In This Program
The Concert
Saturday, January 11, 2026, at 7:30pm
Brad Hogarth conductor
Musicians of the San Francisco Symphony
George Frideric Handel
(arr. Ralph Sauer and Mark Inuoye)
From Royal Fireworks Music (1749)
Overture
La Paix
La Rejouissance
Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel
(attrib. J.S. Bach, arr. Mark Inouye)
“Bist du bei mir,” BWV 508 (1718)
Gaetano Maria Schiassi
(arr. Hans-Joachim Drechsler)
Christmas Symphony (ca. 1730)
Enrique Crespo
Bruckner Etude (1996)
Georges Bizet
(arr. Roger Harvey)
Carmen Suite (1875)
Aragonaise
Les Dragons d’Alcala
Habanera
La Garde Montante
Danse Boheme
Intermission
Traditional
(arr. Anthony DiLorenzo)
“Fum, Fum, Fun”
Astor Piazzolla
(arr. Steven Verheist)
Suite from Maria de Buenos Aires (1968)
Gustav Holst
(arr. Douglas D. Haislip)
Christmas Day (1910)
Ennio Morricone
Love Theme from Cinema Paradiso
Dmitri Shostakovich
Scherzo from Pirogov* (ca. 1947)
*The San Francisco Symphony Brass cannot confirm or deny the accuracy of this title.
About the Artists
Brad Hogarth
Brad Hogarth is music director of the Juneau (Alaska) Symphony, professor of conducting at San Francisco State University, associate conductor of the Monterey Symphony, and music director of the Art Haus Collective, known for representing spectacular performances of classical and contemporary works in unique spaces. He is also on faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where he conducts the Conservatory Wind Ensemble, and is music director of the Peninsula Youth Orchestra.
Hogarth has recently appeared with the Dallas Symphony, San Francisco Ballet, Marin Symphony, Symphony San Jose, Eastman Wind Ensemble, Eastman Brass Guild, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, and Bay Brass.
An accomplished trumpeter, he can be heard with the SF Symphony Brass on the Symphony’s recording of Ives’s Symphony No. 4 and SF Ballet’s recording of Lowell Liebermann’s Frankenstein. He made his conducting debut with the SF Symphony Brass in March 2022.
Musicians of the San Francisco Symphony
HORNS
Diego Incertis Sánchez
Michael Stevens
Jonathan Ring
Jessica Valeri
Alicia Mastromonaco
Philip Palmore
TRUMPETS
Mark Inouye
Aaron Schuman
Jeff Biancalana
Joseph Brown
Robert Giambruno
TROMBONES
Paul Welcomer
Michael Cox
Chase Waterbury
Timmy Grabow
TUBA
Jeffrey Anderson
TIMPANI
John Burgardt
PERCUSSION
Stan Muncy
Artie Storch
LIBRARIAN
Margo Kieser
