Orange County School of the Arts, also known as OCSA, recently released some exciting news about our Concertmaster Dennis Kim and new Principal Cellist Warren Hagerty. You can read the full press release on their website here, but we’ve distilled

Organic, spontaneous embellishments and classical music aren’t often two concepts heard in the same sentence, but cellist Juliana Soltis is trying to change all that. She’s released an album, “Going Off Script,” celebrating the marriage of these two concepts, performing

In March 2018, our very own Pacific Symphony Youth Orchestra (PYSO) performed the world premiere of “Analog Intelligence” by Brendan Faegre—a young composer who has reimagined what an acoustic orchestra can do. “Analog Intelligence,” for example, recreates an electronic soundscape

Once she stepped onto the podium, she was a force not to be denied, a dynamo. She exerted uncommon energy, but her ministrations were also precise and incisive. Watching her, you understood her enthusiasm for the music at hand, not

The most famous masterpiece by Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns, “Carnival of the Animals,” was not publicly performed during his lifetime. The suite was only played twice in small, intimate concerts. The musicians who were at those concerts, notably Frank Liszt, implored Saint-Saëns

“Diehl, a rising star of jazz piano, has an individual talent so huge that one day he may extend the jazz tradition …” Aaron Diehl joins us for “Rhapsody in Blue” conducted by Mei-Ann Chen Nov. 14-16. Taking jazz and

Orange County Board of Supervisors adopted a resolution honoring Pacific Symphony as Orange County’s “Global Arts Ambassador” reflecting the success of Pacific Symphony’s historic tours to China, Europe, and a sold-out Carnegie Hall performance, as well as its national television

Pacific Symphony is here to give you the chills and thrills of a composer with two eerie soundtracks – Happy Halloween! Five episodes and 19 Emmy nods later, HBO’s “Chernobyl” felt like a real cultural event. If you haven’t seen

Michael Franz will join Pacific Symphony as principal bass in January 2019. A native of Burlington, Vt., he began playing double bass in public school at age 14. Franz is a 2014 graduate of the Eastman School of Music where

The Halloween season is here, and November is just around the corner. That means colder weather, pumpkin pie and exciting concerts with Pacific Symphony! Performances are scheduled for the first and third weekends. The first weekend we will host our