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

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 Osowskimezzo-soprano
Russell Thomas, tenor
Stephano Parkbass
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

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”

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

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

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

Disco Divas

Friday, September 26 – Sunday, September 28

Byron Stripling, conductor
Shayna Steele, vocalist
Kelly Levesque, vocalist
Cherise Coaches, vocalist

Wizard of Oz in Concert

Friday, November 7 – Sunday, November 9

TBD, conductor

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

A Simply Swingin' Valentine

Friday, February 13 – Sunday, February 15

Steve Lippia, vocalist

Ryan Taniconductor

Decades: Back to the 80s

Friday, March 27 – Sunday, March 29

Byron Stripling, conductor
Brie Cassil, vocalist
Paul Loren, vocalist
Colin Smith, vocalist

 

America the Beautiful: Patriotic Pops

Friday, May 22 – Sunday, May 24

Byron Stripling, conductor
Sydney McSweeney, vocalist

Yo-Yo Ma with Orchestra

Wednesday, March 25

Ken David Masur, conductor
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra

Beethoven
Symphony No. 8 in F major, Opus 93

Dvořák
Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104

Batman 1989

Friday, September 19 – Saturday, September 20

Ryan Tani, conductor

Hocus Pocus

Friday, October 31 – Saturday, November 1

TBD, conductor

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York In Concert

Friday, November 28 – Sunday, November 30

Ryan Tani, conductor

The Godfather In Concert

Friday, January 2 – Saturday, January 3

Ryan Tani, conductor

Sensory Friendly Concert

Sunday, May 31

Season Opening Gala

Friday, September 12

The Commercialists: Charlie Brown Christmas

Friday, December 5

Anthony Deutsch, piano
Clay Schaub, bass
Patrick Morrow, drums
Faith Hatch, vocalist