Starting July 7, 2026, relive the highlights of our 2025 – 2026 season!
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Schedule
Sarasota Orchestra Music Director Giancarlo Guerrero
July 7 | Masterworks 1 Symphonic Dances
Recorded November 7 - 9, 2025 at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall
Featuring
Giancarlo Guerrero, Music Director
Program
- JENNIFER HIGDON blue cathedral
- RACHMANINOFF Symphonic Dances
Pablo Sáinz-Villegas, featured guitarist
July 14 | Masterworks 2 Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Recorded December 6 – 7, 2025 at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall
Featuring
Giancarlo Guerrero, Music Director
Pablo Sáinz-Villegas, guitar
Program
- DUKAS The Sorcerer's Apprentice
- RODRIGO Concierto de Aranjuez
- JOHN WILLIAMS Suite from Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- RESPIGHI Pines of Rome
Himari, featured violinist
July 21 | Masterworks 3 Pictures at an Exhibition
Recorded January 17-18, 2026 at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall
Featuring
Peter Oundjian, conductor
Himari, violin
Program
- MICHAEL ABELS Amplify
- BRUCH Violin Concerto No. 1
- MUSSORGSKY arr. RAVEL Pictures at an Exhibition
Giancarlo Guerrero, Music Director
July 28 | Masterworks 4 Variations on America
Recorded February 13-15, 2026 at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall
Featuring
Giancarlo Guerrero, Music Director
Program
- ADOLPHUS HAILSTORK An American Port of Call
- IVES arr. SCHUMAN Variations on “America”
- DAWSON Negro Folk Symphony
Benjamin Beilman, featured violinist
August 4 | Masterworks 5 Rite of Spring
Recorded February 27 - March 1, 2026 at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall
Featuring
Giancarlo Guerrero, Music Director
Benjamin Beilman, violin
Program
- JOAN TOWER 1920/2019
- MOZART Violin Concerto No. 5 (Turkish)
- STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring
Katharina Wincor, guest conductor
August 11 | Masterworks 6 Beethoven’s Fifth
Recorded March 20 - 22, 2026 at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall
Featuring
Katharina Wincor, conductor
Zlatomir Fung, cello
Program
- BRAHMS Academic Festival Overture
- DVOŘÁK Cello Concerto
- BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5
Chee-Yun, featured violinist
August 18 | Masterworks 7 Bernstein and Mahler
Recorded April 17 - 19, 2026 at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall
Featuring
Giancarlo Guerrero, Music Director
Chee-Yun, violin
Program
- BERNSTEIN Serenade (after Plato’s Symposium)
- MAHLER Symphony No. 5
