California Symphony Guest Artist Roster
| Name | Performance | Date | Instrument | Piece | |
| Sarina Zhang | May | 2010 | Cello | Tchaikovsky- Pezzo Capriccioso | |
| Chad Hoopes | March | 2010 | Violin | Bruch- Violin Concerto | |
| Will Durst | January | 2010 | Narrator | Lincoln Portrait | |
| Michael Moschen | October | 2009 | Visual Motion Artist | Mother Goose Suite | |
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Jose Francisco Salgado |
May May March October October October May |
2009 2009 2009 2008 2008 2008 2008 |
Film Producer Piano Violin Acrobat Acrobat Piano Soprano |
Mussorgsky/Ravel - Pictures Ravel - Concerto in G Mendelssohn - Violin cto. Barber - Adagio for Stgs. Barber - Adagio for Stgs. Rachmaninoff - pno. cto. 3 Orff - Carmina Burana |
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| Tyler Nelson | May | 2008 | Tenor | Orff - Carmina Burana | |
| Keith Phares | May | 2008 | Baritone | Orff - Carmina Burana | |
| Oakland Symphony Chorus | May | 2008 | chorus | Orff - Carmina Burana | |
| Yaelisa | March | 2008 | Flamenco Dancer | Falla - Three Cornered Hat Suite No. 2 | |
| Travis Johnson | March | 2008 | Guitar | Giuliani Guitar Concerto, Op. 30 | |
| Joyce Yang | January | 2008 | Piano | Rachmaninoff - Piano Cto. No. 2 | |
| Roy Malan | October | 2007 | Violin | Zimbalist - Phantasy on Rimsky Korsakov's Le Coq d'Or | |
| Anoushka Shankar | May | 2007 | Sitar | Shankar Sitar Cto. No. 2 | |
| Anne Akiko Meyers | March | 2007 | Violin | Barber - Violin Cto | |
| Barry Jekowsky | January | 2007 | Percussion | Torke - Percussion Cto. - Skins and Woods | |
| Norman Krieger | January | 2007 | Piano | Bernstein - Age of Anxiety | |
| Peng Peng Gong | October | 2006 | Piano | Mozart Double Piano cto. | |
| Conrad Tao | October | 2006 | Piano | Mozart Double Piano cto. | |
| California Guitar Trio | May | 2006 | Guitar | Anderson Guitar Trio Concerto | |
| Chee-Yun | March | 2006 | Violin | Brahms Double Cto. | |
| Alisa Weilerstein | March | 2006 | Cello | Brahms Double Cto. | |
| Lara St. John | January | 2006 | Violin | Tchaikovsky violin cto | |
| Chloe Pang | October | 2005 | Piano | Mozart Piano Cto. #20 | |
| Sarah Chang | April | 2005 | Violin | Dvorak - Violin Concerto | |
| Claudio Bohorquez | March | 2005 | Cello | Dvorak - Cello Concerto | |
| R Carlos Nakai | January | 2005 | Native American Flute | DeMars - Two World Concerto | |
| Kirill Gerstein | October | 2004 | Piano | Rachmaninoff - Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini | |
| Courtenay Budd | May | 2004 | Soprano | Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 | |
| Wendy Hillhouse | May | 2004 | Alto | Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 | |
| Kevin Gibbs | May | 2004 | Tenor | Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 | |
| Anton Belov | May | 2004 | Bass | Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 | |
| Mark O'Connor | February | 2004 | Violin | O'Connor - The American Seasons | |
| Sebastian Chang | November | 2003 | Piano | Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue | |
| Stanislav Ioudenitch | May | 2003 | Piano | Beethoven - Piano Cto. #2 | |
| Los Angeles Guitar Quartet | March | 2003 | Guitar | Rodrigo - Concierto Andaluz | |
| Nicolle Foland | February | 2003 | Soprano | Strauss - Four last songs | |
| Karen Gomyo | November | 2002 | Violin | Korngold - Violin Concerto | |
| Kyoko Takazawa | May | 2002 | Violin | Sibelius - Vn Cto in d-minor | |
| Peter Schickele | April | 2002 | humorist | ||
| Robert McDuffie | March | 2002 | Violin | Barber - Violin Cto | |
| Makoto Nakura | February | 2002 | Marimba | Puts - Marimba Concerto | |
| Carlos Avila | October | 2001 | Piano | Rachmaninoff - PNO CTO #1 | |
| Richard Nickol | April | 2001 | Tenor | Bernstein - Candide | |
| Noelle Richardson | April | 2001 | Soprano | Bernstein - Candide | |
| Richard Gould | April | 2001 | Bass Baritone | Bernstein - Candide | |
| Nancy Shade | April | 2001 | Mezzo-soprano | Bernstein - Candide | |
| Ross Halper | April | 2001 | Tenor | Bernstein - Candide | |
| Marcelle Dronkers | April | 2001 | Mezzo-soprano | Bernstein - Candide | |
| Randall Scarlata | April | 2001 | Baritone | Bernstein - Candide | |
| Festival Opera Chorus | April | 2001 | chorus | Bernstein - Candide | |
| Natalie Clein | April | 2001 | Cello | Elgar - Cello Cto | |
| Norman Krieger | February | 2001 | Piano | MacDowell - Pno Cto #2 | |
| Awadagin Pratt | October | 2000 | Piano | Beethoven - PNO CTO #1 | |
| Chee-Yun | May | 2000 | Violin | Mendelssohn - violin Concerto | |
