Repertoire through 2026-2027 season

For performance dates and premiere status, please refer to Redwood Symphony History by Composer

Works noted with an asterisk have been recorded on CD.

  • John Adams: Absolute Jest (concerto for string quartet), Lollapalooza, Gnarly Buttons (clarinet concerto), The Chairman Dances, Short Ride on a Fast Machine
  • Actor: Dance Rhapsody, Alto Saxophone Concerto, Redwood Fanfare
  • Ades: Asyla, These Premises Are Alarmed
  • Bach: Violin Concerto in A minor, Tocatta and Fugue in D minor (orch. by Stokowski), Brandenburg Concerto No. 4, Double Concerto, Suite for Orchestra, Harpsichord and Organ (Mahler)
  • Bach, PDQ (Peter Schikele): 1712 Overture, Unbegun Symphony, Bach Portrait
  • Barber: Violin Concerto, Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Capricorn Concerto, Adagio for Strings
  • Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra*, Violin Concerto No. 2, Piano Concertos 1, 2, 3, Concerto for Two Pianos and
    Percussion, Miraculous Mandarin (complete), Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Rhapsody No. 2, Dance Suite
  • Bates: Anthology of Fantastic Zoology (Bay Area premiere), Alternative Energy, Rusty Air in Carolina, Mothership, Cello Concerto, Undistant, Sound Check in C, Cello Concerto
  • Beethoven: Symphonies 1-9 (3, 5 & 7 in versions by Mahler), Violin Concerto, Piano Concerti 2 – 5, Triple Concerto, Egmont Overture, Creatures of Prometheus Overture, Leonore Overture #3
  • Berio: Rendering for Orchestra (Schubert Symphony No. 10), Brahms Clarinet Sonata op. 120 no. 1
  • Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Harold in Italy
  • Bernstein: Candide (in concert), Fancy Free, Concerto for Orchestra (West Coast Premiere), Symphony No. 2 “Age of Anxiety”, Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, Divertimento, Serenade, Three Dances from On the Town, Halil, Chichester Psalms
  • Berwald: Elfenspiel
  • Bizet: Carmen (uncut original version), Carmen Suites 1 & 2, L’Arlésienne Suites 1 & 2
  • Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia
  • Brahms: Symphonies 1*, 2-4, Sinfonietta (Op 111 String Quintet, orch. Peter Klatzow), Piano Quartet in G minor (orch. Schönberg), Serenade No. 1, Violin Concerto, Piano Concerti 1 and 2, Double Concerto, German Requiem, Haydn Variations, Academic Festival Overture, Tragic Overture
  • Britten: Four Sea Pictures, Violin Concerto, Piano Concerto, Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, Serenade for Tenor and Horn
  • Bruckner: Symphony No. 9
  • Cantaloub: Songs of the Auvergne (various)
  • Chang, Dorothy: Strange Air
  • Copland: Symphony No. 3, Appalachian Spring (complete and suite), Rodeo* (complete,) Billy the Kid (suite), El Salon Mexico, Orchestral Variations, An Outdoor Overture, Fanfare for the Common Man
  • Corigliano: Symphonies 1 & 2, Mr. Tambourine Man, The Red Violin
  • Costello, Elvis: Il Sogno (extended suite in West Coast premiere)
  • Daugherty: Metropolis Symphony, Spaghetti Western (West Coast premiere), Tombeau de Liberace, Dead Elvis, Hell’s Angels, Gee’s Bend (West Coast premiere), Tales of Hemingway (West Coast Premiere)
  • Davies: Orkney Wedding and Sunrise, Mavis in Las Vegas
  • Debussy: Afternoon of a Faun*, Jeux, La Mer, Nocturnes, Premiere Rhapsodie, Danses sacrée et profane, Petite Suite
  • Del Aguila: Conga-Line in Hell*, Clarinet Concerto No. 2 (West Coast premiere)
  • Dukas: Sorcerer’s Apprentice*
  • Dvorák: Symphonies 8 & 9, Slavonic Dances (various)
  • Elfman, Danny: Rabbit and Rogue (N. Cal premiere of ballet score), Serenada Schizophrana (West Coast premiere)
