2025-2026 Notes for Notes

Celebrate your favorite composer or honor a loved one by sponsoring a piece of music! Check out the pieces that are available for sponsorship during the 2025-2026 Capital Concert Series. Contact Development Manager Rebecca Faith Warthen rebecca@scphilharmonic.com

THE 2025-2026 CAPITAL CONCERT SERIES

Capital Concert 1: Mozart & More

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Overture to “The Marriage of Figaro”, K. 492
Sponsored by Bryn and Eric Douglass

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concerto for Flute and Harp in C Major, K. 299
Featuring Wendy Cohen, flute and John Wickey, harp
Sponsor for $1,000

Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 4 in A Major, op. 90, “Italian”
Sponsor for $1,500

Capital Concert 2: Northern Lights

Edvard Grieg
Peer Gynt Suite
Sponsored by Susie Thorpe & John Baynes

Grazyna Bacewicz
Piano Concerto
Featuring Andy Armstrong, piano
Sponsored by Debbie & Rick Cohn

Jean Sibelius
Symphony No. 5 in Eb Major, op. 82
Sponsor for $1,000

Capital Concert 3: Beethoven & Blue Jeans

Robert Schumann
Overture, Scherzo, and Finale, op. 52
Sponsor for $1,500

Johannes Brahms
Double Concerto for Violin and Cello in A minor, op. 102
Featuring Amy Schwartz Moretti, violin and Edward Aaron, violoncello
In memory of Julian V. Minghi by Lee Minghi

Ludwig van Beethoven
Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Piano in C Major, op. 56
Sponsor for $1,500

Capital Concert 4: The Tchaikovsky Concert

Bedrich Smetana
Overture to “The Bartered Bride”
Sponsored by Dr. Stacey Brennan

Piotr I. Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto No. 1 in Bb minor, op. 23
Featuring Olivia Larco, piano (Winner 2024 Southeastern Piano Festival)
Sponsored by Bobbi & Jeff McKeever

Piotr I. Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 4 in F minor, op. 36
Sponsored by Sarah & Frank Clark

Capital Concert 5: The Dream of America

Maurice Ravel
Alborada del gracioso
Sponsor for $700

Shaosheng Li
Wind Across a Cloudless Firmament
Featuring Gong Shuang, soprano
Sponsor for $500

Maurice Ravel
Bolero 
Sponsor for $1,500

Peter Boyer
Ellis Island – The Dream of America
A staged symphony with actors directed by Chad Henderson (The Chad Henderson Co.)
Sponsor for $1,500

Capital Concert 6: From the New World

Valerie Coleman
Umoja – Anthem of Unity
Featuring the SCP Youth Orchestra, Reed Hanna, Music Director
Sponsored by Dr. Mary Baskin-Waters and Samuel Calvin Waters, Esq. Endowed Fund to Support Historically Underrepresented Composers and Musicians and Musical Traditions in the Classical Orchestra.

Aaron Copland
Appalachian Spring Suite
Sponsored by Jeffry Caswell & Jose Cotto Ortiz

Antonin Dvořák
Symphony No. 9 in E minor, op. 95, “From the New World”
Sponsored by Jeannie and Hyman Rubin, Jr.