Welcome to Season 64
Visions of Freedom
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In Season 64, Camellia Symphony explores music as a force of transformation, where fate becomes fire, struggle becomes radiance, and imagination opens the path toward freedom.
Across six richly varied programs, Visions of Freedom brings together stories of love, destiny, exile, joy, youth, memory, tenderness, triumph and wonder. This season celebrates extraordinary visionary voices—composers and soloists whose music reminds us that beauty is never passive. It can resist, heal, illuminate and transform.
With works by Joan Tower, Louise Farrenc, Missy Mazzoli, Florence Price, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Anna Clyne, Sibelius, Ravel, Dvořák, Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Elgar, Brahms, Rimsky-Korsakov and more, Season 64 invites audiences on a journey through luminous resilience: music that turns longing into song, darkness into light, and human experience into something larger than ourselves.
Christian Baldini, Music Director and Conductor
Love, Fate and Fire
Saturday, September 26, 2026
Joan Tower: Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman No. 1
Favorite opera arias with Rena Harms, soprano
Giacomo Puccini: “In quelle trine morbide” from Manon Lescaut
Giacomo Puccini: Sola, perduta, abbandonata” from Manon Lescaut
Giuseppe Verdi: “Pace, pace, mio Dio” from La forza del destino
Giacomo Puccini: “Vissi d’arte, vissi d’amore” from Tosca
Richard Wagner: Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 1
Radiance and Joy
Sunday, December 6, 2026 at 3 p.m. at the Benvenuti Performing Arts Center
Louise Farrenc: Overture No. 1
Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto in G Major with Natsuki Fukasawa, piano
Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 8
Celestial Fire
Saturday, February 13, 2027
Missy Mazzoli: Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Adagio for Violin and Orchestra, K. 261 with Calliope Smith, violin
Pablo de Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen with Calliope Smith, violin
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
River of Light
Saturday, April 3, 2027
Florence Price: Concert Overture No. 1
Felix Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor with Fiona Cunninghame-Murray, violin
Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 3, “Rhenish”
Tenderness and Triumph
Sunday, May 16, 2027 at 3 p.m.
Ruth Crawford Seeger: Andante for Strings
Sir Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto with Starla Breshears, cello
Johannes Brahms: Violin Concerto with Yvette Kraft, violin
Tales of Wonder
Saturday, June 12, 2027
Anna Clyne: Masquerade
Robert Schumann: Cello Concerto with Anne Richardson, cello
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
All concerts are on Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. at McClatchy High School, except where noted. The Sunday, December 6, 2026 concert is at 3 p.m. at the Benvenuti Performing Arts Center. The May 6, 2027 concert is Sunday at 3 p.m.