Mark Kovacs and Nick Waldron conducting with guest conductor Geoff Neuman

Dmitri Shostakovich - Suite  for Variety Orchestra. 

Ravel - Pavane for a Dead Princess. 

Respighi - Ancient Airs and Dances suite no. 1.

Giovanni Bottesini -  Concerto for Double Bass No 2 in B Minor.  Geoff Neuman, guest conductor with Aidan Neuman soloist

Alexander Tsfasman - Jazz Suite for Piano and Orchestra (Snowflake), Ann Lucas piano.

Keith Wiabel, conducting

Engelbert Humperdinck - Hansel and Gretel: Prelude

Georges Bizet - L’Arlesienne Suite 1

Felix Mendelssohn - Symphony #3 (Scottish)

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

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

Ludwig von Beethoven:

Overture to Coriolanus, Op. 62

Piano concerto No. 3, soloist Dr. W. Terrence Spiller

Symphony No. 7

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)

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)

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!

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Prokofiev Octet for Winds

Vivaldi Four Seasons
Jim Riccardo, violin

Mark Kovacs, Associate Conductor
Hope Lutheran Church, 8005 San Gabriel Road, Atascadero

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

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

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

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

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
 

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

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

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

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

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

 

• 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!