  • Elgar: Cello Concerto
  • Elliot: The Remarkable Farkle McBride
  • Enesco: Rumanian Rhapsody No. 1*
  • Foss: Renaissance Concerto for Flute, Salomon Rossi Suite
  • Françaix: The Flower Clock
  • Gershwin: Porgy and Bess (complete opera), An American in Paris,* Rhapsody in Blue, Cuban Overture
  • Gilbert and Sullivan: The Mikado, Ruddigore
  • Gillis, Don: Tulsa
  • Ginastera: Harp Concerto
  • Glass: Concerto for Saxophone Quartet, Suite from The Hours
  • Glazunov: Violin Concerto
  • Gottschalk: Festa Criole from A Night in the Tropics
  • Grieg: Per Gynt Suite No. 1
  • Gruber: Frankenstein!!, Charivari
  • Handel: Concerti a due cori 2 & 3, Messiah, Music for the Royal Fireworks
  • Harrison: Symphony No. 3, Piano Concerto
  • Haydn: Symphonies 76, 82, 86, 94, 100, 101, 103, The Creation, Trumpet Concerto.
  • Herrmann: Psycho Suite for Strings, Overture to North by Northwest
  • Higdon: Concerto for Orchestra, Blue Cathedral
  • Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis, Kammermusik No. 1, Concerto for Trumpet and Bassoon.
  • Holst: The Planets
  • Honnegger: Pacific 231
  • Husa: Music for Prague 1968 (orchestral version)
  • Ives: Symphony No. 2, 4, Variations on “America”
  • Jaffe, David: Violin Concerto (U.S. Premiere), Whoop for Your Life (World Premiere)
  • Janacek: Sinfonietta
  • Kander and Ebb: Cabaret (musical)
  • Kernis: New Era Dances
  • Khachaturian: Piano Concerto, Violin Concerto
  • Kleinsinger: Tubby the Tuba
  • Kodaly: Dances of Galanta, Hary Janos Suite
  • La Rocca: The Right Road Lost (World Premiere), Crossing the Rubicon
  • Larsen, Libby: Water Music
  • Lee, Paul Yeon: Phoenix (World Premiere)
  • Lerner and Loewe: My Fair Lady
  • Ligeti: Atmospheres, Concert Romanesc
  • Liszt: Les Preludes, Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, Piano Concerto #1, Totentanz
  • Lutoslawski: Symphonies 3, 4 (Bay Area premiere), Concerto for Orchestra, Variations on a Theme by Paganini
  • Mahler: Symphonies 1-9, 10 (Cooke & Barshai versions,) Das Lied von der Erde, Kindertotenlieder, Songs of a Wayfarer
  • Marquez: Danzon No. 2
  • Mechem: Pride and Prejudice (World Concert Premiere), Symphony No. 2, Jayhawk Overture*
  • Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4, Music from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hebrides Overture, Violin Concerto
  • Messiaen: Turangilila Symphony, Un Sourire
  • Milhaud: La Creation du Monde,* Piano Concerto No. 2, Percussion Concerto
  • Mollicone: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (World Premiere)
  • Mozart: Don Giovanni, Symphonies 40, 41, Magic Flute Overture, Marriage of Figaro Overture, Don Giovanni
    Overture, Clarinet Concerto, Horn Concerto No. 4, Bassoon Concerto, Violin Concerto No. 4, Sinfonia Concertante, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Piano Concerti 15, 19, 21, 23, 24
  • Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)*, Night on Bald Mountain
  • Nielsen: Clarinet Concerto, Flute Concerto, Little Suite
  • Orff: Carmina Burana
  • Paganini: Violin Concertos 1 & 2
  • Palomo, Lorenzo: The Sneetches (West Coast Premiere)
  • Previn & Tom Stoppard: Every Good Boy Deserves Favor (Play with orchestra)(Bay Area Premiere)
  • Prokofiev: Symphonies 1, 5, Suite from Romeo and Juliet (arr. by Kujawsky), Overture on Hebrew Themes, Violin Concerti 1, 2, Piano Concerti 1, 2, 3, Lt. Kije Suite, Peter and the Wolf
  • Puccini: La Bohème, Madama Butterfly
  • Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances, Piano Concerti 2, 3, Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini
