Santa Rosa Symphony Announces 2005-2006 Season

News Release Contact:  Sara Obuchowski, (707) 546-7097 ext 218

March 7, 2005

• Five music director candidates guest conduct October - February
• SRS presents 4-concert festival over 8 days:  
  Music as a Mirror of History÷The Russian Titans 
• A Bach Christmas Celebration includes selections from the B Minor Mass
• Complete performance of Stravinskyâs theatre-music piece The Soldierâs Tale 
• Jeffrey Kahane performs benefit piano recital and conducts final concerts

(SANTA ROSA, CA) öThe Santa Rosa Symphony is proud to announce details of its 2005-2006 season, the 78th in the organizationâs history. An air of excitement and mystery characterizes ãA Choice Seasonä that will witness the final concerts of Music Director Jeffrey Kahane and the selection of his successor. After an auspicious beginning with music director candidate Joana Carneiro in February, and continuing with Christoph Campestrini in April, the new season will introduce the remaining five finalists. Federico Cortese, David Amado, Michael GŸttler, Steven Smith and Bruno Ferrandis will express their passion for the repertoire and their expertise in drawing out the best from the orchestra from October 2005 through February 2006. They will conduct the first five of the seven Classical Series concerts.

Kahane is enthusiastic about the music director selection process: ãThis is the most impressive group of candidates I have ever seen for a major regional orchestra and is a testament to the national recognition that the Santa Rosa Symphony has achieved.ä

The last two offerings of the season will be conducted by Kahane as his farewell to Santa Rosa. He will present Mahlerâs Symphony No. 1 and premier Argentine-born composer Osvaldo Golijovâs Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind on April 22-24. On May 13-15, Kahane will finish his tenure by conducting Stravinksyâs powerful and intense The Rite of Spring, and conclude the program with the same music that ended his very first season with the Santa Rosa Symphony: the Second Symphony of Rachmaninoff.

SRS Executive Director Alan Silow said, ãThe program for the 2005-2006 season reflects the extraordinary breadth and depth of music that audiences have come to expect from the Santa Rosa Symphony. Works of the classical and romantic giants, twentieth century luminaries and renowned contemporary composers are threaded together to comprise a thrilling experience all season long.ä

Highlights Of The New Season

Classical Series Repertoire 
The season opens with Haydnâs sunny Surprise Symphony, and subsequent concerts feature two Mozart masterpieces in celebration of the 250th anniversary of his birth. The range of programming continues with exuberant, romantic symphonic works by Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, and Dvorak, the electrifying Miraculous Mandarin Suite by Bartok, and the powerful Symphony No. 1 by Shostakovich which is a fitting introduction to the Russian Titans Festival which begins March 25.

Contemporary compositions include Tree Line, a contemplative work by the great Japanese master Toru Takemitsu, Berioâs Requies, Pulitzer-prize winner William Bolcomâs MCMXC Tanglewood and, from one of the most highly-touted composers living today, Argentinian Osvaldo Golijovâs Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind. The Golijov piece will have its orchestral world premiere in Santa Rosa as part of the Magnum Opus commissioning project.

Stellar Guest Performers
An impressive array of guest talent marks the 2005-2006 season, beginning with Hai-Ye Ni, the New York Philharmonicâs associate principal cellist, of whom Yo-Yo Ma said, ãThat girl plays with spirit, searching, and personal strength.ä She will interpret Tchaikovskyâs Rococo Variations for Cello and Orchestra in Set 1. The beautifully-poised Navah Perlman brings her warm expressiveness and emotional commitment to Beethovenâs Piano Concerto No. 2 in the second set, and the December concerts will be brightened by Sonoma Countyâs own violin virtuoso David McCarroll. Fresh from his studies at the New England Conservatory of Music, the 18-year-old will perform Prokofievâs ravishing Violin Concerto No. 1.

In January 2006, Russian-born Kirill Gerstein makes his Santa Rosa Symphony debut with Lizstâs Second Piano Concerto. Rave reviews have followed his appearances, noting his ãintensely focused bravura performance,ä his keen intelligence and impressive depth. Latvian violinist Baiba Skride honors Mozartâs 250th birthday with her exquisite and riveting artistry, playing the great masterâs Turkish Concerto in Set 5. And in Set 6, Todd Palmer, the clarinetist whom the Boston Globe called ãsensationally virtuosic and soulful,ä premieres Golijovâs orchestral arrangement of his chamber piece, Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind, a work deeply influenced by Jewish tradition and klezmer music.

