Culver City Symphony Orchestra to conclude 2013-14 season

Soprano Lori Stinson will be the program’s soloist. Stinson is a frequent concert and opera soloist in the greater Los Angeles area and around the country. She has sung operatic roles with San Diego Opera, Opera Pacific, Glimmerglass Opera, Aspen Opera

The Culver City Symphony Orchestra will close out its conclude 2013-14 season with the concert “Sounds of Downtown” on Saturday, June 14 at 7:30 p.m. at the Kirk Douglas Theater, located at 9820 Washington Blvd. in Downtown Culver City.

This is the orchestra’s first performance at Kirk Douglas Theater is made possible in part by a Culver City Performing Arts Grant with support from Sony Pictures Entertainment. 

“Sounds of Downtown” is under the direction Conductor and Music Director Frank Fetta.

Soprano Lori Stinson will be the program’s soloist. Stinson is a frequent concert and opera soloist in the greater Los Angeles area and around the country. She has sung operatic roles with San Diego Opera, Opera Pacific, Glimmerglass Opera, Aspen Opera Theater, Utah Festival Opera, Pacific Repertory Opera, Long Beach Opera, as well as covering roles at New York City Opera.As a concert soloist she has sung with Los Angeles Bach Festival, Redlands Bowl Symphony, Torrance Symphony, The Marina Symphony, Santa Barbara Symphony, Pacific Chorale, Ventura Master Chorale, Foothill Master Chorale as well as many others.

Fetta is well known for his conducting of orchestral music, ballet, and opera in Southern California as well as throughout the country including engagements with the San Diego Symphony, the Redlands Bowl Music Festival (of which he is director), the Fresno Philharmonic, the Torrance Symphony, the Nevada Opera Theater, and the Marina del Rey Summer Symphony.

General Admission tickets are $25 at Kirk Douglas Theater starting at 6:30PM, and on the orchestra website. Members of SoCal Symphony Society and 17-years-of-age and under, only at the box office are $15.

SoCal Symphony Society, Inc., presents The Culver City Symphony Orchestra, The Marina del Rey Summer Symphony, and produces the Parness Young Artists Fund Concerto Competition. The Culver City Symphony Orchestra is now in its fifteenth season performing in Culver City, and is in its 51st year overall. It has performed in many regional venues in the communities of Westchester, Venice, Los Angeles, San Gabriel, and now Culver City.

In addition to presenting the standard orchestra repertoire and concert dramatizations of operas, the orchestra has presented unique concerts devoted to Black American, Hispanic, and Women composers. It is the parent orchestra of the Marina del Rey Summer Symphony, which performs at Burton Chace Park. The orchestra has performed at The Los Angeles Street Festival, on live-radio music broadcasts from the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History.

For additional information persons interested can visit: www.culvercitysymphony.org or call (310) 717-5500, or send an e-mail to info@culvercitysymphony.org.

Donations and membership to the SoCal Symphony Society, Inc. are welcome.

Members of the Westchester Symphony Society received two free admissions to the concerts except for the last concert, are entitled to reserved concert seating, and to a pre-concert talk given by Conductor Fetta. Membership is available at the concert.

Free parking is available under Culver City City Hall across the street from the theater.