  • Ravel: L’Enfant et les Sortileges, La Valse, Daphnis et Chloe Suite 2, Concerto for the Left Hand, Concerto in
    G, Tombeau de Couperin, Bolero, Introduction et allegro, Trois Poèmes de Malarmé, Tzigane, Pavanne
  • Reich: Tehillim, Music for Ensemble and Orchestra
  • Respighi: The Pines of Rome, Ancient Airs and Dances #3
  • Revueltas: Sensamaya, Troka
  • Rimelis: Phil Harmonic and His Fabulous Orchestra
  • Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Capriccio Espagnol, The Tsar’s Departure and Farewell
  • Rodrigo: Fantasia para un gentilhombre
  • Rossini: Overtures to William Tell, La Gazza Ladra, Barber of Seville, Semiramide, La Cenerentola, La Scala de Seta
  • Rota: Trombone Concerto
  • Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3, Piano Concerti No. 2 & 5, Violin Concerto No. 3, Danse Macabre, Carnival of the Animals
  • Saxe: Dance Suite for Solo Violin and Orchestra (World Premiere)
  • Schikele: Unbegun Symphony
  • Schnittke: (K)ein Sommersnachtstraum, MozArt a la Haydn
  • Schönberg: Five Pieces for Orchestra, Pierrot Lunaire, Brahms’ Piano Quartet in G minor.
  • Schubert: Symphonies 8, 9
  • Schumann: Piano Concerto, Cello Concerto
  • Shostakovich: Symphonies 4, 5, 9, 10, Piano Concerti 1, 2, Violin Concerto 1, Cello Concerto 1, Suite for Variety Orchestra No. 1, Festive Overture
  • Sibelius: Symphonies 2-7, Violin Concerto, Karelia Suite, Swan of Tuonela
  • Sondheim: Sweeney Todd, A Little Night Music (West Coast premiere of opera orchestra version), Sunday in the Park with George, Follies
  • Stookey: Mahl/er/werk, The Composer is Dead
  • Strauss, R.: Till Eulenspiegel*, Don Quixote, Don Juan, Dance of the Seven Veils
  • Stravinsky: Firebird (complete and suite), Petrushka* (combination of 1911 and 1947 versions by Kujawsky),
    The Rite of Spring, Les Noces, Symphony in Three Movements, Symphony in C, Symphony of Psalms, Œdipus Rex, Pulcinella, Violin Concerto,The Soldier’s Tale (Fully staged and suite), Octet, Ragtime for 11 Instruments, Concertino for 12 Instruments, Circus Polka, Greetings Prelude, Scherzo a la Russe, Funeral Song (N. California premiere)
  • Sullivan: The Mikado, Ruddigore
  • Takemitsu: Vers, l’arc-en-ciel, Palma
  • Tchaikovsky: Symphonies 4, 5, 6, Violin Concerto, Rococo Variations, Romeo and Juliet, 1812 Overture, Capriccio Italien, Marche Slav, Nutcracker Suite, Swan Lake Suite, Serenade for Strings
  • Theofanidis: Symphony No. 1
  • Verdi: Requiem
  • Wagner: The Ring Without Words (70-min continuous suite arr. by Lorin Maazel), Preludes to Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger, 3rd Act Prelude to Lohengrin, Ride of the Valkyries, Siegfried Idyll.
  • Webern: Symphony.
  • Weill: The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, Little Threepenny Music, Berlin Requiem
  • Williams: Suites from E.T., Jaws and Star Wars, Escapades, Tuba Concerto, The Five Sacred Trees (bassoon concerto), Devil’s Dance
  • Wyman, Dan: Heart’s Gate (world premiere of Marimba Lumina concerto)
  • Yun, Du: 100 Heads, Tribute to Duke Ellington
  • Zappa: G-Spot Tornado
  • Zwilich: Celebration

Operas and Musicals performed:

  • A Little Night Music (West Coast premiere of new opera orchestra arrangement by Jonathan Tunick)
  • La Boheme
  • Cabaret
  • Carmen
  • Don Giovanni
  • Follies
  • Kiss Me Kate
  • L’enfant et les sortileges
  • The Mikado
  • My Fair Lady
  • Porgy and Bess
  • Pride and Prejudice
  • The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
  • Ruddigore
  • Sunday in the Park with George
  • Sweeney Todd