Young People’s Symphony Orchestra’s (YPSO) 88th Season Winter Concert will be held on Saturday, February 8, at 7:30 PM at First Church Berkeley.
details
- Sat, February 8
- 7:30 PM – 09:45 PM
- 2345 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94704
Program
- 🎶 Marine Safari/Whale Watch by Jeremy Cavaterra
- 🎻 Violin Concerto in D Minor, Mvt. 1 by Jean Sibelius, featuring Ariel Pawlik-Zwiebel, one of our annual concerto competition winners
- 🌍 Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, “From the New World” by Antonín Dvořák
tickets
- $20 (regular)
- $30 (premium – early seating).
- Free – Students (14+ w/ID) and children (13 and under)
Please contact us at ypso@ypsomusic.org if you have any questions.
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About YSPO
Founded in 1936 in Berkeley, California by female conductor Jessica Marcelli, Young People’s Symphony Orchestra (YPSO) is the oldest youth orchestra in California, and the oldest independent youth orchestra in the nation. For over 85 years and counting, YPSO has developed the musical talents and skills of students in the San Francisco Bay Area. Today, many YPSO alumni are internationally distinguished musicians and prominent community members.
Today, Music Director/Conductor David Ramadanoff leads a team of master teachers who provide specialized sectional coaching each week, addressing technical and musical issues unique to their instruments.
YPSO has performed in locations including Carnegie Hall; the Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek, CA; San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House; Davies Symphony Hall;Weill Hall at the Green Center, Sonoma, CA; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, Harvard University; the Sydney Opera House, Australia; the Dvorak Hall of the Rudolfinium, Prague, Czech Republic; the Slovak Radio Concert Hall, Bratislava, Slovakia; the Golden Hall of the Musikverein, Vienna, Austria; as well as in venues in Anchorage and Fairbanks, Alaska; Scotland; the People’s Republic of China; and New Zealand.