Name: SIMPLY INA: An Evening Conversation with Ina Garten
Start: 2026-11-12T19:30:00
Location: Jacobs Music Center

San Diego Symphony

Celebrate Fleet Week San Diego with an exciting concert honoring our nation’s service members and veterans through the power of music. Enjoy an inspiring performance by the Fleet Week Marine Band featuring patriotic favorites and memorable music for all to enjoy.

Fleet Week Marine Band Concert

Jacobs Music Center

An evening onstage with Ina Garten – the beloved cookbook author and television host known to millions as the Barefoot Contessa – offers audiences the chance to hear from one of America’s most trusted voices in home cooking and hospitality. The evening will spotlight her new cookbook, Simply Ina, a vibrant collection of recipes that prove the most delicious cooking is often the simplest.

SIMPLY INA: An Evening Conversation with Ina Garten

In a return to Segerstrom Concert Hall, led by its dynamic Music Director Rafael Payare, the San Diego Symphony accompanies celebrated Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov for Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1, a cornerstone of the Russian repertoire. Trifonov, who captured both First Prize and the Grand Prix at Moscow’s International Tchaikovsky Competition in 2011, brings exceptional virtuosity, lyricism, and insight to this enduring masterpiece. The program concludes with Shostakovich’s powerful Symphony No. 10, a landmark of the Russian symphonic tradition completed in the aftermath of Stalin’s death in 1953. Widely regarded as one of the composer’s greatest achievements, the work bears witness to immense suffering under tyranny while reclaiming the voice of the individual, unfolding a gripping drama of fear, endurance, and defiance.

San Diego Symphony at Segerstrom Concert Hall (Costa Mesa)

Segerstrom Center for the Arts

Rafael Payare returns to Jacobs Music Center to lead two profound masterworks composed a century apart: Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1, performed by Daniil Trifonov, and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10. Both works unite the intensely personal with the powerfully public.