Oakland Symphony Free Concert at Oakland City Hall

Submitted by the Event Organizer

The Oakland Symphony presents “Summer Stage at Oakland City Hall” a free, outdoor concert featuring a specially configured 42-person Orchestra in performance at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza at the foot of Oakland’s City Hall on Thursday, August 4 at 7:00pm. Oakland City Hall is located at 14th Street and Broadway in downtown Oakland and is easily accessible via BART, bus or, rideshare. Food and refreshments will be available for sale and attendees can bring picnic baskets. There will be an instrument petting zoo and other activities. For more information visit OaklandSymphony.org.

This special performance will present Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Symphony No. 29, W.G. Still’s Summerland, Camille Saint-Saëns’s Introduction and Rondo capriccioso, and Darius Milhaud’s Le Bœuf sur le toit and will feature guest conductor Kedrick Armstrong and violin soloist Amaryn Olmeda. Armstong has conducted the Chicago Opera Theater and Knox-Galesburg Symphony and is an alumnus of the Chicago Sinfonietta’s Project Inclusion Freeman Conducting Fellow program. He uses his voice and platform as a Black conductor to advocate for the performance, publication and preservation of minority voices in classical music. Olmeda is a Northern California native and San Francisco Conservatory of Music graduate and, in 2021, was awarded first prize and the audience choice award at the 24th Annual Sphinx Competition, the national competition featuring young Black and Latinx classical string players.

For almost 100 years, the Oakland Symphony has presented classical and symphonic music in the Bay Area and the late Music Director and Conductor Michael Morgan personified the organization’s commitment to serving its diverse population through the unique convergence of artistic excellence, community service, and education programs. The Symphony’s mission and vision will continue to be to make the world’s great music accessible to all members of our community by presenting unique programs, and has attracted perhaps the most culturally diverse audience of any orchestra in the nation.

The Oakland Symphony’s upcoming 2022-2023 season will run from October 14, 2022 to May 19, 2023 and will present six specially invited guest conductors of the new generation who will lead the Orchestra at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland, CA.

Oakland Symphony “Summer Stage at Oakland City Hall” is sponsored by Bell Investments and Chevron with support from Visit Oakland.

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