San Diego Symphony Classical Concerts in SoCal

Nathalia Palis , host and performer San Diego Symphony string quintet: Yumi Cho , violin Yeim Lee , violin Sung Jin Lee , viola Andrew Hayhurst , cello Susan Wulff , bass STEPHANIE LEAVELL: “Say Hello (From Your Head to Your Toes)” MOZART: "Allegro" from Eine kleine Nachtmusik SING-ALONG: “The Alphabet Song” SING-ALONG: “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” MOZART: Twelve Variations on “Ah vous dirai-je, Maman” HARLINE & WASHINGTON, arr. DECLAN POSTLETHWAITE: “When You Wish Upon a Star” HARRISON, arr. ALISON GILLIES: “Here Comes the Sun” STEPHANIE LEAVELL: “We Have to Say Goodbye”

Nathalia Palis , host and performer San Diego Symphony string quintet: Yumi Cho , violin Yeim Lee , violin Sung Jin Lee , viola Andrew Hayhurst , cello Susan Wulff , bass STEPHANIE LEAVELL: “Say Hello (From Your Head to Your Toes)” MOZART: "Allegro" from Eine kleine Nachtmusik SING-ALONG: “The Alphabet Song” SING-ALONG: “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” MOZART: Twelve Variations on “Ah vous dirai-je, Maman” HARLINE & WASHINGTON, arr. DECLAN POSTLETHWAITE: “When You Wish Upon a Star” HARRISON, arr. ALISON GILLIES: “Here Comes the Sun” STEPHANIE LEAVELL: “We Have to Say Goodbye”

Program: TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23; SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op . 93 Led by its dynamic Music Director Rafael Payare , the San Diego Symphony welcomes celebrated Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov for Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1, a cornerstone of the Russian repertoire. Trifonov, who captured both First Prize and the Grand Prix at Moscow’s International Tchaikovsky Competition in 2011, brings exceptional virtuosity, lyricism, and insight to this enduring masterpiece. The program concludes with Shostakovich’s powerful Symphony No. 10, a landmark of the Russian symphonic tradition completed in the aftermath of Stalin’s death in 1953. Widely regarded as one of the composer’s greatest achievements, the work bears witness to immense suffering under tyranny while reclaiming the voice of the individual, unfolding a gripping drama of fear, endurance, and defiance.