Extending Beyond The Classical Series· 

SRS will present its traditional holiday collaboration with the Sonoma County Bach Choir on the first weekend in December in three concerts at area churches. During A Bach Christmas Celebration audiences will hear selections from the B Minor Mass, The Magnificat, and other sacred pieces composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. 

A special series of chamber concerts will explore ãMusic as a Mirror of Historyä during the Russian Titans Festival. Featuring the compositions of Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Shostakovich, the festival will take place over the course of just eight days (March 25 through April 1, 2006), with 3 concerts at the Jackson Theatre and the finale at Luther Burbank Center. Jeffrey Kahane will either conduct or play piano at all four concerts. 

On April 28, 2006, outgoing maestro Kahane will honor the Symphony and its patrons with a Farewell Benefit Piano Recital. His performance will be the heart of a Symphony fundraising Gala that will also include a dinner and auction under the ãbig tentä at LBC.

Classical Series Details

The subscription season begins October 15-17, 2005, with music director candidate Federico Cortese conducting, and guest soloist Hai-Ye Ni performing Tchaivovskyâs Rococo Variations for Cello and Orchestra. Also on the program are Haydnâs Surprise Symphony (Symphony No. 94), Dvorakâs Symphony No. 8, and a gem by American master and Pulitzer Prize-winner William Bolcom titled MCMXC Tanglewood.

On November 12-14, 2005, music director candidate David Amado will conduct the poetic Tree Line by Japanese master composer Toru Takemitsu and the Fifth Symphony of Sibelius, the composerâs response to the magic and mystery of his native Finlandâs landscape. Also on the program, is Beethovenâs Piano Concerto No. 2, which will be performed by guest soloist Navah Perlman.

Michael GŸttler, music director candidate will guest conduct the December  10-12, 2005 concerts, which feature Sonoma Countyâs homegrown virtuoso, David McCarroll, making his Santa Rosa Symphony debut in Prokofievâs First Violin Concerto, a work filled with magical sounds and fascinating textures. SRS conductor laureate Corrick Brown has said about McCarroll, ãHis playing had me with a teary eye·very rareä and praises the 18-year-old violinist for ãincredible lyricism and fine intonation.ä Also on this program is Tchaikovskyâs Symphony No. 6 and a taste of Mozart in the Overture to Don Giovanni.

The fourth set in the Classical Series, JANUARY 21-23, 2006, features music director candidate Steven Smith conducting Mozartâs Symphony No. 38, which the master composed to honor the citizens of Prague who demonstrated a great appreciation for his music. Also on the program are Bartokâs showpiece, The Miraculous Mandarin, and Stuckyâs Dreamwaltzes. The concert is filled out with the Santa Rosa debut of pianist Kirill Gerstein, of whom Stereoplay Magazine has written ã[his work is] perfect, polyglot, honest, highly sensitive and sure·ä 

The last of the music director candidates, Bruno Ferrandis, will take the conductorâs podium FEBRUARY 11-13, 2006. He will present Shostakovichâs First Symphony, a wonderful prelude to the SRS Russian Titans Festival which begins in March 2006. Latvian violinist Baiba Skride performs Mozartâs Violin Concerto No. 5 in the continuing celebration of the 250th anniversary of Mozartâs birth. Mussorgskyâs wild and spooky Night on Bald Mountain and Berioâs Requies complete this energetic concert program.

On APRIL 22-24, 2006, Jeffrey Kahane will conduct Mahlerâs Symphony No. 1, as well as the Magnum Opus Commission by Osvaldo Golijov. The phenomenal clarinet virtuoso Todd Palmer premieres Golijovâs orchestral arrangement of his chamber piece, Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind.

This is the third season of the Magnum Opus project, one of the largest commissioning projects of new symphonic works in the U.S. Sponsored by Kathryn Gould through Meet the Composer, Inc., it grants the Santa Rosa, Marin and Oakland East Bay symphonies to jointly commission, premiere and give repeat performances of nine new works by American composers over five years. 

