Season 19
Mark your calendars
Tuesday May 26, 5:00-6:00 p.m.
Concert featuring the Ensemble San Francisco String Quartet at Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
Wednesday May 27, 11:00-11:30 a.m. and 12:00-12:30 p.m.
Pop-up Side by Side Concerts at Bookshop Santa Cruz
May 30, 2026 at 7:30 p.m.
Concert featuring Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du soldat at Samper Recital Hall.
May 31, 2026 at 2:00 p.m.
Concert featuring Bach’s Bradenburg Concertos at Samper Recital Hall.
More details to be released soon.
Festival artists:
Omar Lateef, trumpet
Julietta Curenton, flute
Paolo Bordignon, harpsichord
Nick Platoff, trombone
Explore last season’s 2025 Program Book
“Thank you for taking time out of your day to show us the art of music. It means a lot to all of us... and makes us feel a lot better. Your music reminds me of being home with family...”
After today’s performance [in a Lebanese refugee camp] I am thankful for so many things. One of those things is for the mighty gift of music to be a shared experience with people from all walks, from grand concert halls of San Francisco to an alleyway in Said Gawash.
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–– Rebecca Jackson-Picht, Artistic Director