Here’s a teaser for our upcoming season. Programs and performers are subject to change.
Please note that the start time for evening concerts is changing to 7:30 PM, with the preconcert talk at 6:15 PM.
Series concert tickets may be purchased either as a subscription or as individual performances.
Special concerts are not included in season ticket packages.
Virtuosi!
Series concert
Sat September 27, 2025 at 7:30 pm
pre-concert talk at 6:45 pm
Cañada College Main Theater
4200 Farm Hill Blvd, Redwood City, CA 94061
- Kirke Mechem The Jayhawk: Overture to a Mythical Comedy
- Sergey Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 2
- Daniel Glover, piano
- Béla Bartók Concerto for Orchestra
Redwood Symphony is delighted to begin its fifth decade by celebrating the 100th birthday of – and with – our friend, Kirke Mechem, featuring his…
Halloween Family Concert 2025
Special concert
Sun October 26, 2025 at 3:00 pm
Cañada College Main Theater
4200 Farm Hill Blvd, Redwood City, CA 94061
- Stephen Schwartz Suite from “Wicked”
- Paul Dukas The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
- Danny Elfman The Nightmare Before Christmas Suite
- John Williams The Imperial March (Darth Vader’s Theme)
Kids – and adults – will love this concert, which starts with a Tour of the Orchestra and concludes with a group conducting lesson (free…
1985-2025 40th anniversary with Mason Bates!
Series concert
Sat November 22, 2025 at 7:30 pm
pre-concert talk at 6:45 pm
Cañada College Main Theater
4200 Farm Hill Blvd, Redwood City, CA 94061
- Emmanuel Chabrier España
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
- Karen Bentley Pollick, violin
- Mason Bates Alternative Energy
- Mason Bates, electronica
From Music Director Eric Kujawsky: I founded Redwood Symphony in October 1985 and here I am, forty years later, looking forward to many more years…
Brahms’ “Fifth”
Series concert
Sat February 21, 2026 at 8:00 pm
pre-concert talk at 7:00 pm
Cañada College Main Theater
4200 Farm Hill Blvd, Redwood City, CA 94061
- Gabriela Ortiz Kauyumari
Conducted by Kyle Baldwin
- Alberto Ginastera Harp Concerto
- Anna Maria Mendieta, harp
- Johannes Brahms (arr. Peter Klatzgow) Symphony no. “5” (String Quintet Op. 111)
Redwood Symphony is thrilled to present this concert, as well as the following one on April 18. Both concerts feature works that are not very…
Rarely-Heard Gems
Series concert
Sat April 18, 2026 at 7:30 pm
pre-concert talk at 6:15 pm
Cañada College Main Theater
4200 Farm Hill Blvd, Redwood City, CA 94061
- J.S. Bach (arr. Ottorino Respighi) Prelude and Fugue in D, BWV 532
- Gustav Mahler Kindertotenlieder
- Kindra Scharich, mezzo-soprano
- Witold Lutosławski Symphony No. 3
Redwood Symphony presents three unique musical visions, grand and intimate. Respighi’s spectacular arrangement of Bach’s organ work is perhaps the best of its kind. I’m…
A Little Night Music in Concert
Series concert
Sat May 30, 2026 at 8:00 pm
Cañada College Main Theater
4200 Farm Hill Blvd, Redwood City, CA 94061
Sun May 31, 2026 at 2:00 pm
Cañada College Main Theater
4200 Farm Hill Blvd, Redwood City, CA 94061
- Stephen Sondheim (arr. Jonathan Tunick) A Little Night Music
West Coast premiere
This will be the West Coast premiere of a brand new opera orchestra-sized arrangement by the show’s original orchestrator, Jonathan Tunick. These performances will include the entire wonderfully literate and witty show, with dialogue and clowns (we’re sending in all of them!).
Outdoor Concert 2026
Special concert
Sat June 27, 2026 at 8:00 pm
Redwood City Courthouse Square
2200 Broadway, Redwood City, CA 94063
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- Elmer Bernstein Theme from The Magnificent Seven
- Kenneth J. Alford (arr. ) Colonel Bogey March
- Leonard Bernstein March from The Great Escape
Conducted by Kyle Baldwin
- Antonin Dvorák Symphony No. 9 (“New World”)
Chamber Orchestra Concert 2026
Special concert
Sat July 25, 2026 at 7:30 pm
pre-concert talk at 6:45 pm
Cañada College Main Theater
4200 Farm Hill Blvd, Redwood City, CA 94061
- Sergey Prokofiev Overture on Hebrew Themes
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (arr. Timo Andres) Piano Concerto no. 26 (“Coronation”)
- Louise Costigan-Kerns, piano
- Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 1
Prokofiev’s merry klezmer romp sets the stage for Timo Andres’ imaginative reframing of a problematic Mozart concerto. Mozart didn’t notate large swaths of the left…