Album features commissioned works by PSO composers, plus a special guest appearance by
Branford Marsalis and the Branford Marsalis Quartet.
PLANO, TX: The Plano Symphony Orchestra (PSO) is thrilled to announce that it has signed its first-ever recording deal with Reference Recordings, the Grammy Award®-winning classical and jazz label renowned for its audiophile-quality sound engineering. The album, which will be recorded August 17–20, 2026, at the Meyerson Symphony Center under the baton of Maestro Héctor Guzmán, will feature commissioned works from composers with strong ties to the orchestra, and a guest performance by three-time Grammy winner Branford Marsalis and the Branford Marsalis Quartet.
This recording made possible through generous gifts from the following: Jan and Craig Barber, Ellie and Ira Barash, Gary Brownfield, Nancy Freeman, Tammy and Charles Miller, Brenda and Coby Mills, Sandy Nachman, Wanda and Cliff Parker, and Bob Paton.
“The Plano Symphony Orchestra is dedicated to bringing new music into the world through presenting world premieres and by the commissioning of local composers to create new pieces of music,” states PSO President and CEO Gregory Patterson. “This recording project is the next step in expanding our footprint beyond North Texas and is a milestone for this orchestra and the City of Plano”
The album’s tracks span a range of styles and generations of composers with deep connections to North Texas and to PSO:
- Plano Overture — Marcos Lifshitz, PSO’s inaugural Composer in Residence for the 2025–2026 season
- Tlaloc — Robert Xavier Rodriguez
- A Not So Short Ride in a Burning Machine — Xi Wang
- Shine Time — Quinn Mason
- Ciana — Branford Marsalis, arranged by Marcos Lifshitz, featuring Marsalis and the Branford Marsalis Quartet performing alongside the orchestra
- Prairie Suite — David Guion
The recording will be engineered by Sean Martin, produced by Marcia Martin, and executive produced by Gregory Patterson.
About Reference Recordings
Reference Recordings is a Grammy Award®-winning label known for producing ultra-high-fidelity classical, jazz, blues, and world music recordings across CD, Hybrid SACD, and vinyl formats. Its current artist roster includes the Kansas City Symphony, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Utah Symphony Orchestra, and the Dallas Wind Symphony, among others. The label’s recordings are distributed in North America by Naxos U.S.A. and in more than 25 countries internationally.
For more information about the 2026-2027 Plano Symphony Orchestra Season, please visit planosymphony.org.
About the Plano Symphony Orchestra:
Founded in 1983, the Plano Symphony is a non-profit symphony organization dedicated to providing the citizens of North Texas with rich and varied programming of orchestral music and to educating the youth and adults of the community about the joy of classical and popular music through live performance.
The Plano Symphony Orchestra (PSO) is widely acknowledged as one of the leading professional symphony orchestras in the region. Under the artistic and musical direction of Maestro Héctor Guzmán and leadership of President & CEO Gregory Patterson, the PSO produces eight subscription concerts annually as well as myriads of music education and community outreach programs that serve nearly 100,000 people annually.
Of the 17,000 students who participate in its School Concert Program, over 40% attend various Title I schools in Dallas or Collin counties.
The Plano Symphony Orchestra is supported, in part, by the City of Plano, the City of Addison, Tammy and Charles Miller, The Andrea-Mennen Family Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, Texas Commission on the Arts, Communities Foundation of Texas, Rea Charitable Trust, Atmos Energy, AWARE Fund of The Dallas Foundation, The PSO Guild, The PSO Virtuoso Society, The PSO Corporate Council, The McKinney Arts Commission, Frisco Arts Foundation, City of Carrollton, H-E-B | Central Market, The Sandip J. Gupta Music Education Fund, GB Financial Services, LLC, The Dallas Morning News, Signs By Tomorrow, SoloShoe Communications, PISD, Bartlett & West, the Plano Rotary Club, Plano Mayor Summer Internship Program, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Plano, Every Page Foundation, Knight Office Solutions, Sandy Nachman, Wanda and Cliff Parker, The Brockette Family, Muns Family Foundation, Nancy Freeman, Coldwell Banker Reality, Carol and William Tempest, Marriott Dallas/Plano Legacy Town Center, and hundreds of individual donors, foundations, and corporations who make transformative gifts to the PSO.