Concerts
Thursday
September 18, 2008
8 PM
UC Berkeley Zellerbach Hall (Directions)

Kent Nagano
Berkeley Symphony
Kent Nagano, conductor

Maestro Nagano opens his 30th and final season as Music Director with Mozart's "Jupiter" Symphony and Bruckner's Symphony No. 7.

Wolfgang A. Mozart, Symphony No. 41,
  "Jupiter"
Anton Bruckner, Symphony No. 7

Plus, a 30th Anniversary musical surprise honoring Maestro Nagano's long tenure with the orchestra!

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Thursday
October 23, 2008
8 PM
UC Berkeley Zellerbach Hall (Directions)
William Eddins
Berkeley Symphony
William Eddins, conductor

William Eddins, currently Music Director of Canada's Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, opens with a trio of short selections from early 1900's France. Program also includes the U.S. premiere of Canadian composer Allan Gilliand's Rhapsody with Mr. Eddins on the piano, and Martinu's Symphony No. 1.

Germaine Tailleferre, Valse des Depeches
  (Waltz of the Dispatches)

Claude Debussy, La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin
  (Girl with Flaxen Hair)

Lili Boulanger, D'un Matin du Printemps
  (Of a Spring Morning)

Allan Gilliland, Rhapsody
  (U.S. Premiere)
  William Eddins, Piano
Bohuslav Martinu, Symphony No. 1

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Sunday
October 26, 2008
7 PM
St. John’s Presbyterian Church (DirectionsOffsite Link)
Under Construction
Under Construction
William Eddins, conductor

Berkeley Symphony's new music series. Watch and listen as the orchestra reads and performs new works by our Emerging Composers-in-Residence!


Sunday
November 16, 2008
7 PM
St. John's Presbyterian Church (DirectionsOffsite Link)
Under Construction
Under Construction II
Paul Haas, conductor

Berkeley Symphony's new music series. Watch and listen as the orchestra reads and performs new works by our Emerging Composers-in-Residence!


Thursday
November 20, 2008
8 PM
UC Berkeley Zellerbach Hall (Directions)
Paul Haas
Berkeley Symphony
Paul Haas, conductor

Paul Haas, Artistic Director of Sympho concert production company, presents Joshua Penman's Songs the Plants Taught Us, Samuel Barber's Violin Concerto, and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4. Featuring 2008 Sphinx Competition winner, violinist Danielle Belen NesmithOffsite Link.

Joshua Penman, Songs the Plants Taught 
  Us
(California Premiere)
Samuel Barber, Violin Concerto
  Danielle Belen Nesmith, violin
Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 4

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Sunday
December 14, 2008
7 PM
St. John's Presbyterian Church (DirectionsOffsite Link)
Under Construction
Under Construction III
Joana Carneiro, conductor

Berkeley Symphony's new music series. Watch and listen as the orchestra reads and performs new works by our Emerging Composers-in-Residence!


Thursday
December 18, 2008
8 PM
UC Berkeley Zellerbach Hall (Directions)
Joana Carneiro
Berkeley Symphony
Joana Carneiro, conductor

Joana Carneiro, sixth and final conductor in the orchestra's Music Director search, closes the season's Zellerbach Hall series with Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 and works by Magnus Lindberg and Berkeley's own John Adams. Ms. Carneiro is the Assistant Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Magnus Lindberg, Chorale
  (Bay Area Premiere)
John Adams, Shaker Loops
Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 5
  

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Sunday
May 17, 2009
7 PM
First Congregational Church of Berkeley (Directions)
Stuart Canin
Berkeley Akademie
Kent Nagano & Stuart Canin
Co-Artistic Directors
 
Led by Maestro Kent Nagano and concermaster Stuart Canin, musicians from Berkeley Symphony and Junge Deutsche PhilharmonieOffsite Link examine intimate repertoire.

Tobia M. Schneid, TBA (World Premiere)
Wolfgang A. Mozart, Divertimento, K. 136
Alexander Muno, TBA (World Premiere)
Johannes Brahms, Serenade No. 1 in
  D Major


Sunday
May 31, 2009
7 PM
First Congregational Church of Berkeley (Directions)

Kent Nagano
Berkeley Akademie
Kent Nagano & Stuart Canin,
Co-Artistic Directors
 
Final concert of Maestro Nagano's 30th anniversary season, featuring musicians from Berkeley Symphony and Junge Deutsche PhilharmonieOffsite Link.

J.S. Bach, Italian Concerto, BWV 971
Charles Ives, Symphony No. 3
Ludwig van Beethoven, Septet in E-flat
  Major, Op. 20


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