Title: Mainly Mozart All-Star Orchestra Festival

The Mainly Mozart All-Star Orchestra Festival returns to San Diego June 18 to June 28, 2025. The annual summer festival is a highlight of the classical music calendar and the country’s largest gathering of concertmasters and principal players from the nation’s top orchestras. Under the baton of Maestro Michael Francis, who returns for his 11th year as Music Director and conductor, the 2025 festival features six, unique performances at two venues, The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center and the UC San Diego Epstein Family Amphitheater. The festival, the largest Mozart celebration in North America, opens with a must-hear performance of Mozart’s newly discovered Serenade in C Major. 

Featuring musicians from top U.S. orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra and more, Mainly Mozart’s All-Star Orchestra is the only orchestra of its kind in the country. 

Where:

June 21 and 28: Epstein Family Amphitheater | 9500 Gilman Dr, San Diego, CA 92093 

June 18, 20, 24 and 26: The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center | 7600 Fay Ave, La Jolla, CA 92037

Cost:

Single tickets for individual concerts at The Conrad range from $65-$149. 

Single tickets for individual concerts at Epstein Family Amphitheater range from $25 -$149. 

Ticket Link:   https://www.mainlymozart.org/allstar

Box office phone:  (619) 955-8273 or boxoffice@mainlymozart.org

Mainly Mozart All-Star Orchestra Festival 2025 Schedule

Wednesday, June 18: Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center, 7600 Fay Ave., La Jolla

MOZART: Serenade in C Major 

VIVALDI: The Four Seasons 

PIAZZOLA: The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires 

Friday, June 20: Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center, 7600 Fay Ave., La Jolla

MOZART: Serenade No. 6 “Serenata Notturna” 

STRAUSS: Duet Concertino for Clarinet and Bassoon 

*Featuring Boris Allakhverdyan and Whitney Crockett

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 2 in D Major

Saturday, June 21: Epstein Family Amphitheater at UC San Diego, 9480 Innovation Lane, La Jolla

ELGAR: Introduction and Allegro

MOZART: Symphony No. 40 in G minor

SAINT-SAËNS: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor 

*Featuring pianist Joyce Yang

Tuesday, June 24: Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center, 7600 Fay Ave., La Jolla

STRAVINSKY: Concerto in E-flat

BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 

BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5

MOZART: Symphony No. 35 in D Major

Thursday, June 26: Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center, 7600 Fay Ave., La Jolla

MOZART: Overture to Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio)

BENDIX-BALGLEY: A Klezmer Concerto featuring composer and violinist Noah Bendix-Balgley

MENDELSSOHN:  Symphony No. 5 in D Major “Reformation”

Saturday, June 28: Epstein Family Amphitheater at UC San Diego, 9480 Innovation Lane, La Jolla

MOZART: Overture to Così

BEETHOVEN: Triple Concerto in C Major

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 7 in A Major