Our 37th season features optimistic, forward-looking music and is about Commitment; we are recommitting ourselves to music after a difficult year and we are also honoring our commitments to soloists originally scheduled for the 35th and 36th seasons.
Note: Because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, you will be asked to choose your seats at purchase time, which differs from our longstanding practice of general admission. Also, to obtain your preferred seats, you may wish to purchase tickets for individual concerts further in advance.
Please review our COVID-19 protocols before purchasing tickets.
**CANCELED** Season Opener: Undistant
Subscription concert
Sat September 25, 2021 at 8:00 pm
Cañada College Main Theater
4200 Farm Hill Blvd, Redwood City, CA 94061
- Gioachino Rossini William Tell Overture
- Mason Bates Undistant
West Coast premiere
- Johannes Brahms Violin Concerto
- Jassen Todorov, violin
We’re proud to open our season with the West Coast premiere of Mason Bates’s latest orchestral work, incorporating Beethoven’s Ode to Joy from his Ninth Symphony, to create a pandemic-inspired tonal portrait of isolation giving way to connection. Jassen Todorov will perform Brahms’s iconic Violin Concerto and what better way to celebrate freedom than with the William Tell Overture ? Heigh Ho! Please note: Maestro K’s preconcert lecture will be a video presentation that will be emailed to patrons a week before the concert.
Rendering Glass
Subscription concert
Sat November 20, 2021 at 7:45 pm
Facebook Live
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- Ludwig van Beethoven Leonore Overture #3
- Philip Glass Concerto for Saxophone Quartet and Orchestra
- Zēlos Quartet Saxophone quartet
- Luciano Berio Rendering for Orchestra
Two great contemporary works are featured on this concert. The Glass concerto has tunes that could be on the Top-10 pop charts. Berio’s moving reconstruction of Schubert’s final symphony (one of several left unfinished, including the famous “Unfinished” No. 8) is notable for what it doesn’t reconstruct; all gaps in the original manuscript are filled in with “scaffolding” of newly-composed, modern music, a moving and novel effect. This is a favorite of Eric K’s, and this will be the orchestra’s second performance.
Magic and Mystery
Subscription concert
Sat February 12, 2022 at 8:00 pm
Cañada College Main Theater
4200 Farm Hill Blvd, Redwood City, CA 94061
- Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 101 (“The Clock”)
- Astor Piazzolla (arr. Daniel Binelli and Kevin Gordon) Libertango
- Astor Piazzolla (arr. Pablo Ziegler) Introducción al Ángel
- Anna Maria Mendieta (arr. Kevin Gordon) Malagueña-Milonga
- Anna Maria Mendieta, harp
- Charles Ives (arr. William Schuman) Variations on “America”
Redwood Symphony presents three musical gems on Feb. 12. We will showcase Ives’ irreverent take on an American musical icon that will have you laughing out loud as well as Haydn’s Symphony No. 101, known informally as The Clock. And harp virtuoso Anna Maria Mendieta will delight with exotic tango music — by the great Piazzolla and her own composition.
Absolute Jest
Subscription concert
Sat April 9, 2022 at 8:00 pm
Cañada College Main Theater
4200 Farm Hill Blvd, Redwood City, CA 94061
- Aaron Copland An Outdoor Overture
- John Adams Absolute Jest
- Grace Note Chamber Players
- Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 2
Here is a concert of Beethoven and outsized mirth! Berkeley’s John Adams has crafted a unique kind of concerto—one for string quartet and orchestra—constructed out of scherzo themes from Beethoven’s symphonies and late string quartets. As a fitting companion piece, perhaps Beethoven’s funniest work: a vast symphony inspired by the humor of Haydn and Mozart’s comic operas.
Hand of Fate
Subscription concert
Sat June 4, 2022 at 8:00 pm
Cañada College Main Theater
4200 Farm Hill Blvd, Redwood City, CA 94061
- Amit Poznansky Suite from Footnote
- Maurice Ravel Concerto for the Left Hand
- Natalya Lundtvedt, piano
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4
Fate makes a three-fold appearance in this concert. The hilarious Israeli film Footnote mines a father-son rivalry for laughs—and what a wonderful score! Ravel wrote his powerful and jazz-inflected concerto for a soloist who lost his right hand in World War I. The concerto features a jaw-droppingly gymnastic solo part that creates the illusion of two hands. Following the model of Beethoven’s Fifth, Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony depicts a hard-won triumph over Fate, with some of the composer’s most gorgeous melodies and irresistible grandiosity.
Outdoor Concert: All John Williams
Special event
Sat June 25, 2022 at 7:00 pm
Redwood City Courthouse Square
2200 Broadway, Redwood City, CA 94063
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- John Williams March from “Raiders of the Lost Ark”
- John Williams Music from Jaws
- John Williams Adventures on Earth (From E.T.)
- John Williams “Devil’s Dance” from The Witches of Eastwick
- John Williams Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
- John Williams Star Wars Suite
- John Williams (arr. Calvin Custer) Highlights from “Jurassic Park”
The perfect summer weekend awaits with Redwood Symphony’s annual Free Outdoor Summer Concert this Saturday, June 25, at 7 p.m. in Redwood City Courthouse Square!…
Summer Magic
Special event
Sat July 23, 2022 at 8:00 pm
Cañada College Main Theater
4200 Farm Hill Blvd, Redwood City, CA 94061
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The Magic Flute Overture
- Niccolò Paganini Violin Concerto No. 1
- Alexander Eisenberg, violin
- Various (arr. Nathan Ladyzhensky) Tangos, Tangos
- Alexander Eisenberg, violin
- Maurice Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin
It’s always a joy to explore the more transparent and intimate sounds of a chamber orchestra. This concert features a wide range of color and mood, from the high spirits coupled with solemnity of late Mozart through the flamboyant and theatrical violin pyrotechnics of Paganini to the crystalline wind and harp colors of Ravel’s great tribute to Baroque music.