The final set of the season, MAY 13-15, 2006, will be Jeffrey Kahaneâs farewell appearance. The Symphonyâs renowned and beloved music director has chosen two of his cherished symphonic masterpieces, Stravinskyâs The Rite of Spring and the Second Symphony of Rachmaninoff, for his conducting finale. 

Details of Additional Special Offerings

A Bach Christmas Celebration
The 2005 holiday offering from the Santa Rosa Symphony is once again a collaboration with the Sonoma County Bach Choir, under the direction of Robert Worth. Symphony members and guest soloists present magnificent Latin church pieces by the greatest German composer of the Baroque era, Johann Sebastian Bach. On December 2, 3 and 4 at three venues around the county, audiences will hear The Magnificat and selections from the celebrated B Minor Mass. These sacred sounds of Christmas will be presented at St. Vincent De Paul in Petaluma on Friday, St. Eugeneâs Cathedral in Santa Rosa on Saturday, and Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Windsor on Sunday beginning at 8 p.m.

The Russian Titans Festival÷Music as a Mirror of History
Be prepared to experience the passion of Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Shostakovich through an intensive four-concert series taking place from March 25 to April 1, 2006. Jeffrey Kahane leads members of the Santa Rosa Symphony and esteemed guest artists in three chamber concerts (Saturday, March 25; Tuesday, March 28; Thursday, March 30) at Sonoma Country Day Schoolâs Jackson Theatre. All performances include a popular post-concert wine reception.

On March 25, the Russian Titans Festival begins with a rare opportunity to hear and see a complete performance of Stravinskyâs renowned LâHistoire du soldat (The Soldierâs Tale), a music theater piece which is a reworking of the immortal Faust legend. John Craven will narrate, his wife, Elizabeth Craven, will direct, and they will be joined by dancers as well as the SRS Chamber Players and conductor Kahane. A repeat performance of this concert may be scheduled due to exceptional interest. 

The festival concludes at the Luther Burbank Center on Saturday, April 1, with a full symphonic production of the Fifth Symphony of Shostakovich. The finale includes a multi-media presentation and engaging conversation with Jeffrey Kahane as he ties together the historical, philosophical and artistic trends that influenced these Russian masters. A change from previous seasons when the series was spread out over several months, the Russian Titans Festival will offer a spectacular single week of music. All four concerts begin at 7:30 p.m. and all four feature Kahane.

Kahane Farewell Benefit Piano Recital And Symphony Gala 
Recognized by audiences around the world for his mastery of diverse repertoire from Bach to Gershwin, Jeffrey Kahane has established an international reputation as a truly versatile artist, performing at the highest level. In a benefit performance for the Santa Rosa Symphony, he offers the community one final exclusive piano recital at the Luther Burbank Center on Friday, April 28, 2006 at 8 p.m. His performance will be the heart of a Symphony fundraising Gala that will also include a dinner and auction under the ãbig tentä at LBC.

Family Discovery Series Open Rehearsals
The SRS presents a Discovery Series of full-length open rehearsals. These informal, Saturday afternoon rehearsals include commentary from the conductor as well as performances by each guest artist and an opportunity to see the inner-workings of an orchestra. Free Krispy Kreme doughnuts are provided for the 2 p.m. rehearsal. Discovery Series concert dates are: October 15, November 12, December 10, 2005; January 21, February 11, April 22 and May 13, 2006. Reduced ticket prices for the seven rehearsal series are $60 adults, $40 youth. Single tickets for individual performances are $10 adults and $6 youth.

About Our Guest Conductors/Music Director Finalists

October 2005
Federico Cortese ö (Italy; age 42) Federico Cortese studied composition and conducting in both Rome and Vienna, and also earned a degree in law. In September 1998, Cortese stepped in on short notice to replace an ailing Seiji Ozawa in a Boston Symphony performance of Beethovenâs Symphony No. 9. This well-received debut launched a successful tenure in Boston as assistant conductor of the Boston Symphony from 1998-2002. He has been the music director of the Greater Boston Youth Symphony since 1999. Additional appointments include music director and associate conductor of the Spoleto Festival in Italy, and assistant conductor to Robert Spano at the Brooklyn Philharmonic. 

November 2005
David Amado ö (U.S.; age 37) David Amado, a native of Pennsylvania, is currently music director of the Delaware Symphony and associate conductor with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. He studied piano and conducting at The Juilliard School and received a Master of Music degree from Indiana University. While in New York, he founded and directed Sequitur, a new music ensemble. Recent guest conducting performances include the Detroit Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, Milwaukee Symphony, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and New World Symphony.

