Executive & Artistic Director

Thor Steingraber

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Disney and Pixar’s

Toy Story

30th Anniversary Live-to-Film Concert

Featuring the CSUN Symphony Orchestra

Conducted by John Roscigno

Sat | Oct 11 3pm

Sun | Oct 12 3pm

Run time: approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes, including a 20-minute intermission

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Generously underwritten by David and Joyce Primes

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Directed by John Lasseter

Produced by Ralph Guggenheim, Bonnie Arnold

Executive Produced by Edwin Catmull, Steven Jobs

Screenplay by Joss Whedon, Andrew Stanton, Joel Cohen, Alec Sokolow

Original Story by John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Andrew Stanton, Joe Ranft

Music by Randy Newman

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Program | Program Note

Voice Cast

CSUN Symphony Orchestra

About the CSUN Symphony Orchestra | John Roscigno

An Interview With Randy Newman

About Disney Concerts

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The Soraya

Our Supporters | The Soraya Team

CSUN Symphony Orchestra

The CSUN Symphony Orchestra is regarded as one of the finest university orchestras in the Western United States. Under the direction of Dr. John Roscigno, the CSUN Symphony offers a full range of orchestral experiences for the career-oriented student, including four major concerts a year as well as choral, opera, and musical theater performances.

The orchestra is open to both music and nonmusic majors. Competitive auditions take place a few days before classes start in the fall and spring. Auditions consist of orchestral excerpts from both the standard and season repertoire.

The CSUN Symphony performs standard orchestral literature as well as important works of the 20th century, plus major operatic works.

The CSUN Orchestra has been invited twice to perform as the orchestra in the Virginia Waring International Piano Competition in Palm Springs and routinely performs special large-scale productions including live orchestra with film productions at The Soraya.

Opera performance is an important part of an undergraduate education for instrumentalists seeking careers in performance. The CSUN Opera program puts on full-scale productions in both fall and spring. Members of the symphony orchestra perform in the fall opera. The spring opera typically uses a smaller chamber orchestra.

Alumni of the CSUN Symphony have gone on to careers with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the New World Symphony, and the symphonies of San Francisco, Houston, Toronto, San Diego, and many others.

John Roscigno

Dr. John Roscigno is Chair of the percussion program and Director of orchestral studies at California State University, Northridge where he has been on faculty for more than 20 years. He has also served as Conductor of the CSUN Symphony Orchestra and Opera Theatre, and has taught undergraduate and graduate conducting. Roscigno also served as Music Director of the Thousand Oaks Philharmonic. In addition to his university position, he was the Music Director of the CSUN Youth Orchestra program, an organization comprised of three ensembles and 200 students from the San Fernando Valley and surrounding areas, for two decades. Roscigno’s versatility as a conductor, pianist, percussionist and composer has led to many unique and varied performing opportunities in his musical career in the United States and abroad.

Roscigno has had the opportunity to work extensively with professional orchestras, college orchestras, and younger musicians throughout his career. He has conducted Opera Constanta of Romania, the Conway Symphony, Tucson Symphony, and Plainview Symphony. Roscigno has been a high school all-state clinician in Arizona and California. He has been a guest faculty member at Cazadero and Gold Coast Summer music festivals and has held music faculty positions at University of Arizona, Auburn University, and University of Central Arkansas. Roscigno has twice served as conductor for the Virginia Waring International Piano Competition.

Highlights of Roscigno’s collaborative career include serving as pianist for world-renowned percussionist Evelyn Glennie, hosting George Crumb in a residency featuring collaborative performances with the composer, and conducting the West Coast premiere of Philip Glass’ Second and Seventh Symphonies. As a strong advocate of new music, Roscigno has conducted humerous premieres by the nation’s leading young composers. His most cherished accomplishments include performing in Carnegie Hall, Yankee Stadium, Olympic Stadium in Montreal, and Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.

Roscigno holds the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts in conducting from the University of Arizona, a master’s degree in percussion performance from the University of Illinois under Tom Siwe, and a bachelor’s degree as a double major in piano and percussion performance from the University of Arizona under Gary Cook and Nicholas Zumbro. In addition to Roscigno’s musical activities, the New York City native is an abstract painter, a cyclist, and an avid sports fan.