Peaks and Passions, Final FOOSA Concert

The FOOSA Philharmonic closes the Fresno Summer Orchestra Academy with Richard Strauss's Eine Alpensinfonie and Bela Bartok's suite from The Miraculous Mandarin at the Paul Shaghoian Concert Hall, 2770 East International Avenue, on Sunday, June 28, 2026, at 3 p.m. The Philharmonic is the academy's top ensemble, made up of both faculty and advanced students from the FOOSA Festival. This is the festival's final concert of the season.

The Program

Eine Alpensinfonie, or An Alpine Symphony, is Strauss's large-scale tone poem tracing a single day of climbing in the Alps, from sunrise through a storm to sunset. It is one of the biggest works in the orchestral repertoire and demands a full, expanded orchestra. The concert pairs it with Bartok's suite from The Miraculous Mandarin, a sharp, percussive score drawn from his 1926 ballet.

About the FOOSA Philharmonic

The Philharmonic brings together faculty members and the academy's most advanced students for its end-of-season program. The Fresno Summer Orchestra Academy is a summer orchestra festival, and the Philharmonic is the highest of its three student levels, above the Chamber Orchestra and Symphony.

The Venue

The Paul Shaghoian Concert Hall sits at 2770 East International Avenue in northeast Fresno, on the Clovis Unified campus near Clovis North High School. The hall is a dedicated concert space built for orchestral performance. Tickets are sold through the academy's ticketing link; the price was not listed on the event page.