Three Chamber Works & A Symphony This very special program of chamber works and a symphony spotlights principal players of the Fresno Philharmonic. A brass quintet begins by performing Anthony Di Lorenzo's Fire Dance. A wind quintet follows with Barber's fluttering Summer Music, Op. 31, and the first half concludes with Dvořák's String Quartet No. 12, Op. 96. Rei Hotoda leads a chamber orchestra in the program's second half with Schumann's Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 61. Presented in a single Sunday afternoon performance, this is an event for chamber music and symphony lovers alike! The Fresno Philharmonic is funded in part by the City of Fresno Measure P Expanded Access to Arts and Culture Fund administered by the Fresno Arts Council. …
Osorio Plays Brahms
Join the Fresno Philharmonic for a celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, featuring a deeply personal new piece by composer Juan Pablo Contreras. Alma Monarca invites audiences into Contreras’s childhood memories of Día de los Muertos and the awe-inspiring Monarch butterfly migration to the Mexican state of Michoacán. Framing this moving work are the lilting and spirited Estancia: Four Dances by Ginastera and Brahms’s titanic Piano Concerto No. 1, performed with passion by acclaimed Mexican pianist Jorge Federico Osorio. The Fresno Philharmonic is funded in part by the City of Fresno Measure P Expanded Access to Arts and Culture Fund administered by the Fresno Arts Council. …
Ravel, Beethoven & Sibelius
Join Rei Hotoda and the Fresno Philharmonic for an evening of powerful and innovative musical brilliance. The centerpiece is Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3, a bold and lively masterpiece that was still being shaped at its premiere and has since become one of the most celebrated works in classical music. Pianist Jon Kimura Parker joins the orchestra as soloist. The program also features Ravel’s elegant Le Tombeau de Couperin, written in honor of fallen friends, and Sibelius’s majestic and structure-bending Symphony No. 5. The Fresno Philharmonic is funded in part by the City of Fresno Measure P Expanded Access to Arts and Culture Fund administered by the Fresno Arts Council. …
Michelle Cann Plays Gershwin
What’s better than hearing Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F live? Hearing it played by 2025 GRAMMY–winner Michelle Cann right here in Fresno. Join us as we celebrate America at 250 with a lineup of all-American music, with a focus on African American composers including Margaret Bonds’s Montgomery Variations and the world premiere of YOSEMITE by California composer John Wineglass. The concert concludes with Stravinsky's energetic Symphony in Three Movements. Michelle Cann is represented by Curtis Artist Management at Curtis Institute of Music. The Fresno Philharmonic is funded in part by the City of Fresno Measure P Expanded Access to Arts and Culture Fund administered by the Fresno Arts Council. …
Tchaikovsky’s Fifth
We close the season with a program that explores where we come from and who we are. Damien Geter’s Sinfonia Americana sets the tone with rich, pastoral sounds that evoke the American landscape, while Kevin Puts’s lyrical Flute Concerto displays the soaring skill of flutist Demarre McGill. Our journey ends with Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5, a powerful portrait of personal triumph and rediscovery. The Fresno Philharmonic is funded in part by the City of Fresno Measure P Expanded Access to Arts and Culture Fund administered by the Fresno Arts Council. …