Composer

The word “epic” could have been invented to describe the music of Götterdämmerung, the heaven-and-earth-shaking culmination of Wagner’s four-part Ring cycle, complete with vengeance, magic fire, and the redemptive power of love beyond death. Orchestral excerpts from this operatic thrill ride meld with the instantly charming neoclassicism of Prokofiev’s First Symphony and the US premiere of Olga Neuwirth’s Zones of Blue, a clarinet concerto performed by its dedicatee and longtime friend of The Cleveland Orchestra, Jörg Widmann.

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Wagner’s Götterdämmerung

Severance Music Center

Based on the poem by Nikolay Nekrasov, and quite opposed to its joyful title, Spring follows a husband who, previously inflicted with murderous thoughts towards his unfaithful wife during the winter, is released from his frustration with the return of spring.

Spring with Sir Mark Elder

The Bridgewater Hall

Following his acclaimed performance at the Hallé’s 2023 BBC Proms concert, Ukrainian baritone Andrii Kymach and the Hallé Choir once again join forces for a work by Rachmaninov. Based on the poem by Nikolay Nekrasov, and quite opposed to its joyful title, Spring follows a husband who, previously inflicted with murderous thoughts towards his unfaithful wife during the winter, is released from his frustration with the return of spring. Stravinsky’s Song of the Nightingale – an effective musical illustration of both real and mechanical birdsong – begins proceedings. Following it is Prokofiev’s enigmatic Dreams, the composer’s earliest surviving orchestral work and finally, Tchaikovsky’s Second Symphony, often dubbed ‘Little Russian’ thanks to its effective use of Ukrainian folksongs, provides a joyful end to the evening.

The Hallé – Spring with Sir Mark Elder

Both of these composers approached the string quartet form with reverence and some intimidation, with the examples of Haydn and Beethoven looming over them. Brahms is said to have destroyed over 20 string quartets before settling on this “No. 1,” and Prokofiev composed his “2nd” while an evacuee from Moscow as Nazi air raids bombarded the city.

Forged in Fire

Grace Episcopal Church / La Gracia

Crawford Park

Jake Westerbeke, viola

Northwestern Bienen School of Music

A monstrous concert with the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra. Rebellious, unpolished – and written by a young man of just 21: Prokofiev's 2nd Piano Concerto is a supernova of a concert. With civilized brutality, Prokofiev recreates the music in his own image. The result is a deeply fascinating mix of primal savagery and moments of breathtaking beauty.

Nielsen 5

Aarhus Music Hall

All Visiting Orchestras tickets include same-day admission to The Baker Museum. Special museum hours on day of Mahler Chamber Orchestra performance: Noon-7pm. In addition, the doors to Hayes Hall will open 90 minutes prior to this performance. Arrive early to enjoy the exhibitions and light fare available at Heidi's Place.

Mahler Chamber Orchestra with Yuja Wang, piano

Artis–Naples

Sergei Prokofiev was in New York when the Zimro Ensemble, a sextet of his former classmates from St. Petersburg, performed there. The group specialized in Jewish music and performed their program several times at Carnegie Hall. Asked to write an overture for the sextet, Prokofiev wrote a roughly ten-minute piece with the character of klezmer music—with a lively theme for the clarinet and a more contemplative theme for the cello. In 1934, Prokofiev also arranged the "Overture on Hebrew Themes" for a small orchestra.

What does my name mean to you?

Bochumer Symphoniker

Ahead of a tour together across Europe, the remarkable piano duo brothers Arthur and Lucas Jussen will join forces once again with Academy of St Martin in the Fields for a concert in London directed by Tomo Keller . The concert will feature Bach’s sprightly Double Keyboard Concerto No. 2 in C major and Mozart’s beautiful and playful Piano Concerto for three pianos in F major, written for the Countess Maria Antonia Lodron and her two daughters. The Concerto was later rearranged by Mozart himself and another pianist, incorporating the music for the Countess’ youngest daughter Giuseppa into the two other parts, which is the version the Jussen brothers will perform.

