Create Your Own
Starting at 4 or More Concerts
Season Opener: A Hero’s Life
Saturday, September 13 – Sunday, September 14
Ken-David Masur, conductor
Stewart Goodyear, piano
Andrea Tarrodi
Festouvertyr
Ravel
Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
Strauss
Ein Heldenleben
Disco Divas
Friday, September 26 – Sunday, September 28
Byron Stripling, conductor
Shayna Steele, vocalist
Kelly Levesque, vocalist
Cherise Coaches, vocalist
Ode to Joy: Beethoven’s Ninth
Friday, October 3 – Sunday, October 5
Ken-David Masur, conductor
Milwaukee Symphony Chorus
Cheryl Frazes Hill, chorus director
Kathryn Henry, soprano
Clara Osowski, mezzo-soprano
Russell Thomas, tenor
Stephano Park, bass
Jinwoo Lee, violin
Jennifer Startt, violin
Victor de Almeida, viola
Susan Babini, cello
Pavel Haas
String Quartet No. 3, Op. 15
J.E. Hernández
Parallax (or 33,000 Stolen Sunsets)
Beethoven
Symphony No. 9
Dvořák’s Seventh Symphony
Friday, October 10 – Saturday, October 11
Eric Jacobsen, conductor
Robyn Black, tuba
Tchaikovsky
Serenade for Strings
Vaughan Williams
Tuba Concerto
Dvořák
Symphony No. 7
Mendelssohn’s Reformation
Friday, October 17 – Saturday, October 18
Ken-David Masur, conductor
Orion Weiss, piano
Brahms
Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn
Dohnányi
Variations on a Nursery Tune
Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 5, “Reformation”
Paul Lewis Plays Grieg
Friday, November 14 – Saturday, November 15
Rune Bergmann, conductor
Paul Lewis, piano
Rautavaara
Cantus Arcticus
Grieg
Piano Concerto
Nielsen
Symphony No. 4, “The Inextinguishable”
Handel's Messiah
Friday, November 21 – Sunday, November 23
Nicholas McGegan, conductor
Sherazade Panthaki, soprano
Key’mon Murrah, countertenor
Thomas Cooley, tenor
Enrico Lagasca, bass-baritone
Handel
Messiah
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York In Concert
Friday, November 28 – Sunday, November 30
Ryan Tani, conductor
Hometown Holiday Pops
Saturday, December 13 – Sunday, December 21
Ryan Tani, conductor
Milwaukee Symphony Chorus
Cheryl Frazes Hill, chorus director
Milwaukee Handbell Ensemble
Jana Larson, director
The Godfather In Concert
Friday, January 2 – Saturday, January 3
Ryan Tani, conductor
Beethoven & Haydn
Friday, January 23 – Saturday, January 24
Bernard Labadie, conductor
Kerson Leong, violin
Haydn
Symphony No. 103, “Drumroll”
Beethoven
Violin Concerto
Zeitouni Conducts Mozart
Saturday, January 31 – Sunday, February 1
Jean-Marie Zeitouni, conductor
Stephen Hough, piano
Ligeti
Concert Românesc
Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 21
Mozart
Symphony No. 38, “Prague”
Kodály
Dances of Galánta
Saint-Saëns “Organ” Symphony
Friday, February 6 – Saturday, February 7
Ken-David Masur, conductor
Paul Jacobs, organ
Beethoven
Leonore Overture No. 3
Edmund Finnis
The Landscape Wakes (World Premiere)
Barber
Toccata Festiva
Saint-Saëns
Symphony No. 3, “Organ”
A Simply Swingin' Valentine
Friday, February 13 – Sunday, February 15
Steve Lippia, vocalist
Ryan Tani, conductor
Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty
Friday, February 20 – Saturday, February 21
Alpesh Chauhan, conductor
Johannes Moser, cello
Anna Thorvaldsdottir
Before we fall (Cello Concerto)
Tchaikovsky
Selections from Sleeping Beauty
Joyce Yang Plays Tchaikovsky
Friday, February 27 – Sunday, March 1
Ryan Tani, conductor
Joyce Yang, piano
Anna Clyne
Color Field
Sibelius
Symphony No. 6
Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto No. 1
Hadelich & Brahms
Friday, March 6 – Saturday, March 7
Ken-David Masur, conductor
Augustin Hadelich, violin
Detlev Glanert
Vexierbild. Kontrafaktur mit Brahms
Brahms
Symphony No. 3
Brahms
Violin Concerto
Bach's St. Matthew Passion
Friday, March 20 – Saturday, March 21
Ken-David Masur, conductor
Milwaukee Symphony Chorus
Cheryl Frazes Hill, chorus director
Patrick Grahl, tenor
Bach
St. Matthew Passion
Decades: Back to the 80s
Friday, March 27 – Sunday, March 29
Byron Stripling, conductor
Brie Cassil, vocalist
Paul Loren, vocalist
Colin Smith, vocalist
Wincor Conducts Shostakovich No. 1
Friday, April 10 – Saturday, April 11
Katharina Wincor, conductor
David Fray, piano
Webern
Passacaglia
Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 9, “Jeunehomme”
Shostakovich
Symphony No. 1
Schumann Romance
Friday, April 17 – Saturday, April 18
Ken-David Masur, conductor
Nancy Zhou, violin
Gabriela Ortiz
Clara
Clara Schumann
Three Romances
Joachim
Variations for Violin and Orchestra
Schumann
Symphony No. 2
Fandango & Rapsodie
Saturday, April 25 – Sunday, April 26
Asher Fisch, conductor
Ilana Setapen, violin
Ravel
Alborado del gracioso
Arturo Márquez
Fandango
Ravel
Rapsodie espangole
Turina
Danzas fantásticas
Copland & Twain: America 250
Friday, May 8 – Sunday, May 10
Ken-David Masur, conductor
Bill Barclay, director; Concert Theatre Works
Copland
Music for Movies
Copland
Music for the Theatre
America the Beautiful: Patriotic Pops
Friday, May 22 – Sunday, May 24
Byron Stripling, conductor
Sydney McSweeney, vocalist
Stravinsky’s Firebird
Friday, May 29 – Saturday, May 30
Jader Bignamini, conductor
Giuseppe Gibboni, violin
Wynton Marsalis
Violin Concerto
Rimsky-Korsakov
Capriccio espagnol
Stravinsky
Suite from The Firebird (1919)
Rachmaninoff & Saint-Saëns
Friday, June 5 – Saturday, June 6
Iván López Reynoso, conductor
Jinwoo Lee, violin
Saint-Saëns
Violin Concerto No. 3
Rachmaninoff
Symphony No. 2
Masur Conducts Missa Solemnis
Saturday, June 13 – Sunday, June 14
Ken-David Masur, conductor
Milwaukee Symphony Chorus
Cheryl Frazes Hill, chorus director
Beethoven
Missa solemnis