Beach Cities Symphony Orchestra Continues Its 75th Diamond Jubilee Season Celebration & 75 Years of Free Classical Concerts!

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Friday, May 16, 2025 8PM
El Camino College’s Marsee Auditorium
MTAC “Artists of the Future” Concerto Competition Continues BCSO’s Diamond Jubilee Season”
Chopin | Wieniawski | Rachmaninoff | Beethoven
PLUS Selections from Dvorak’s Slavonic Dances, op. 46
Dr. Geoffrey Pope, Maestro, BCSO
Featuring MTAC Competition Student Soloist Winners:
Juhyeok Lim, Coco Sakuma, Francis Xavier Skirtich & Timothy Yang

PLUS BCSO will feature Pre-Concert Talk with Conductor, Dr. Geoffrey Pope prior to the beginning of each concert at 7:15pm

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(Above): BCSO Maestro. Dr. Geoffrey Pope conducting Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 in B minor, “Unfinished Symphony” on 10/28/22 at his first concert as Music Director and Conductor of Beach Cities Symphony.

Beach Cities Symphony Orchestra’s Return to the Stage – and Dr. Pope’s BCSO Debut on October 28, 2022:
Wildly Successful & Exceeds All Expectations!

First (AMAZING!) Post-Pandemic Concert
Featured Dr. Geoffrey Pope as BCSO Conductor!

Friday night, October 28, 2022 saw Beach Cities Symphony Orchestra’s return to the stage and Dr. Geoffrey Pope’s debut as the Beach Cities Symphony Orchestra’s Maestro. Geoffrey Pope brings deep roots in the South Bay community to his new role, having begun his artistic journey as a USC music composition student, and returning to earn his doctorate in conducting at UCLA after receiving degrees at the Eastman School of Music in New York. Just prior to the pandemic, he conducted the Symphony Orchestra and the Opera at UC Irvine, and is ready now to bring post-pandemic vigor and creativity to the question of “What’s the orchestra experience that will liberate us all from lockdown?” CONTINUE READING HERE…