ASMF with Arthur and Lucas Jussen

St Martin-in-the-Fields Church, London

Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra: Concert 4

Harvard University

Conductor Anna-Maria Helsing presents an evening of music sparkling with love’s many facets. Relive one of the greatest love stories ever told through Sergei Prokofiev’s ballet suite inspired by Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Named as “simply one of the best classical pianists working today” by The Scotland Herald, Vadym Kholodenko presents Béla Bartók’s radiant Third Piano Concerto. The late Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho’s evocative Lumière et pesanteur (Light and Gravity) scintillates with celestial beauty. Embark on an enchanted quest for love in Prokofiev’s orchestral suite for his comic opera, The Love for Three Oranges.

Prokofiev’s Romeo & Juliet

Orpheum

All the poise, elegance and grace of the Classical period is in this concert – on the surface. But each piece shows its composer in an inventive mood, pushing the boundaries of what was expected and creating something new. Prokofiev imagined how Mozart or Haydn might write in the 1920s and produced his charming First Symphony. Mozart used his Fifth Violin Concerto to play with tempo and style, creating his most brilliant, lyrical and witty writing for the instrument. And Beethoven’s First Symphony contains all the clues required to understand that this was no ordinary composer – he would take the symphony to somewhere entirely new.

Classical Adventures

Belfast

All the poise, elegance and grace of the Classical period is in this concert – on the surface. But each piece shows its composer in an inventive mood, pushing the boundaries of what was expected and creating something new. Prokofiev imagined how Mozart or Haydn might write in the 1920s and produced his charming First Symphony. Mozart used his Fifth Violin Concerto to play with tempo and style, creating his most brilliant, lyrical and witty writing for the instrument. And Beethoven’s First Symphony contains all the clues required to understand that this was no ordinary composer – he would take thee symphony to somewhere entirely new.

Ulster Orchestra: Classical Adventures

Ulster Hall

Franco-Belgian pianist Antoine Préat is a multi-award-winning soloist known for his distinctive voice and strong musical conviction. A Naïve Records Exclusive Artist, he has performed widely across Europe, including at Wigmore Hall and major festivals such as Lisztomanias and IMS Prussia Cove, and alongside leading artists and ensembles including Sinfonietta Lausanne and the Academy Festival Orchestra. Antoine’s playing has been featured on BBC Radio 3, France Musique, and Scala Radio, earning acclaim for both his expressive interpretations and artistic depth.

Antoine Préat piano

Lisa Batiashvili doesn’t just play the violin—she conjures worlds with it. Hailed as “the complete musician” (The Times, London), she has mesmerized audiences in the world’s most revered halls — including a spellbinding 2015 appearance in Richardson Auditorium. Now, in this rare and intimate duo recital, she joins forces with Giorgi Gigashvili, the young Georgian pianist protégé of Martha Argerich, whose volcanic energy and poetic touch are making waves across the globe. Their program is a journey through raw emotion and staggering virtuosity—Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 3 brims with charm and fire, setting the stage for Prokofiev’s haunting Violin Sonata No. 1—a masterpiece of shadow and intensity, where ghostly whispers, icy lyricism, and explosive power push both musicians to the edge. A new work by Josef Bardanashvili, a fellow Georgian whose music pulses with mystery and soul, makes its Princeton debut before the night closes in the rapture of Franck’s Violin Sonata—a piece so intoxicatingly beautiful it’s been called “a love letter in music.” This concert is a high-voltage meeting of artistic minds, generations, and traditions—a program of music that grabs you and doesn’t let go, performed by two of the most magnetic artists of our time.

Lisa Batiashvili, Violin Giorgi Gigashvili, Piano

Richardson Auditorium

Join the UMKC Conservatory Symphony Orchestra in their finale performance of the academic year. This concert will provide an evening of music revolving around everyone’s favorite star-crossed lovers, culminating in Prokofiev’s dynamic and highly emotional Romeo & Juliet Suite No. 2, Op. 64b

Conservatory Symphony Orchestra Finale

University of Missouri-Kansas City

Superstar pianist Yuja Wang showcases her extraordinary versatility as both soloist and conductor, leading the Mahler Chamber Orchestra from the keyboard. The program features Chopin’s radiant Piano Concerto No. 2, as well as Prokofiev’s bold Second Piano Concerto and his Classical Symphony, a vibrant homage to Haydn. A rare opportunity to witness one of today’s most captivating musicians in a dual role, this concert promises an unforgettable evening of virtuosity and artistry.

