2019-2020 Concerts
2019-2020 Concert Season
Season Tickets
Dear Music Lover,
The Sacramento Community Concerts Association (SCCA) is excited to announce our 67th season! This year we launch our season with superb talent and variety from the world of classical music, the staple of the Sacramento Community Concerts Association. From the international flavors of Bach, Ravel, Beethoven, Hayden and many others, during the decades of rapturous sounds, to the introduction of musical theatre, spirituals and jazz, SCCA has paved the way for hundreds of Sacramento music aficionados to enjoy the ever expanding repertoire of quality music.
We are introducing the next generation of high caliber artists with the inclusion of young stars from our regional bank of talent. Several seasoned professionals from the greater Sacramento area, southern California, and New York infuse the season with a rich array of musical genres guaranteed to appeal to everyone's taste.
Yu & I duoNovember 24th, 20193:00 pm Sunday
November 24th, 2019
3:00 pm Sunday
Winners of the Beverly Hills National Auditions, YuEun Kim and Ines Thomé
met in 2013 when they both had just moved to the US; YuEun from Korea and Ines from Germany. Serendipitously finding themselves as housemates in Los Angeles, both studying at USC’s Thornton School of Music, they immediately connected through their love of chamber music.
Both musicians are winners of multiple solo competitions and have performed around the world. Their programs range from early music performed on period instruments to original popular music arrangements performed at the highest level of artistry.
North Star Trio January 26th, 20203:00 pm Sunday
North Star Piano Trio
– formed by violinist Kristen Autry, cellist Alexandra Roedder, and pianist Lynn Schugren – is a dynamic new chamber group specializing in works by female composers and known to delight audiences with masterful technique and expressive presentation. North Star Piano Trio is inspired by key works in the Crocker Museum Collection that subvert the traditional female muse dynamic and celebrate female creators. The program will include works by noted female composers, such Dora Pejacevic’s romantic Piano Trio in C Major, and Laura Netzel’sSerenade.
SCCA Youth Concertfeaturing Harpist-Alaina Rose & Cellist-Abigail Leong February 23rd, 2020
3:00 pm Sunday
Harpist Alaina Rose
has performed with the Sacramento Youth Symphony, the San Francisco Civic Orchestra, San Francisco’s Mozart to Mendelssohn Orchestra, and the University of the Pacific Youth Orchestra. She was a featured performer at Lyon and Healy's Harptacular in Portland Oregon, and a featured solist in the Summer Chamber Music Orchestra. She enjoys diverse genres of music, from Classical to Surf, Flamenco to Rock, and likes to explore and expand the potential of the Harp. From big stages to intimate house concerts, she brings a deep musicality and inspired sounds that enrich the moment.
Abigail Leong
at the age of ten, made her debut at Carnegie Hall, performing the first movement of the Saint-Saens Cello Concerto.
She has won many California and International String and Music Awards. Abigail plays with several string quartets and is one of the founding members of Quartet Cantare, which performs for special needs students and organizes special concerts to raise money for families affected by the recent California wildfires and the 2018 Hualien, Taiwan earthquake.
Jacqueline B. HairstonMarch 22nd, 20203:00 pm Sunday
Jacqueline Butler Hairston (Jacqui), a 2019 Lincoln Center “Master of the Spiritual” honoree, resides in Sacramento, CA. A twice-invited guest conductor at Carnegie Hall, SF Channel 5 TV labeled her as Preserver of the Negro Spiritual and internationally renowned soprano Kathleen Battle uses Hairston’s spiritual renditions in her famous Underground Railroad Concerts. Jacqui is an award winning ASCAP composer-arranger who credits Julliard and Columbia University for her music foundation. An accomplished pianist, music educator and vocal coach, Jacqui has just released her first piano CD, “A HEALING HARVEST”
Living SoundsApril 5th, 20203:00 pm Sunday
More info to come....
Jazz Thieves May 3rd, 20203:00 pm Sunday
The Jazz Thieves, through evocative lyrics, soulful improvisation, and wide-ranging originals revitalize jazz by re-connecting it to its roots. They "steal" Duke Ellington's melodicism, Tom Waits's grit, Bill Withers's soulful lyricism, and Kamasi Washington's modern edge, uniting all it with a jazz imagination.