Organization
Monterey Symphony
Comment on Facebook Under the artistic leadership of Music Director and Conductor Max Bragado-Darman, the Monterey Symphony is the only fully professional orchestra in the region offering triple performances of a seven-concert series between October and May, with two concerts performed at Sunset Center, Carmel and one at the Performing Arts Center of the Steinbeck Institute of Art and Culture (formerly Sherwood Hall), Salinas. Other productions include an annual Christmas concert, youth concerts, numerous in-school demonstrations, and special events throughout the year to raise funds for the organization.
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Monterey Symphony
2560 Garden Road, Suite 101
Monterey, CA 93940
Phone: 831-646-8511 | Fax: 831-644-0669 | Email | Official Website
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Upcoming Events
10/19/12- 10/21/12 |
Concert 1 - Delicacy
Sunset Center
Presented by Monterey Symphony
at Sunset Center
October 19-October 21, 2012
John O’Conor hand-delivers his country’s best kept secret, the music of Irish composer John Field, inventor of the piano nocturne and inspiration to a legion of pianist/composers like Chopin, Brahms and Liszt. O’Conor’s protégé, Heidi Hau, winner of the 1998 Carmel Music Society Young Musicians Competition, delivers an ebullient performance of Haydn’s Keyboard Concerto No. 11. Mozart’s Double Concerto is like listening to three classical...
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11/16/12- 11/18/12 |
Concert 2 - Power
Sunset Center
Presented by Monterey Symphony
at Sunset Center
November 16-November 18, 2012
From the opening chords of Verdi’s La forza del destino (The Force of Destiny) to the return of the majestic brass in Sibelius’s Symphony No. 1, there is no question that sheer power in an orchestra can evoke a thrill in the most casual of listeners. These works are not for the faint of heart. San Francisco-based pianist Tanya Gabrielian, winner of the 2010 Carmel Music Society Young Musicians Competition, commands the bold and sometimes mysteriously sinuous melodies of Aram...
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11/16/12- 11/18/12 |
Concert 2 - Power
Sunset Center
Presented by Monterey Symphony
at Sunset Center
November 16-November 18, 2012
From the opening chords of Verdi’s La forza del destino (The Force of Destiny) to the return of the majestic brass in Sibelius’s Symphony No. 1, there is no question that sheer power in an orchestra can evoke a thrill in the most casual of listeners. These works are not for the faint of heart. San Francisco-based pianist Tanya Gabrielian, winner of the 2010 Carmel Music Society Young Musicians Competition, commands the bold and sometimes mysteriously sinuous melodies of Aram...
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01/25/13- 01/27/13 |
Concert 3 - Introspection
Sunset Center
Presented by Monterey Symphony
at Sunset Center
January 25-January 27, 2013
In Toldrá and Turina, we find flower covered hills, shimmering seas and a Bullfighter’s Prayer with all its contemplation and courage evoked in lush and pure strings. Max Bragado-Darman conducts this all-strings program—reflective and authentic of his native Spain, the noble concert halls of Vienna and the satisfaction of Bohemian life as conveyed in Dvo?ák’s Serenade for Strings. In her Monterey Symphony debut, Bulgarian born Anna Petrova performs...
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02/23/13- 02/24/13 |
Recital - Anticipation
Sunset Center
Presented by Monterey Symphony
at Sunset Center
February 23-February 24, 2013
A piano can be an orchestra itself in the hands of a master, so like a seventh inning stretch, we give the orchestra a break while the piano plays on. In all its magnificence, the Symphony’s Hamburg Steinway sits centerstage and alone in this feature performance with Spanish pianist Josu de Solaun. One of classical music’s fast rising stars, De Solaun wowed audiences with his Monterey Symphony debut (Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3) in January 2011....
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03/22/13- 03/24/13 |
Concert 4 - Revolution
Sunset Center
Presented by Monterey Symphony
at Sunset Center
March 22-March 24, 2013
Revolution takes many forms. Though a “modern” composer, Rodrigo had nostalgia for courtly music of days long past, which pervades Three Old Dance Airs (1928/29), a perfect introduction to two works by early-Romantic masters on the cusp of revolution. Jean Louis Steuerman performs Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2, a display of technical and compositional bravado which showcases Beethoven’s own pianistic talents. Schubert’s Symphony No. 3, steeped in the past of...
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04/19/13- 04/21/13 |
Concert 5 - Merriment
Sunset Center
Presented by Monterey Symphony
at Sunset Center
April 19-April 21, 2013
Fauré, Satie and Ravel are quintessential French impressionists, composers who with a stroke of the pen create images, scenes and vignettes of emotion with the broad palate of the orchestra. Satie’s Gymnopédies shine serenely like the morning sun off a summer lake. French pianist, Philippe Bianconi performs Ravel’s Concerto in G, jazz inspired with one of the most beautiful middle movements of any concerto, and Fauré’s elegant Ballade. The orchestra...