Yuja Wang & the Mahler Chamber Orchestra

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Soirée Balanchine

San Carlo Theatre

Prokofiev Piano Concertos

Curtis Institute of Music

ROMEO AND JULIET – Ballet op. 64 by Sergei Prokofiev

Landestheater Eisenach

Join the Columbus Symphony Youth Orchestras Repertory Orchestra for a concert with free admission. Repertoire includes I Vespri Siciliani (Verdi), selections from L’Arlesienne (Bizet), Lieutenant Kijé (Prokofiev), and the Grammy- and Oscar-winning hit song Golden from K-Pop Demon Hunters! Email Nia Dewberry (ndewberry@columbussymphony.com) for more information.

The Columbus Symphony Youth Orchestras are committed to supporting the lives of young musicians and their families through professional and enriching rehearsals and performances. We are here to serve and inspire the passionate music-makers of central Ohio and elevate our community through musical excellence and innovation.

Repertory Orchestra Concert

Weigel Auditorium

Norah Bernstein, soprano

Yuja Wang does double duty as pianist and director in a program of 20th-century favorites by Prokofiev and Hindemith with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra.

Yuja Wang & Mahler Chamber Orchestra

Davies Symphony Hall

Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson says “John Adams not only writes the most brilliant, amazingly fun music, he also gives that music the most amazing titles.” Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes? starts with a bold, groovy statement unlike any other piano concerto, described by Adams as “edgy” with “a good dollop of American funk.”

John Adams & Víkingur Ólafsson

Walt Disney Concert Hall

Yuja Wang makes a long-anticipated return to The Soraya, following her 2016 debut. Since, she has secured her reputation as one of the most celebrated artists around the world. Consistent with Wang’s recent focus on Frédéric Chopin, she chose the composer’s Piano Concerto No. 1. Wang is joined by her regular partner, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, a pan-European ensemble created to tour globally, having performed in over 40 nations. The orchestra will also perform Sergei Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 1, often called the “Classical Symphony” for Prokofiev’s intent to model his early work after Mozart and Haydn.

Mahler Chamber Orchestra

Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts

Symphony Orchestra

Music Building and Recital Hall

Undercurrents | Frost Symphony Orchestra

University of Miami

Gubaidulina, Prokofiev and Mozart

Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Conductor Andrew Manze makes his Utah Symphony debut, bringing this unforgettable program to life with Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3. This concerto packs wit, virtuosity, and lyrical charm into one electrifying package—and with Simon Trpceski at the keys, you can expect musical fireworks and jaw-dropping piano mastery that will leave you spellbound.

Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3 with Simon Trpceski

Salt Palace Convention Center

Like birds soaring through the sky or fingers sweeping effortlessly across piano keys, this program promises an experience of awe-inspiring beauty. Listeners have described Gabriela Montero’s piano playing as wonderfully imaginative with a monster technique. Montero takes on Prokofiev’s emotionally turbulent Third Piano Concerto in her SLSO debut. Ryan Bancroft also makes his SLSO debut leading the orchestra in Aaron Copland’s soaring Third Symphony—plus an imaginative work that gazes skyward by contemporary American composer and environmentalist Gabriella Smith.

Copland’s Third

Powell Hall

This exciting and unusual three-concerto program features acclaimed soloist Evgeny Kissin, known for his charismatic virtuosity. These three sparkling but rarely heard concertos span the late Romantic/early modern periods. The BSO has only played Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s concerto once in 1914, and Scriabin’s on only two prior occasions, most recently in 2001. Andrey Boreyko leads this all-Russian program, opening with Rimsky-Korsakov’s brilliantly colorful Russian Easter Overture.

An Evening of Piano Concertos with Evgeny Kissin and Andrey Boreyko

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Kazakh pianist Alim Beisembayev shot to international fame when winning the Leeds International Piano Competition in 2021 and also taking home the medici.tv Audience Prize. Not long after, he won worldwide acclaim by making his BBC Proms debut with only two days’ notice. He’s an artist who thrives on big repertoire and they don’t come much bigger than Prokofiev’s 2nd Piano Concerto, the centrepiece of this Royal Liverpool Philharmonic programme. Premiered in 1913, Prokofiev’s Concerto vividly embodies the energy of the machine age: one commentator described it moving ‘with the relentless force and fluidity of a speeding locomotive.’ The soloist is continually pushed to the limit, whether in its lush and expansive theme or its finger-crunching cadenza.

