Performances and Videos

Performances

Upcoming Events

Stanford Live
Jan
26

Stanford Live

The Stanford Cello Choir - Christopher Costanza, Director - performs an exciting and eclectic program of music for cello ensemble, from cello quartets to a full-size cello orchestra. This will be the Stanford Cello Choir’s debut in beautiful Bing Concert Hall, a perfect venue for listening to the widely varied colors only a cello choir can create!

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SF Performances
Feb
16

SF Performances

Christopher Costanza will be joined by violinist Alexi Kenney, violinist/violist Owen Dalby, and pianist Amy Yang in a unique and exciting program of works by Danny Elfman and Erich Wolfgang Korngold. This concert is part of the new the Beischer Family Sunday String Series, a presentation of SF Performances.

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SF Performances
May
4

SF Performances

Christopher Costanza will perform unaccompanied suites by Bach - his sixth - and Britten - his second. This concert is part of the new the Beischer Family Sunday String Series, a presentation of SF Performances.

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Stanford Medicine Orchestra
Dec
4

Stanford Medicine Orchestra

Cellist Christopher Costanza and violinist Debra Fong are the featured soloists in this Stanford Medicine Orchestra concert in Stanford’s magnificent Bing Concert Hall, playing the rarely heard “The Muse and the Poet” by Camille Saint-Saëns.

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Festival Napa Valley
Jul
3
to Jul 11

Festival Napa Valley

Returning for his third season as a faculty member of the Blackburn Academy, Festival Napa Valley, Christopher Costanza performs in multiple concerts with fellow faculty members and students at the beautiful CIA at Copia in Napa, California.

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Tour of France
Jun
19
to Jun 29

Tour of France

Christopher Costanza is the soloist in concerts across France and in Monaco, playing the beloved Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto with the Stanford Symphony Orchestra, Paul Phillips conducting. Concerts will be in Versailles, Lyon, Annonay, Fourques, Nice, and Monaco.

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Holiday Musicale at Stanford
Dec
9

Holiday Musicale at Stanford

In this annual holiday-themed concert at Stanford’s iconic Memorial Church, Christopher Costanza directs the Stanford Cello Choir in a varied program including works by Bach, Dvorak, and others, including some holiday classics! This concert also features the incredible Stanford Chamber Chorale directed by Stephen Sano.

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Masterclass for Young Chamber Musicians
Dec
3

Masterclass for Young Chamber Musicians

Christopher Costanza gives a masterclass for the stellar Young Chamber Musicians Program at the Kohl Mansion in Burlingame, California, coaching string quartets by Dvorak and Tchaikovsky. Following the class, Christopher will perform an excerpt from Benjamin Britten’s First Suite for Solo Cello, Op. 72.

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Chamber Music at San Miguel Chapel
Jul
22

Chamber Music at San Miguel Chapel

In this unaccompanied cello recital, Christopher Costanza performs two iconic masterpieces from the solo cello literature: the first Unaccompanied Suite by J.S. Bach and the first Solo Cello Suite by Benjamin Britten. Two groundbreaking works performed in the intimate and historic San Miguel chapel!

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Music at Oakmont
May
11

Music at Oakmont

This concert features piano quartets of Mozart (a 1794 piano quartet arrangement of his piano and wind quintet, K. 452), Mélanie Bonis, and Johannes Brahms. Christopher Costanza will be joined by violinist Scott St. John, violist David Samuel, and pianist John Novacek.

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Past Events

Videos

A little Bach from my home: Suite #3 in C Major, BWV 1009, Sarabande and Gigue

Bach: Suite #6 in D Major, from a live-streamed performance in September 2020

 
 

Bach: Suite #2 in D minor, from a live-streamed performance in September 2020

Prokofieff: Sinfonia Concertante, Bing Concert Hall, Stanford University, July, 2015