2022-23 Season Sponsor

MainStage I
Beginnings and Endings

Friday, Oct 21, 2022; 7:30pm
Herbst Theatre, San Francisco

Saturday, Oct 22, 2022; 7:30pm
First United Methodist Church of Palo Alto

Sunday Oct 23, 2022; 3:00pm
First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley

Aaron Copland Appalachian Spring 

Samuel Barber Knoxville Summer of 1915

• Ann Moss, soprano soloist

Igor Stravinsky The Rite of Spring

• Arranged for chamber orchestra in 2011 by the SFCO’s Incredible Shrinking Orchestra Project

MainStage 2
Greetings and Farewell

Friday, Dec 30, 2022; 7:30pm
Herbst Theatre, San Francisco

Saturday, Dec 31, 2022; 7:30pm
Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley

Sunday, Jan 1, 2023; 3:00pm
St. Mark’s Episcopal, Palo Alto

Franz Schubert Symphony No. 8, D. 759 (“Unfinished”)

PDQ  Bach Unbegun Symphony

Felix Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64

• Amaryn Olmeda, violin soloist

Franz Josef Haydn  Symphony No. 45 in F# minor (“Farewell”)

MainStage 3
Quartets and Quintets

Featuring YOUR SFCO Musicians!

Friday, February 24, 2023; 7:30pm
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church,
1111 O’Farrell St, San Francisco

Saturday, February 25, 2023; 7:30pm
First United Methodist Church of Palo Alto
625 Hamilton Ave

Sunday February 26, 2023; 3:00pm
First Congregational Church of Berkeley
2330 Durant Ave

Antonin Dvořák
Terzetto
for two violins and viola

Jonathan Bingham
Pareidolia
World Premiere for String Quartet
commissioned by the SFCO with NEA and
Emerging Black Composers Project

Amy Beach
Theme and Variations
for Flute and String Quartet

Edmund Rubbra
Suite from “The Buddha”
for flauta, oboe, violin, viola and cello

Jean Francaix
Sérénade for Small Orchestra

Mainstage 4
Mendelssohn and Martin
(Onward and Upward!)

Guest Conductor - the SFCO’s very own,
Jory Fankuchen and featuring
Seven SFCO wind and brass soloists

Friday, May 26, 2023; 7:30pm
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church,
1111 O’Farrell St, San Francisco

Saturday, May 27, 2023; 7:30pm
First United Methodist Church of Palo Alto
625 Hamilton Ave

Sunday May 28, 2023; 3:00pm
First Congregational Church of Berkeley
2330 Durant Ave

William Grant Still
Panamanian Dances

Frank Martin
Concerto for Seven Winds, Timpani, Percussion and Strings

Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 4 “Italian”