Newsletter - December 2025
Hi Symphonina Fans!
We’ve waited until the very end of 2025 to send our final newsletter and it’s mostly just a big THANK YOU to you all for your support and encouragement during the year. Many of you have donated your time, skills, and even money in support of our effort to help spread the joy of symphonic music to younger audiences around the world, and we truly appreciate it!
It’s been a great year for The Symphonina Foundation. In addition to new award-winning releases – ASCENSION: SYMPHONINA RISING and David Fogel’s Symphonina No. 3 (feat. Sophia Agranovich, piano) – we helped sponsor more than 50 players from around the world with our International Symphonina Orchestra, received a community leadership award in San Diego, and our podcast series kept the spotlight on more than 100 shining stars in the symphonic world.
In addition to our previous awards, ASCENSION: SYMPHONINA RISING is nominated for Best Classical Album at the World Entertainment Awards and we look forward to seeing our friends at the event in Los Angeles on January 31, 2026!
Podcasts
Since our last newsletter, we’ve spoken with Grammy®-nominee Shaun Drew, Emmy®-Award-winner Brad Ritchie and Jordan Cox, Yasaman Seif, Emily Burak, Grammy®-winner Lili Haydn and nominees Paul Cantelon, Thomas Ross Johansen, and Paul Parker, the Grammy®-nominated Neave Trio, Michael Noble, Grammy®-winner Michael Repper, Grammy®-nominee Shawn Okpebholo, Grammy®-nominee Devony Smith, and guzheng performer Bei Bei.
You can listen to all of the podcasts at our website under the “Library tab.” We encourage you to also visit our new YouTube channel and subscribe so that you stay up to date on all of our new releases.
If you’re a participant in the world of symphonic music and would like to appear as a featured guest on our Symphonina Foundation podcasts, please contact David Fogel at david.fogel@symphonina.org.
