2025/26 SEASON
London Symphonies, Vallejo's Orchestra
This season, we dive into one of music’s greatest late-career triumphs: Haydn’s London Symphonies. Written during his visits to England in his sixties, these pieces are bold, witty, and full of life— a composer stepping onto the public stage and redefining what it meant to be an artist. They are, quite simply, thrilling. The London Symphonies are not just musical masterpieces—they are key documents in the history of composers becoming independent artists and entrepreneurs, reshaping the very structure of musical life in the West.
We’ll be pairing each of these masterworks with music that reflects, responds to, or reimagines the Classical tradition— from Ravel’s elegance and Prokofiev’s mischief to Britten’s twilight beauty and the explosive originality of C.P.E. Bach. These programs are full of connections, surprises, and joy.
To bring these programs to life, we’re joined by some truly extraordinary artists. The astonishing Nikola Printz returns to sing Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’été, Jesse Clevenger and Salvatore Atti bring Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, French Horn and Strings to shimmering, haunting life, and our very own principal cellist, the superb Isaac Pastor-Chermak, takes center stage in Saint-Saëns’ fiery Cello Concerto No. 1.
And the best part? Thanks to your belief in the power of the arts, we get to share these masterpieces here in Vallejo, with Vallejo’s orchestra - the Vallejo Symphony!
-Marc Taddei, Music Director
