Mark Seto

Conductor & Musicologist

Mark Seto leads a wide-ranging musical life as a conductor, musicologist, teacher, and violinist. He is Co-Artistic Director and Conductor of The Chelsea Symphony in New York City and Assistant Professor of Music at Connecticut College.

2017-2018 PERFORMANCEs

Friday, September 15, 2017, 8:30 PM

THE CHELSEA SYMPHONY, the dimenna center for classical music, NEW YORK CITY

Debussy's La Mer and works by Tim Kiah and Ralph Vaughan Williams

Saturday, September 16, 2017, 7:30 PM

THE CHELSEA SYMPHONY, the dimenna center for classical music, NEW YORK CITY

Debussy's La Mer and works by Tim Kiah and Sally Beamish

FRIDAY, October 27, 2017, 8:30 PM*

THE CHELSEA SYMPHONY, NEW YORK CITY

Beethoven's Sixth Symphony ("Pastoral") and works by Aaron Dai and Camille Saint-Saëns

saturday, October 28, 2017, 7:30 PM*

THE CHELSEA SYMPHONY, NEW YORK CITY

Beethoven's Sixth Symphony ("Pastoral") and works by Aaron Dai and Carl Maria von Weber

Friday, December 1, 2017, 8:00 PM*

the chelsea symphony, new york city

Holiday concert featuring works by Mozart, Smetana, Ravel, Reinecke, and seasonal favorites

Saturday, DECEMBER 16, 2017, 5:00 PM*

Norwalk Symphony, Norwalk, ct

Holiday concert featuring works by J.S. Bach, Tchaikovsky, and seasonal favorites

Thursday, january 18, 2018, 9:00 am to 6:45 pm

THE CHELSEA SYMPHONY, NEW YORK CITY

Popup orchestral performance in Times Square to promote the BBC America series Blue Planet 2

FRIDAY, january 26, 2018, 8:30 PM

THE CHELSEA SYMPHONY, NEW YORK CITY

Eric Lemmon's I-35 (premiere), Saint-Saëns' Violin Concerto No. 3 (Deborah Nixon, violin), and Sibelius's Fifth Symphony

Saturday, january 27, 2018, 7:30 PM

THE CHELSEA SYMPHONY, NEW YORK CITY

Eric Lemmon's I-35, Michael Colina's Isles of Shoals (premiere; Michelle Stockman, flute), and Sibelius's Fifth Symphony

FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 2018, 8:30 PM

the chelsea symphony, new york city

Seth Bedford's The Creation of the Birds (premiere), Copland's Clarinet Concerto (Alicia Bennett, clarinet), and works by Vivaldi and Copland

saturday, MARCH 10, 2018, 7:30 PM

the chelsea symphony, new york city

Seth Bedford's The Creation of the Birds, Anna Clyne's Prince of Clouds (Gina Dyches and Haerim Elizabeth Lee, violins), Lars-Erik Larssen's Trombone Concertino (Sara Mayo, trombone), and works by Vivaldi and Copland

sunday, april 22, 2018, 2:00 PM

THE CHELSEA SYMPHONY at the American Museum of natural history, NEW YORK CITY

Special Earth Day performance featuring John Luther Adams' Become Ocean in the American Museum of Natural History's Milstein Hall of Ocean Life

Saturday, april 28, 2018, 7:00 PM

 Garden state philharmonic, toms river, nj

1940s-themed program featuring works by Ellington, Gershwin, Bernstein, Rodgers, Berlin, and Artie Shaw's Clarinet Concerto (Angela Shankar, clarinet)

thursday, may 3, 2018, 7:00 pm

connecticut college orchestra, evans hall, connecticut college, new london, ct

Sibelius's Finlandia and Second Symphony (finale); Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf; and Saint-Saëns's Cello Concerto No. 1

Saturday, may 19, 8:00 PM*

Norwalk Symphony, Norwalk, ct

Semi-staged production of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro

saturday, june 2, 2018, 7:30 PM*

THE CHELSEA SYMPHONY, the dimenna center for classical music, NEW YORK CITY

Respighi's Pines of Rome and works by Victor Bruns, Samuel Barber, and Jonathan Bruce Brown

Sunday, june 3, 2018, 2:30 PM*

THE CHELSEA SYMPHONY, the dimenna center for classical music, NEW YORK CITY

Respighi's Pines of Rome and works by Erich Korngold and Jonathan Bruce Brown

 

* denotes performances as a violinist or violist