Spring Concert
The School for Scandal by Samuel Barber
Scheherazade by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Musing: A Suite for Orchestra by Christine Doud
Theme from Schindler’s List by John Williams
Solo violinist Brynn Albanese
Winter Concert
Trinity United Methodist Church
490 Los Osos Valley Road
Los Osos, CA
Conducted by Nick Waldron
Petite Sinfonie by Charles Gounod
Sinfonietta by Joachim Raff, movements: Allegro molto and Vivace
Conducted by Mark Kovacs
Four arias featuring soprano Dr. Nichole Dechaine
Vedro con mio diletto by Antonio Vivaldi
Lascia ch’io pianga by George Frederic Handel
O mio babbino caro by Giacomo Puccini
Un bel di by Giacomo Puccini
Adagio in G minor by Tomaso Albinoni
Brandenburg no. 2 by Johann Sebastian Bach, featuring solo trumpet by John Cross
Fall Concert
Ludwig von Beethoven:
Overture to Coriolanus, Op. 62
Piano concerto No. 3, soloist Dr. W. Terrence Spiller
Symphony No. 7
SEASON FINALE CONCERT
Location:
Trinity United Methodist Church
490 Los Osos Valley Road
Los Osos, CA
Wishing Well Waldorf School Orchestras (local youth symphonies)
Thomas May
March and Canon
Mark Williams
Fiddles on Fire
Jeffrey Frizzi
Attack
D.R. Bellwood
Tango and Cha Cha
San Luis Chamber Orchestra
Lili Boulanger
D’un matin de printemps (A Morning In Spring)
Louise Farrenc
Symphony No. 3
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto No. 2 (Sarah Girges soloist)
SPRING CONCERT
Location:
Trinity United Methodist Church
490 Los Osos Valley Road
Los Osos, CA
Fanny Mendelssohn
Overture in C Major
Rimsky-Korsakov
Capriccio Espagnol
Leroy Anderson
Sandpaper Ballet
Antonin Dvorak
Cello Concerto (Hilary Clark soloist)
WINTER CONCERT
Location:
Trinity United Methodist Church
490 Los Osos Valley Road
Los Osos, CA
Gioachino Rossini
Duetto for Two Bassoons
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
The Village Musicians
Gordon Jacob
Old Wine In New Bottles
with guest conductor Nicholas Waldron
Peter Schickele
“Quodibet” for Small Orchestra
“Unbegun” Symphony
Joseph Haydn
Toy Symphony (solo instruments: bird call, bird whistle, small recorder or toy trumpet, ratchet, toy shaker, toy drum, moo-cow toy, triangle). There will be an opportunity for the audience to play along with the orchestra on this fun piece!
FALL CONCERT
Location:
Trinity United Methodist Church
490 Los Osos Valley Road
Los Osos, CA
Masks are optional while attending the concert.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola (Sarah and Hannah Girges soloists)
Symphony No. 41, “Jupiter”
Overture to Don Giovanni
SOLOISTS
Sarah Girges is a seventeen-year-old high school senior in Maple Valley, WA, who is a lifelong musician since the age of five. She started learning the violin at the age of 12 with the help of Mark and Ingrid Kovacs. Having played the violin for 5 years, she has been involved in her local youth orchestra, the Maple Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra for about three years, as both principal 2nd violinist and Assistant Concertmaster. She is also a member of the Maple Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra elite strings ensemble, who have been invited to play as the opener of the Auburn symphony orchestra and in many other formal venues and events. She is currently taking lessons with Cherlyn Johnson in Maple Valley, WA. But violin is not her only love! She started learning the piano at the age of five, and since then has entered and won numerous competitions (including first place at MTNA Senior duet nationals 2022, Chicago International competition 1st place, and Musicfest Northwest where she one five gold medals) and played in solo and duo settings to great accomplishment, recently being featured along with her sister Avah at the Santa Maria Philharmonic Music at the Library event at the end of July this year, and playing with her sister Hannah as guests on the Spokane Public Radio Broadcast. She loves the variety and opportunity that music affords to young artists such as herself and believes that the international language of music will bring peoples and nations together. She is excited to be playing Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante with her sister and fellow violist, Hannah Girges.
