Featured Updates

Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring
Mexico City Philharmonic
March 29, 2025, 6:00pm
March 30, 2025, 12:30pm
Scott Yoo conducts Stravinsky’s landmark ballet, the Rite of Spring. Virtuoso cellist Robert deMaine joins the Mexico City Philharmonic in performances of Prokofiev’s titanic Sinfonia Concertante, op. 125.

Beethoven Piano Trio, op. 1/1, Grieg Cello Sonata, Ravel Piano Trio
Festival Mozaic Chamber Music Concert
February 22, 2025, 5:30pm
Pianist Adam Neiman, in his first Festival Mozaic performances, join Bion Tsang and Scott Yoo in a performance of Beethoven and Ravel Piano Trios and Grieg’s Cello Sonata at the Templeton Performing Arts Center.

Now Hear This Season 5 Released on PBS
PBS National, presented by Great Performances
The fifth season of the acclaimed docu-series premiered April 12 - May 3.

Mexico City Philharmonic Recording
Mexico City Philharmonic
April 24-28, 2024
The Mexico City Philharmonic undertakes its second recording in five months, this time with five works by five Mexican women composers: Andrea Chamizo, Georgina Derbez, Ana Lara, Hilda Paredes, and Marcela Rodríguez.
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Respighi Pines of Rome
Mexico City Philharmonic and Jorge Federico Osorio, piano
September 8, 2018, 6:00pm
September 9, 2018, 12:30pm
Pianist Jorge Federico Osorio returns to the Mexico City Philharmonic to perform the second Brahms Piano Concerto. The Philharmonic concludes the program with Respighi’s Pines of Rome.

Schubert Cello Quintet
Festival Mozaic
July 29, 2018, 3:00pm
Cuesta College Performing Arts Center
Scott Yoo, Aurelia Duca, Maurycy Banaszek, Jonah Kim, and Michael Katz perform Schubert’s landmark Cello Quintet.

Beethoven Symphony No. 7
Festival Mozaic Orchestra
July 28, 2018, 8:00pm
Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa
Scott Yoo leads the Festival Mozaic Orchestra in Stravinsky’s Dumbarton Oaks, Ginastera’s Variaciones Concertantes, and Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony.

Haydn Symphony No. 101
Festival Mozaic Orchestra and Anna Polonsky, piano
July 25, 2018, 7:30 pm
Mission San Miguel Arcángel
Virtuoso pianist Anna Polonsky joins Scott Yoo and the Festival Mozaic Orchestra in Mozart’s 19th Piano Concerto. The program concludes with Mozart’s 31st Symphony and Haydn’s Clock Symphony.

Handel Water Music
Festival Mozaic Orchestra and Joseph Brent, mandolin
July 21, 2018, 7:30 pm
Serra Chapel (formerly Chapel Hill)
The Festival Mozaic performs the first Suite from Handel’s Water Music, and Joseph Brent performs two Vivaldi Mandolin Concertos.

Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony
Mexico City Philharmonic and Bion Tsang, cello
May 5, 2018, 6:00pm
May 6, 2018, 12:30pm
Cellist Bion Tsang returns to the Mexico City Philharmonic to perform the Enesco Symphonie Concertante. Scott Yoo leads Saint-Saëns’ Third Symphony.

Sibelius Symphony No. 7
Mexico City Philharmonic and Fumiaki Miura, violin
April 28, 2018, 6:00pm
April 29, 2018, 12:30pm
Japanese violinist Fumiaki Miura makes his first appearance with the Mexico City Philharmonic in Britten’s Violin Concerto. Scott Yoo conducts Sibelius’ Seventh.

Beethoven’s Ninth at the Zocalo
Mexico City Philharmonic and Chorus
March 25, 2018, 6:00pm
Zocalo
Soprano Gabriela Herrera, mezzo soprano Maria Luisa Tamez, tenor Alan Pingarron, and bass-baritone Carsten Wittmoser join Scott Yoo, the Mexico City Philharmonic, and the Philharmonic Chorus in a free concert of Beethoven’s Ninth for an estimated 25,000 people at the Zocalo in Mexico City.

Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2
Mexico City Philharmonic and Anna Polonsky, piano
March 3, 2018, 6:00pm
March 4, 2018, 12:30pm
Anna Polonsky returns to the Mexico City Philharmonic to perform Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto. Scott Yoo conducts Rachmaninoff’s Second Symphony.

Roussel Serenade
February 25, 2018, 3:00pm
Festival Mozaic Wintermezzo
Cuesta College Cultural and Performing Arts Center
Pianist John Novacek, Scott Yoo, violist Jessica Chang, and cellist Jonah Kim perform Fauré’s Second Piano Quartet. Flutist Alice K. Dade and harpist Meredith Clark join in Albert Roussel’s Serenade.

Mussorgsky-Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition
Mexico City Philharmonic and Orion Weiss, piano
February 3, 2018, 6:00pm
February 4, 2018, 12:30pm
Pianist Orion Weiss performs Tchaikovsky’s first Piano Concerto and Scott Yoo conducts Pictures at an Exhibition. The Philharmonic also performs the world premiere of a new work by Michael Fine.

Pelleas and Melisande
Mexico City Philharmonic
January 27, 2018, 6:00pm
January 28, 2018, 12:30pm
Scott Yoo leads Pelleas and Melisande, as written by Fauré and Schoenberg.

