The holidays are a time to be grateful, and we are so very grateful to you, our supporters, for allowing us to bring the joy of live orchestral music to thousands in our community over the last twenty-six years. Your gifts help us pay for our rehearsal space and the Jackson Theater, music rentals, community outreach, and our devoted and gifted music director. 
 

Thanks to your ongoing support, we are able to offer concerts with ticket prices ranging from $20 to FREE: free to students, and free to anyone who simply can’t afford to pay. We never turn anyone away.

 

Our Musical Family

SoCo Phil is more than just a volunteer orchestra. We are a musical community bringing together the people who love to play orchestral music and all those who love to listen to it and enriching the cultural fabric of Sonoma County. Over the years, we have expanded our audience by presenting bilingual children’s concerts in collaboration with Latino organizations and sponsoring small chamber ensembles to perform at senior centers throughout the county. We continue to seek out new connections and new groups of music-lovers of all ages and means.

 

26th Season Highlights

Our 26th concert season opened in October with special performances of Bela Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, a rarely heard masterpiece highlighting every instrumental section of our philharmonic orchestra. Also on the program, a Saint-Saëns violin concerto showcasing local violinist, Michael Long.
 

Our November concerts featured this year’s winner of our Young Artist Competition, an ongoing collaboration with the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Fifteen-year-old Sydney Li-Jenkins performed Paganini’s Violin Concerto No. 1 to standing ovations and thunderous applause. One of the joys of this competition can be found in looking out over an audience that includes so many aspiring young musicians and their families.  
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Our upcoming winter concerts explore music based on fairy tales, including an exciting premiere of Joby Talbot’s orchestral suite based on his acclaimed Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland ballet. We end our season next April with a concert set of under-performed musical gems, including Fanny Mendelssohn’s dramatic cantata Hero und Leander with soprano, Esther Rayo, and Florence Price’s groundbreaking Symphony No. 1. We look forward to seeing you again in the concert hall!

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THE VOLUNTEER MEMBERS OF THE PHILHARMONIC THANK YOU FOR YOUR ONGOING SUPPORT!