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The Philharmonic Orchestra’s Concert Featuring Works By Chadwick, Rossini & Respighi, and Local Composer, Henry Mollicone, with Violin Soloist, Saarthak Shankavaram!
The San Jose Youth Symphony’s Philharmonic Orchestra, under the artistic leadership of Music Director and Conductor Yair Samet, presents its 2025-26 Season Finale Concert to be held on Saturday, June 6th, 2026, 2 pm, at the California Theatre, 345 S. 1st Street, San Jose, CA 95113.
This premier orchestra, made up of the most advanced students in the San Jose Youth Symphony, will open the concert with George Chadwick’s Symphonic Sketches (Jubilee), celebrating American life and full of joy.
Featuring orchestra concertmaster as soloist, Saarthak Shankavaram, the orchestra will also perform local composer Henry Mollicone’s Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, the performance of which is dedicated to his memory. And then the concert will close with Rossini & Respighi‘s lively and colorful La Boutique Fantasque!
This is a great treat for the whole family!
Saarthak Shankavaram, Concertmaster of the Philharmonic Orchestra, is a senior at Prospect High School and has been playing violin since the age of 9. He has served as Concertmaster of String and Chamber Orchestras at his high school since his freshman year and has been a member of the San Jose Youth Symphony for the past five years. He has also won first prize in both the Chamber Orchestra’s Concerto Competition in 2021 and the Philharmonic Orchestra’s Young Artist Competition in 2022. He was a featured soloist in the Philharmonic Orchestra’s 2025 International Concert Tour to Poland and Czechia.
The San Jose Youth Symphony (SJYS) is one of the oldest and finest youth orchestras on the West Coast of the U.S. Founded over seven decades ago as part of the former San Jose Symphony, SJYS has a rich tradition of musical performance and education.
The musicians of SJYS, all school-age youth, are chosen from more than 650 applicants through our annual auditions. The SJYS comprises 13 distinct performing ensembles: two full orchestras, a Chamber orchestra, two flute choirs, two string ensembles, as well as concert winds, brass, harp, saxophone, percussion and jazz ensembles.