPHUS HAILSTORK A Knee On the Neck

SP WINTER CONCERT

Friday, 24 Feb 2023 · 7:30 pm · Bing Concert Hall
Stanford Philharmonia · Paul Phillips, conductor
Francisco Fullana, violin soloist


RICHARD WAGNER Siegfried Idyll
CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS Violin Concerto No. 3 in B Minor
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 6 in F Major, “Pastorale”

FALL 2022

Akademische Orchester der Universität Stuttgart North America Tour Finale / Stanford Symphony Orchestra Joint Concert

Saturday, 1 October 2022 · 7:30 PM · Bing Concert Hall
Akademische Orchester der Universität Stuttgart · Mihály Zeke, conductor
Stanford Symphony Orchestra · Paul Phillips, conductor

JOHANNES BRAHMS Tragic Overture, op. 81
BÉLA BARTÓK Viola Concerto
JOHN WILLIAMS Theme from Jurassic Park
ROBERT SCHUMANN Symphony No. 4 in D minor, op. 120
JOHANNES BRAHMS Academic Festival Overture, op. 80

Annual Halloween Concert

Friday, 28 October 2022· Dinkelspiel Auditorium
Stanford Symphony Orchestra · Paul Phillips, conductor
Stanford Wind Symphony · Giancarlo Aquilanti, conductor


RANDY NEWMAN “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” from Toy Story
AARON COPLAND Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo
with Jonathan Pak, Avi Gupta, Howard Qin, and Griffin Miller conducting
MICHAEL ABELS Global Warming
and selections by the Stanford Wind Symphony

Stanford Philharmonia Fall Concert

Stanford Philharmonia · Paul Phillips, conductor

FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN Symphony No. 95 in C minor
MAURICE RAVEL Pavane for a Dead Princess
ADAM SCHOENBERG Finding Rothko
ALFRED SCHNITTKE Concerto for Piano and Strings
Elizabeth Schumann, piano soloist

Stanford Symphony Orchestra Fall Concerts 

Friday, 2 December 2022 · 7:30 PM · Bing Concert Hall
Sunday, 4 December 2022 · 2:30 PM · Bing Concert Hall
Paul Phillips, Conductor


GIUSEPPE VERDI   Overture to La Forza del Destino
MICHAEL ABELS   Global Warming
EDWARD ELGAR   Cello Concerto in E Minor, op. 85
Jessica Lee ’24, cellist · 2022 Concerto Competition Winner
PAUL PHILLIPS   Go Perfect Into Peace
LUKAS FOSS   Symphony No. 1 (celebrating the 100th anniversary of the composer’s birth)

Holiday Musicale

Saturday, 3 Dec 2022· 2:30 PM· Memorial Church
Stanford Philharmonia · Paul Phillips, conductor
Stanford Chamber Chorale · Stephen Sano, conductor

JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU  Ballet Suite (arr. Felix Mottl)
CLAUDE DEBUSSY  La fille aux cheveux de lin (arr. Paul Phillips)
GEORG FREDERICK HANDEL  Harp Concerto in B-flat major, Op. 4, No. 6
Renee Qin ’24, harpist
JOHN RUTTER   Star Carol
HUGH MacKINNON   Sleeps Judea