2024-25 Season
2024-25 Season
The Stanford orchestras concluded their 2024-25 season with spring concerts in May 2025.
In concerts this season, Stanford Philharmonia has celebrated the Charles Ives sesquicentennial, featured a pair of Concerto Competition winners in the performance of a new double percussion concerto, performed the US premiere of Anthony Burgess’s Concerto Grosso for Guitar Quartet and Orchestra, and performed additional works by Mozart, Rossini, Bloch, and Sibelius. This season, the Stanford Symphony Orchestra has performed The Firebird (complete), Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor Concerto Competition winner Spencer Cha ’26, and celebrated Maurice Ravel’s sesquicentennial with performances of his Daphnis et Chloé Suites I & II. SSO has also performed The Sorcerer’s Apprentice by Paul Dukas, Atmosphères by Györgi Ligeti, the West Coast premiere of Battle-Pieces by SSO music director Paul Phillips, and, with the Stanford Symphonic Chorus, Stabat Mater by Francis Poulenc.
Here’s a post about SSO’s June 2024 tour of France and Monaco.
SSO HALLOWEEN CONCERT with the STANFORD WIND SYMPHONY
Thursday, 31 October 2024 • 7:30 PM - Dinkelspiel Auditorium
“Wizardry” was the theme of the Stanford Symphony Orchestra’s 2024 Halloween Concert. It’s always extra special when this annual concert occurs on 31 October, as it did this year.
JOHN WILLIAMS Harry Potter Symphonic Suite
PAUL DUKAS The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
IGOR STRAVINSKY Khorovod, Infernal Dance, Berceuse, and Finale from “The Firebird”
plus selections by the Stanford Wind Symphony
HOMAGE TO LIGETI/CCRMA 50th ANNIVERSARY CONCERT
Sunday, 3 November 2024 • 7:30 PM - Dinkelspiel Auditorium
The Hungarian composer György Ligeti was a good friend of John Chowning, the founder of CCRMA, Stanford’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, and played an important role in the creation of this world-renowned center. This year marks CCRMA’s 50th anniversary, which was celebrated with an all-Ligeti concert that featured the SSO and Stanford New Ensemble.
MUSIC of GYÖRGI LIGETI
Atmosphères (1961)
Stanford Symphony Orchestra
Musica Ricercata (1951-53)
Roger Xia ’24, pianist
Artikulation (1958)
four-channel electronic composition
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (1990/1992)
Tanja Becker-Bender, violin, with Stanford New Ensemble
SSO FALL CONCERTS
Friday, 15 November 2024 • 7:30 PM & Sunday, 17 November 2024 • 2:30 PM - Bing Concert Hall
PAUL DUKAS The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Sean Tan ’27, conductor
SERGEI RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30
Spencer Cha ’26, piano – 2024 Concerto Competition winner
GYÖRGY LIGETI Atmosphères
celebrating CCRMA’s 50th anniversary
IGOR STRAVINSKY The Firebird (complete ballet 1910)
STANFORD PHILHARMONIA FALL CONCERT
Saturday, 9 November 2024 • 7:30 PM - Bing Concert Hall
WOLFGANG A. MOZART Symphony No. 31 in D major, K. 297, “Paris”
JOHN PSATHAS The All-Seeing Sky
West Coast premiere
Ireh Kim ’25 & Andrew Chen ’26, percussion – 2024 Concerto Competition winners
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI Overture to L’Italiana in Algeri
CHARLES IVES Symphony No. 3, “The Camp Meeting”
celebrating the 150th anniversary of the composer’s birth
SSO WINTER CONCERTS with the STANFORD SYMPHONIC CHORUS
Friday, 7 March 2025 • 7:30 PM & Saturday, 8 March 2025 • 7:30 PM - Bing Concert Hall
PAUL PHILLIPS Battle-Pieces (texts by Herman Melville)
West Coast premiere
Ashraf Sewailam, bass-baritone
MAURICE RAVEL Daphnis et Chloé, Suites 1 & 2
celebrating the 150th anniversary of Ravel’s birth
FRANCIS POULENC Stabat Mater
Mikayla Sager, soprano
STANFORD PHILHARMONIA WINTER CONCERT
Friday, 28 February 2025 • 7:30 PM - Bing Concert Hall
ERNEST BLOCH Concerto Grosso for String Orchestra with Piano Obligato
ANTHONY BURGESS Concerto Grosso for Guitar Quartet and Orchestra in A minor
US premiere
JEAN SIBELIUS Symphony No. 3 in C major, Op. 5
SSO SPRING CONCERTS - MAHLER 6
Saturday, 17 May 2025 • 7:30 PM & Sunday, 18 May 2025 • 2:30 PM - Bing Concert Hall
CAMERON CAMP ’25 Il viaggio dell’anima world premiere
GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony No. 6 in A minor
STANFORD PHILHARMONIA - CLASSICAL SHOWCASE
Saturday, 10 May 2025 • 7:30 PM - Bing Concert Hall
CHEVALIER DE SAINT-GEORGES Overture to L’Amant Anonyme
FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN Symphony No. 82 in C major , “L’Ours” (The Bear)
W. A. MOZART Piano Concerto No. 17 in G major, K. 453
Charles Li ’25, piano – 2025 Concerto Competition winner
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 2 in D major, op. 36
STANFORD SUMMER SYMPHONY
Saturday, 26 July 2025 • 7:30 PM - Bing Concert Hall
The Stanford Summer Symphony hit a peak this past summer with a membership of over 90 musicians and a sold-out performance in Bing Concert Hall.
ROSSINI La Gazza Ladra Overture
Aidan Yang, conductor
BEETHOVEN Romances
Sean Mori ’25, violin
RESPIGHI Fontane di Roma
BRAHMS Symphony No. 2 in D major