December 2005
Michael GŸttler ö (Germany; age 37) Michael Guettler was born in Dresden, Germany, to a gifted musical family. After winning a number of international competitions, he was appointed assistant to Music Director Valery Gergiev, of the St. Petersburg Mariinsky Theatre. He maintains residences in Munich and St. Petersburg and has performed in concert and opera halls in Sydney, London, Hannover, Karlsruhe and Naples. 2004 guest conducting appearances included the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Schleswig-Holstein Festival in Hamburg, Teatro La Fenice, Venice, ãWhite Nightsä gala in St. Petersburg (with noted soprano Anna Netrebko) and the Calgary Philharmonic.

January 2006
Steven Smith ö (U.S.; age 44) Steven Smith trained at Eastman and the Cleveland Institute of Music and recently completed six seasons as assistant conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra. He also served as music director of the Cleveland Youth Orchestra. He is presently music director of the Santa Fe Symphony and Chorus and at Oberlin, directs the Conservatory Orchestras and is associate professor of conducting. Recent guest appearances include the New Mexico Symphony, Brevard Music Center, Aspen Music Festival, Auckland Philharmonia and Colorado Symphony Orchestra.

February 2006
Bruno Ferrandis ö (France; age 44) Currently a regular guest conductor with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Bruno Ferrandis has led many of the orchestras of his native country, as well as the Aspen Festival Orchestra, BBC Northern Orchestra, Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw, Monte Carlo Orchestra, Spanish Radio Television Orchestra of Madrid, Seoul Philharmonic, Hong Kong Philharmonic, and the Jerusalem Symphony. Ferrandis was resident conductor of the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto from 1991-1997 and has held music director positions at The Juilliard School (Pre-College Orchestra, Opera Center), with a contemporary ensemble in New York and at the Banff Art Center. Ferrandis received degrees in conducting from both The Juilliard School and the Guildhall School of London. He has also studied with Leonard Bernstein and with Franco Ferrara in Siena. He plays the double bass. 

About Our Guest Artists

Hai-Ye Ni, Cello
October 15-17, 2005
Hai-Ye Ni is the New York Philharmonicâs associate principal cellist of whom Yo-Yo Ma said, ãThat girl plays with spirit, searching and personal strength.ä In 2001, she was the recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant, and in 1996, Ni won first prize in the International Paulo Cello Competition in Finland by unanimous choice. In 1991, she captured first prize at the Naumburg International Cello competition, the youngest recipient ever of this distinguished award. She collaborated with Bobby McFerrin and the New York Philharmonic in a special performance of the Vivaldi Concerto for Two Cellos and made her recital debut at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in 2001. 

Since her move to the U.S. from China in 1985, Hai-Ye Ni has also won a special prize from the Tchaikovsky International Competition for her Rococo Variations for Cello and Orchestra. This is the piece she will perform with the Santa Rosa Symphony in the opening concert of the 2005-2006 season.

Navah Perlman, Piano
November 12-14, 2005
Navah Perlman, who will perform Beethovenâs Piano Concerto No. 2 in Santa Rosa, has appeared with numerous major orchestras and symphonies around the world, including the Toronto Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, and the Israel Philharmonic. As a recitalist, she has also received much praise, appearing in Washington D.C., Dallas, Las Vegas, Scottsdale and Baltimore. In addition to her successful solo career, she collaborates frequently in chamber music with violinist Giora Schmidt and cellist Zuill Bailey as part of the Perlman/Schmidt/Bailey Trio, and works to expand audiences for classical music by conducting educational and outreach activities. Highlights of Perlmanâs 2004-2005 season include performances with the Montreal Symphony and appearances with the Prague Symphony both in Prague and on a national tour of the US, including New Yorkâs Metropolitan Museum. Perlmanâs first recording was released by EMI in February 2001.