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Royal Concert Hall Nottingham

Clara Neubauer, Violin

The Juilliard School

One of the most dynamic pianists of our time, Yuja Wang performs with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, renowned for its passion and exceptional artistry. Together, they promise an unforgettable evening of powerful music-making, showcasing the depth and excitement of this extraordinary collaboration.

Mahler Chamber Orchestra with Yuja Wang

Segerstrom Center for the Arts

One of the most dynamic pianists of our time, Yuja Wang performs with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, renowned for its passion and exceptional artistry. Together, they promise an unforgettable evening of powerful music-making, showcasing the depth and excitement of this extraordinary collaboration.

Yuja Wang is widely regarded as one of the most important artists of her generation, celebrated for both her extraordinary musicianship and her ability to captivate audiences of all ages. Her career took off in 2005 following a sensational debut with the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Canada, prompting a local newspaper to declare, “A star is born.” Her international breakthrough came in 2007, when she stepped in at the last minute to perform Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, replacing the legendary Martha Argerich. Her rising star was further cemented when she was named Musical America’s Artist of the Year 2017, one of the most prestigious honors in classical music.

Join us for the CU Boulder Symphony Orchestra's final spring concert, guest conducted by Scott O’Neil. The program includes Gershwin’s rhythmic "Cuban Overture," Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 5 performed by concerto competition winner Ohad Nativ, and Schumann’s symphonic fantasy, Symphony No. 4 in D minor.

Symphony Orchestra: Gershwin, Prokofiev + Schumann

University of Colorado Boulder

University Philharmonia Orchestra

University of Michigan

2025-26 Spring Concert

San Francisco War Memorial & Performing Arts Center

Noam Sheriff was one of Israel's most renowned composers. The appeal of his music lay primarily in the imaginative incorporation of Jewish and Middle Eastern sound elements into his music. In 1978, he wrote a work called "Tre'y-Assar" for the 12 cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic, which incorporates traditional Jewish prayer melodies. Sheriff later developed this piece further for a string orchestra under the title "Prayers." The sequence imitates the prayer sequence in a synagogue.

From a single source

Bright spots in spring

Tobacco Quarter Hall 1

Sunday Matinee

Conservatory Concert Hall

Russian music by two composers who could hardly be more different: on the one hand, the reserved, self-doubt-plagued Peter Tchaikovsky; on the other, the cosmopolitan star pianist Sergei Prokofiev, once a public nuisance, later a figurehead of the Soviet Union. And yet, the two musicians are united by more than their nationality – this evening, featuring two of their orchestral works and Gewandhaus cellist Valentino Worlitzsch as soloist, demonstrates this.

5th Symphony Concert

Theater Nordhausen

House of Art

Blast off on an out-of-this-world adventure with your Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra! Experience the music from two of John Williams's most iconic film scores, paired with some of the classical greats that inspired them. This concert is a great fit for lovers of music that evokes character and tells a story.

John Williams and His Influences

Methodist University

Project: Opera - Romeo & Juliet

TCU Music Center

Esa Pekka-Salonen's Helix opens the program with a virtuoso orchestral whirlwind, where the sections intertwine in sonic spirals deploying a mechanical and organic energy. Then Dorota Anderszewska, our super-soloist concertmaster, takes on Prokofiev's formidable Concerto No. 2 , combining rhythmic harshness and tender lyricism, to achieve a perfect balance between sarcasm and melancholy. Her violin, by turns sharp in the diabolical scherzo, singing in the nostalgic theme of the first movement, reveals all the ambivalence of the Russian composer in exile. As for conductor Roderick Cox, his precise gesture sculpts Shostakovich's anger and hope in Symphony No. 10 , which majestically closes the evening. From the oppressed murmurs of the strings to the liberating explosion of the finale, it crystallizes his remarkable resilience in the face of Stalinist torment. A fascinating dialogue between instrumental virtuosity and human depth.

