Message from the Maestro
Dear Valued Patrons,
I’m very excited about our upcoming 38th season! We’re counting on a return to “business as usual” for our concerts for 2022–2023!
Our soloists include Jonah Kim in the Bay Area premiere of Mason Bates’ virtuoso showcase, Cello Concerto, and Miranda Liu in Shostakovich’s powerful Violin Concerto No. 1. Louise Costigan-Kerns will be featured in one of Mozart’s most magical works, Piano Concerto No. 17 in G.
We’re planning a Sondheim show for next season, too, and it will be our biggest event in many years. Details coming in September!
Other highlights:
- The orchestra continues to explore composers who are from underrepresented groups with music by Florence Price, Rain Worthington and William Grant Still.
- In addition to Bates and Worthing- ton, another contemporary work to be performed is the local premiere of the great Steven Reich’s latest orchestral piece, Music for Ensemble and Orchestra.
- Our third complete Mahler cycle returns with the Fourth Symphony, with the moving soprano solo describing Heaven as a food paradise.
- Redwood Symphony’s signature Halloween Concert returns, including our famous Tour of the Orchestra, a one-hour concert with a group conducting lesson and a few lucky kids on my podium conducting the orchestra. Everyone will be in costume!
Please consider supporting the orchestra — and save money on your season tickets — by subscribing to our five-concert season. We’re very grateful to our friends for their generous and loyal support for the region’s most adventurous and innovative community orchestra!
Best wishes and hope to see you soon,
~Maestro Eric K
Please Note
We are now providing reserved seating for your convenience. Please select your seat at time of purchase.
38th Season Opener
Series concert
Sat September 24, 2022 at 8:00 pm
Cañada College Main Theater
4200 Farm Hill Blvd, Redwood City, CA 94061
- Florence Beatrice Price Ethiopia’s Shadow in America
- Steve Reich Music for Ensemble and Orchestra
- Jean Sibelius Symphony No. 3
This concert features the local premiere of the great Steve Reich’s latest orchestral piece. We open with a rediscovered work by the 20th century Black composer Florence Price, and close with a symphony which set a mark for the rest Sibelius’s career.
Halloween Family Concert 2022
Special concert
Sun October 30, 2022 at 3:00 pm
Cañada College Main Theater
4200 Farm Hill Blvd, Redwood City, CA 94061
Our Halloween Family Concert is finally back after a three-year hiatus! Children are invited to come in costume (the orchestra will be too!), tour the sections of the orchestra and get a chance to conduct! Order early! It usually sells out.
Mmmmm… HEAVEN!
Series concert
Sat November 19, 2022 at 8:00 pm
Cañada College Main Theater
4200 Farm Hill Blvd, Redwood City, CA 94061
- Claude Debussy Nocturnes
- Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 4
- Ariel Estebez, soprano
Our third complete Mahler cycle returns with the Fourth Symphony, with the moving soprano solo describing Heaven as a food paradise.
Dances with Toys
Series concert
Sun February 12, 2023 at 2:00 pm
Cañada College Main Theater
4200 Farm Hill Blvd, Redwood City, CA 94061
- Victor Herbert March of the Toys
Conducted by Kyle Baldwin
- Mason Bates Cello Concerto
- Jonah Kim, cello
- J.S. Bach (arr. Leopold Stokowski) Toccata and Fugue in D minor
- Arturo Márquez Danzon No. 2
Redwood Symphony features cellist Jonah Kim in Mason Bates’ Cello Concerto, a virtuoso showcase!
Follies in Concert
Series concert
Sat April 15, 2023 at 8:00 pm
Cañada College Main Theater
4200 Farm Hill Blvd, Redwood City, CA 94061
Sun April 16, 2023 at 2:00 pm
Cañada College Main Theater
4200 Farm Hill Blvd, Redwood City, CA 94061
- Stephen Sondheim Follies
Formerly billed as “Sondheim Surprise Musical” because of contractual requirements, Redwood Symphony presents Follies in concert format, directed by Debra Lambert. It will be offered both Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon.
Shredding Glass
Series concert
Sat June 3, 2023 at 8:00 pm
pre-concert talk at 7:00 pm
Cañada College Main Theater
4200 Farm Hill Blvd, Redwood City, CA 94061
- Aaron Copland Fanfare for the Common Man
- Rain Worthington Shredding Glass
Conducted by Kyle Baldwin
- Dmitry Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 1
- Miranda Liu, violin
- Georges Bizet L’Arlésienne Suite
- Maurice Ravel Bolero
Our final subscription concert of the season opens with the iconic Fanfare for the Common Man, followed by a musical recollection of 9/11/2001, and concludes with French blockbusters. In the middle we bring back the brilliant violinist Miranda Liu with Shostakovich’s First Violin Concerto.
Summer Outdoor Concert 2023
Special concert
Sat June 24, 2023 at 7:00 pm
Redwood City Courthouse Square
2200 Broadway, Redwood City, CA 94063
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- Aaron Copland Fanfare for the Common Man
- Leonard Bernstein Candide Overture
Conducted by Kyle Baldwin
- Felix Mendelssohn Violin Concerto
- Claudia Bloom, violin
- Edvard Grieg Morning (from Peer Gynt Suite)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture
Our hugely popular amplified concert on the Courthouse steps!
2023 Midsummer Classics
Special concert
Sat July 29, 2023 at 8:00 pm
pre-concert talk at 7:00 pm
Cañada College Main Theater
4200 Farm Hill Blvd, Redwood City, CA 94061
- William Grant Still Danzas de Panama
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Concerto No. 17 in G, K. 453
- Louise Costigan-Kerns, piano
- Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 4
Classics from Beethoven and Mozart plus the work of African American composer William Grant Still.
Single ticket pricing
- Adults:
$30 advance / $35 box office - Seniors:
$25 advance / $30 box office - Students with ID: $10
- Children under 18: FREE when accompanied by paid Adult or Senior ticket holder
- Cañada Affiliate: FREE with ID
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Questions: info [at] Redwoodsymphony.org
Order by phone at 650-366-6872.
Please leave a voicemail and we will return your call shortly.
*Note this number does not receive texts.
Questions: info [at] Redwoodsymphony.org