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  • 2025|2026 SEASON
  • About
    • Orchestra
    • Conductors
    • Musicians
    • Guest Artists
    • Composer-in-Residence
  • Chamber
    • Performances
    • Opus Oakland
    • Cierzo Flutes
  • Documentary
  • Join/Auditions
    • Current Vacancies
  • MAILING LIST
  • Support/Donors
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  • Media
    • Past Performances
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    • OCOA Board Documents
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OAKLAND CIVIC ORCHESTRA
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HIGHLIGHTS FROM OUR 2023|2024 SEASON
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Concert 3
LUMINOSITY
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Sunday, May 5, 2024
​4:00 PM


​NOTE NEW VENUE:
Lake Merritt United Methodist Church
​1330 Lakeshore Avenue • Oakland
Info: know before you go

Concert Program
PROGRAM
With links to our concert videos:


Vaughan Williams:     Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Cadence Liu:              Concerto for Flute and Orchestra 
                                          Cadence Liu, Flute 

Igor Stravinsky:            Divertimento from Le Baiser de la fée (The Fairy's Kiss)
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Yasushi Akutagawa:    Music for Symphony Orchestra

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Concert 2
SYMPHONIC DANCE PARTY
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Sunday, February 25, 2024
​4:00 PM


​First Presbyterian Church of Oakland • 2619 Broadway
Concert Program
PROGRAM
​With links to our concert videos:


​Doreen Carwithen:        Bishop Rock Overture
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Joaquin Turina:              Danzas fantásticas
Sergei Rachmaninoff:   Symphonic Dances, Op.45


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Concert 1
FREE BUT GLAD


Sunday, October 29, 2023
​4:00 PM

First Presbyterian Church of Oakland • 2619 Broadway
Concert Program
PROGRAM
​With links to our concert videos:


​Hector Berlioz:         Overture to Waverley  
​​Johannes Brahms:   
Symphony No. 3
Edward Elgar:           Sea Pictures
                                     Shauna Fallihee, Mezzo-soprano

2022|2023 OCO SEASON

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Concert 3
​AMERICANS IN PARIS


First Presbyterian Church of Oakland
2619 Broadway, Oakland, CA
Sunday, April 30 at 4:00 PM
Concert Program
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​Umar Durr:      Renegade  - World Premiere - OCO Composer-in-Residence Commission
Barber:            Symphony No. 1
Milhaud:          Quatre Chansons de Ronsard
                           
Raquel Taylor, Soprano
​Gershwin:       An American in Paris
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Concert 2
PORTRAITS IN MUSIC


Valley Center for the Performing Arts
Regents Theater
Holy Names University
3500 Mountain Blvd., Oakland, CA
​Saturday, February 11 at 4:00 PM
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Still:                  Darker America
Bartok:             Two Portraits
                         Christina Walton, Violin solo
Dvorak:            Symphony No. 7
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Concert 1
30th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

​First Presbyterian Church of Oakland
2619 Broadway, Oakland, CA
Sunday, October 23 at 4:00 PM


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​    Alrich:             Romance No.1 - World Premiere Marty's 25th Anniversary with OCO - Commission
    Grondahl:        Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra
                            Max Walker, Trombone
    Nielsen:           Symphony No. 2 - The Four Temperaments

                             Youtube playlist for this concert

PLEASE ENJOY HIGHLIGHTS FROM
​our 2021|2022 season

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SEASON FINALE:
REUNION
Sunday, May 15 at 4 PM

YouTube playlist with selections from this concert.
​Link to concert program below (left).
Links to concert videos in the "Program" section below (right).

Concert 3
​REUNION

​​First Presbyterian Church of Oakland
2619 Broadway, Oakland, CA
Sunday, May 15 at 4 PM


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PROGRAM
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Brahms:         Academic Festival Overture

Umar Durr:    Zephyr in Gemini :
                       
A Serenade for Two Cellos and Orchestra
                      (World Premiere and OCO Commission)
                       Eamon Riley and Milo Klise, Violoncelli
Beethoven:    Symphony No. 7
Wagner:         Grand March: "Entrance of the Guests"
                       
from the opera Tannhauser
Verbytskyi:     Hymn to Ukraine
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OAKLAND CIVIC ORCHESTRA PRESENTS:  EMERGING VOICES
YouTube playlist with selections from this concert.
​Link to concert program below (left).
Links to concert videos in the "Program" section below (right).
Concert 2
​EMERGING VOICES

Sunday, February 27, 4:00 PM 
​First Presbyterian Church of Oakland
2619 Broadway, Oakland, CA

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Concert Program
PROGRAM

Elgar:                        Serenade for Strings
​Umar Durr:               Burlesk from Serenade: A Zephyr in Gemini  (premiere and OCO Commission)
                                  Eamon Riley and Milo Klise, Violoncelli
Vaughan Williams:   Rhosymedre
Shostakovich:           Sinfonia for String Orchestra
, Op. 110  from String Quartet No. 8
                                  
Arranged and edited by Lucas Drew
Myroslav Skoryk      Melody for String Orchestra (Ukrainian)


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Playback the YouTube Premiere concert
Please see our full concert program below.

Concert 1
​AUTUMN SERENADE




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FOR BRASS
Ring:             Fanfare for Greta
Umar Durr:  Merritt Prelude and Fanfare for Brass (premiere)
Verotta:       Bright Orange for Brass (premiere)        

​FOR WINDS 
R. Strauss:    Serenade, Op. 7
R. Strauss:    Suite, Op. 4  - 2. Romanze
Gounod:        Petite Symphonie - 1. Adagio and Allegretto, 2. Allegretto


FOR STRINGS
Mendelssohn:   String Symphony No. 10
Sibelius:            Impromptu, Op. 5 
Tchaikovsky:    Serenade for Strings, Op. 48
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See it here!
An OCO Encore Performance​
from Sunday, February 28th 2021

Voices of the African Diaspora
Sunday Matinee Virtual Concert Series
​Featuring OCO members and friends performing newly recorded and archived works by
James P. Johnson, Florence Price, William Grant Still, Chevalier de Saint-Georges and more! 


Martha Stoddard, Music Director and Principal Conductor

The oakland civic orchestra 
proudly sponsored by our community partners
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