2017-18 Season Concerts
For Napa Youth Chamber Ensemble performances go here.
NVYS 15th annual REd Gala
Featuring iconic Jazz Trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis
Saturday, April 21, 5 pm
Napa Valley Center for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Theater
More information go to our Red Gala page HERE.
2017-18 Past Concerts
NVYS fall Concert
Sunday, December 3
Napa Valley College Performing Arts Center
2277 College Way, Napa
The Napa Valley Youth Symphony presents Memories of the Past, a collection of works that examine our relationship to history. Commissioned to accompany a play, Beethoven's Coriolan Overture evokes the glory of the Roman Empire and the humanity of a general who sought military resolution of his political failures. Soon Hee Newbold's Egyptian Legacy is a contemporary work that similarly evokes the ancient world, but south of the Mediterranean. Respighi's Ancient Dances and Aires provides a 20th century perspective on Renaissance dance music and ending the evening, a selection of Elgar's Enigma Variations imagines the character's in the British Composers life interpreting a theme in their own idiosyncratic way. This concert presents a perspective on recollection as reinterpretation and offers music both well-known and freshly drawn to show that the act of re-creation is an act of creation.
NVYS & Sinfonia Winter Concerto Concert
Featuring the 2017 NVYS Concerto Competition Winners Juliana Tran (Viola) and Zia Calpito (Bass)
Sunday, February 11, 4 pm
Napa Valley Center for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Theater
Napa Valley Youth Symphony presents a concert celebrating music education in the Wine Country. NVYS and the winners of the Napa Valley Youth Symphony concerto competition will perform their concerto movements: Juliana Tran on Casadesus Viola Concerto in C Minor in the style of J.C. Bach, and Zia Calpito on Capuzzi's Concerto in F Major for Double Bass. Two training orchestras—The Preparatory Orchestra of the Santa Rosa Symphony and Sinfonia from the Napa Valley Youth Symphony, will present Russian Sailor's Dance from the Red Poppy and Handel's La Rejouissance from Royal Fireworks Music. NVYS will conclude with Franz Schubert's Sixth Symphony, a work turning 200 years old but still as fresh as the day the 21-year-old Schubert put pen to paper.
US AIr force Band of the Golden West Mobility with special guests NVYS
Sunday, March 4 Note: Due to Napa wild fires this concert is being rescheduled for early 2018
Napa Valley Center for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Theater
The U.S. Air Force Band of the Golden West will present a free concert in Yountville, Calif. by the popular music ensemble “Mobility” at the Lincoln Theater as they share the stage with the Napa Valley Youth Symphony. This unique, combined performance of energetic pop/rock, classical and patriotic tunes will feature some of the finest young musicians in the Bay Area and will thrill audience members so it is not to be missed!