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 Kim, guitar
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
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
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
The Commercialists: A Charlie Brown Christmas
Friday, December 4
Anthony Deutsch, piano
Clay Schaub, bass
Patrick Morrow, drums
