2025-2026
Additional dates and programs coming soon!
November 1-2, 2025
La Jolla Symphony: The French Connection
Sameer Patel, Music Director & Orchestra Conductor
Kevin Puts- Virelai (after Guilaume de Machaut)
Stravinsky- Symphonies of Wind Instruments (!920 version)
Rameau- Selections from Les Boréades
Betsy Jolas- Just a Minute!
Debussy- Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Satie- Parade
Mandeville Auditorium, UCSD (7:30pm + 2pm)
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November 22, 2025
Texas High School Region 13
Sameer Patel, guest conductor
Tchaikovsky: Scene from Swan Lake
Augusta Holmes- La Nuit et L’Amour
Andres Martin- Ilimitados
de Falla: Suite no. 2 from The Three-Cornered Hat
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December 6-7, 2025
La Jolla Symphony and Chorus: Trinity
Sameer Patel, Music Director & Orchestra Conductor
John Adams- Doctor Atomic Symphony
Beethoven- Mass in C Major, op. 86
Mandeville Auditorium, UCSD (7:30pm + 2pm)
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December 18-21, 2025
Fort Wayne Philharmonic: Holiday Pops
Sameer Patel, guest conductor
Bryona Maria Parham, vocalist
Fort Wayne Philharmonic Chorus, Benjamin Rivera, director
Fort Wayne Children’s Choir, Jonathan Busarow, director
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January 24-25, 2025
San Diego Youth Symphony
Tan Dun- Passacaglia: Secret of Wind and Birds
Shostakovich-Symphony no. 5, op. 47
Sameer Patel, Artistic Director
California Center for the Arts Escondido
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January 31-February 1, 2026
La Jolla Symphony: Breaking Boundaries
Sameer Patel, Music Director & Orchestra Conductor
Peter Ko, cello and halldorophone
Adam Schoenberg- Automation
Frank Zappa- Dupree’s Paradise
Hannah Wolkowitz- Breaking Boundaries (World Premiere)
Busoni- Berceuse Elegiaque
Sibelius- Symphony no. 7, op. 105
Mandeville Auditorium, UCSD (7:30pm + 2pm)
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February 9, 2026
Side by Side: La Jolla Symphony and San Diego Youth Symphony
Shostakovich- Symphony no. 5, op. 47
May 2-3, 2026
La Jolla Symphony and Chorus: The Heavenly Life
Sameer Patel, Music Director & Orchestra Conductor
Andrea Zomorodian, soprano
Andrea Casarrubios- Afilador (alongside students from San Diego Youth Symphony)
Osvaldo Golijov- Night of the Flying Horses
Mahler- Symphony no. 4
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May 17, 2026
San Diego Youth Symphony
Verdi- Overture to La Forza del Destino
Sarasate- Introduction and Tarantella
Andrea Casarrubios- Afilador
Andres Martin- Ilimitados (world premiere)
de Falla- Suite no. 2 from The Three Cornered Hat
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June 15-21, 2026
Sewanee Summer Music Festival
Sameer Patel, guest conductor
Repertoire To Be Announced