Husband-and-wife duo Joshua Bell and Larisa MartÃnez present Voice and the Violin, exploring repertoire from classical art song and opera to musical theater and selections by Puerto Rican and Spanish composers. They join Pacific Symphony and Music Director Carl St.Clair for a special evening during this celebratory season.
A mystery awaits Pacific Symphony with a audience favorite group that returns by popular demand. This ensemble from Portland, Oregon mixes it up with a cocktail of classical zest, Latin heat, and jazz-tinted pop in a polyglot’s dream of seven languages. They’ll be celebrating 30 years of musical escapades this season.
The world-renowned Takács Quartet enters its 50th season and returns to Samueli Theater with a beautiful program that will include Haydn, Britten and Schubert.
Annie, the beloved story about an orphan girl, features the iconic book and score, written by Tony Award-winners Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin. This celebration of family, optimism and the American spirit remains the ultimate cure for all the hard knocks life throws your way.
Hershey Felder's newest musical play will feature him in the role of composer and pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff alongside British-Italian actor Jonathan Silvestri in the role of Tsar Nicholas II.
Claybourne Elder (The Gilded Age, HBO) takes the Samueli Theater stage for a hilarious and heartfelt evening that is part stand-up and part cabaret. Enjoy his favorite music ranging from the Great American Songbook to Whitney Houston and everything in between. Â
The Grammy Award-winning Pacific Chorale takes centerstage for Carmina Burana, the most frequently performed choral work of the 21st century.
A delightfully funny family musical about a boy who loves books but doesn’t like reading them. One day he tries nibbling on a page and soon finds himself chomping his way through the school library, getting smarter with each bite.
The Calidore String Quartet, comprised of four millennial musicians, is recognized as one of the world’s foremost interpreters of a vast chamber music repertory. They take the Samueli Theater stage with the world premiere of String Quartet No. 3 by Han Lash commissioned by Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting for the Segerstrom Chamber Series.
Lahav Shani leads a musical program of prayer, passion, and remembrance. The evening features IPO’s principal cellist Haran Meltzer performing Bruch’s Kol Nidrei and principal flutist Guy Eshed performing Bernstein’s Ḥalil.
Europe’s first majority Black and ethnically diverse orchestra, Chineke! Orchestra makes its Orange County debut. Experience two works by father-daughter composers, Avril and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and Aaron Azunda Akugbo performing Haydn's grand Trumpet Concerto.
Multifaceted American jazz pianist and composer Emmet Cohen is one of his generation's pivotal figures in music. During the 2020 lockdown, Cohen developed "Live From Emmet's Place," a series of weekly performances by his trio and special guests live-streamed from his NYC apartment that recall the Harlem rent parties of yesteryear. These concerts, which have […]