Virtuosity and Destiny

Opéra Berlioz

In this rare orchestral outing, Evgeny Kissin, “a deeply intuitive and sensitive musician” (The New York Times), takes on spirited and brilliant concertos by three of his Russian countrymen: Prokofiev, Scriabin and Rimsky-Korsakov. Experience the unparalleled artistry of one of the world’s most celebrated pianists as he scales three concertos in a single program.

Evgeny Kissin with the CSO

Joana Mallwitz & Radoslaw Szulc

Munich Residence

Luiz Fernando Venturelli, cello

Emmalena Huning, violin

Iconic couples – tragic fates: Love is by no means a guarantee of a happy ending, as couples like Romeo and Juliet or Tony and Maria from West Side Story demonstrate. With their compositions, Sergei Prokofiev and Leonard Bernstein created two masterpieces of cult status. Marko Letonja brings these highly dramatic love stories to the stage – as pure, thrilling music. Often enough, however, there are dramas behind the scenes too: Sergei Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto, for example, was almost never written. Self-doubt and depression plagued the composer, and he was blocked. Only therapy brought him back to music, back to himself. The concert was a triumphant comeback, full of emotion and depth. As a thank you, Rachmaninov dedicated it to his doctor. It is a musical monument to the strength it takes to get back up again and again.

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 | Benjamin Grosvenor

The Bell, Bremen

The dialogue of time unfurls in this resplendent program of harmonious exchange, bridging generations. Music Director Jaime Martín illuminates voices of exquisite correspondence, opening with Juhi Bansal’s orchestral missive celebrating 25 years of Sound Investment. Featuring violin soloist Anne Akiko Meyers, Eric Whitacre offers a meditation on the resilience of Angelenos in the face of the historic 2025 wildfires in the West Coast premiere of THE PACIFIC HAS NO MEMORY. The raw expressivity of Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony and the irresistible sparkle of Prokofiev’s “Classical” symphony conclude the program. Truly, a musical correspondence for the ages.

Temporal Echoes: Martín + Bansal + Shostakovich

One California Plaza

Prokofiev asks for astonishing skill from every musician in his tour-de-force concerto. For his part, Strauss invites the artists to become storytellers in A Hero’s Life. With the New Jersey Symphony, Xian Zhang brings these two epics to life, and all the artists are joined by the young Italian-American violinist Francesca Dego.

Xian Conducts Prokofiev & Strauss

Count Basie Center for the Arts

BNY Classics showcases unforgettable performances by your Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, featuring timeless masterpieces, thrilling premieres, and renowned guest artists.

The Rite of Spring

Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts

New Jersey Performing Arts Center

Ballet North Texas brings new sparkle to the beloved fairy tale of Cinderella, where a glass slipper, a bit of magic, and a whole lot of heart change one young woman’s destiny. With elegant choreography, whimsical storytelling, and the charming score of Sergei Prokofiev, this family-friendly ballet captures the joy, humor, and hope at the heart of the classic story. 

Cinderella

Moody Performance Hall

Since triumphing as the first and only American winner of the 1970 Chopin International Piano Competition, Garrick Ohlsson has established himself worldwide as a musician of magisterial interpretive and technical prowess. While he is an authority on Chopin’s works, Ohlsson performs a vast repertoire often including the music of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, and the Romanticists. As an avid chamber musician, Ohlsson has collaborated with the Cleveland, Emerson, Tokyo, and Takacs string quartets as well as legendary vocalists such as Magda Olivero and Jessye Norman. Ohlsson’s recordings are highly awarded, including Beethoven Sonatas, Vol. 3, which won the 2008 Grammy for Best Solo Recording. Ohlsson has been featured on live performance recordings with the Melbourne and Sydney Symphonies and the Czech Philharmonic. Throughout his career, Ohlsson has been awarded such prizes as the Avery Fisher Prize, the University Musical Society Distinguished Artist Award, Northwestern University’s Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Performance, and the Gloria Artis Gold Medal for cultural merit from the Polish Deputy Culture Minister.

Garrick Ohlsson, piano

Mary B. Galvin Recital Hall

What if you changed your mind about the wolf? Tan Dun features it on the double bass, during a concerto that immortalizes its position as a sacred animal on the verge of extinction. But it's the three sinister horns that describe its gray silhouette in Prokofiev's famous tale told by the colorful Thibault de Montalembert. Then, with Hollywood magic working, the conductor and composer brings Chaussette, the wolf from the western Dances with Wolves and Kevin Costner's pal, to gallop. An evening not to be missed.

