Composer

It is not every day you get to hear a saxophone virtuoso reimagine seminal works composed for bassoon, cello, and voice on his deeply expressive instrument of choice. In his Cal Performances debut, Steven Banks, “the saxophone’s best friend, fiercest advocate, and primary virtuoso in the classical realm” (Washington Post) and the first saxophonist to win the coveted Avery Fisher Career Grant, offers a whirlwind musical tour on the mighty baritone saxophone.

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Steven Banks, baritone saxophone Xak Bjerken, piano

University of California, Berkeley

Chickens juggle eggs, donkeys can barely escape amorous horses, and fish perform an addictive dance in their colorful, shimmering scales. THIS is the Carnival of Animals! The biggest animal spectacle of the year, the most unforgettable show, the most exhilarating gathering—and with you, it's even better!

Carnival of Animals

Beethoven Hall

Children’s Concert with the Decatur School of Ballet

Decatur Presbyterian Children's Community

We open this series by honoring the memory of Boise composer David Alan Earnest with a performance of his thrilling overture Turbulence, composed for the Boise Phil in 2013. For these performances, we will be joined by the talented BPYO seniors. Next, Boise Phil Principal Cellist Philip Kettler joins us for Saint-Saëns’ lyrical Cello Concerto No. 1. The program concludes with Ravel’s elegant Le Tombeau de Couperin and Richard Strauss’ lush Der Rosenkavalier Suite. Both Ravel and Strauss connect through their nostalgic nods to the past: Ravel pays homage to the Baroque era and two friends lost in World War 1, blending grace and clarity with 20th-century style, while Strauss evokes the lavish charm and romanticism of a bygone Viennese world.

Ravel & Strauss

Boise State University

Honor memories of time gone by and the resilience of the human spirit with this special concert featuring standing-ovation favorites. BPYO seniors join in a performance of the late David Alan Earnest’s thrilling overture Turbulence before Boise Phil’s Principal Cellist Philip Kettler takes center stage for Saint-Saëns’ evocative and technically stunning Concerto for Cello No. 1. Then, Ravel pays homage to the Baroque era and two friends lost in World War I in Le Tombeau de Couperin. The evening closes with charm and romanticism of a Viennese world in Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier Suite.

Morrison Center for the Performing Arts

She was a fellow student of Debussy, admired by Saint-Saëns, and encouraged by the publisher Alphonse Leduc to create ever new works: Mélanie Bonis, a French composer who fell into obscurity after her death in 1937. Her impressionistic atmospheric picture Le Songe de Cléopâtre (The Dream of Cleopatra) from 1909 is beguilingly beautiful in its sophisticated orchestration and intoxicatingly sensual in its sound. A real discovery! The organ concerto by the contemporary Swiss composer Valentin Villard, written exactly one hundred years later, is also sonicly fascinating: it begins shimmering and undulating and ends with a rushing apotheosis. All of this is exactly the right thing for the dazzling star organist Anna Lapwood, who, to top it all off, also presents a French classic: the monumental organ symphony by Saint-Saëns. At her side: David Reiland from Belgium, head of the Orchestre National de Lorraine and the Sinfonietta Lausanne.

Organ Symphony With Anna Lapwood

Meistersinger Hall

We kick off our 36th season with music shaped by African and African American traditions. Saint-Saëns’s Piano Concerto No. 5, written during his time in Egypt, is infused with exotic melodies and dazzling virtuosity. Gershwin and Weill both wove blues and jazz into a classical framework in their groundbreaking operas, Porgy and Bess and The Threepenny Opera, whose unforgettable tunes – like Mack the Knife and Summertime – have become standards of both the concert hall and the Great American Songbook.

Borrowed & Blue

Lyric Theatre

Vero Beach Country Club

What, pray tell, is a cornet? One could say it's the soft, rounded sister of the radiant trumpet. Where the trumpet blares, the cornet caresses. French composers, in particular, employ it when a brass instrument's color is needed, perhaps for a love scene, a painful farewell, a yearning cantilena. For the first time, our principal trumpeter Sandro Hirsch, together with his colleagues, presents the cornet in a chamber concert with the Beethoven Orchestra, with two works for the same instrumentation: Danish and French Romanticism, flanked by the quintessential Impressionist string quartet: Ravel's only, mysterious, and rhythmically pulsating String Quartet in F major.

