
Alpine Glory
Friday, September 30 – Saturday, October 1
Ken-David Masur, conductor
Christina & Michelle Naughton, pianos
Wynton Marsalis
Herald, Holler and Hallelujah! (Co-Commission)
Mendelssohn
Concerto for Two Pianos in E major
Strauss
Eine Alpensinfonie

Aaron Diehl Returns
Friday, October 7 – Sunday, October 9
Ken-David Masur, conductor
Aaron Diehl, piano & artistic partner
Copland
Rodeo
Still
Symphony No. 2 “Song of a New Race”
Gershwin
Concerto in F

Tchaikovsky No. 5
Friday, October 21 – Saturday, October 22
Jader Bignamini, conductor
Blake Pouliot, violin
Coleridge-Taylor
Ballade
Paganini
Violin Concerto No. 1
Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 5


Habibi, Brahms, & Schumann
Friday, November 4 – Sunday, November 6
Ken-David Masur, conductor
Milwaukee Symphony Chorus
Cheryl Frazes Hill, director
Iman Habibi
Jeder Baum spricht
Schumann
Symphony No. 1 “Spring”
Brahms
Gesang der Parzen
Brahms
Schicksalslied
Brahms
Academic Festival Overture

Fresh Air & Beethoven’s Eroica
Friday, November 11 – Saturday, November 12
Ken-David Masur, conductor
Baiba Skride, violin
Sibelius
Night Ride and Sunrise
Sebastian Currier
Aether, for violin and orchestra
Beethoven
Symphony No. 3 “Eroica”

Ravel & Chopin
Friday, November 18 – Saturday, November 19
David Robertson, conductor
Orli Shaham, piano
Ravel
Une Barque sur l’Ocean
Chopin
Piano Concerto No. 2
Messaien
L’Ascension
Ravel
La valse



Handel's Messiah
Friday, December 16 – Sunday, December 18
Ken-David Masur, conductor
Milwaukee Symphony Chorus
Cheryl Frazes Hill, director
George Frideric Handel
Messiah

Ghostbusters
Friday, December 30, 2022 – Sunday, January 1, 2023
Yaniv Dinur, conductor

Percussion & Interludes
Friday, January 20 – Saturday, January 21
Ken-David Masur, conductor
Christopher Lamb, percussion
Robert Klieger, percussion
Chris Riggs, percussion
Tan Dun
Water Concerto
Smetana
Vltava (The Moldau)
Adolphus Hailstork
American Port of Call
Britten
Four Sea Interludes

Neptune & Water Music
Friday, January 27 – Sunday, January 29
Nicholas McGegan, conductor
Ilana Setapen, violin
Jennifer Bouton Schaub, piccolo
Rameau
Suite from Naïs
Vivaldi
Violin Concerto in F major, RV 569
Vivaldi
Piccolo Concerto in C major, RV 443
Handel
Water Music Suite No. 1

Toward the Sea
Friday, February 3 – Saturday, February 4
Ken-David Masur, conductor
Catherine Chen, bassoon
Sonora Slocum, alto flute
Julia Coronelli, harp
Mendelssohn
The Hebrides
Takemitsu
Toward the Sea II (Umi e II)
David Ludwig
Pictures from the Floating World
Helen Grime
Virga
Debussy
La mer


Rachmaninoff Piano & Lively Dances
Friday, February 17 – Sunday, February 19
Markus Stenz, conductor
Stephen Hough, piano
Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto No. 2
Bartók
Dance Suite
Bizet
Carmen Suite

Music of Clyne, Tchaikovsky & Shostakovich
Friday, February 24 – Saturday, February 25
Han-Na Chang, conductor
Zlatomir Fung, cello
Anna Clyne
This Midnight Hour
Tchaikovsky
Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33
Shostakovich
Symphony No. 5

Music of Montgomery & Dvořák
Friday, March 3 – Saturday, March 4
Jonathon Heyward, conductor
James Ehnes, violin
Jessie Montgomery
Records from a Vanishing City
Prokofiev
Violin Concerto No. 2
Dvořák
Symphony No. 8

Rick Steves' Europe: A Symphonic Journey
Saturday, March 11 – Sunday, March 12
Rick Steves, host


Mendelssohn's Elijah
Friday, March 24 – Sunday, March 26
Ken-David Masur, conductor
Dashon Burton, bass-baritone
Milwaukee Symphony Chorus
Cheryl Frazes Hill, director
Mendelssohn
Elijah

Don Juan & Beethoven Piano
Friday, April 14 – Saturday, April 15
Roderick Cox, conductor
Inon Barnatan, piano
R. Strauss
Don Juan
Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 4
Sibelius
Symphony No. 5

Aretha: Queen of Soul
Friday, April 21 – Sunday, April 23
TBD, conductor
Capathia Jenkins, vocalist
Ryan Shaw, vocalist

An Evening with Brian Stokes Mitchell
Friday, April 28
Brian Stokes Mitchell, vocalist

Joyce Yang Plays Mozart
Friday, May 5 – Saturday, May 6
Yaniv Dinur, conductor
Joyce Yang, piano
Dvořák
In Nature’s Realm
Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K.491
Lutoslawski
Concerto for Orchestra


The Zodiac & The Planets
Friday, May 26 – Sunday, May 28
Ken-David Masur, conductor
Aaron Diehl, piano & artistic partner
Women of the Milwaukee Symphony Chorus
Williams
Zodiac Suite
Holst
The Planets

Uptown Nights
Friday, June 2 – Sunday, June 4
Byron Stripling, conductor & trumpet
Carmen Bradford, vocalist
Leo Manzari, tap dancer

Jupiter & Serenade
Friday, June 9 – Sunday, June 11
Edo de Waart, conductor
Matthew Annin, horn
Brahms
Serenade No. 2
R. Strauss
Horn Concerto No. 1
Mozart
Symphony No. 41 “Jupiter”

Mahler's Resurrection Symphony
Friday, June 16 – Saturday, June 17
Ken-David Masur, conductor
Anna Larsson, mezzo-soprano
Milwaukee Symphony Chorus
Cheryl Frazes Hill, director
Mahler
Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection”

