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Buy a season ticket and receive a free single ticket to use throughout the 2023- 24 season. Check your ticket receipt! Promo code will be available on your ticket receipt. Must redeem by 4/27/24.

Season ticket sales will close on 9/24/23. For further questions please call the office at (805) 925-0412.

Maestro Nowak has chosen some glorious pieces, including music by Brahms, Bartok, Mozart and Stravinsky,with a bit of Copland, Verdi and Lalo as well. Robert Thies will return as soloist on Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 in February. We have left 2023-24 season ticket prices the same as in 2022-23. Reserve your seats now for an exciting season!

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First Season Concert -Fate and Romance
Sept. 23, 2023 (7:30 pm) @ Grace Baptist Church

The Santa Maria Philharmonic Orchestra and Maestro Michael Nowak open the 2023-24 season with an evening of music that explores the depths of the human experience. Titan of Italian opera Guiseppe Verdi depicts fiery love destined for tragedy in the Overture to La Forza Del Destino. The Chairman Dances by modern composer John Adams offers a vignette of a ubiquitous historical figure. And Johannes Brahms explores melancholy, longing, and love in Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73. Enjoy the passions and pains of these celebrated composers with the expert performers of the Santa Maria Philharmonic.

Program:

Guiseppe Verdi Overture to La Forza Del Destino
John Adams Chairman Dances
Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73

Second Season Concert - Baroque Masters
Dec 1, 2023 (7:30 pm) The First United Methodist Church

The Santa Maria Philharmonic Orchestra chamber players and Maestro Michael Nowak welcome one and all to a celebration of Baroque composers, a holiday season tradition for the Philharmonic. The program features the orchestral music of Johann Sebastian Bach, the icon of the Baroque style and progenitor of the symphonic art music tradition, along with his compatriot in the Germanic style, George Frederic Handel. The influential Italian composers Antonio Vivaldi and Archangelo Corelli will share the stage with Bach and Handel, highlighting the harmonic inventiveness and melodic genius on display in the Italian concerto grosso. Members of the Santa Maria Philharmonic Orchestra will display their skill in the intricate solo parts and rousing ensemble work, all under the careful baton of Maestro Michael Nowak.

Program:

All baroque (Bach, Vivaldi, Handel, Corelli)

Third Season Concert - In the Classical Style

Feb 24, 2024 (7:30 pm) @ Grace Baptist Church

The Santa Maria Philharmonic Orchestra and Maestro Michael Nowak celebrate the artistry and genius of three of Classical music’s greatest composers in the penultimate season concert. The iconic Overture to Marriage of Figaro from legendary Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart will open the evening, followed by the Pulcinella Suite from the late-Romantic and early modern era Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. According to Maestro Nowak, Mozart and Stravinsky are two composers “who just go well together.” The evening closes with guest piano soloist Robert Thies returning for a performance of Ludwig Van Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58, a piece which exemplifies Beethoven as both a master of the neoClassical style and transformative Romantic figure.

Program:

Wolfang Amadeus Mozart Overture to Marriage of Figaro
Igor Stravinsky Pulcinella Suite
Ludwig Van Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58
Robert Thies, Piano

Fourth Season Concert - Musical Travelogue

April 27, 2024 (7:30 pm) @ Grace Baptist Church

Maestro Michael Nowak and the Santa Maria Philharmonic Orchestra lead an orchestral excursion across Europe and the United States for the closing performance of the 2023-2024 concert season. Celebrated 20th Century composer Aaron Copland captures the American midwest in The Tender Land Orchestral Suite, a snapshot of the themes from his beloved opera The Tender Land. Hungarian composer Béla Bartók explores folk melodies of his home country in the personal orchestral composition Hungarian Pictures. The Santa Maria Philharmonic welcomes guest violin soloist Jessica Guideri to help close the concert and season with a performance of Édouard Lalo’s Symphonie Espagnole, the late 19th Century French composer’s musical depiction of Spain.

Program:

Aaron Copland The Tender Land Orchestral Suite
Béla Bartók Hungarian Pictures
Édouard Lalo Symphonie Espagnole

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