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Rogue Valley Symphony's 2025-2026 Season: A Musical Odyssey
The Rogue Valley Symphony's 2025-2026 season is set to be an enthralling journey across the musical landscape, offering a tapestry of events that celebrate both classical compositions and innovative works. From the debut of the Hamburg Steinway 'The Raven' at Pianopalooza to the festive 'A Judy Garland Christmas,' each event promises a unique blend of artistry and emotion. With performances by world-renowned musicians like Alexander Malofeev and George Harliono, this season invites audiences to experience the grandeur and intimacy of live music in venues across Oregon.
Jul 7, 2025
Share1. Pianopalooza
Pianopalooza is our week-long piano festival that will welcome and celebrate the debut of the Rogue Valley Symphony’s latest addition: a coveted Hamburg Steinway piano called The Raven. This will be a rare opportunity to hear star pianists and violinists putting the piano to the test with classical double concertos for violin and piano by classical contemporaries Mozart, Haydn, and Hummel, as well as major Romantic piano concertos by Rachmaninoff, Grieg, and Chopin. All composers were ALSO star pianists.
19 - 24 Aug, 2025
Rogue Valley Symphony
Medford, OR · Collier Center for the Performing Arts
2. Alexander Malofeev
Piano world revolutionary comes to Ashland to perform on The Raven. The young “Russian genius” (Corriere della Sera) came to international prominence when, in 2014, he won the International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians at age thirteen.
Sep 9, 2025
Rogue Valley Symphony
Ashland, OR · Oregon Center for the Arts
3. Beethoven's Triple Passion
Beethoven could be passionate through his music, and the Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Piano and Orchestra is one such breathtaking moment. The outer movements speak of the exuberance of music and the second movement is a song of longing for an unattainable beloved. The youthful Sitkovetsky Trio obliges us with a jaunty rondo movement that brings the proceedings to a joyful ending.
19 - 21 Sep, 2025
Rogue Valley Symphony
Ashland, OR · Oregon Center for the Arts + 2 other locations
4. Musical Mystery Tour
Your invitation awaits for a fun-filled joy ride on the Rogue Valley Symphony’s Musical Mystery Tour, as part of the Ashland Mystery Festival. A mixed ensemble from Rogue Valley Symphony will perform classical and popular tunes in a LAUGH OUT LOUD, SHOUT IT OUT race to win the top prize in an evening that will be a mix of Name that Tune and Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me frenzy. We will play the tune; all you have to do is name it, but in how many notes can you assure YOUR winning status?
Oct 17, 2025
Rogue Valley Symphony
Ashland, OR · Southern Oregon University
5. Vienna Woods
Adam Schoenberg’s percussion concerto, Losing Earth, is a thrilling new concerto featuring an amassed number of percussion instruments and featuring our own Terry Longshore as the protagonist. It’s thrilling moments and lyrical moments will dazzle and sustain you. The concerto has an extramusical focus on our terrestrial sphere, an ecological narrative about the dangers of climate change.
1 - 2 Nov, 2025
Rogue Valley Symphony
Ashland, OR · Southern Oregon University + 1 other locations
6. A Judy Garland Christmas
In 2016, Joan Ellison embarked on a mission to restore Judy Garland’s original orchestrations. At Michael Feinstein’s invitation she serves as Editor of the Judy Garland Carnegie Hall Concert Restoration Project for the Judy Garland Heirs Trust, and those are the arrangements you will hear at this STUNNING holiday concert.
19 - 21 Dec, 2025
Rogue Valley Symphony
Ashland, OR · Oregon Shakespeare Festival
7. Petals of Beauty
The American premiere of the MacDowell Piano Concerto No. 2 took place in New York on March 5, 1889, with the composer as the soloist. The same concert also included the American premiere of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5. The New York Tribune wrote, “It is a splendid composition, so full of poetry, so full of vigor…” In Europe, however, critics complained that the work was, “too Lisztian.” Liszt had been the composer’s friend and a strong promoter of his music. Michael Stephen Brown champions the work with ardor and appropriate virtuosity.
9 - 11 Jan, 2026
Rogue Valley Symphony
Ashland, OR · Southern Oregon University + 1 other locations
8. Waltzes of Love
To play a waltz melody is to speak of love through music. This program of American love songs, duets, and love dances paired with the Austrian versions of operetta arias, love duets, and eternal waltzes is pure enjoyment. You will be in the thrall of the music, in rapture all evening, and may exit the hall with a magical lilt to your gait. Come and be wrapped with unforgettable melodies and heartwarming words of love and delight.
6 - 8 Feb, 2026
Rogue Valley Symphony
Ashland, OR · Southern Oregon University + 2 other locations
9. Gleaming Glow
The most famous motif of the Fifth Symphony of Sibelius comes in the final movement. Often drawing inspiration from nature, Sibelius’s connection with the Finnish landscape was integral to his identity. “Today at ten to eleven I saw sixteen swans,” he wrote in his diary in 1915. “One of my greatest experiences! Lord God, what beauty! They circled over me for a long time. Disappeared into the solar haze like a gleaming silver ribbon.” This moment was the inspiration for what he would call the “Swan Hymn,” the swinging horn motif that evokes the graceful beating of the swans’ wings as the woodwinds’ countermelody suggests their call.
24 - 26 Apr, 2026
Rogue Valley Symphony
Ashland, OR · Southern Oregon University + 2 other locations
10. Shining Star
The Rogue Valley Symphony’s piano season is brought to a sparkling finish with the zenith of piano concertos: the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 in the hands of the brilliantly talented young British pianist George Harliono. Silver medalist at the XVII International Tchaikovsky Competition, George has been performing in public since age nine. Acclaimed everywhere he performs, George will win our hearts with his brilliance, maturity, and sheer powerful performance. This finale of our season will leave you screaming for more as The Raven completes its debut!
22 - 24 May, 2026
Rogue Valley Symphony
Ashland, OR · Southern Oregon University + 2 other locations
Conclusion
The Rogue Valley Symphony's 2025-2026 season is a testament to the transformative power of music. Each event is crafted to transport audiences through a spectrum of emotions, from the exhilarating notes of classical concertos to the more introspective works that ponder our relationship with nature and the world around us. As the Symphony closes this remarkable season, it leaves a legacy of cultural enrichment and artistic inspiration, setting the stage for future musical adventures. Whether a seasoned classical music aficionado or a curious newcomer, this season offers something for everyone to enjoy.
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