Category: Performances

Stanford Summer Symphony Performs Works By Florence Price, Vaughan Williams, Saint-Saëns, and Debussy

On Friday, July 29, 2022, the Stanford Summer Symphony performed to an enthusiastic and appreciative audience at the Bing Concert Hall, under the direction of Paul Phillips. The program featured Symphony No. 5 in D Major by Ralph Vaughn Williams, Camille Saint-Saëns’ Violin Concerto No. 3 with Lisa Saito, violin soloist, and Claude Debussy’s Rapsodie… Read more Stanford Summer Symphony Performs Works By Florence Price, Vaughan Williams, Saint-Saëns, and Debussy

SSO Performs Hailstork's Epitaph for a Man Who Dreamed & Mahler's Symphony No. 2 with Metropolitan Opera Competition Winner

On May 13 & 15, the Stanford Symphony Orchestra and Stanford Symphonic Chorus will perform Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 in C minor, “Resurrection”, under the direction of Paul Phillips. The vocal soloists in the Mahler are soprano Esther Tonea and alto Malin Fritz Walrod. On May 1, Esther Tonea, an Adler Fellow at SF Opera, was selected on… Read more SSO Performs Hailstork's Epitaph for a Man Who Dreamed & Mahler's Symphony No. 2 with Metropolitan Opera Competition Winner

Stanford Philharmonia Performs at the Bermuda Festival of the Performing Arts

Over Spring Break, Stanford Philharmonia traveled to Bermuda to perform at the 2022 Bermuda Festival of the Performing Arts. Led by music director Paul Phillips, the concerts featured violinists Roger Xia ’24 and Richard Cheung ’24 performing Symphonie Concertante in G Major by the Chevalier de Saint-Georges (March 24), Stanford alumna Caroline Campbell performing a program of works featuring… Read more Stanford Philharmonia Performs at the Bermuda Festival of the Performing Arts

Stanford Symphony Orchestra performs Walker, Walton, and The Rite of Spring

On March 4 & 5, Stanford Symphony Orchestra performed Igor Stravinsky’s epic ballet score The Rite of Spring. These Winter Concerts, conducted by music director Paul Phillips, celebrated the centenary of the birth of George Walker with a performance of his composition Icarus in Orbit and featured Concerto Competition winner Addison Jadwin ’23 as viola soloist in William Walton’s Concerto for Viola… Read more Stanford Symphony Orchestra performs Walker, Walton, and The Rite of Spring