Dr. Stephen Tucker, conductor
Brianna Finnell, soprano
Program to include:
This concert will feature work by Italian composer Traetta, a world premiere of Riccardo Santoboni’s composition, and a work of film composer Nino Rota. The concert will also feature the winner of the 2020 Concerto Competition, Brianna Finnell, soprano.
Irvine Valley College Wind Symphony
Dr. Gregory Whitmore, conductor
Chelsea Chaves, soprano
Collaboration is defined as, "the action of working with someone to produce or create something". To this end, the IVC Wind Symphony will present a concert complete in artistic collaboration. Cait Nishimura's hopeful Chasing Sunlight will open the concert. Balmages' serene Rippling Watercolors will be conducted by an IVC Wind Symphony Student Conductor. Steven Bryant's triumphant work, All Stars Are Love for winds and Soprano will feature guest artist Chelsea Chaves. Composer Jennifer Jolley will join the IVC Wind Symphony in a composer residency that will culminate in the performance of her work, Lightway.
Irvine Valley College Symphony Orchestra
Iman Khosrowpour, conductor
Program to include:
ELGAR: Chanson de Nuit
SCHUMANN: Manfred Overture
ZIMMER: Suite from The Dark Knight
Concordia Wind Orchestra
Dr. Jeff Held, conductor
A Concordia Wind Orchestra concert featuring movie soundtrack themes voted on by the audience in online polling back in October and November. Select from the following categories: Golden Age of Movies, Blockbusters, Near Misses, Love at the Movies, The Latest and Greatest, Toasting the Winner.
Dr. David Brennan, conductor
Program to include:
BENNETT: Suite of Old American Dances
COPLAND: Down A Country Lane
SWEARINGEN: The Light Eternal
LEEMANS: March of the Belgian Paratroopers
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Rhosymedre
TCHESNOKOFF: Salvation is Created
The Concordia University of Irvine Music Department invites you to our Double Reed Day! This free event will feature a chamber music concert, reed making masterclasses, and an exhibition filled with double reed vendors.
Featuring oboes, English horns, bassoons, and contra, this recital will have you experience double reeds in a new way!
A lecture format masterclass demonstrating the reed making process.
A hands-on masterclass with reed making tools, including knives. Oboists will learn how to scrape and adjust a reed, and bassoonists will learn how to wire, turban and cut the tip to finish the reed.
Meet some of the best double reed vendors in the industry! The exhibition will feature RDG Woodwindsand Angela Wells from The Reedery.
Hear Concordia's orchestra perform a pops program of movie themes.
We can’t wait for you to join us!
Kontrapunktus, a neo-Baroque chamber orchestra, combines forces with the Mission Basilica Mixed Vocal Ensemble to bring Handel's most celebrated oratorio to life in a stunning venue.
Free concert!
Francesco Milito, conductor
Gail Gordon, director
A one act opera by Erich Korngold. The musician Wilhelm Arndt seems to have everything going for him: he is happily married to Laura, he has been appointed Hoffkapellmeister, and he has just inherited a small fortune. Only the return of his long-lost friend Peter Vogel could make him even more happy. When Vogel actually returns, he is jealous of Wilhelm’s happiness, and convinces him that in order not to challenge fate, he should sacrifice something. Wilhelm starts an argument with his wife about her former life, but the couple’s love is strong enough to overcome all difficulties. In the end, all agree that the sacrifice that has to be offered is the intriguer that tried to ruin their happiness: Peter Vogel has to leave again.
Thursday, December 19th @ 7:30pm
Sunday, December 22nd @ 7:30pm
Joy to the World! The Lord is come, let earth receive her king. The music of this year’s Christmas concerts invites us to hear the prophecy of Jesus’ birth and respond with joy to the gift of the Savior.
Saturday, December 7th @ 3:00pm and 7:30pm
Sunday, December 8th @ 3:00pm
Friday, December 13th @ 7:30pm
Saturday, December 14th @ 7:30pm
Dr. Stephen Tucker, conductor
Dr. Yuliya Minina, pianist
Program to include:
SATIE/DEBUSSY: Trois Gymnopedies
SAINT-SAENS: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor
SAINT-SAENS: Symphony No. 2 in A minor, Op. 55
Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd...An infamous tale, Sweeney Todd, an unjustly exiled barber, returns to nineteenth century London, seeking vengeance against the lecherous judge who framed him and ravaged his young wife. The road to revenge leads Todd to Mrs. Lovett, a resourceful proprietress of a failing pie shop, above which, he opens a new barber practice. Mrs. Lovett's luck sharply shifts when Todd's thirst for blood inspires the integration of an ingredient into her meat pies that has the people of London lining up... and the carnage has only just begun!