| Stephen Powell | March | 2000 | Baritone | Copland - Old American Songs | |
| Borislav Strulev | February | 2000 | Cello | Harrison - Suites for Cello | |
| Joyce Yang | November | 1999 | Piano | Prokofiev - Piano Cto #3 | |
| Turtle Island String Quartet | May | 1999 | Quartet | Balakrishnan - spider dreams | |
| Shunsuke Sato | February | 1999 | Violin | Wieniawski - CTO for VN #2 | |
| Hilary Hahn | October | 1998 | Violin | Vieuxtemps - Violin Concerto #4 | |
| Norman Krieger | April | 1998 | Piano | Gershwin - Pno cto in F | |
| Wu Man | March | 1998 | Pipa | Harrison - concerto for pipa and orch | |
| Ann Panagulias | March | 1998 | Soprano | Harrison - concerto for pipa and orch | |
| Jean-Phillipe Collard | October | 1997 | Piano | Ravel - Piano Cto | |
| Joaquin Achucarro | April | 1997 | Piano | ||
| Al Jarreau | March | 1997 | vocals | ||
| Timothy Day | March | 1997 | flute | Mozart - Flute concerto No. 2 | |
| Sarah Chang | February | 1997 | Violin | Prokofiev - VN Cto No. 1 | |
| Alisa Weilerstein | October | 1996 | Cello | Saint-Saens - Cello Cto #1 | |
| Helen Huang | April | 1996 | Piano | Mendelssohn - cto No. 1 | |
| Gamelan Sekar Jaya | March | 1996 | Gamelan - Trompong: Emiko Saraswati Susilo | ||
| Cho-Liang Lin | February | 1996 | Violin | Barber - Violin Cto | |
| Orli Shaham | October | 1995 | Piano | Beethoven - Piano Cto #3 | |
| Linda Hohenfeld | April | 1995 | Soprano | Barber - Knoxville: Summer of 1915 | |
| Ignat Solzhenitsyn | March | 1995 | Piano | Beethoven piano Cto #5 | |
| Daniel Lee | January | 1995 | Cello | Haydn - cello concerto No. 1 | |
| Milton Williams | January | 1995 | Bass-Baritone | Harrison - Last Symphony | |
| Claude Frank | October | 1994 | Piano | Mozart - Piano Cto #20 | |
| Anne Akiko Meyers | April | 1994 | Violin | Mendelssohn - violin Concerto | |
| R. Carlos Nakai | March | 1994 | Native American Flute | DeMars - Two World Concerto | |
| Yoon-Kyung Kwon | February | 1994 | Violin | Glazunov | |
| Artur Pizarro | October | 1993 | Piano | Rachmaninoff - Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini | |
| Jeremy Constant | May | 1993 | Violin | Vivaldi - Concerto for flute and Violin | |
| Timothy Day | May | 1993 | Flute | Vivaldi - Concerto for flute and Violin | |
| Emile Naoumoff | February | 1993 | Piano | Chopin - Cto #1 | |
| Helen Huang | January | 1993 | Piano | Beethoven - piano cto #1 | |
| Leonides Kavakos | October | 1992 | Violin | Mozart - vn cto #5 | |
| Jose Feghali | March | 1992 | piano | Tchaikovsky - pno cto | |
| Sarah Chang | February | 1992 | Violin | Sibelius - Vn Cto in d-minor | |
| Elmar Oliverira | November | 1991 | Violin | Bruch - Violin cto in g | |
| Helene Wickett | June | 1991 | Piano | Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue | |
| John Browning | May | 1991 | Piano | Ravel - Piano Cto | |
| Roy Malan | April | 1991 | Violin | ||
| Donovan Freberg | April | 1991 | Narrator | Prokofiev - Peter and the Wolf | |
| Jean-Yves Thibaudet | March | 1991 | Piano | Mendelssohn - Pno cto #1 | |
| Sarah Chang | February | 1991 | Violin | Tchaikovsky - violin cto | |
| Garrick | July | 1990 | Piano | Mozart - pno cto #17 | |
| Weslia Ohlsson | June | 1990 | vocalist | The Great American Song | |
| Leila Josefowicz | May | 1990 | Violin | Vieuxtemps - Violin Concerto #5 | |
| Carol Wincenc | March | 1990 | flute | Bach - Cto for FL, VN and hps | |
| Mitch Miller | February | 1990 | Conductor | ||
| Nathaniel Rosen | February | 1990 | Cello | Saint-Saens - Cello Cto #1 | |
| Alexander Toradze | November | 1989 | piano | Rachmaninoff - PNO CTO #2 | |
| Leola Jiles | May | 1989 | vocalist | ||
| Carter Brey | April | 1989 | Cello | Dvorak - Cello Concerto | |
| Song-Suk Kang | March | 1989 | Violin | Saint-Saens - vn cto #3 | |
| Sharon Isbin | February | 1989 | Guitar | Rodrigo - Concierto Andaluz | |
| Scott Beach | February | 1989 | Narrator | ||
| Connie Shih | November | 1988 | piano | Liszt - piano cto #1 | |
| Jeffrey Kahane | April | 1988 | Piano | Rachmaninoff - Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini | |
| Stephanie Chase | March | 1988 | Violin | Mendelssohn - violin Concerto | |
| Louis Magor | December | 1987 | Conductor | Handel - Messiah | |
| Vicki Van Dewark | December | 1987 | Soprano | Handel - Messiah | |
| Wendy Hoffman | December | 1987 | Alto | Handel - Messiah | |
| Bruce Matthew Thompson | December | 1987 | Tenor | Handel - Messiah | |
| William Berges | December | 1987 | Bass | Handel - Messiah | |
| Andre-Michel Schub | November | 1987 | piano | Grieg - pno cto in a | |
| Kyoko Takazawa | May | 1987** | Violin | Bruch - Violin cto in g |