JANUARY 9 & 10, 2027
Transformations
A young witch takes flight, a gifted young violinist claims her moment, a 19th-century voice is transformed into something thrillingly modern, and a bird of fire is reborn from the flames — January's program is transformation in four acts. Hisaishi's enchanting Kiki's Delivery Service, Bruch's soaring Violin Concerto with Klein Competition winner Julia Schilz, Hindemith's exhilarating Symphonic Metamorphosis, and Stravinsky's blazing Firebird Suite. This concert will be conducted by Brad Hogarth, PSO Music Director Candidate.
SATURDAY / JANUARY 9, 2027 - 7:30pm - Heritage Theatre, Campbell
SUNDAY / JANUARY 10, 2027 - 2:30pm - San Mateo Performing Arts Center
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Joe Hisaishi, Kiki’s Delivery Service Suite
Max Bruch, Violin Concerto No. 1 / Julia Schilz, violin
Paul Hindemith, Symphonic Metamorphosis
Igor Stravinsky, Firebird Suite (1919) -
Julia Schilz began her violin studies with Kimberly Meier-Sims and Stephen Sims at CIM’s Sato Center for Suzuki Studies. She is a current graduate student at the Juilliard School, after completing her undergraduate studies at Juilliard with Donald Weilerstein and Catherine Cho.
Julia is passionate about the symphonic repertoire, as evidenced by her engagement in a breadth of orchestral experiences. She appeared with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra on their 2025 USA tour, and served as concertmaster of the 2025 Kyoto Festival. She spent the 2022-2023 year under full-time contract as a member of the Houston Symphony’s first violin section. Following a substitute audition, Julia frequently performed with the Houston Symphony throughout their 2021-2022 season. In the spring of 2022, Julia served as concertmaster for the Rice production of Don Giovanni, as well as for the opening gala of Rice’s new opera building. Julia served as concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra on their European Tour (featuring performances at Vienna’s Musikverein, St. Florian’s Abbey, and Bratislava Reduta Concert Hall under the batons of Vinay Parameswaran and Franz Welser-Möst). She performed as a member of Carnegie Hall’s New York String Orchestra Seminar. READ MORE
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Brad Hogarth is a versatile and multi-faceted musician, whose career has taken him from the finest concert halls in Europe to the frozen Arctic tundra and the dusty Black Rock Desert. He is especially passionate about musical outreach - both as a performer and as an educator, Brad hopes to bring people and communities together through the power of live performance.
Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Brad is the Music Director of the Juneau Symphony, the Professor of Conducting at San Francisco State University, the Associate Conductor of the Monterey Symphony, and is the Music Director and Conductor of the Art Haus Collective, known for presenting spectacular performances of classical and contemporary works in unique spaces. Brad is also on faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music where he conducts the Conservatory Wind Ensemble, and the music director of the Peninsula Youth Orchestra. READ MORE