Hannah Girges is a 15 year old homeschooled student who began her viola journey at the age of 10 with the help of Mark and Ingrid Kovacs. Hannah currently resides in Washington, where she has studied with Cherlyn Johnson. Her current teacher is Joseph Gottesman. She has been a member of the Maple Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra as Principal Violist for 3 years, and a violist in the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra as of this year. Hannah has loved the competitiveness of music and has entered several competitions such as the Music Fest Northwest where she won a silver medal, The Russian Chamber Music Foundation of Seattle as a silver medalist, and winning 1st prize in the Charleston International Music Competition. She has soloed with the Maple Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra as well as the Orchestral Recital Series of Tacoma, and has been featured as a guest artist on the Spokane Public Radio. She was also a featured soloist at the Russian Chamber Music Foundation summer concert. Hannah looks forward to furthering her education in viola as she finishes her high school years and hopes to continue performing in the future. She would like to thank Mr. Mark Kovacs for the opportunity to work with the San Luis Chamber Orchestra, and she is thrilled to be performing the Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante with her sister Sarah Girges. She hopes you enjoy the concert.
May 15, 2022
Mark Kovacs - Music Director and Conductor
HOE-DOWN FROM RODEO by Aaron Copland
ENGLISH FOLK SONG SUITE by Vaughan Williams
EGMONT OVERTURE by Ludwig van Beethoven
LOVE THEME - CINEMA PARADISO by Ennio Morricone
OBLIVION by Astor Piazzolla
SYMPHONY NO. 104 by Joseph Haydn
March 20, 2022
PALLADIO by Karl Jenkins
A FUGAL CONCERTO by Gustav Holst
CONCERTO IN D MINOR by J.S. Bach
VOCALISE FOR VOICE AND STRINGS by Serge Rachmaninoff
CONCERTO GROSSO FOR STRING ORCHESTRA WITH PIAN OBBLIGATO by Ernest Bloch
Mark Kovacs, Music Director and Conductor
H. Tetsuo Uyeda, Guest Conductor
Trinity United Methodist Church
490 Los Osos Valley Road
Los Osos, CA
Fall Concert
Handel Entrance of the Queen
Kreisler Präludium and Allegro
Handel Concerto Grosso Op. 6, No. 5
Mozart Serenade No. 6
Britten Simple Symphony
Mark Kovacs, Music Director and Conductor
Trinity United Methodist Church
490 Los Osos Valley Road
Los Osos, CA
Season Finale CANCELLED
Monday Club Winner soloist
Chabrier Espana
Gabriel’s Oboe
Kelly Leu, oboe
Luigi Bassi’s Concert Fantasia on motives from Verdi’s Opera “Rigoletto”
Charlie Huang, clarinet
Keith Waibel, Music Director and Conductor
First united Methodist Church, 275 N. Halcyon, Arroyo Grande, CA
Spring Concert CANCELLED
Bizet L’Arlesienne Suite No. 1
Dvorak 7th Symphony
Humperdinck Hansel and Gretel Overture
Special guests from Ballet Theater of San Luis Obispo
Keith Waibel, Music Director and Conductor
Trinity United Methodist Church, 490 Los Osos Valley Road, Los Osos
Small Ensembles Concert
Prokofiev Octet for Winds
Vivaldi Four Seasons
Jim Riccardo, violin
Mark Kovacs, Associate Conductor
Hope Lutheran Church, 8005 San Gabriel Road, Atascadero
Fall Concert
Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet
Mussorgsky Night on Bald Mountain
Ravel Mother Goose Suite
Dvorak Carnival Overture
Mark Kovacs, Associate Conductor
Trinity United Methodist Church, 490 Los Osos Valley Road, Los Osos
Season Finale
Vivaldi Concerto for Three Violins and Continuo in F Major
Bette Byers, violin
Christopher Reutinger, violin
Sal Garza, violin
Jim Riccardo, Conducting
Schumann Symphony No. 1, first movement
Faure Fantasy
Monday Club Soloist, Julia Zielke, flute
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 1
Featuring the oboe and horn sections of the orchestra
Mark Kovacs, Conducting
Keith Waibel, Music Director and Conductor
Trinity United Methodist Church, 490 Los Osos Valley Road, Los Osos
Spring Concert
Marian Drandell Gilbert performing Grieg Piano Concerto in A Minor
Wagner Die Meistersinger
Gould American Salute
Favorite show tunes!