Brahms Symphony No. 1
Mexico City Philharmonic and John Novacek
November 18, 2017, 6:00pm
November 19, 2017, 12:30pm
Scott Yoo leads the Mexico City Philharmonic in their first concerts in the newly-refurbished Sala Silvestre Revueltas. John Novacek makes his first appearances with the Philharmonic in Gershwin’s Piano Concerto.

Vaughan Williams Piano Quintet
Festival Mozaic
July 30, 2017, 3:00pm
Cuesta College Cultural and Performing Arts Center
Scott Yoo is joined by his Festival Mozaic colleagues: violist Jessica Oudin, cellist Jonah Kim, bassist Susan Cahill, and pianist John Novacek in the rarely-performed Vaughan Williams Piano Quintet.

Mendelssohn’s Reformation Symphony
Festival Mozaic Orchestra and Romie de Guise-Langlois, clarinet
July 29, 2017, 7:30pm
Cuesta College Performing Arts Center
The Festival Mozaic Orchestra and Scott Yoo perform Strauss’s Metamorphosen and Mendelssohn’s Reformation Symphony. Virtuoso clarinetist Romie de Guise-Langlois performs Copland’s Clarinet Concerto.

Mozart Symphony No. 40
Festival Mozaic Orchestra
July 26, 2017, 7:30pm
Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa
Scott Yoo compares and contrasts Mozart’s 40th Symphony and Beethoven’s First Symphony with the Festival Mozaic Orchestra.

Piazzolla Four Seasons
Festival Mozaic Orchestra
July 24, 2017, 7:30pm
Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa
Scott Yoo plays and conducts Astor Piazzolla’s Four Seasons, arranged by Leonid Desyatnikov, with the Festival Mozaic Orchestra.

Bruckner Symphony No. 7
Mexico City Philharmonic
May 27, 2017, 6:00pm
Conservatorio Nacional de Música
Scott Yoo conducts Bruckner’s Seventh with the Mexico City Philharmonic at the National Conservatory.

Mendelssohn Symphony No. 5
Mexico City Philharmonic and Bion Tsang, cello
May 20, 2017, 6:00pm
May 21, 2017, 12:30pm
Roberto Cantoral Hall
Scott Yoo conducts Mendelssohn’s Fifth Symphony, and Bion Tsang performs Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme.

Mozart Jupiter Symphony
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
April 20 and 22, 2017, 8:00pm
Scott Yoo leads the Orchestra Philharmonique de Radio France as Jean-François Zygel explains Mozart.

Beethoven Symphony No. 8
Mexico City Philharmonic
March 18, 2017, 6:00pm
March 19, 2017, 12:30pm
Castillo de Chapultepec
Scott Yoo conducts Beethoven’s Eighth Symphony in the iconic Chapultepec Castle in central Mexico City.

Vivaldi Four Seasons
Mexico City Philharmonic
March 11, 2017, 6:00pm
March 12, 2017, 12:30pm
Castillo de Chapultepec
Scott Yoo plays and conducts Bach’s First Violin Concerto and Vivaldi’s famed Four Seasons with the Mexico City Philharmonic.

Fauré Piano Quartet No. 1
February 26, 2017, 3:00pm
Festival Mozaic Wintermezzo
Congregation Beth David
Pianist John Novacek, Scott Yoo, violist Toby Appel, and cellist Bion Tsang perform Frank Bridge’s Phantasie and Fauré’s first Piano Quartet at Festival Mozaic.

Beethoven Symphony No. 7
Mexico City Philharmonic and Anna Polonsky, piano
January 21, 2017, 6:00pm
January 22, 2017, 12:30pm
Roberto Cantoral Hall
Anna Polonsky performs Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto in two concerts at the intimate Roberto Cantoral Hall

Grieg Violin Sonata No. 3
November 19, 2016, 7:30pm
Festival Mozaic Wintermezzo
United Methodist Church
Scott Yoo performs Grieg and Beethoven with pianist Susan Grace at Festival Mozaic.

Holst The Planets
Mexico City Philharmonic
October 29, 2016, 6:00pm
October 30, 2016, 12:30pm
November 25, 2016, 6:00pm
Bellas Artes
Scott Yoo conducts Holst’s The Planets at Sala Silvestre Revueltas and Bellas Artes.

Busan One Asia Festival
Busan Philharmonic, Fumiaki Miura, violin, Bion Tsang, cello, and Dasol Kim, piano
October 12, 2016, 8:00pm
Fumiaki Miura, Bion Tsang, and Dasol Kim join Scott Yoo and the Busan Philharmonic in a celebratory concert.

Bartók Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta
Mexico City Philharmonic and the Cuarteto Latinoamericano
September 24, 2016, 6:00pm
September 25, 2016, 12:30pm
Cuarteo Latinoamericano returns to the Mexico City Philharmonic to perform Javier Álvarez’s Geometría foliada. Scott Yoo leads Bartók’s masterpiece Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta.

Hindemith Mathis der Maler
Mexico City Philharmonic
September 17, 2016, 6:00pm
September 18, 2016, 12:30pm
Scott Yoo conducts Debussy’s Nocturnes and Paul Hindemith’s Mathis der Maler with the Mexico City Philharmonic.

Brahms Piano Quartet in c minor
Festival Mozaic
July 24, 2016, 3:00pm
Cuesta College Performing Arts Center
Scott Yoo is joined by violist Maurycy Banaszek, cellist Jonah Kim, and pianist John Novacek in a performance of Brahms Piano Quartet in c minor.