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Symphony d'Oro will be joined at its April 26, 2026 concert by world-renowned violinst Rachel Barton Pine playing the beloved Bruch Violin Concerto. The concert will also feature the world premeire of the City Portraits Symphony by Symphony pianist and composer-in-residence Carlos McMillan-Fuentes, a comissioned work that features and celebrates the Rancho Cordova community. It promises to be an amazing concert for our community. This concert is also the Symphony's annual fundraiser that supports our offering free concerts the rest of the season. This concert is reserved seating and tickets are $60/$50 per seat. Doors open at 3pm. Buy your tickets soon--we anticipate this concert will sell out!
Majestic Melodies Concert, with special guest Rachel Barton Pine The Cordova High Performing Arts Center Theater: All seats have great views; parking is free and plentiful! More about Rachel Barton Pine: The acclaimed American violinist Rachel Barton Pine thrills international audiences with her dazzling technique and lustrous tone. With an infectious joy in music-making and a passion for connecting historical research to performance, Pine transforms audiences’ experiences of classical music. She is a leading interpreter of the great classical masterworks and of important contemporary music. Pine performs with the world’s foremost orchestras, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Camerata Salzburg, and the Chicago, Atlanta, and Vienna Symphony Orchestras. She has worked with renowned conductors that include Teddy Abrams, Marin Alsop, Daniel Barenboim, Semyon Bychkov, Stéphane Denève, Neeme Järvi, Christoph Eschenbach, Zubin Mehta, Tito Muñoz, and John Nelson. As a chamber musician, Pine has performed with Jonathan Gilad, Clive Greensmith, Paul Neubauer, Jory Vinikour, William Warfield, Orion Weiss, and the Pacifica and Parker quartets. Highlights of Pine’s 2025-26 season include performances of the Mendelssohn Concerto with the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Costa Rica, the Glazunov Concerto with the Newport Symphony Orchestra, the Korngold Concerto with the Madison Symphony Orchestra, and the Bruch Concerto with Symphony d’Oro Rancho Cordova. At Summermusik, Pine gives the first live performance of Malek Jandali’s Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, which she recently recorded with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and Marin Alsop (Cedille). She will also be in residence at the Johann Sebastian Bach International Competition, in Leipzig. Pine has made over 40 recordings. This season Pine releases French Impressions: Chamber Music by Chausson & Tailleferre, featuring the Pacifica Quartet and pianist Orion Weiss. In 2024, Cedille released Corelli Violin Sonatas, Op. 5, in which Pine performs on violin and viola d’amore. Dependent Arising, Pine’s previous album, pairs Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1 with Earl Maneein’s violin concerto Dependent Arising, performed with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. In 2022 Cedille released Violin Concertos by Black Composers Through the Centuries: 25th Anniversary Edition, featuring a new recording of Florence Price’s Violin Concerto No. 2, led by Jonathon Heyward. Pine frequently performs music by contemporary composers, including Billy Childs, Mohammed Fairouz, Shawn E. Okpebholo, Daniel Bernard Roumain, José Serebrier, Augusta Read Thomas, and Harry Stafylakis. She is also an avid performer of Baroque, Renaissance, and Medieval music; in 1992 she became the only American and youngest person to win a gold medal at the J.S. Bach International Violin Competition. An active philanthropist, Pine has led the RBP Foundation for over two decades with projects including Music by Black Composers founded in 2001. She performs on the “ex-Bazzini, ex-Soldat” Joseph Guarnerius “del Gesù” (Cremona 1742), on lifetime loan from her anonymous patron. More about Carlos McMillan Fuentes: Carlos McMillan Fuentes is a multifaceted pianist, composer, singer-songwriter, and music educator who currently serves as the Keyboardist and Composer-In-Residence for Symphony d’Oro and the president of the Sacramento Community Concert Association. His performance career is distinguished by collaborations with the Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera, the Camellia Symphony Orchestra, and the Camerata California Chamber Choir and Orchestra, which recently premiered his acclaimed Concerto da Requiem. A prolific stage presence, Fuentes received international recognition in 2018 when his piano-clarinet duo, “Carlos & Brennen,” won First Prize at the Golden Classical Music Awards, leading to a prestigious performance at Carnegie Hall. His versatility is further highlighted by his 2021 online premiere of A Winter Rhapsody with Symphony d’Oro—where he featured as the soloist—and his work as an accompanist for soprano Susheel Bibbs’ acclaimed musical on Mary Ellen Pleasant. Originally from Cleveland and raised in North Carolina, Fuentes’ compositional voice is shaped by a wide-ranging blend of classical training and modern influences spanning pop,Gospel, jazz, and R&B, often guided by a synesthetic connection between harmony and color. He holds a Bachelor of Music in Music Composition from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a Graduate Certificate in the Lister-Sink Method of Injury-Preventive Keyboard Technique from Salem College. As a composer, he has produced hundreds of works, including film scores, a choral symphony, and chamber pieces for various instrumentations. His commitment to music education is equally extensive, and since 2011, he has taught piano, voice, and songwriting at his studio, on Zoom, and in classrooms. More about the City Portraits Symphony from Carlos McMillan Fuentes The first movement, called "The Woman at Mills Station," premiered at the city's anniversary celebration on June 30, 2023. It depicts the fictional journey of a woman arriving to Mills Station and the city of Rancho Cordova for the first time, and is also a tribute to Cheryl Gleason, the "woman at Mills Station" who has done so much to foster the arts community there. The second movement, "Pioneers of Air and Space," pays tribute to those who served at Mather Air Force Base and in the aerospace industry, literally bringing our country from land to sky to outer space. The third movement, "Toccata Koreana," is a lighthearted tribute to Koreana Plaza, especially KP International Market. Food is an important part of culture, and KP serves as a marketplace for people of all different cultural backgrounds who make up Rancho Cordova. The final movement, "The American River Parkway," was inspired by the natural beauty of Rancho Cordova, and pays tribute to the Nisenan people who have tended this land for ages.
We could not perform our concerts without the support of these organizations and individuals. Please thank our sponsors for their generous support.
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Rachel Barton Pine
Carlos McMillan Fuentes
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