Trinity United Methodist Church, 490 Los Osos Valley Road, Los Osos
Small Ensembles Concert
Featuring the players of the Chamber Orchestra in smaller ensembles.
Cimarosa Oboe Concerto, featuring Kelly Leu
Mozart Symphony No. 29
Handel Water Music selections
Mozart Gran Partita selections, featuring the wind players
Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5, featuring Alba Franco-Cancel, soprano
Hope Lutheran Church, 8005 San Gabriel Road, Atascadero
Beethoven's Mass in C Major, op 86 with the Hancock College Singers
We are once again teaming up with Dr. Ann Davenport Lucas and the Allan Hancock College Singers to bring you Beethoven's Mass in C Major, op 86.
Also on the program is Kumiko Uyeda performing Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4.
Two performances:
Saturday, November 3, 7:30pm, First United Methodist Church, 311 S. Broadway, Santa Maria
Sunday, November 4, 3:00pm, Grace Bible Church, 100 Rodeo Drive, Arroyo Grande
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Season Finale Concert
Schubert Symphony No. 4, "The Tragic"
Amy Sze, Monday Club Winner, performing first movement of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto
Dvorak Slavonic Dance No. 8
Katchaturian Adagio from Spartacus
Trinity United Methodist Church
490 Los Osos Valley Road
Los Osos
Spring Concert
Rossini Overture to Semiramide
Dvorak Symphony No. 5, From the New World
Faure Pavane
Michael Legrande Medley
Lerner and Loewe My Fair Lady Selections
Trinity United Methodist Church
490 Los Osos Valley Road
Los Osos
Winter Concert
Haydn Symphony No. 22
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 5
Dvorak Serenade, op 44
Rosauro Concerto for Marimba and Strings, featuring Marshall Granger, marimba
Hope Lutheran Church
8005 San Gabriel Road
Atascadero
Season Opening Concert
Beethoven Symphony No. 8
Beethoven Lenore Overture No. 3
Borne Carmen Fantasy for Flute and Orchestra, featuring Bonnie Richan, flute
Trinity United Methodist Church
490 Los Osos Valley Road
Los Osos
Phillip O. Paglialonga, Clarinet
Rossini: Introduction, Theme, and Variations for Clarinet and Orchestra
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto, Movement 1
Brahms: Academic Overture
Les Miserables Medley
On the Banks of Green Willow
Featuring Guest Artist Phillip Paglialonga, clarinet
With special guest, Megan Pollon, violin, a winner of the 2017 Monday Club Concerto Competition
Spring Concert
Mark Kovacs, Conductor
Schubert: Symphony #8 (Unfinished)
Bach: Brandenburg #4
John Williams: Overture to the Cowboys
Hans Zimmer: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead man's Chest
Winter Concert
- Holst: St. Paul's Suite
- Richard Strauss: Serenade, op 7
- Bach: Double Concerto, featuring students of Lynne Oliverius, Concertmistress
- Shadowlands, performing again with the orchestra!
Haydn Mass in C Major
Hancock College Singers join the Orchestra to perform
Haydn's Mass in C Major.
Mozart: Symphony #35
2015 - 2016 Season Finale
Featuring Adam Clark, piano
Christopher Woodruff, Guest Conductor
Piano Concerto #21 - Mozart
Symphony #1 - Beethoven
Florentine March - Fucik
Spring Concert
Featuring Faye Seeman, harp
Ennanga - William Grant Still
Carmen Suite #1 - Bizet
The Moldau - Smetana
Danse Sacre Profane - Debussy
And more!
Winter Concert
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik - Mozart
Petite Symphonie - Gounod
Serenade - Takacs
And more!