Cornet & Friends

Beethoven-Haus Bonn

A celebration of musical power and collaboration, Symphonic Giants brings together iconic works and rising talent in this program. The concert opens with selections from Dvořák’s Slavonic Dances in a side-by-side performance with the Fargo-Moorhead Area Youth Symphony.

Symphonic Giants with FMAYS

North Dakota State University

“Savor Every Note” as North America’s top violinists and principal players perform works paired to the finest in wine, charcuterie, chocolate and more! Featuring National Symphony concertmaster Nurit Bar-Josef, cellist Loewi Lin, and bassoonist Erich Heckscher.

Savor Every Note - National Symphony

Fairbanks Ranch Country Club

A bucket list of favorite travel destinations is truly timeless. In this vibrant New Year's concert, Casco Phil charts a musical Grand Tour through Europe's major cultural capitals. The ensemble follows in the footsteps of generations of young travelers who, between the 17th and 19th centuries, embarked on exclusive journeys through the continent to soak up the best of its art and culture.

New Year's Concerts – The Grand Tour

Cultuurcentrum Ter Dilft

Sint-Laurentiuskerk

Municipal Theater Mechelen

The Velinx

The New Year is entering in high spirits and in the best of spirits – a very special one for the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra: June 1, 2026, marks the 80th anniversary of their founding. Over the decades, they have opened up the entire cosmos of great music to their audiences. The New Year's Concert offers something for everyone: the folkloric, the exhilarating, the romantic, the virtuosic. In the overture to his successful operetta The Merry Widow, Franz Lehár ignites a sparkling firework display of immortal hits. Keywords: Da geh' ich ins Maxim, Vilja-Lied, Ja, das Studium der Weiber (Yes, the Study of Women)… A top-class symphonic concertante piece is also on the program: the dazzling and joyful A minor Cello Concerto by the all-round genius Camille Saint-Saëns. Also appearing with us for the first time is the versatile and virtuoso cellist Bryan Cheng from Canada, a recipient of top competition awards. He's also the soloist in a romantic mood piece by Tchaikovsky. But don't worry: it won't stay too quiet! Happy New Year!

New Year's Concert With The Symphonics

New Year's Concert With The Symphonics In Ansbach

Tagungszentrum Onoldia

Experience a glamorous start to the new year with a concert that will take you from Italy to Spain and Vienna! With masterpieces by Mendelssohn, Mozart, Verdi and Johann Strauss, we celebrate the turn of the year together with the Philharmonie Salzburg and chief conductor Elisabeth Fuchs .

New Year's Eve concerts - Dancing into the new year

Bruckmühle

Town Hall Mattighofen

Ferry Porsche Congress Center

Celebrate the arrival of the new year with a dazzling New Year’s concert at the Opera House. As the year draws to a close, the Royal Danish Theatre invites audiences to a grand musical celebration, with the Royal Danish Orchestra performing on the Opera’s Main Stage.

New Year’s Concert at the Opera House 2025

The Royal Playhouse and The Old Stage

The Thuringia Philharmonic's Christmas concert is a true classic of the December concert program and has become a Philharmonic tradition. For many years, it has exuded a festive atmosphere and set the tone for the upcoming Christmas season. In addition to classical festive music,
this year's surprise program also promises rousing and exhilarating Christmas rhythms. As a special guest, we welcome our Artist in Residence, Alexey Stadler, on solo cello. We cordially invite you to join us for an enjoyable concert in a festive atmosphere and be enchanted!

Philharmonic Christmas

State Theatre Eisenach

B2 Philharmonic Christmas

Gotha Cultural Center

A whimsical winter concert featuring a French twist, with skilled conductor Stéphane Denève. In The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, the magic brooms will be sweeping. We also hear Marie-Ange Nguci in Saint-Saëns’ second Piano Concerto.