Peter and the Wolf / Tan Dun

Maison de la Radio et de la Musique

Our Easter concert brings together masterpieces that radiate lightness, elegance, and a connection to nature. Sergei Prokofiev's "Classical Symphony" opens the evening with charm and wit. Inspired by Haydn, Prokofiev wrote a symphony that combines tradition with modernity - airy, clear, and full of surprising twists.

Classical music for Easter

Palace of Culture

With stirring music and arguably the greatest love story in the literary canon, “Romeo and Juliet” is one of the most popular ballets of all time. The tale of young, impetuous love and deep-seated, age-old hatred has been adapted countless times for stage, film and television.

Romeo and Juliet

Oper Leipzig

Meet the nature-loving Cinderella, who lives on the edge of an enchanted forest where she once gardened and sang with her mother. After loss and silence settle over her home, she’s left with a sharp-tongued stepmother, two noisy stepsisters, and a house full of chores and shadows. But when a letter arrives, inviting all to a Garden Ball, Cinderella’s journey to find her true self begins – guided by the spirit of her mother and the magic of the forest.

English National Ballet - My First Ballet: Cinderella

King's College London

Gianandrea Noseda and the Zurich Opera Orchestra – a well-rehearsed team, masterfully skilled at the intense portrayal of powerful emotions and supporting famous voices. Together with star soprano Regula Mühlemann, they present a collage of Passion-themed works at the Elbphilharmonie this Easter, focusing on the figure of the suffering Mother of God.

Orchester der Oper Zürich / Regula Mühlemann / Gianandrea Noseda

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

A true symphonic feast in the best sense — this program showcases three timeless audience favorites that never fail to inspire and delight.

Galveston Symphony Orchestra

The Grand 1894 Opera House

Peter Tchaikovsky's only violin concerto is today one of the best known works of the Romantic repertoire, although it was initially considered unplayable. It was not until Adolf Brodsky dared to give the premiere in Vienna in 1881, whereupon the composer dedicated the concerto to him. The music combines thrilling sounds and emotional depth and demands excellent skill on the instrument.

7th Philharmonic Concert / Dance into Death

Volkstheater Rostock

Conductors Orchestra – Jae Hwan Lee, conductor (Doctoral Recital)

Auer Hall

Join Music Director Andreas Delfs in the intimate setting of Beston Hall on the campus of Nazareth University for our popular Sunday Matinees at Naz Series!

Mozart & Prokofiev

Glazer Music Performance Center

Pianist Alon Goldstein, an MSO audience favorite, is back in the solo spotlight, supplying all the drama, passion and expressive verve that Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 1 demands. Everything is kicked up a notch in this concerto, and Goldstein meets this monumental moment head-on. Lt. Kijé Suite, Prokofiev’s his first film score, delivers the biting humor that made it his best-known and most-frequently recorded work.

Bravo 5: Mighty Keys

Thalia Mara Hall

“A rising star” – San Francisco Classical Voice, Ava Pakiam is a fifteen-year-old violinist studying at the Pre College of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Ava was admitted into the Pre College program at age seven and is currently a student of Simon James. Ava made her solo debut at eight years old in California with the Fremont Symphony. Later that summer, she performed Vivaldi’s Winter Concerto with the Sempre Musik Orchestra and the New York Sinfonietta in Boston and New York City, making her solo debut at Carnegie Hall. In the Fall of 2021, Ava competed at age eleven in the Seattle Young Artists Auditions. Ava was named the Seattle Symphony Young Artist for the 2021-2022 season and performed as soloist with the Seattle Symphony playing Saint-Saëns Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso. Last season, Ava performed the Brahms, Bruch and Tchaikovsky concerti on both coasts as well as a solo tour with orchestras in Mexico and Honduras. She performs on an 1874 J.B. Vuillaume violin.

