Announcing dates for our 2025-26 Concert Season! Fridays at 8:00pm, pre-concert discussion at 7:15pm, at First Church of the Nazarene of Pasadena

November 7, 2025
January 23, 2026
February 7, 2026 (Young Artist Competition at Pasadena Conservatory of Music)
March 13, 2026
May 8, 2026
June 6, 2026 (Concert in the Park, 630pm)

The Orchestra's season concludes on Saturday, June 7 at 6:30pm with our popular Annual Concert in the Park. Bring the family and a picnic! The program of popular themes and film music will have music that's fun and familiar to almost everyone.

The Orchestra's season continues on Friday, May 9, featuring a performance of the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 by Romain Jansen, our 2024-25 Young Artist Competition Winner (Open Division). Also included, music by Leonard Bernstein, John Williams, Aaron Copland. Pre-Concert discussion at 7:15pm; Concert begins at 8:00pm.

The Orchestra's season continues on Friday, March 14, 2024, featuring our 2024-25 Young Artist Competition Winner (Junior Division), violinist Minji Choi, playing the first movement of the Sibelius Violin Concerto. Also included is music by Julia Perry and Antonin Dvorak. Pre-Concert discussion at 7:15pm; Concert begins at 8:00pm.

Competition auditions on Jan 25 are open to the public for the first time ! We are excited to invite the public to view our annual Young Artist Competition contestants perform their prepared pieces, with piano accompaniment, in front of a panel of judges. This is a great opportunity to hear these talented young artists perform at their very best! 

The Orchestra's 42nd season continues on Friday, November 8, 2024 at the beautiful First Church of the Nazarene of Pasadena, and features music by Mozart, Khachaturian, and Ravel. Pre-Concert discussion at 7:15pm; Concert begins at 8:00pm.

The Orchestra's 42nd season begins on Friday, November 8, 2024 at the beautiful First Church of the Nazarene of Pasadena. Music by Rossini, Bizet, Dukas, Gershwin, and Rimsky-Korsakov. Pre-Concert discussion at 7:15pm; Concert begins at 8:00pm.

The first concert on Friday, Nov 11 features works by American, Austrian, British and Italian composers!

The Pasadena Community Orchestra is excited to bring you a program that features the full orchestra for the first time in more than two years.  It's great to be back at full strength and play works scored for symphony orchestra! As with all our concerts, it will be free of charge – no tickets required! […]

The Pasadena Community Orchestra is back to play live for you again! As with all our concerts, it will be free of charge – no tickets required! It will be held in the Auditorium of Pasadena High School. Once again, we will perform as separate groups of instruments. There will be a brief intermission between each […]

We regret that tonight's concert is postponed.  But stay tuned - we'll have a video recording from a past performance for you next week - in honor of Mozart's birthday. Because of the omicron Covid variant we have postponed our January concert.  Our concern for the safety of orchestra members rehearsing and performing and for […]

The Pasadena Community Orchestra is excited to bring you their first live concert since January 2020.  The concert will be held in the Auditorium of Pasadena High School.  As with all our concerts, it will be free of charge. We will perform as four separate groups of instruments: brass, woodwinds, percussion and strings.

The Pasadena Community Orchestra is pleased to invite you to listen to our next online video concert in our Past and Present series on Friday April 23rd, 2021. This concert begins with the Introduction and Rondo for flute and percussion by Leon Stein, recorded in October 2020. Next, will be The White Peacock by Charles Griffes, […]