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Community Concerts
The San Diego Symphony presents free concerts throughout the San Diego region in neighborhood venues, schools and in detention centers. These concerts aim to increase access to live performances and to bring people together to connect with their community.
Concerts feature chamber music, side-by-sides, and full orchestra performances.
MUSIC CONNECTS SPRING 2023 SEASON
MUSIC CONNECTS in San Ysidro
Saturday, March 25, 6pm
The FRONT Arte & Cultura
147 W San Ysidro Blvd., San Diego, CA 92173
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MUSIC CONNECTS in Chula Vista
Saturday, March 26, 3pm
Performing Arts Center, Southwestern College
900 Otay Lakes Rd, Chula Vista, CA 91910
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Andrés González, conductor
San Diego Symphony Orchestra
JESSIE MONTGOMERY: Strum
EDVARD GRIEG: Suite
TERESA CARREÑO: Serenade for Strings
JUAN BAUTISTA PLAZA: Fuga criolla
JUAN RAMÍREZ: Suite Latina
Venezuelan conductor Andrés González takes us on a sonic journey across the Americas. In this program, which features the string section of the San Diego Symphony, you’ll hear some of the most iconic composers from Venezuela, Mexico and the United States. Folk melodies from Latin America and the United States bring these works together – from Jessie Montgomery’s delightful opener Strum to Juan Ramírez’s dance-like Suite Latina.
MUSIC CONNECTS in East San Diego County
Wednesday, April 26, 12:30pm
Sycuan Casino Resort: Live & Up-Close Theater
5469 Casino Way, El Cajon, CA 92019
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John Lidfors, conductor
San Diego Symphony Orchestra
SERGEI PROKOFIEV: Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25, “Classical”
JEROD IMPICHCHAACHAAHA' TATE: Chokfi’
FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN: Symphony No. 104 in D Major, “London”
Join us for this special concert featuring music by three important composers in music history. Sergei Prokofiev’s First Symphony, which was written in the style of the classical period, is paired with music by “the Father of the Symphony,” Franz Joseph Haydn’s London Symphony. These two works highlight the evolving sound of the orchestra – and the connections that music has across time. Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate is a Chickasaw composer, who is one of the most important contemporary composers of our time, expressing his native culture in symphonic music. His work Chokfi’ is the Chickasaw word for rabbit, who is an important trickster legend within the Southeast American Indian cultures. Different string and percussion techniques and colors represent the complicated and diabolical personality of this rabbit person. In honor of his Muscogee Creek friends, Tate incorporated a popular tribal church hymn as the melodic and musical base.