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| Founder and Conductor Luigi Catalano with the Napa Valley Symphony in the Year of its Founding, 1933 |
The Napa Valley Symphony was founded in 1933 by Luigi Catalano, who was also the director of the Napa Conservatory of Music, as a means for students and volunteer musicians to provide symphonic music to the community. Following a brief period of dormancy during World War II, it was reformed as a community orchestra and prospered as such through the years. In 1981, thirty-three years after his death, the Napa Valley Symphony became a professional orchestra and continues to play today as Symphony Napa Valley.