Winter Magic with Denève

Göteborgs Symfoniker

This French program, including Saint-Saëns' warm Concerto No.1 under the bow of Sheku Kanneth-Mason, offers French listeners the opportunity of a lifetime: to hear a previously unpublished work by Ravel for the first time!

Orchestre de Paris / Alain Altinoglu

Philharmonie de Paris

Enjoy a wonderful brunch plate in the Foyer of the Music House while you are entertained by classical musicians on the Café Stage.

Classical Mornings

Musikhuset Aarhus

With its outstanding acoustics, the cathedral is suitable for many concerts – and is used accordingly. This includes the traditional Quempas singing by our choirs during the Christmas season.

Noël - Christmas à la française

St.Johns church Meldorf

Symphony III:  Holiday Concert with cellist Gregorio Nieto

Port Angeles High School

Royal Orchestral Society

Royal Academy of Music

Following his sensational success with Shostakovich's First Cello Concerto in February 2025, British rising star Sheku Kanneh-Mason returns to Hamburg with Saint-Saëns' elegant Cello Concerto. His unprecedented career began with his surprise victory on the television show "Britain's Got Talent" and his subsequent performance by captivating an audience of millions at the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Not exactly the usual path for a young graduate of the Royal Academy of Music... Yet the likeable musician and football fan has remained down-to-earth and approachable, enjoying playing with his six siblings as much as with the world's best orchestras. The London Philharmonic Orchestra, for example, will complement the ProArte program with Edward Elgar's masterful First Symphony.

London Philharmonic Orchestra / Sheku Kanneh-Mason / Edward Gardner

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

A lion, an elephant, and a kangaroo want to celebrate Carnival. Sounds strange? But it's true – in Camille Saint-Saëns' uniquely funny and touching Carnival of Animals. Also present this time: The Troublemaker and all sorts of chaos!

Theater Bremen

Acclaimed as a “masterful” soloist (San Diego Story), Aubree’s most recent solo appearances in 2023 include season openings of the Chamber Orchestra of New York at Carnegie Hall (di Vittorio), Utah Symphony at Abravanel Hall (Morlot), Peace Orchestra Project (Mengoli), and Ridgefield Symphony with a pairing of the Barber and Esmail violin concertos. Other season highlights include performances with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic (Teychenné), Columbus Symphony (Miller), Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra (Hoving), North Carolina Symphony (Prieto), Pacific Symphony (St. Clair), Des Moines Symphony (St. Clair), Amarillo Symphony (Jackson), Moldavian Philharmonic (Macek), Excelentia Madrid (Braunstein), Slovak Sinfonietta (Foron), Rousse Philharmonic Orchestra (Sachedina), New Haven Symphony (So), Puerto Rico Symphony (Valdés), and the Kontrapunktus Baroque Ensemble; in works by Brahms, Dvorak, Barber, Bruch, Korngold, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Weinberg, Haydn, Saint-Saens, Esmail, and Bach.

Defiance

Ridgefield High School

2025 marks Tunefoolery Music’s thirty-first year of connecting music with mental health. Founded at a drop-in center in Cambridge, MA, for individuals with psychiatric disabilities, Tunefoolery began as a group of four musicians who performed 15 concerts for family, friends, and peers in their first year. Today, as a Boston-based nonprofit supported by the Mass Cultural Council and the MA Dept. of Mental Health, Tunefoolery has grown to 25 active musicians (age 25-77!) who play a variety of instruments and musical genres and benefit from the organization’s performance opportunities, music education programs, and supportive community. This past year, we performed over 700 gigs at hospitals, shelters, mental health centers, and nursing homes, providing music to audiences that typically lack access to live performances. We have increased the diversity of our membership and continued to give back to mental health units where some of our members were once patients. As we celebrate over 30 years, we are proud to be member-led for the first time and are honored to be one of LSO’s Community Partners.

