2026-2027 Season

Season Subscriptions on sale on May 2, 2026!

Pops by the Sea

Symphony Remix

Blending beloved pops classics with one-of-a-kind mashups of iconic hits, featuring local powerhouse horn band Brass Mash!

Music from The Beach Boys, Titanic, Billy the Kid, Rodeo, Michael Jackson, The Killers, Led Zeppelin and more!

4:30 PM

Avila Beach Golf Resort

Classics I

Rites of Passage

Stravinsky Rite of Spring 

Coleridge Taylor Danse Nègre from African Suite, Op.35

Podell New Work World Premiere Commissioned by Garrett Foulke & Dorothy Correa

3:00pm

Performing Arts Center
San Luis Obispo

Classics II

SLO Symphony & Paderewski Festival Present Keys of Grandeur

Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 in B minor op.74 “Pathetique” 

Beethoven Piano Concerto No.5 in E flat op.73  “Emperor” 

Moniuszko Mazurka from the opera Halka (1858)

Guest artist: Hyunjin Roh, First Prize winner of Paderewski Piano Competition in Bydgoszcz, Poland

7:30pm

Performing Arts Center
San Luis Obispo

New Year’s Eve

Experience Fantasia

From The Sorcerer’s Apprentice to Night on Bald Mountain, hear the sounds of Fantasia come to life!

7:30pm

Performing Arts Center
San Luis Obispo

Classics III

Among the Pines

Respighi Pines of Rome 

D. Brubeck/C. Brubeck Ansel Adams: America         

Podell Cayucos Beach Unleashed (world premiere commissioned by Klaus & Monica Gottlieb at the 2025 Symphony in Bloom Gala)  

7:30pm

Performing Arts Center
San Luis Obispo

Classics IV

Grand Overtures

Brahms Academic Festival Overture    

Guilmant Symphony No. 1 for organ

Respighi Ancient Airs and Dances Suite

Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture

Guest Soloist: Felix Hell, Organ

7:30pm

Performing Arts Center
San Luis Obispo

Classics V

Springtime Reverie

Mahler Blumine from Symphony No.1  

Shostakovich Piano Concerto No.2  

Franck Symphony in D minor

Sylvia Jiang, piano  

3:00pm

Performing Arts Center
San Luis Obispo

Subscriptions on sale on May 2, 2026!