Come see the students of Saint John Bosco and Saint Joseph High School bring this horrifically musical tale to life.
Friday, November 15th @ 7:30pm
Saturday, November 16th @ 7:30pm
Sunday, November 17th @ 6:30pm
Thursday, November 21st @ 7:30pm
Friday, November 22nd @ 7:30pm
Saturday, November 23rd @ 7:30pm
Sunday, November 24th @ 6:30pm
Concordia Wind Orchestra
Dr. Jeff Held, conductor
Marking Jeff Held's 15th season as music director of the Concordia Wind Orchestra, this concert will repeat the very first concert he conducted with the CWO in 2005. CWO alumni are invited to a special thank you dinner in the Borland-Manske Center immediately following the concert.
Featuring music by Curnow, A. Reed, Holsinger, Ticheli, C. Smith, Zdechlik, and Dawson
Concordia Sinfonietta
Dr. Jeff Held, conductor
Program to include:
PRICE: Symphony No. 1 in E minor
DVORAK: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, “From the New World”
The Concordia community gathers together to celebrate God’s faithfulness to Concordia University and to rededicate ourselves to moving Forward in Faith as we open the Borland-Manske Center for Music, Worship, and Theology. The festival will include well-known and newer hymns of faith, with contributions from members of the Concordia community and reflections by Christ College faculty.
Premiered by members of the San Francisco Symphony in March of 2019, I Am Matteo was written by principal trombonist Timothy Higgins in response to a letter written by Matteo Musso, a 13 year old boy with autism, after he attended a San Francisco Symphony family concert. From the composer:
The work begins with a cadenza by the soprano soloist that introduces the audience to Matteo’s world. The tonality of the introduction is unsettled and indecisive. The cadenza leads straight into the second movement of the work which begins with a brief “orchestra tuning.” After the tuning, a short concert unfolds and the soprano, using Matteo’s words, reacts to the sounds of the orchestra. After the concert relaxes, the music continues directly into the third movement. In this final movement, Matteo’s definition of music is set to a simple flowing melody. The music has found its tonal center and no longer needs to wander.
The work calls for soprano solo, oboe, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, piano, violin and viola. It will be performed by Concordia faculty to highlight the new Charlie and Ling Zhang Hall.
Concordia Wind Orchestra
Dr. Jeff Held, conductor
Program to include:
HAZO: From Gold
GOULD: Symphony No. 4, “West Point”
IRELAND: Epic March
Presented by Musical Theatre West, Disney’s The Little Mermaid is a hauntingly beautiful love story for the ages. With music by eight-time Academy Award winner, Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Glenn Slater and a compelling book by Doug Wright, this fishy fable will capture your heart with its irresistible songs, including “Under the Sea,” “Kiss the Girl” and “Part of Your World.”
Friday, July 12th @ 8:00pm
Saturday, July 13th @ 2:00pm and 8:00pm
Sunday, July 14th @ 1:00pm
Friday, July 19th @ 8:00pm
Saturday, July 20th @ 2:00pm and 8:00pm
Sunday, July 21st @ 1:00pm and 6:00pm
Thursday, July 25th @ 8:00pm
Friday, July 26th @ 8:00pm
Saturday, July 27th @ 2:00pm and 8:00pm
Sunday, July 28th @ 1:00pm and 6:00pm
Jeff Held, music director
Tom Mueller, organist
Concordia Wind Orchestra & Sinfonietta (and guest summer musicians)
This session of the American Guild of Organists Regional Conference featuring hymns for organ and orchestra is open to the public. Please join us and raise your voice in song with the live orchestra and Concordia's Casavant Organ. For the past decade, Concordia University has been commissioning substantial, through-composed hymn settings for orchestras (wind orchestra or chamber orchestra) through its New Dimension Fund.
