Concerts
Thursday
September 23, 2010
7 PM Note early start time!
UC Berkeley Zellerbach Hall (Directions)

Joana Carneiro
Jennifer Koh
The Forward-Looking Violin
Joana Carneiro, Music Director

Beethoven, Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61
Jennifer Koh, violin
Adams, Violin Concerto
Jennifer Koh, violin

Contrasting concertos by two of the most famous composers of yesterday and today open the season. Berkeley's own John Adams begins his work with a free, fantastical "endless melody," followed by soloist Jennifer KohOffsite Link playing the part of a "dream" flowing through the heartbeat of the orchestral "body."

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Saturday
November 20, 2010
9:30 am & 11:00 am
Malcom X Elementary School Auditorium
Family Concert
Berkeley Symphony Family Concert
Ming Luke, conductor
 

Meet the Symphony and join in the music-making in these fun, interactive and educational one-hour concerts designed for all ages! A perfect complement to Berkeley Symphony’s award-winning Music in the Schools program.


Thursday
December 2, 2010
8 PM
UC Berkeley Zellerbach Hall (Directions)

Rachel Calloway
Enrico Chapela
Música de Amor
Joana Carneiro, Music Director

Enrico Chapela, New Work (World Premiere)
Peter Lieberson, Neruda Songs
Rachel Calloway, mezzo-soprano
Manuel de Falla, El amor brujo

As the first commission of her tenure, Joana has chosen 36-year-old Mexican composer Enrico Chapela. Peter Lieberson selected love sonnets by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda for his song cycle written for his late wife, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. Resident artist Rachel Calloway concludes with de Falla's Love, Magician, a work in the style of Spanish gypsies which includes the exciting "Ritual Fire Dance."


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Sunday
January 16, 2011
7 PM
St. John's Presbyterian Church (Directions)

Under Construction
Under Construction
Joana Carneiro, Music Director

Program TBA

Witness the creation and transformation of new works by three Bay Area emerging composers as Berkeley Symphony brings their music to life.  Plus, don't miss your chance to speak with the composers and Music Director, Joana Carneiro, in the Q&A sessions.


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Thursday
January 20, 2011
8 PM
UC Berkeley Zellerbach Hall (Directions)

Du Yun
Landscapes of Sound
Joana Carneiro, Music Director

Du Yun, TBA (World Premiere)
Messiaen, Oiseaux exotiques (Exotic Birds)
Natasha Paremski, piano
Beethoven, Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, Pastoral

A new work for string orchestra by Shanghai-born composer Du YunOffsite Link, a work inspired by birdsong master, French composer Olivier Messaien (of whom Berkeley Symphony under Kent Nagano has long been a champion), and Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony comprise this colorful program.

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Thursday
March 10, 2011
8 PM
UC Berkeley Zellerbach Hall (Directions)

James MacMillan
Life's Inspirations
Joana Carneiro, Music Director

Stravinsky, Concerto in E-flat, Dumbarton Oaks
Shostakovich, Chamber Symphony, Op. 110a
James MacMillan, Seven Last Words from the Cross (West Coast Premiere); with featured chorus

Only music can express life's greatest mysteries. Stravinsky's Concerto in E-flat, inspired by Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, helped the composer cope with the loss of his loved ones. Shostakovich's Chamber Symphony was written in the fire-bombed city of Dresden and was "dedicated to the victims of fascism and war." Scottish composer James MacMillanOffsite Link's choral masterpiece is a supremely moving setting of the last seven utterances of Christ.

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Sunday
March 13, 2011
7 PM
St. John's Presbyterian Church (Directions)

Under Construction
Under Construction
Joana Carneiro, Music Director

Program TBA

Witness the creation and transformation of new works by three Bay Area emerging composers as Berkeley Symphony brings their music to life.  Plus, don't miss your chance to speak with the composers and Music Director, Joana Carneiro, in the Q&A sessions. 

 

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Saturday
May 7, 2011
9:30 am & 11:00 am
Malcolm X Elementary School Auditorium
Family Concert
Berkeley Symphony Family Concert
Ming Luke, conductor
 

Meet the Symphony and join in the music-making in these fun, interactive and educational one-hour concerts designed for all ages! A perfect complement to Berkeley Symphony’s award-winning Music in the Schools program.



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