2024-2025 Season

Saturday, September 28, 2024, 7:30PM ~
“Echoes of Heritage”
Hammer Theatre Center – 101 Paseo De San Antonio , San Jose, CA 95113  

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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor	“Danse Nègre” from African Suite
Juan Bautista Plaza	Fuga Criolla
Alexander Arutiunian	Trumpet Concerto with soloist Owen Miyoshi
Johannes Brahms	Symphony No. 2

Side By side school: Fremont High School

Owen Miyoshi, a Berkeley Ca native, graduated from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music where he studied with David Burkhart. He has been performing and teaching trumpet in the Bay Area for over 25 years. A member with the Monterey Symphony since 2000, and San Francisco Chamber Orchestra as well as a regular sub with Symphony San Jose for the last 22 years. He also freelances with many orchestras throughout the bay area. In addition to performing, Owen teaches private lessons in Berkeley and at James Logan High School. He is the trumpet coach at Berkeley High School (5 jazz bands and 3 regular bands) and most recently has become a Teaching Artist at the ELM Program (Enriching Lives through Music) in San Rafael. Outside of music, Owen is an avid competitive cyclist, (some say cycling junkie), where he does masters racing and endurance ride events (Gran Fondo).

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Saturday, November 2, 2024, 7:30PM ~
“Music Before Dawn”
Hammer Theatre Center – 101 Paseo De San Antonio , San Jose, CA 95113  

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Scott Joplin	Overture to Treemonisha
Jean Sibelius	Impromptu Op. 5
Jean Sibelius	Andante Festivo
Carl Reinecke	Flute Concerto in D major, Op. 283 with soloist Ráyo Furata
Antonín Dvořák	Symphony No. 6

Side By side school: Pioneer High School

Renowned as “The Rockstar of the Flute” by the Informador de Guadalajara in Mexico, and regarded as “The Prodigy of the Great Flutist, Carol Wincenc” (San Jose Mercury News) Mexican-Japanese American flutist Ráyo Furuta stands as a captivating artist and performer of global acclaim. At the remarkably young age of 25, Furuta was officiated as a cultural ambassador to the United States of America. Since then, his prestigious performances include those for Yo-Yo Ma’s Silkroad Ensemble, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, The United Nations, and the celebrated Mainly Mozart, Okayama, Saarburg, Sarasota, and Yellowbarn Music Festivals. Furuta’s dynamic presence extends to solo performances, frequently appearing as a concerto soloist specializing in the contemporary concerti by composers Gabriela Lena Frank, Yuko Uebayashi, and the late Paul Schoenfield. Furuta currently serves as a Professor of Flute and Chamber Music at San Jose State University. Formerly, he was the Lecturer of Performance Practice and Community Engagement at Santa Clara University, where he was honored with a distinguished faculty award for his commitment to serving marginalized communities under his initiative “Mas Amor Arts,” which has collaborative projects with incarcerated youth, unhoused women of color, and California’s farmworker communities. He has also shared his expertise through residencies and master classes at esteemed institutions including The Juilliard School, as well as the Oberlin Conservatory, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Lebanese American University of Beirut, University of Guadalajara, and many more.  Additionally, he has served as a Visiting Professor of Flute at the Cleveland Institute of Music and served as the hand selected teaching assistant to the Emerson String Quartet – the only wind player in history to be invited to hold this title. As a recipient of the prestigious Staller Scholar and distinguished alumni “40 under 40” awards, Ráyo Furuta holds his doctor of musical arts degree from Stony Brook University where he was a pupil of Carol Wincenc and the Emerson String Quartet. Ráyo Furuta is a Burkart Artist and exclusively performs on a handmade Lilian Burkart 9k gold flute.

 

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Sunday, February 2, 2025 3:30PM
Title: “Sounds of the Motherland”
Italian American Heritage Foundation, 425 N. 4th Street, San Jose

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	Gioachino Rossini	Overture to L’italiana in Algeri
	Ottorino Respighi	Ancient Airs and Dances Suite No. 3
	Alessandro Marcello	Oboe Concerto in D minor Robert Scott, oboe
	Jeremy Cavaterra	Lost Coast
	Vince Guaraldi/Arr. Moore	A Charlie Brown Christmas
	Gaetano Donizetti	Sinfonia for Winds
	Domenico Cimarosa	Overture to Il matrimonio segreto

 

Robert Scott is currently principal oboist of the Mission Chamber Orchestra and a freelance musician in the Bay Area. He attended Peabody Conservatory and received his bachelors degree from San Francisco Conservatory. Mr. Scott has performed with various local ensembles including Ensemble Monterey, Espressivo Chamber Orchestra, Santa Rosa Symphony, Peninsula Cantare, and Monterey County Pops. Mr. Scott has performed concerti with Mission Chamber Orchestra by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Sergio Azevedo, and Jean Francaix. Mr. Scott’s primary teachers have been Laura Griffiths, Eugene Izotov, Pamela Smith, and Joseph Turner.

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Saturday, March 1, 2025, 7:30PM ~
“From Laughter to Fire”
Hammer Theatre Center – 101 Paseo De San Antonio , San Jose, CA 95113  

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Igor Stravinsky	Suite No. 1 for Small Orchestra
Edward Grieg	Two melodies Op. 53 I. Norwegian II. The First Meeting
Camille Saint-Saëns	Violin Concerto No. 3 with soloist Alex Eisenberg
Igor Stravinsky	Suite No. 2 for Small Orchestra
Manuel de Falla	El Amor Brujo with soloist Stephanie Sanchez

Side By side school: Piedmont Hills High School

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Saturday, May 3, 2025, 7:30PM ~
“Dancing in the Scores”
De Anza College in Cupertino at their Visual and Performing Arts Center (VPAC)

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Bedřich Smetana	Three Dances from The Bartered Bride
David Avshalomov	Sinfonietta
Henriette Renié	Concerto for Harp in C Minor with soloist Dan Levitan
Béla Bartók	Romanian Folk Dances
Moises Moleiro	Joropo

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