The Symphonina Foundation

Symphonina Stories: New Horizons is cued up for release this Friday, July 24!  The double album features 8 Symphoninas, 4 orchestras, and fantastic featured soloists!

The 2-CD set starts with 2025 Best Symphonina of the Year Award winner Christopher Siu and his Symphonina No. 1 (Hope) performed by the Budapest Scoring Orchestra. It follows with runner-up Jordan Jinosko’s Symphonina No. 3 (Of Fire and Water), also recorded by the Budapest Scoring Orchestra, and then Alexander Unseth’s Symphonina No. 3 (Painted City) and Chris Prather’s Symphonina No. 1 (Tales from Spooky Town) both performed by our International Symphonina Orchestra. 

The second CD starts with 5-time GRAMMY®-nominee David Arkenstone and his Symphonina No. 1 (Dreams Carried on Fire), a tribute to humanity’s achievements in space and the recent successful Artemis II mission. It was performed by the Budapest Scoring Orchestra and orchestrated by Jeremy Borum. That’s followed by GRAMMY nominee David Das’ Symphonina No. 1 (Lenny and George Walk Into a Bar), an homage to Leonard Bernstein and George Gershwin. David's composition was also performed by the Budapest Scoring Orchestra, with David conducting his own work. The album proceeds with David Fogel’s Symphonina No. 6 (Flutissimo), performed by the International Symphonina Orchestra and featuring Ragan Whiteside (flute) and Alexander Boldachev (harp), and concludes with Daniel Fisher’s Symphonina No. 3 (Runaway Dream Days), performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra and London Symphony Orchestra, featuring Paul Bateman and Jan Mulder (piano). 

Our producer team, David Fogel, Chris Prather, Gary Gray, Daniel Fisher, Gabriel Mulder, David Das, David Arkenstone, Cynthia Gage, and Zain Effendi thanks everyone involved who helped us create all this wonderful music and CD: the composers, performers, conductors, engineers, engravers, artists, everyone who contributed time and funds to help us produce all of this, and all of you who support us in other ways. We’re truly very grateful.