Our 2019-2020 Concerts

​Postponed until Spring 2021

​SPRING CONCERT 2020

​California Dreamin'

Our spring concert, California Dreamin’ will be an event not to be missed. With music all about our great Golden State, you’ll hear music from Hollywood, music of the Beach Boys, our great diverse scenic wonders, a special work about the great San Francisco Earthquake and The Mamas and the Papas’ California Dreamin’.

​Featuring our guest conductor/composer, MICHAEL MARKOWSKI. Michael Markowski (b. 1986) is fully qualified to watch movies and cartoons. In 2010, he graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in ‘Film Practices’ from Arizona State University. While Markowski never studied music in college, he did study privately with his mentors, Jon Gomez and Dr. Karl Schindler, and has continued his education by participating in a number of extracurricular programs, such as The Art of Orchestration with Steven Scott Smalley (2008), the National Band Association’s Young Composer and Conductor Mentorship Project (2008), and the NYU/ASCAP Foundation’s Film Scoring Workshop (2014) where he was named one of ASCAP’s Film & TV “Composers to Watch.” Mark Snow, composer of The X-Files and one of the workshop’s guest mentors, says Michael’s music was “extremely sophisticated” and “complimented the mood and emotion of the scene with unusual maturity and sensitivity.” Most recently, Markowski was invited to join the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop (2015) as a composer and lyricist.