Passion And Power

Folsom Lake College

Join us for this special concert celebrating the 90th anniversary of the orchestra’s first performance.  That first concert, in 1936, took place at a time of great music, both classical and popular!  The entire program consists of works composed in or debuted in 1936, and as you can well imagine, features a wide variety of styles, as well as a lot of American composers:  George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Samuel Barber, and Aaron Copland.  Join us for this celebration of the start and launch into the future of ETSO.

A Ninety-Year Legacy: A Symphonic Celebration

The University of Texas at Tyler

This inspiring concert features Prokofiev’s powerful Symphony No. 5, Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the dazzling Joyce Yang, and Sibelius’s Finlandia featuring the Amarillo Symphony Youth Orchestra.

Prokofiev’s Hymn to Freedom

Globe-News Center for the Performing Arts

Music straight from the heart and to the heart! Experience our heart's blood: Music created by love – and love created by music.
The first four-night concert of the spring is all about love. “It’s a work of sunshine!” says Marianna Shirinyan about Shostakovich’s second piano concerto. “Shostakovich wrote it for his son, and it’s a concert filled with love.”

Pleasure play

Marianna Shirinyan sparkles in Shostakovich – and the orchestra revels in Rachmaninov.
An entire concert of classical music when it's at its easiest to love!

Rachmaninoff 2

This 18-year-old Russian virtuoso is a protégé of Grigory Sokolov and has already appeared in recital at all the major European halls. Playing with poetry and panache well beyond her years, she appears en route to her Carnegie Hall debut.

Alexandra Dovgan, piano Union College

Union College

Budapest Festival Orchestra / Iván Fischer / Igor Levit

Teatro alla Scala

The Orchester der Oper Zürich starts the concert season under a new, old name. After thirteen years as Philharmonia Zurich, the orchestra will return to its original moniker. The Philharmonic Concerts will once again alternate between the Opernhaus and the Tonhalle Zürich.

Mühlemann & Noseda

Tonhalle Zürich

From the opening blasts of Verdi’s La forza Overture to the last breaths of the star-crossed lovers in Prokofiev’s enchanting ballet score, this program promises to be a memorable journey you won’t experience anywhere else. Music Director Peter Oundjian has hand-selected highlights from Romeo and Juliet in a specially curated suite for the concert hall, featuring unforgettable moments in Prokofiev’s retelling like the famous “balcony scene,” and the intense drama of The Death of Tybalt.

Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet with Peter Oundjian

Denver Performing Arts Complex

Maestro Tausk leads the orchestra in Sergei Prokofiev’s exhilarating Fifth Symphony, written at the height of WWII and considered by the composer to be one of his best works. Virtuoso Paul Huang, known for his “masterly account of Barber’s Violin Concerto” (The New York Times) returns to dazzle Vancouver audiences with this lyrical masterpiece. Savour the delicate beauty of O Rose by former VSO Composer in Residence, the late Jocelyn Morlock.

Tausk Conducts Prokofiev 5

This program revolves almost entirely around William Shakespeare. After all, the English poet, with his immortal and timeless plays, has inspired more composers and genres in music history than almost anyone else. The American James Gaffigan, current General Music Director of the Komische Oper Berlin, follows this trail in his return to the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra.

NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / Lawrence Power / James Gaffigan

The Shakespeare Festival is back, showcasing all things tragic. From the Merry Wives of Windsor to the story of star-crossed lovers, emotions run high in a Prokofiev double feature. Conductor Dane Lam leads selections from the composer's ballet Romeo and Juliet, and Gramophone Young Artist of the Year, violinist Stella Chen, performs Violin Concerto No. 2.

Composer

Sergey Prokofiev

Events

Upcoming events

Feb 20 - May 9, 2026

UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra 2026 · UC Berkeley Department of Music

Apr 3 - May 10, 2026

Romeo and Juliet · Oper Leipzig

Apr 26 - Jun 6, 2026

ROMEO AND JULIET – Ballet op. 64 by Sergei Prokofiev · Thüringen Philharmonie Gotha-Eisenach

7 - 9 May, 2026

Wagner’s Götterdämmerung · The Cleveland Orchestra

May 8, 2026

Elliot Quin Lippy, Cello · The Juilliard School

Past events

7 - 9 May, 2026

Wagner’s Götterdämmerung · The Cleveland Orchestra

May 7, 2026

Spring with Sir Mark Elder · The Hallé

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