Upcoming Concerts
The Centre Symphony Orchestra (CSO), founded in 1960 and celebrating over 50 years of service to New Yorkers, is one of the City’s oldest and most esteemed community-based orchestras. The Centre Symphony Orchestra is open to music amateurs and music students, as well as semi-professional and professional players, who rehearse weekly on Tuesday nights from October through May, and prepare and present three concerts per year in St. Peter’s Church.
Concert, Thursday, December 5th, 2019
Please join us on Thursday, December 5th at 8:00 p.m. at Saint Peter’s Church in the opening concert of our 59th concert season.
Music Director José Alejandro Guzmán, will start off our season conducting the Ruslan and Lyudmila Overture by Mikhail Glinka. He will then be joined by our soloist, Francisco Salazar, for the Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 8 by Richard Strauss.
We will resume after the pause with Robert Schumann's Symphony #4 in D minor, Op. 120.
Concert, Thursday, March 5th, 2020
Associate Conductor Scott Jackson Wiley will lead the CSO on Thursday, March 5th at 8:00 p.m. at Saint Peter’s Church for our second concert of the season.
We will enjoy an evening of Beethoven, beginning with the Coriolanus Overture. This will be followed by Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D Major, featuring guest soloist Wen Qian.
Following the interval, the concert will conclude with his 7th Symphony in A Major.
Concert, Thursday, May 7th, 2020
Please join us Thursday, May 7, 2020, at 8:00 p.m. for an evening of great music as we conclude the performance season at Saint Peter’s Church, led by music director, José Alejandro Guzmán.
The concert will open with Mozart's Sinfonia concertante, K. 364 with returning soloist Christine Kwak on violin, and Byung-Kook Kwak on viola.
After the pause, we will conclude with Symphony in E major "Irish" by Sir Arthur Sullivan (of Gilbert and Sullivan fame).