Program to include:
Let Children Hear the Mighty Deeds, arr. Christian Guebert
flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, strings, glockenspiel, congregation
God Has Spoken By His Prophets, arr. Tom Mueller
flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, strings, harpsichord, organ, congregation
Glorious Things of You Are Spoken, arr. Jeff Held
full orchestra, congregation
My Song is Love Unknown, arr. Charles Raasch
wind orchestra, organ, choir descant, congregation
Jesus Lives, the Victory’s Won, arr. Jeff Held
flute, 2 clarinets, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, organ, congregation
God’s Own Child, I Gladly Say It, arr. Alex Guebert
wind orchestra, organ, choir, congregation
Splendor and Honor, arr. Christian Guebert
wind orchestra, organ, congregation
Kimo Furumoto, conductor
Kendall Harb, soprano
Program to include:
COPELAND: Hoe-Down from “Rodeo”
ROSSINI: Overture to William Tell
VERDI: Grand March from Aida
PUCCINI: “O Mio Babbino Caro” from Gianni Schicchi
PUCCINI: “Donde Iieta” from La Boheme
MASCAGNI: Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana
SOUSA: Stars and Stripes Forever
ELLINGTON: Medley
BROUGHTON: Silverado
BERNSTEIN: Selections from West Side Story
GERSHWIN: Selections from Crazy For You
RODGERS: Climb Every Mountain from The Sound of Music
Free concert!
Concordia Wind Orchestra
Dr. Jeff Held, conductor
Dr. Tom Mueller, organ
Joshua Horton & Michael Miller, clarinets
The 45-musician Concordia Wind Orchestra will be joined by organist, Tom Mueller, for a special concert featuring cathedral music that was shaped by World War II. Music by Milhaud, Purcell, Alain, Messiaen, Obrecht, Sparke, Distler, Langlais, Widor, and John Williams. This concert is a part of a tour that will include performances in Orange County, Oceanside, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, including performances at Omaha Beach and the American Cemetery in Normandy during the 75th anniversary of D-Day on June 6.
Ami Porat, artistic director and conductor
Isabella Lippi, violin
Program to include:
DVORAK: Slavonic Dance No. 10
MOZART: Violin Concerto No. 4
HAYDN: Symphony No. 59
Saturday, April 20th @ 5pm
Sunday, April 21st @ 8am, 9:30am or 11:11am
The Concordia University of Irvine Music Department invites you to our Double Reed Day! This free event will feature a chamber music concert, reed making masterclasses, and an exhibition filled with double reed vendors.
We are offering two reed making masterclasses for both oboe and bassoon:
This masterclass is in lecture format, designed for those who want a general overview of the reed making process.
A hands-on lesson with reed making tools, including knives! Oboists will learn how to scrape and adjust reeds, and bassoonists will learn how to wire, turban and cut the tip to finish the reed. To ensure we have enough materials for everyone, please be sure to specify if you would like to participate in or observe Session #2.
We can’t wait for you to join us!
Dr. Michael Busch, Conductor
Concordia Master Chorale
The Concordia Choir
Masterworks Orchestra
This year's MasterWorks concerts will feature three choral-orchestral pieces that bear an ancient cry for peace from a world seemingly dominated by war.
HAYDN: Mass in Time of War
SCHOENBERG: A Survivor From Warsaw
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Dona Nobis Pacem
Set in an island paradise during World War II, two parallel intercultural love stories are threatened by the dangers of prejudice and war. IVC is excited to present Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific in Concert; beautifully staged, choreographed and costumed that will inspire one and all. Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical revival intertwines the themes of romance, duty, and prejudice to create a story that is all at once hilarious, heartbreaking, and thought-provoking.
Sunday, April 7th @ 2pm
Wednesday, April 10th @ 8pm
Concordia Wind Orchestra
Robert Spittal, conductor
Michael Miller, clarinet
Elizabeth Johnson, violin
Spittal conducts his music, including the newly-commissioned Diversions for Solo Clarinet and Wind Ensemble.
Program to include:
Tarantella Forsennato
Scherzo: Cat and Mouse
Prelude and Flight No. 1 for Violin and Band
Diversions for Solo Clarinet and Wind Ensemble
Pacem: A Hymn for Peace
Ticket information to come!
Dean Anderson, conductor
Wan-Chin Chang, piano
Program to include:
BEETHOVEN: Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus
BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 1 in C Major
Purchase tickets here!
Concordia Sinfonietta
Jeff Held, conductor
McKenna Brand '19, narrator
A homecoming weekend highlight! The annual Family Pops Concert will feature Prokofiev’s symphonic fairy tale for children. The concert is followed immediately by a free outdoor carnival.
Free concert!
Mike Malouf, conductor
Dean Anderson, viola
Program to include:
MENDELSSOHN: Overture to "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
HAYDN: Symphony No. 96
BRUCH: Romance for Viola and Orchestra
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 1
Free concert!