Swan Lake: A Collection of Realities

New England Conservatory of Music

In 1896, on the 50th anniversary of his concerto debut, Camille Saint-Saëns wrote a final piano concerto for himself as a soloist. It is considered his "Egyptian" concerto because he supposedly composed it in Luxor on the Nile. Indeed, the second movement in particular draws inspiration from Egypt (a Nubian love song and the sounds of crickets and frogs on the Nile), but also influences from Spain and East Asia. The energetic third movement is also inspired by Saint-Saëns's frequent travels, namely by the sound of ships' steam engines. Yet the composer knows how to dress it all in melodic elegance.

Romantic

Bochumer Symphoniker

Prepare for an extraordinary musical experience as two of the world’s most celebrated musicians, Hilary Hahn and Lang Lang, join forces for a one-night-only recital. A captivating journey through a curated program of classical masterworks, this exclusive event showcases the unparalleled virtuosity and artistry of these musical titans.

Hilary Hahn and Lang Lang

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

The big charity advent concert

The Bell, Bremen

The 5,500 pipes of The Bridgewater Hall organ sing as Associate Artist Jonathan Scott performs a programme of some of the greatest music from the world of opera.

Jonathan Scott: The Organ at the Opera

The Bridgewater Hall

One of the great virtuoso showpieces, Tartini’s ‘Devil’s Trill’ sonata was inspired by a dream in which the composer imagined a deal with the Devil, who proceeded to demonstrate the best solo Tartini had ever heard! Coupled with Brahm’s beautiful final violin sonata this programme is a perfect showcase for Scottish virtuoso Emma Baird.

Lunchtime Concert: The Devil's Trill

Perth Concert Hall

The Carnival of Animals

San Carlo Theatre

Sold out in 2024 and seen by over 60,000 people. Experience the thunderous power of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana like never before, as 400 voices unite in majestic harmony at the Royal Albert Hall.

Carmina Burana

Royal Albert Hall

Welcome to the Carnival of Animals, the celebration of life! When musicians and the animal world meet, no stone is left unturned! Whether lions or chickens, donkeys or turtles, they've all appeared; even fossils are rising again. Sing, dance, and guess with us!

Family Concert: Carnival of Animals by the Salzburg Philharmonic

Remise 1894

Pro Arte Sings Songs of Destiny

West Side Presbyterian Church

Enjoy four magnificent works of music by three composers from near the turn of the 20th century, yet each one unique in their own right: the French Lili Boulanger and Camille Saint-Saëns and the Russian Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Zuill Bailey, one of the top cellists in the world, will join the CSO as guest soloist. Also featured will be Yuriy Bekker, who in addition to other roles, has been Concertmaster of the CSO since 2007.

Scheherazade

Gaillard Center

The November darkness may be thick, but we get to enjoy a dazzling opera gala with world-renowned tenor Jonas Kaufmann. This unique, generous evening offers familiar opera favourites, together with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and conductor Jochen Rieder.

Opera Gala with Jonas Kaufmann

“Colors dance, moods swing, and Chen’s artistry blazes.” (The Times) 

“Ray Chen can do pretty much anything he wants on the violin.” (The Washington Post)

Born in Taiwan and raised in Australia, Ray Chen was accepted to the Curtis Institute of Music at age 15 and captured the world’s attention as First Prize winner of both the Yehudi Menuhin and Queen Elizabeth Competitions. Profiled as “one to watch” by The Strad and Gramophone magazines, his profile has grown to be featured in the Forbes list of 30 most influential Asians under 30, and appearances in the TV series Mozart in the Jungle. He plays the 1715 “Joachim” Stradivarius violin, once owned by the famed Hungarian violinist, Joseph Joachim.

Ray Chen, violin, with Julio Elizalde, piano

The Royal Conservatory of Music

Experience a sublime Five Variations of Dives and Lazarus by Vaughan Williams, take a tour of the Isle of the Dead with Rachmaninoff and hear skeletons perform the Danse Macabre with Saint-Saëns. Music of the Macabre

Hidden Creek Community Center

The Syracuse Orchestra presents an evening of animal-themed music! We begin with Saint-Saens’ Carnival of the Animals and 14 animals represented through the performance of pianists Aaron Wunsch and Giancarlo Llerena. Explore the Secret of the Wind and Birds from Tan Dun, who also composed the Academy Award-winning music for “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”. In Elgar’s Enigma Variations, listen for musical references that communicate personality traits of 14 of his friends (with a special musical homage to a friend’s beloved bulldog!)

