Symphony
Winter Concert: Soloist Showcase and Music and Dance
Saturday, March 9, 2013
8 p.m. Harman Hall, Performing Arts Center
The Cal Poly Symphony’s Winter Concert is a collaborative performance celebrating the talents of student soloists and the members of the university’s Orchesis Dance Company.
The Student Soloist Showcase will include performances by winners of the Music Department’s Solo Competition -- three instrumentalists and one vocalist, all music majors. The instrumentalists will perform diverse repertoire from two musical eras.
They include Mario Ojeda, who will play Wofgang Amadeus Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3 in G, first movement; Andrew Arensman, who will play Mozart’s Horn Concerto No. 4 in E-flat, first movement; and Dylan Weddle, who will play Henri Tomasi’s Concerto for Trumpet, first movement.
Vocalist Allison Chang will sing “Voi che sapete” from Mozart’s “Le nozze di Figaro.”
The program will also feature Bedrich Smetana’s “Vltava” and Arturo Márquez’s “Danzón No. 2.” Both works will feature classical and modern dance choreography performed by Orchesis, Cal Poly’s oldest concert dance organization.
Music Department faculty member Christopher J. Woodruff will conduct the program. Theatre and Dance Department faculty members Diana Stanton and Michelle Walter choreographed the dances.
Tickets ($14 and $12 general, $12 and $9 seniors and students)
Cal Poly Open House Concert
Friday, April 19, 2013
8 p.m. Harman Hall, Performing Arts Center
After an exciting day at Cal Poly’s Open House, come and enjoy an evening of live entertainment by three of the Music Department’s finest instrumental ensembles:
- University Jazz Band
- Symphony
- Wind Ensemble
Tickets ($14 and $12 general, $12 and $9 seniors and students)
Spring Concert: Music and Word
Saturday, June 1, 2013
8 p.m. Harman Hall, Performing Arts Center
The final event on the symphony’s year of collaboration will feature music inspired by the written word. Josh Machamer, a Cal Poly distinguished teacher and associate chair of the Theatre and Dance Department, will join the symphony to narrate Prokofiev’s classic tale of adventure, “Peter and the Wolf.” The symphony will then spin the tale of "1001 Nights" in Rimsky-Korsakov’s orchestral masterpiece “Scheherazade.”
- Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf
- Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
Tickets ($14 and $12 general, $12 and $9 seniors and students)