David McCarroll, Violin
December 10-12, 2005
David McCarroll was born in Santa Rosa in 1986. At four. he started studying the violin with the late Helen Payne Sloat, a long-time member of the Santa Rosa Symphony. When he was eight McCarroll began studying with the late Anne Crowden at the Crowden School in Berkeley. At 13 he received an invitation to join an international group of 60 young music students at The Yehudhi Menhuin School outside London where he studied for five years with Simon Fischer, a student of Dorothy Delay and professor of violin at the Guildhall School of Music. McCarroll was supported in his studies by Donald and Maureen Green. In 2004 he received a full scholarship to join violinist Donald Weilersteinâs celebrated studio at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston where he is now studying.

McCarroll has appeared as a soloist and in chamber music in a number of venues in the U.K. including the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Wigmore Hall. He has performed as a soloist with the renowned London Mozart Players. He has also performed in Switzerland, Tunisia, Thailand, and the United States. In Set 3, McCarroll will play Prokofievâs Violin Concerto No. 1.

Kirill Gerstein, Piano
January 21-23, 2006
Already recognized for his deeply musical interpretations and masterful technique, pianist Kirill Gerstein was the First Prize winner at the 2001 Arthur Rubinstein Piano Competition in Tel Aviv and was chosen to receive a 2002 Gilmore Young Artist Award, an honor given to young pianists who have demonstrated significant potential to develop outstanding performing careers as concert artists. 

Kirill Gerstein was born in 1979 in Voronezh, Russia where he attended one of the countryâs special music schools for gifted children. He won his first competition÷the International Bach Competition in Gorzuw, Poland÷at the age of 11. He subsequently won a full scholarship to the Berklee College of Music in Boston and at the age of 14, became the youngest college student in the schoolâs history. 

Highlights of Gersteinâs upcoming engagements include appearances with the Houston, Quebec and California symphonies and the Florida Orchestra; recitals in Vancouver, Stuttgart and the Louvre in Paris; a chamber music project with Joshua Bell and Steven Isserlis in Carnegieâs Zankel Hall and Wigmore Hall in London; and a tour of Germany with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra led by Charles Dutoit. 
His debut recital recording of works by Bach, Beethoven, Scriabin and George Gershwin arranged by Earl Wild was recently released on the Oehms Classics label. 

Baiba Skride, Violin
February 11-13, 2006
The remarkable Latvian violinist Baiba Skride is not yet in her mid-twenties, and is rapidly earning a reputation as one of todayâs most promising young artists. As the Suddeutsche Zeitung noted of her Munich Philharmonic debut with Mikko Franck in April 2004, ã...she impressed not only with her brilliant playing technique, but also with the profound earnestness of her musical interpretation.ä 

Skride was first-prize winner of the 2001 Brussels Queen Elisabeth Competition; prior to her success in Brussels, she had been awarded first prize at such international competitions as Kloster Schšntal (Germany) in 1995, Jeunesse Musicales in Bucharest (Romania) in 1997 and the Lipizer Competition in Gorizia (Italy) in 2000. Skrideâs 2004-2005 season includes many debuts and re-invitations including a return to the Helsinki Philharmonic, the CPE Bach Orchestra and other engagements with Tampere Philharmonic, Malmš Symphony, the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra and to Japan, with the Seoul Philharmonic and Tokyo Symphony. In the USA she makes her debuts with the Detroit Symphony and Cincinnati symphonies. Her solo and concerto recordings were released in the summer of 2004 by Sony.

Todd Palmer, Clarinet
April 22-24, 2006
Since winning the Young Concert Artist International Auditions and Grand Prize in the Ima Hogg Young Artist Competition, Todd Palmer has appeared as recitalist, concerto soloist and clinician at major performing arts centers and universities in 48 states and has been given virtually unanimous praise for his supreme mastery of his instrument and unerring musicianship. He has also been consistently lauded for his engaging and inspirational outreach programs for young audiences. His appearances abroad have included concerto, recital and chamber music performances in Germany, France, Italy, England, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, the Caribbean, and Japan where his performance with pianist Ignat Solzhenitsyn was broadcast nationwide.

Since 1997, Palmer has had a close association with composer Osvaldo Golijov and was named editor-in-chief of his great klezmer clarinet quintet, The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind, for publication. In November 2001, Palmer was awarded a $20,000 grant by The National Foundation for Jewish Culture for the recording of this work and others with the St. Lawrence Quartet for EMI Classics. This CD entitled Yiddishbbuk was one of the top-selling recordings of 2002 and received two Grammy Award nominations and the Classical Prelude Award from the Netherlands. 