Elgar’s Enigma Variations

The Oncenter Civic Center Theaters

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

Ferrández Plays Saint-Saëns

Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts

Beethoven’s joyful wit and lyricism make his Piano Concerto No. 1 a perfect showcase for Garrick Ohlsson’s “fingers, fortitude, and freewheeling imagination” (The New York Times). To close, conductor Louis Langrée “draws a lithe, articulate and elegant performance” (The New York Times) of Saint-Saëns’ Symphony No. 3, the mighty “Organ Symphony.”

Saint-Saëns’ “Organ Symphony” Ohlsson plays Beethoven

Kennedy Center

Immerse yourself in the romantic world of the Phaeton Piano Trio, as their performance is bathed in the gentle glow of candlelight. This exceptional ensemble, comprised of Friedemann Eichhorn, Peter Hörr, and Florian Uhlig, is known for their passionate performances, virtuosic technique, and seamless ensemble work. Each member of the trio is an acclaimed soloist in their own right, and their combined artistry creates a truly captivating musical experience. The program presents a compelling mix of contemporary energy with Fazıl Say’s Trio Space Jump alongside the established masterpieces of Beethoven’s “Archduke” Trio, Op. 97, and Saint-Saëns’ Trio No. 2. The candlelight will enhance the intimacy of the piano trio setting, creating a truly magical musical experience.

Phaeton Trio

Segerstrom Center for the Arts

The harp master returns to the magnificent Grand Hall with three of his most esteemed artistic companions: the wonderful flautist Magali Mosnier, castanet legend Lucero Tena, and the Artistic Director of the Mozarteum Foundation, star tenor Rolando Villazón. The magic and power of friendship make this shared musical expedition, which begins at the two small sources of the Vltava River and leads to southern Europe, a deeply felt and highly emotional evening.

Master Concert: De Maistre & Friends Villazón / Mosnier / Tena

Mozarteum Foundation

Step right up for a show where the thrill of the carnival meets the magic of live orchestral music! Join the Kansas City Symphony for a family concert featuring Saint-Saëns’ whimsical Carnival of the Animals — a playful celebration of nature’s most amazing creatures. This fun-filled concert also features symphonic showstoppers inspired by the circus, complete with magical melodies, high-flying tunes and soaring fanfares that will have you and your kids swaying, clapping and cheering for more.

Carnival of the Animals

Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts

Experienced amateur musicians share the stage with the Philharmonic Orchestra, performing a diverse program from Gounod to Howard Shore. From French esprit and virtuoso timbres to epic film music—their collaborative music creates a sound full of energy and diversity.

Participation Concert 2025

Globe Coburg

CMSFW Ensemble features with Louis Lortie, piano; Asi Matathias, violin; Gary Levinson, violin; Michael Klotz, viola; and Inbal Segev, cello.

Subtle Connections Across the World - CMSFW Ensemble with pianist Louis Lortie, Gary Levinson and Friends

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

Eunice Kim Plays Saint-Saëns’ Third Violin Concerto

Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

National Orchestra of France Tour in the United States

LIU Post

Carnegie Hall

Mechanics Hall

In a must see concert LSU Symphony launches with works deep in meaning, and majestic in scale and beauty. Anna Clyne's meditative work, THIS MOMENT, reflects on loss and grief in recent times, but finds inspiration in the potential of life and future. LSU professors Johanna Yarbrough (Horn) and Paul Groves (Tenor) join the LSU Symphony in Benjamin Britten's profound song cycle: Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings. The evening concludes with one of the repertoire's most rousing and majestic works, Camille Saint-Saens powerful Symphony No. 3 - known as the "Organ Symphony".

