The Festival celebrates Bruckner’s 200th anniversary by performing his incredible Fourth Symphony; on the same program we also mark Schoenberg’s 150th birthday with his poetic Transfigured Night. Other can’t-miss musical moments include Mahler’s Fourth Symphony, Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, Dvořák’s Seventh Symphony, and much more. Explore the full season for even more can’t-miss symphonic masterworks.
Alisa Weilerstein Plays Dvořák’s Cello Concerto
Alisa Weilerstein Plays Dvořák’s Cello Concerto
The 2024 Festival season opens with the much-anticipated return of Alisa Weilerstein, whose music “emerges with sunlit clarity” (The Guardian); here Weilerstein performs one of the most breathtaking works for cello. Later: Mendelssohn could not s...
Alisa Weilerstein Plays Dvořák’s Cello Concerto
Alisa Weilerstein Plays Dvořák’s Cello Concerto
The 2024 Festival season opens with the much-anticipated return of Alisa Weilerstein, whose music “emerges with sunlit clarity” (The Guardian); here Weilerstein performs one of the most breathtaking works for cello. Later: Mendelssohn could not s...
Rite of Spring & Gluzman Plays Prokofiev
Rite of Spring & Gluzman Plays Prokofiev
Famous for inciting a riot at its 1913 premiere due to its cutting-edge compositional techniques, Stravinsky’s Rite represents “the mystery and great surge of creative power of Spring.” BBC Music Magazine has praised violinist Vadim Gluzman’s...
Rite of Spring & Gluzman Plays Prokofiev
Rite of Spring & Gluzman Plays Prokofiev
Famous for inciting a riot at its 1913 premiere due to its cutting-edge compositional techniques, Stravinsky’s Rite represents “the mystery and great surge of creative power of Spring.” BBC Music Magazine has praised violinist Vadim Gluzman’s...
Bruckner Bicentennial: Symphony No. 4
Bruckner Bicentennial: Symphony No. 4
“Look, how brightly the universe shines! Splendour falls on everything around…” Schoenberg’s chromatic and stunningly beautiful Transfigured Night draws inspiration from a poem about a woman harboring a dark secret and the man who loves her e...
Olga Kern & Grieg’s Peer Gynt
Olga Kern & Grieg’s Peer Gynt
Welcome back, Festival favorite Olga Kern! Fresh off a celebration of Rachmaninoff’s 150th anniversary, Kern performs his Second Piano Concerto — a success from its inception, this memorable concerto’s themes that have been borrowed by countles...
Olga Kern & Grieg’s Peer Gynt
Olga Kern & Grieg’s Peer Gynt
Welcome back, Festival favorite Olga Kern! Fresh off a celebration of Rachmaninoff’s 150th anniversary, Kern performs his Second Piano Concerto — a success from its inception, this memorable concerto’s themes that have been borrowed by countles...
Gabriela Lena Frank’s World Premiere
Gabriela Lena Frank’s World Premiere
Be the first to experience a brand new concerto by Gabriela Lena Frank, heralded as one of the most significant women composers in history by the Washington Post. This exciting new work was commissioned by the Festival and will be performed by Boulde...
Awadagin Pratt + Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade
Awadagin Pratt + Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade
Celebrated pianist Awadagin Pratt makes his Festival debut with music old and new, beginning with Bach’s nimble Keyboard Concerto in A major. Pratt then performs a piece he commissioned from lauded composer Jessie Montgomery; her Rounds is inspired...
Awadagin Pratt + Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade
Awadagin Pratt + Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade
Celebrated pianist Awadagin Pratt makes his Festival debut with music old and new, beginning with Bach’s nimble Keyboard Concerto in A major. Pratt then performs a piece he commissioned from lauded composer Jessie Montgomery; her Rounds is inspired...
Mozart: Duo Pianos, Haffner & A Little Night Music
Mozart: Duo Pianos, Haffner & A Little Night Music
The Washington Post declares that twin sister pianists Christina and Michelle Naughton “have to be heard to be believed”; the Festival is honored to welcome these audience favorites for an all-Mozart program. Following the charming serenade Eine ...
Augustin Hadelich & Dvořák 7
Augustin Hadelich & Dvořák 7
Augustin Hadelich, one of the greatest violinists of all time, returns to perform Tchaikovsky’s unparalleled Violin Concerto. The deeply patriotic Dvořák wished to use his music to recognize the struggle and oppression of his fellow Czechs; he wr...
Augustin Hadelich & Dvořák 7
Augustin Hadelich & Dvořák 7
Augustin Hadelich, one of the greatest violinists of all time, returns to perform Tchaikovsky’s unparalleled Violin Concerto. The deeply patriotic Dvořák wished to use his music to recognize the struggle and oppression of his fellow Czechs; he wr...
Mahler 4 & Ravel’s Shéhérazade
Mahler 4 & Ravel’s Shéhérazade
Music Director Peter Oundjian continues his tradition of ending the season with glorious music by Mahler. The composer built his Fourth Symphony around his own song “The Heavenly Life,” which borrows text from a Bavarian folk poem. “The angelic...