Todd Palmer will perform the Golijov piece in its orchestral premiere during the April 22-24 concert program.

List of Works 2005-2006 Season

Bartok: Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin 
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 
Berio: Requies 
Bolcom: MCMXC Tanglewood 
Dvorak: Symphony No. 8 
Glinka: Overture to Russlan and Ludmilla 
Golijov: Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind 
(Magnum Opus World Premiere) 
Haydn: Symphony No. 94, Surprise 
Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2 
Mahler: Symphony No. 1, Titan
Mozart: Overture to Don Giovanni 
Mozart: Symphony No. 38, Prague 
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5, Turkish 
Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain 
Prokofiev: Overture on Hebrew Themes 
Prokofiev: Sonata for Flute and Piano 
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1
Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 
Shostakovich: From Jewish Folk Poetry 
Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 2 
Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 8 
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1 
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5
Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 
Stravinsky: LâHistoire du soldat (The Soldierâs Tale)
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring 
Stucky: Dreamwaltzes 
Takemitsu: Tree Line 
Tchaikovsky: Rococo Variations for Cello and Orchestra 
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, Pathetique 

Works Receiving Their First SRS Performances

Bartok: Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin
Berio: Requies 
Bolcom: MCMXC Tanglewood 
Golijov: Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind 
(Magnum Opus World Premiere) 
Prokofiev: Overture on Hebrew Themes 
Prokofiev: Sonata for Flute and Piano 
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1
Takemitsu: Tree Line 
Shostakovich: From Jewish Folk Poetry 
Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 2 
Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 8 
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1 
Stravinsky: LâHistoire du soldat (The Soldierâs Tale)
Stucky: Dreamwaltzes 


SRS Premieres By Contemporary Composers

Golijov: Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind 
(Magnum Opus World Premiere) 

Performance Times And Locations

The Santa Rosa Symphony offers a Saturday, Sunday or Monday series of seven classical subscription concerts at the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts. The LBC is located 2 miles north of Santa Rosa just off Highway 101. Saturday and Monday performances begin at 8 p.m. and Sunday performances at 3 p.m. Discovery Series open rehearsals begin at 2 p.m. on Saturdays, also at the LBC. 

Santa Rosa Symphonyâs popular pre-concert conversations are extra special during A Choice Season. In these relaxed, informative talks, the distinguished music director candidates will be interviewed about their backgrounds, will discuss the musical program and answer questions from the audience. Conversations with the Conductor begin one hour prior to subscription performances in the main theater. 

The Russian Titans Festival concerts take place at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 25, Tuesday, March 28 and Thursday, March 30 at Sonoma Country Day Schoolâs Jackson Theater, 4400 Day School Place, off Aviation Boulevard in Santa Rosa. The Saturday, April 1, 2006 concert will take place at the Luther Burbank Center at 7:30 p.m. 

Subscription Information

• Seven-concert Classical Series subscription prices range from $112* - $315, offering significant savings over single ticket prices. Subscriptions are available beginning March 11 at the SRS Box Office located at 50 Santa Rosa Avenue, ground floor, in Santa Rosa or by phone 707-54-MUSIC (707-546-8742). 

• Russian Titans Festival subscription prices are $118 for Premier seating and $93 for Reserved seating. 

• Discovery Rehearsal Series subscription prices are $60 for adults and $40 for youth under 21.

• Come As You Can subscription prices are $272. Buy 8 vouchers for Classical Series concerts and use them for the concerts of your choice.

• Pick Three Mini-Series subscription prices are $45* - $129. Subscribe for 3 Classical concerts of your choice.

• Current subscribers have until April 22, 2005, to renew their present seats or request a move to a different location. New subscriptions will be processed in the order received once the deadline has passed for current subscriber renewals.

*Specially discounted prices for students and seniors (age 65 and over)

Concert Broadcasts 

The SRS subscription concerts will be broadcast for the 11h season on Public Radio KRCB 90.9 FM and 91.1 FM (Rohnert Park), scheduled for noon on the second Sunday following the performances. 

Programs and artist subject to change.

The Santa Rosa Symphony Box Office:
50 Santa Rosa Avenue, Santa Rosa, CA 95404
Phone: (707) 546-8742
Fax: (707) 546-0460
Website: www.santarosasymphony.com

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