Music Department
The Carson Dominguez Symphony
The orchestra is made up of students of CSUDH (both Music majors & non-Music majors), alumni, faculty & staff at CSUDH, people living in the community, and professional musicians including local teachers (community college, public school, & private). The orchestra is conducted by CSUDH Alumni Hector Salazar.
The symphony plays a very wide range of repertoire: works by Mozart, Beethoven, Stravinsky, and contemporary music such as the West Coast Premiere of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize winning composition in music by George Walker. 2009 will have the orchestra doing the World Premiere of "Timothy and the Magic Garden" by composer Philip Westin, narrated by Karen Sharp, radio personality and host of KOST 103.5 "Love Songs on the Coast." The orchestra also performs more popular music such as Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, music from West Side Story , and Highlights of Showboat.
The symphony receives major funding from the City of Carson Fine Arts and Historical Commission, and additional support from the Carson Community Symphony Association and the American Federation of Musicians Recording Industries Music Performance Fund.
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