"King of Instruments" - LSU Symphony Orchestra

St. Joseph Cathedral in Baton Rouge

Pulitzer Prize and three-time GRAMMY awardee, Jennifer Higdon’s “Cathedrals” from All Things Majestic captures the grandeur of vast, awe-inspiring spaces. Inspired by Wyoming’s towering Teton Mountains, this piece contrasts shimmering light and deep shadows, drawing listeners into a sonic cathedral carved by nature itself.

Shostakovich's Final Symphony & Saint-Saëns' Cello Concerto No. 1 with Higdon & Massenet

The Parker

The November concert by the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Robert Jindra, will present remarkable works of American and French music. Samuel Barber wrote Toccata Festiva, Op. 36 for the inauguration of the new organ at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia. It will be performed at the Municipal House in Prague by the excellent organist Christian Schmitt.

Saint-Saëns “Organ”

Municipal House

Ben Campbell – Master’s Recital

Hamel Music Center

Coffee Concert No. 2 »On the Road Through Europe«

Volkshaus Jena

Closing concert of the Märkische Musiktage

Kreiskulturhaus Seelow

The young, likeable and down-to-earth German-Italian pianist Sophie Pacini has already performed on stage with Andrea Bocelli and Martha Argerich, has received numerous awards, and, according to her own statement, can smell, taste, and see sounds in color. With her wide-ranging program, with which she opens this season's "Pianomania" series, not only she herself but also the audience will experience a true explosion of the senses.

Sophie Pacini / Piano Recital

Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel takes you on an electrifying ride from start to finish with her animated and charismatic piece that shows off her flair for spectacle, melody, and momentum.

Bold Voices

Alaska Center for the Performing Arts

Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2

Martin Marietta Center for the Performing Arts

A stunning cadenza opens Saint-Saëns's Second Concerto , like a wild, improvised gesture that spans the entire keyboard—and that's just the beginning. Liszt congratulated Saint-Saëns on this brilliant piece, "beginning with Bach and ending with Offenbach," one listener enthused. "The concerto solo is a role that must be conceived and rendered like a dramatic character," Saint-Saëns confided. Marie-Ange Nguci makes it her own, before the tragedy and panache of Beethoven's Eroica .

Beethoven, “Heroic Symphony” / Nguci / Măcelaru

Maison de la Radio et de la Musique

Venture beyond Kurt Weill’s irresistible ballad Mack the Knife and you’ll find there’s lots to explore. That includes his Second Symphony, commissioned by Winnaretta Singer, an heir to the Singer sewing machine fortune and generous patron of the arts. Bookending that are contrasting voices of three extraordinary French composers.

David Afkham Returns

Orchestra Hall

The Merced Symphony returns to UC Merced for its second annual Side-by-Side Spectacular, bringing together professional musicians with talented students from UC Merced and Merced College for an unforgettable evening of collaboration. Under the baton of conductor Ming Luke, the combined orchestra performs a dynamic program that flows from sweeping romanticism to electrifying Mexican rhythms. This celebration of shared artistry promises to be a highlight of the season — a joyful blend of mentorship, community, and world-class performance.

Merced Symphony Side-by-Side Spectactular

University of California Merced

Celebrate the beauty of the season with an afternoon of captivating music. The program features Sibelius' serene Nocturne from King Christian ll Suite, Elgar's romantic Salut d'Armour, and Saint-Saens' dazzling Introduction and rondo Capriccioso, featuring violinist Erica Mancuso. The charm of Brahms' Serenade No. 1 (1st movement) leads into the grand finale: Beethoven's vibrant Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major. Join us for an unforgettable concert filled with passion, elegance and energy.

Autumn Echoes

The Machine Shop

Surround yourself with the frenzied sounds of dancing witches, spooky skeletons and swirling spirits in this witches brew of Halloweeen-themed classical favorites conducted by Guest Conductor David Ellis. You’ll be sleeping with the lights on for weeks after this one!

Diabolical Dances, Tricks and a Treat

Beachwood High School

Come dressed up for this Halloween-inspired concert with fun and spooky melodies to spark your senses and imagination. This hour-long concert is perfect for kids of all ages.

