Concerts / Past Events

Jerod Tate: Six Epitomes for String Quartet, Pisachi (Reveal) 
Eunice Kim, Violin 1
Kathryn Bennett, Violin 2
Daniel Orsen, Viola
Richard Belcher, Cello

Valerie Coleman: Maombi Asante (Prayer of Thanks)
Alicia McQuerrey, Flute
Nina Tso-Ning Fan, Violin
Joshua Koestenbaum, Cello

Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 10, Harp
Kyu-Young Kim, Violin 1
Beatrice Hsieh, Violin 2
Lisa Sung, Viola
Julie Albers, Cello

SPCO Artistic Partner and violist extraordinaire Tabea Zimmermann returns to open the SPCO’s 66th season with the dramatic overture to Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni and Mozart’s beloved Sinfonia Concertante alongside SPCO Concertmaster, Steven Copes. The program also features Prokofiev’s Classical Symphony, a celebratory launch to the season, akin to the uncorking of a bottle of champagne.

Ives: Three Places in New England
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Copland: Symphony No. 3

Ives: Decoration Day and The Fourth of July from New England Holidays
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Copland: Symphony No. 3

Ives: Three Places in New England
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole

Matthias Pintscher, music director and conductor
Conrad Tao, piano

IVES Decoration Day and The Fourth of July from New England Holidays
GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue
COPLAND Symphony No. 3

Please join us as we perform a uniquely American program that we’ll later be performing on our European Tour of Amsterdam, Berlin and Hamburg.

James Gaffigan, conductor
Elena Villalón, soprano

Anna CLYNE Sound and Fury
MOZART "Padre, germani, addio!" from Idomeneo
MOZART “Deh vieni, non tardar” from The Marriage of Figaro
MAHLER Symphony No. 4

Dalia Stasevska, conductor
Leila Josefowicz, violin

SIBELIUS (arr. STRAVINSKY) Canzonetta
STRAVINSKY Violin Concerto
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 5

Alan Gilbert, conductor
Kirill Gerstein, piano

RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 3
STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring

Alan Gilbert, conductor
Kirill Gerstein, piano
Joshua Bell, violin
Steven Isserlis, cello

ALL-BEETHOVEN PROGRAM

Triple Concerto
Symphony No. 4

Andris Nelsons, conductor
Paul Lewis, piano
Thomas Warfield, narrator
Tanglewood Festival Chorus
 James Burton, conductor

James LEE III Freedom’s Genuine Dawn
COPLAND Piano Concerto
THOMPSON Alleluia, for unaccompanied chorus
STRAVINSKY Symphony of Psalms

Andris Nelsons, conductor
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano

Tania LEÓN Stride
KHACHATURIAN Piano Concerto
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6, Pathétique

Andris Nelsons, conductor
Yefim Bronfman, piano
Edwin Barker, double bass
Will Liverman, baritone
Tanglewood Festival Chorus
 James Burton, conductor

Steven MACKEY Urban Ocean
KOUSSEVITZKY Double Bass Concerto
SIBELIUS The Origin of Fire for baritone, male chorus, and orchestra
SCRIABIN Prometheus, Poem of Fire, for piano, chorus, and orchestra

Andris Nelsons, conductor
Emanuel Ax, piano

IVES Three Places in New England
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 3
STRAUSS Also sprach Zarathustra

Andris Nelsons, conductor
Christine Goerke, soprano (Brünnhilde)
Amanda Majeski, soprano (Gutrune)
Michael Weinius, tenor (Siegfried) |
James Rutherford, baritone (Gunther)
Morris Robinson, bass (Hagen)
Diana Newman, Renée Tatum, and Annie Rosen (Rhine maidens)

WAGNER Götterdämmerung, Act III

Dima Slobodeniouk, conductor
Conrad Tao, piano

BERNSTEIN Symphony No. 2, The Age of Anxiety
BRAHMS Symphony No. 3

Andris Nelsons, conductor
Augustin Hadelich, violin

Sarah KIRKLAND SNIDER Forward into Light
PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No. 2
DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 7

Andris Nelsons, conductor
Yuja Wang, piano

Carlos SIMON Warmth from Other Suns, for string orchestra
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 4
ELLINGTON Three Black Kings
ELLINGTON A Tone Parallel to Harlem

Andris Nelsons, conductor
Boston Ballet

STRAVINSKY Apollon musagète

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade

Andris Nelsons, conductor
Renée Fleming, soprano

ALL-STRAUSS PROGRAM

Symphonic Fantasy on Die Frau ohne Schatten
Songs with orchestra
"Träumerei im Kamin" from Intermezzo
“Die Zeit” and “Da geht er hin” from Der Rosenkavalier
Suite from Der Rosenkavalier

Experience the lush and expressive romanticism of Richard Strauss under the summer sky with superstar soprano Renée Fleming, one of the greatest contemporary interpreters of Strauss.