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05/17/13- 05/19/13 |
Concert 6 - Ecstasy
Sunset Center
Presented by Monterey Symphony
at Sunset Center
May 17-May 19, 2013
Dubravka Tomsic is an invaluable asset to Monterey Symphony, a frequent guest artist, a confidant to Joan De Visser and the one to whom was entrusted the selection of Monterey Symphony’s Hamburg Steinway. As an artist, she dazzles audiences with the ease and brilliance of her playing. On this program she conveys the ecstasy of Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto, a piece so perfect in its construction that it was said to have rescued the composer from years of depression. A...
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Current &
Upcoming Events
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Upcoming Events
10/19/12- 10/21/12 |
Concert 1 - Delicacy
Sunset Center
Presented by Monterey Symphony
at Sunset Center
October 19-October 21, 2012
John O’Conor hand-delivers his country’s best kept secret, the music of Irish composer John Field, inventor of the piano nocturne and inspiration to a legion of pianist/composers like Chopin, Brahms and Liszt. O’Conor’s protégé, Heidi Hau, winner of the 1998 Carmel Music Society Young Musicians Competition, delivers an ebullient performance of Haydn’s Keyboard Concerto No. 11. Mozart’s Double Concerto is like listening to three classical...
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11/16/12- 11/18/12 |
Concert 2 - Power
Sunset Center
Presented by Monterey Symphony
at Sunset Center
November 16-November 18, 2012
From the opening chords of Verdi’s La forza del destino (The Force of Destiny) to the return of the majestic brass in Sibelius’s Symphony No. 1, there is no question that sheer power in an orchestra can evoke a thrill in the most casual of listeners. These works are not for the faint of heart. San Francisco-based pianist Tanya Gabrielian, winner of the 2010 Carmel Music Society Young Musicians Competition, commands the bold and sometimes mysteriously sinuous melodies of Aram...
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11/16/12- 11/18/12 |
Concert 2 - Power
Sunset Center
Presented by Monterey Symphony
at Sunset Center
November 16-November 18, 2012
From the opening chords of Verdi’s La forza del destino (The Force of Destiny) to the return of the majestic brass in Sibelius’s Symphony No. 1, there is no question that sheer power in an orchestra can evoke a thrill in the most casual of listeners. These works are not for the faint of heart. San Francisco-based pianist Tanya Gabrielian, winner of the 2010 Carmel Music Society Young Musicians Competition, commands the bold and sometimes mysteriously sinuous melodies of Aram...
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01/25/13- 01/27/13 |
Concert 3 - Introspection
Sunset Center
Presented by Monterey Symphony
at Sunset Center
January 25-January 27, 2013
In Toldrá and Turina, we find flower covered hills, shimmering seas and a Bullfighter’s Prayer with all its contemplation and courage evoked in lush and pure strings. Max Bragado-Darman conducts this all-strings program—reflective and authentic of his native Spain, the noble concert halls of Vienna and the satisfaction of Bohemian life as conveyed in Dvo?ák’s Serenade for Strings. In her Monterey Symphony debut, Bulgarian born Anna Petrova performs...
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02/23/13- 02/24/13 |
Recital - Anticipation
Sunset Center
Presented by Monterey Symphony
at Sunset Center
February 23-February 24, 2013
A piano can be an orchestra itself in the hands of a master, so like a seventh inning stretch, we give the orchestra a break while the piano plays on. In all its magnificence, the Symphony’s Hamburg Steinway sits centerstage and alone in this feature performance with Spanish pianist Josu de Solaun. One of classical music’s fast rising stars, De Solaun wowed audiences with his Monterey Symphony debut (Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3) in January 2011....
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03/22/13- 03/24/13 |
Concert 4 - Revolution
Sunset Center
Presented by Monterey Symphony
at Sunset Center
March 22-March 24, 2013
Revolution takes many forms. Though a “modern” composer, Rodrigo had nostalgia for courtly music of days long past, which pervades Three Old Dance Airs (1928/29), a perfect introduction to two works by early-Romantic masters on the cusp of revolution. Jean Louis Steuerman performs Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2, a display of technical and compositional bravado which showcases Beethoven’s own pianistic talents. Schubert’s Symphony No. 3, steeped in the past of...
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04/19/13- 04/21/13 |
Concert 5 - Merriment
Sunset Center
Presented by Monterey Symphony
at Sunset Center
April 19-April 21, 2013
Fauré, Satie and Ravel are quintessential French impressionists, composers who with a stroke of the pen create images, scenes and vignettes of emotion with the broad palate of the orchestra. Satie’s Gymnopédies shine serenely like the morning sun off a summer lake. French pianist, Philippe Bianconi performs Ravel’s Concerto in G, jazz inspired with one of the most beautiful middle movements of any concerto, and Fauré’s elegant Ballade. The orchestra...
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05/17/13- 05/19/13 |
Concert 6 - Ecstasy
Sunset Center
Presented by Monterey Symphony
at Sunset Center
May 17-May 19, 2013
Dubravka Tomsic is an invaluable asset to Monterey Symphony, a frequent guest artist, a confidant to Joan De Visser and the one to whom was entrusted the selection of Monterey Symphony’s Hamburg Steinway. As an artist, she dazzles audiences with the ease and brilliance of her playing. On this program she conveys the ecstasy of Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto, a piece so perfect in its construction that it was said to have rescued the composer from years of depression. A...
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