Season Opening Fanfare

Friday, September 18 – Saturday, September 19

Michael Sanderling, conductor
Jinwoo Lee, violin
Susan Babini, cello

 

Copland
Fanfare for the Common Man

Brahms
Concerto for Violin and Cello

Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 5

Made in America: Korngold & Rachmaninoff

Friday, October 9 – Saturday, October 10

Ryan Tani, conductor
Julian Rhee, violin

 

Barber
Medea’s Dance of Vengeance

Korngold
Violin Concerto

Rachmaninoff
Symphonic Dances

Movement & Melody

Friday, October 23 – Sunday, October 25

David Robertson, conductor
Milwaukee Symphony Chorus
Cheryl Frazes Hill, chorus director

 

Chopin/orch. Stravinsky
Grand valse brillante

Chopin/orch. Stravinsky
Nocturne in A-flat major

Debussy
Jeux

Ravel
Daphnis et Chloé

Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1

Friday, October 30 – Saturday, October 31

Kristiina Poska, conductor
Orli Shaham, piano

 

Ülo Krigul
Proteus Pulse

Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 1

Schumann
Symphony No. 3, “Rhenish”

Royal Fireworks

Saturday, November 14 – Sunday, November 15

Matthew Halls, conductor
Katherine Young Steele, oboe d’amore

 

Rameau
Suite from Les Boréades

Bach
Oboe d’amore Concerto

Muffat
Sonata No. 5 from Armonico tributo

Handel
Music for the Royal Fireworks

Brahms Symphony No. 2

Friday, November 20 – Saturday, November 21

Iván López Reynoso, conductor
Joyce Yang, piano

 

Bernstein
Overture to Candide

Gershwin
Concerto in F

Brahms
Symphony No. 2

Guitar Celebration: From Rodrigo to Zappa

Friday, January 22 – Saturday, January 23

David Robertson, conductor

Another Night on Earth
Steve Mackey
, guitar
Joe Gore, guitar
Gretchen Menn, guitar
Heiko Ossig, guitar
Daniele Gottardo, guitar
Jiji Kimguitar
James Moore, guitar

 

*Subject to change each evening

Robertson
Opening work

Gore/Robertson
Falling Through Time
Suite for Electric Guitar

Mackey
Aluminum Flowers

Gottardo
Concertino for Guitar and Orchestra

Rodrigo
Concierto de Aranjuez

Zappa
G-Spot Tornado

Beethoven's Seventh Symphony

Saturday, January 30 – Sunday, January 31

Paolo Bortolameolli, conductor
David Fray, piano

 

Milhaud
La Création du monde

Ravel
Piano Concerto

Beethoven
Symphony No. 7

Mozart & Shostakovich

Friday, February 12 – Saturday, February 13

Yaniv Dinur, conductor
Zlatomir Fung, cello

 

Mozart
Overture to The Marriage of Figaro

Shostakovich
Cello Concerto No. 1

Shostakovich
Chamber Symphony

Mozart
Symphony No. 36, “Linz”

Mozart Requiem

Friday, February 19 – Saturday, February 20

Jaime Martín, conductor
Milwaukee Symphony Chorus
Cheryl Frazes Hill, chorus director

 

Reger
Four Tone Poems after Arnold Böcklin

Mozart
Requiem

Labadie Conducts Beethoven

Friday, March 5 – Saturday, March 6

Bernard Labadie, conductor
Benedetto Lupo, piano

 

Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 3

Mozart
Chaconne from Idomeneo

Beethoven
Symphony No. 1

Shostakovich Symphony No. 15

Saturday, March 20 – Sunday, March 21

Andris Poga, conductor
Simone Lamsma, violin

 

Wagner
Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Tchaikovsky
Violin Concerto

Shostakovich
Symphony No. 15

Holst's The Planets

Friday, April 2 – Sunday, April 4

Stephanie Childress, conductor
Women of the Milwaukee Symphony Chorus
Cheryl Frazes Hill, chorus director
Margaret Butler, english horn

 

Mary Kouyoumdjian
New work for strings

Rorem
English Horn Concerto

Holst
The Planets

Darkness into Dawn

Friday, April 9 – Saturday, April 10

Kirill Karabits, conductor
Ingrid Fliter, piano

 

Karabits
Concerto Triptych

Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 2

Mussorgsky
Night on Bald Mountain

Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 2, “Little Russian”

Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony

Friday, April 16 – Sunday, April 18

Delyana Lazarova, conductor
Simon Trpčeski, piano

 

Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 5, “Emperor”

Prokofiev
Symphony No. 5

Mahler's Fifth Symphony

Saturday, May 8 – Sunday, May 9

Jader Bignamini, conductor

 

Mahler
Symphony No. 5

Postcards from Poland

Friday, May 21 – Saturday, May 22

Anna Sułkowska-Migoń, conductor
Aristo Sham, piano

 

Bacewicz
Overture

Chopin
Piano Concerto No. 1

Kilar
Orawa

Karłowicz
Eternal Songs

Enigma Variations

Friday, June 4 – Sunday, June 6

Michael Sanderling, conductor
Will Liverman, baritone
Milwaukee Symphony Chorus
Cheryl Frazes Hill, chorus director

 

James MacMillan
Larghetto

Elgar
“Enigma” Variations

Walton
Belshazzar’s Feast

Schubert's "Great" Symphony

Friday, June 11 – Saturday, June 12

Kwamé Ryan, conductor
Marc-André Hamelin, piano

 

Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 4

Schubert
Symphony No. 9, “The Great”

Season Finale: Four Last Songs

Friday, June 18 – Saturday, June 19

David Robertson, conductor

 

R. Strauss
Serenade

R. Strauss
Death and Transfiguration

R. Strauss
Metamorphosen

R. Strauss
Four Last Songs

Kings of Soul

Saturday, September 26 – Sunday, September 27

Byron Stripling, conductor
Chester Gregory, vocalist
Darren Lorenzo, vocalist
Jeremy Keith, vocalist

Dolly Parton's Threads: My Songs in Symphony

Friday, November 6 – Sunday, November 8

Hometown Holiday Pops

Saturday, December 12 – Sunday, December 20

Ryan Tani, conductor
Milwaukee Symphony Chorus
Cheryl Frazes Hill, chorus director
Milwaukee Handbell Ensemble
Jana Larson
, director

Mardi Gras in New Orleans

Friday, February 5 – Sunday, February 7

Byron Stripling, conductor
Bobby Floyd, keyboards

Star Wars 50th Anniversary: A New Hope In Concert

Friday, March 12 – Sunday, March 14

Summer Breeze: Yacht Rock Classics

Friday, May 28 – Sunday, May 30

Byron Stripling, conductor
Brie Cassil, vocalist
Tony Vincent, vocalist
Jesse Nager, vocalist

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl In Concert

Friday, October 2 – Saturday, October 3

Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Friday, November 27 – Sunday, November 29

The Princess Bride In Concert

Saturday, January 2 – Sunday, January 3

Disney’s Encanto In Concert

Saturday, April 24 – Sunday, April 25

The Commercialists: A Charlie Brown Christmas

Friday, December 4

Anthony Deutsch, piano
Clay Schaub, bass 
Patrick Morrow, drums