Featuring Rob Istad and Pacific Chorale Singers
November 8 – 10, 2018
Samueli Theater
Tickets on sale now
Segerstrom Center for the Arts presents Rob and Friends – A Little Night Music, an
evening of songs from Broadway and film musicals featuring Pacific Chorale Artistic Director Rob Istad,
eight Pacific Chorale singers and an instrumental ensemble in three performances November 8 – 10, 2018 at
7:30 p.m.
Single tickets start at $89 and are available now online at www.SCFTA.org, at the Box Office at 600 Town
Center Drive in Costa Mesa or by calling (714) 556-2787.
For inquiries about group ticket savings of 10 or more, please call the Group Services office at (714) 755-0236.
Segerstrom Center for the Arts applauds its corporate partners including Kia Motors America, Official
Automotive Partner; and United Airlines, Official Airline.
Robert Istad became the Artistic Director of Pacific Chorale in the 2017-2018 50th Season. He regularly
conducts and collaborates with Pacific Chorale, Pacific Symphony, Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra,
Sony Classical Records, Yarlung Records, Berkshire Choral International, and Long Beach Symphony
Orchestra.
Istad is also Dean of Chorus America’s National Academy for Conductors. He has prepared
choruses for a number of America’s finest conductors and orchestras, including Gustavo Dudamel and Esa–
Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Carl St.Clair and Pacific Symphony, Nicholas McGegan
and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, as
well as conductors Vasilly Sinaisky, Sir Andrew Davis, Bramwell Tovey, Thomas Wilkins, John Williams,
Eugene Kohn, Steven Mercurio, Richard Kaufman, Eric Whitacre, William Lacey, Giancarlo Guerrero, Marin
Alsop, George Fenton, Case Scaglione, Robert Moody, John Alexander, William Dehning and David
Lockington.
Istad is also Professor of Music and Director of Choral Studies at California State University, Fullerton. He
was recognized as CSUF’s 2016 Outstanding Professor of the Year. At CSU Fullerton, Istad conducts the
University Singers and Women’s Choir in addition to teaching courses in conducting performance practice
and literature. Recently, he and the University Singers performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Pacific
Symphony, Andrea Bocelli, Kathleen Battle, recorded albums with Yarlung Records and with composer John
Williams and Sony Classical.
He and his singers performed a concert of Tarik O’Regan’s music for Distinguished Concerts International
New York at Carnegie Hall in November 2015. They have performed at numerous regional and national
American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) conferences including the 2018 ACDA Western Division
Conference and 2013 ACDA National Conference in Dallas, Texas. They also performed for the 2013
National Collegiate Choral Organization National Conference in Charleston, SC.
Istad and the CSUF University Singers have performed all over the world, including a 2017 performance in Russia’s famous
Glinka Cappella, a 2015 residency and performances in Paris, engagements at the 2012 Ottobeuren Festival
of Music in Germany, the 2012 Eingen Festival of music in Germany, a 2010 performance for UNESCO in
Pisa and, in 2008, at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest.
Istad is former Artistic Director of Long Beach Camerata Singers and Long Beach Bach Festival. Under his
leadership, Long Beach Camerata Singers became recognized as one of the leading arts organizations of
the Long Beach Performing Arts Center, created a performing partnership with Long Beach Symphony
Orchestra and Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra, as well as performed with Pacific Symphony and Long
Beach Opera.
Istad is President of the California Choral Directors Association and serves on the national board of Chorus
America. He is in demand as an adjudicator, guest conductor, speaker and clinician throughout the nation.
Segerstrom Center for the Arts is an acclaimed arts institution as well as a beautiful multi-disciplinary
cultural campus. It is committed to supporting artistic excellence, offering unsurpassed experiences and to
engaging the entire community in new and exciting ways through the unique power of live performance and a
diverse array of inspiring arts-based education and community engagement programs.
Previously called the Orange County Performing Arts Center, Segerstrom Center is Orange County’s largest
non-profit arts organization. In addition to its six performance venues, Segerstrom Center is also home to the
American Ballet Theatre William J. Gillespie School.
The Center presents a broad range of programming for audiences of all ages, including international ballet
and dance, national tours of top Broadway shows, jazz and cabaret, contemporary artists, classical music
performed by renowned chamber orchestras and ensembles, family-friendly programming, free
performances open to the public from outdoor movie screenings to dancing on the plaza and many other
special events.
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