Spooktacular

Inspiration Hall

Under the elegant direction of British conductor Leo Hussain and with the radiant presence of South African soprano Nombulelo Yende – Pretty's little sister – pure emotion, orchestral virtuosity and the dramatic power of lyric art come together. The program opens with a sparkling suite from Mozart's Idomeneo where grace meets dramatic intensity. Then, let yourself be enchanted by Puccini and his piece for strings composed in one night under the influence of intense emotion. The famous Bacchanale from Samson et Dalila by Saint-Saëns then sets the stage ablaze with its oriental colors and captivating rhythms. Finally, Richard Strauss closes this exceptional evening with excerpts from Capriccio , his "conversation in music" where the introductory Sextet, of unequaled harmonic subtlety, precedes the Final Scene, sublimated by the unique timbre of Nombulelo Yende. A dazzling tribute between classical grandeur, Puccinian lyricism, sensual exoticism and Straussian sophistication.

The great masters

Opéra Comédie

Every ticket is FREE for our 2025-26 Opening Night at Carnegie Hall! Whether you are a lifelong classical music aficionado or attending your first concert, we welcome you to the extraordinary musical experience of Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in Carnegie Hall.

Orpheus For All

From the iconic "Hedwig’s Theme" that transports you to the wizarding world, to the haunting Dance macabre and the dazzling finale of Stravinsky’s The Firebird Suite, this concert is full of excitement and wonder. Anna Clyne’s lively Masquerade adds a festive twist to the spooky season fun. Designed with kids and families in mind, it’s the perfect way to spark imagination and get you in the Halloween spirit. Don’t forget your costumes for this morning of music and magic!

Spooky Sounds and Magical Melodies

Jacobs Music Center

Francisco Fullana, the 2022–23 TSO Artist in Residence returns to Tucson to perform Saint-Saëns’ dazzling Third Violin Concerto under the direction of Manuel Hernández Silva alongside orchestral showpieces by Brahms and Tchaikovsky, and a charming new piece by Israeli Gili Schwarzman.

Saint-Saëns and Tchaikovsky

Linda Ronstadt Music Hall

Renowned for their collaborative spirit, the GRAMMY®-winning Orpheus Chamber Orchestra has played without a conductor since their inception, performing with “edge-of-the-seat intensity” and displaying an “infectious love for making music” (NY Times) for audiences around the world. Making his long-awaited Orpheus debut, violinist James Ehnes glamorizes the gorgeous French aesthetic in Saint-Saëns’ Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso and Chausson’s Poème. To honor his 150th birthday, a new commission brings Ravel’s Piano Trio in A Minor into the chamber orchestra repertoire. Composer and violist Jessica Meyer has a keen ear for ensemble color, and her friends in Orpheus are ready to dispatch her newly commissioned Cartes Postales.

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra & James Ehnes, violin | Postcards From Paris

Lafayette College

Enter an enchanted world where witches gather in Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain, skeletons dance in Saint-Saëns’ Danse macabre, and trolls scamper through Grieg’s “In the Hall of the Mountain King”. With Strauss’ Death and Transfiguration and evocative works by Liadov and Sibelius, this hauntingly beautiful program will leave you spellbound. Costumes welcome!

Composer

Camille Saint-Saëns

Events

Upcoming events

Jun 27, 2025 - Apr 11, 2026

Klangzeit · Elbphilharmonie

Sep 16, 2025 - Jun 16, 2026

NDR Chamber Concert · Elbphilharmonie

3 - 6 Feb, 2026

School Concert – The Seven Wonders of the World · Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

6 - 7 Feb, 2026

Troupe Vertigo: Cirque Magic · Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra

6 - 7 Feb, 2026

Saint-Saëns “Organ” Symphony · Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra

Past events

Feb 1, 2026

Steven Banks, baritone saxophone Xak Bjerken, piano · Cal Performances

25 - 26 Jan, 2026

Carnival of Animals · Beethoven Orchester Bonn

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