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

 

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

Kodály
Dances of Galánta

Mozart
Symphony No. 38, “Prague”

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
Crystal Monee Hall, 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

A Simply Swingin' Valentine

Friday, February 13 – Sunday, February 15

Steve Lippia, vocalist

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

Hocus Pocus

Friday, October 31 – Saturday, November 1

TBD, conductor

The Godfather In Concert

Friday, January 2 – Saturday, January 3

TBD, conductor

Season Opening Gala

Friday, September 12