This concert marks the final event in the Bakersfield Symphony 2021-2022 concert season, and it’s a performance you won’t want to miss. The concert opens with Oscar Navarro’s oboe concerto Legacy, performed by our very own principal oboist, Laura Arganbright. Laura will then rejoin the orchestra for the emotionally intense and beautiful Symphony No. 1 by Mahler, also known as Titan.

The Bakersfield Symphony is joined by Martin Chalifour, Principal Concertmaster of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, for this spectacular concert event. Chalifour will open the concert with a virtuosic performance of Dvořák’s beautiful violin concerto. In the second half of the concert, Maestro Stilian Kirov will take us through Beethoven’s classically energetic and moving 7th Symphony.

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Maestro Stilian Kirov takes the Bakersfield Symphony on a journey through a selection of captivating string orchestra works, beginning with Mozart’s well-known Eine kleine Nachtmusik, or “A Little Night Music.” Corigliano’s Voyage provides a soothing interlude before Purcell’s lively Sonata for Trumpet and Strings, featuring Mike Raney, retiring principal trumpet of our own Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra in his farewell performance. The concert closes with Tchaikovsky’s rousing Souvenir de Florence.

Mozart | Eine kleine Nachtmusik (A little Night music)

Corigliano | Voyage

Purcell | Sonata for Trumpet and Strings

Trumpet Soloist: Michael Raney, former Principal Trumpet of the Bakersfield Symphony

Tchaikovsky | Souvenir de Florence

Doors Open: 5PM | Concert Talk: 5:15PM | Concert: 6PM

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Join the Bakersfield Symphony for our season opening concert as we welcome a live audience back into Mechanic’s Bank Theater. The concert opens with the talented violinist Simone Porter playing Bruch’s enchanting Scottish Fantasy. Maestro Kirov then takes us on a journey to the “New World” with Dvořák’s enigmatic Symphony No. 9.

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Broadcast:
Sunday, May 9, 2021
2:30 p.m. KERO 23-ABC

Join the Bakersfield Symphony for an evening of beautiful music. The concert opens with Florence Price’s Andante Moderato, an enchanting movement of her string quartet in G major. The performance closes with Mozart’s Serenade No. 10, more commonly known as the Gran Partita.

Broadcast:
Saturday, April 3, 3:00pm
KERO-23ABC

William Hagen joins the Bakersfield Symphony in a musical celebration of spring and the changing of the seasons. Coplan’s Appalachian Spring Suite opens the concert, taking listeners on a musical journey through the Pennsylvania countryside. William Hagen then joins the program as a violin soloist, bringing Piazzolla’s exotic and exciting Four Seasons of Buenos Aires to life.

The Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra will continue to spotlight our "local gems", this time featuring well-known orthopedic surgeon and consummate pianist Dr. Matthew Malerich — as well as rising star, Bakersfield Youth Symphony violinist Brian Shih. After a gorgeous opening piece by contemporary composer William Grant Still, Maestro Stilian Kirov will take us on a journey through the enchanting music of Mozart.

Born in Bakersfield, award-winning principal Dancer with the New York City Ballet Tiler Peck joins the BSO as a special guest artist for this program.