Composer

Formed by alumni of the National Repertory Orchestra, this quartet brings together musicians whose shared roots at the NRO have evolved into dynamic professional careers. In this program, they draw from American narratives that play a critical role in the ongoing evolution of our nation’s history and musical character. Through works that reflect migration, identity, tradition, and transformation, the ensemble creates a throughline between past and present.

Chamber Concert

Riverwalk Center

Semyon Bychkov's performance is generously sponsored by James and Marguerite Rigby.



Brahms’s Fourth Symphony is a work of contrasts, veering from bold orchestral statements to exuberant dances and concluding with an homage to Baroque master J.S. Bach. Semyon Bychkov conducts this symphonic classic alongside Shostakovich’s First Violin Concerto. Composed under the watchful eye of the Soviet Union, this virtuosic showpiece requires a violinist of Karen Gomyo’s caliber to probe its mysterious and emotional depths.

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Brahms & Shostakovich

Blossom Music Center

Beloved Festival Orchestra member José González Granero moves from the woodwind section to the front of the stage to perform Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto, one of the great composer’s last masterpieces.

Festival Orchestra: Shostakovich & Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto

Jackson Hole High School

Enjoy a behind-the-scenes look as Sir Donald Runnicles and the orchestra rehearse for the weekend Festival Orchestra concerts. This week, beloved Festival Orchestra member José González Granero moves from the woodwind section to the front of the stage to perform Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto, one of the great composer’s last masterpieces. In contrast to Mozart’s meaningful late utterance are two more youthful works by important 20th century icons – a playful literary overture by American Samuel Barber, The School for Scandal Overture, and an incredibly precocious college graduation project by Dmitri Shostakovich, his Symphony No. 1.

Open Rehearsal: Shostakovich & Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto

Conductor Jeri Lynne Johnson makes her Festival debut with William Grant Still’s celebratory Festive Overture, followed by Ravel’s jazz-inflected Piano Concerto featuring star pianist Michelle Cann. Florence Price’s sweeping Symphony No. 3 concludes the program in its first Festival outing.

Ravel Piano Concerto

Millennium Park

Chorin Music Summer 2026

Chorin Abbey

9.  Chamber Concert

Hoghehus Lübeck

We begin with Brahms’ ‘Tragic Overture’, which confronts darkness head-on. Composed in 1880 as the sombre counterpart to his ‘Academic Festival Overture’, it whips up a storm of emotional energy, embodying what Brahms called “the serious side of life”. 

Next is Sibelius’ haunting ‘Valse Triste’. Originally composed for a 1903 play, this melancholic waltz depicts a dying woman’s fevered dream, where she dances with memories and ghosts. At the end, four solo violins add a fragile, otherworldly coda. 

Shostakovich’s monumental Seventh Symphony completes the arc from despair to defiance. It was composed during the 1941 siege of Leningrad, a time of unimaginable suffering for citizens. This epic work transforms the nightmare of war – represented by the famous ‘invasion theme’ in the first movement – into ultimate victory. 

From Tragedy to Triumph

Smith Square Hall

Guest performance in Bad Kissingen | Kissinger Summer

Regentenbau

Dmitri Shostakovich's Second Violin Concerto is sonically intense and moving. Although it is in a minor key, it also radiates great hope. Shostakovich's concerto is a favorite work of Isabelle Faust, who is associated with the WDR Symphony Orchestra as Artist in Residence. This is no surprise, since her unique playing combines perfection and brilliance on the one hand, with tremendous depth on the other. As a highlight of the season's closing performance, Cristian Măcelaru conducts the Third Symphony by his Romanian compatriot George Enescu. This opulent work for orchestra and choir overwhelms with its power and strength.

Universes - Măcelaru & Isabelle Faust

Museum Ludwig

To conclude the season, the hr Symphony Orchestra is once again invited to perform a guest concert at the Kissinger Sommer festival. Under the direction of chief conductor Alain Altinoglu, Christian Tetzlaff will present Dvořák's Violin Concerto. The main symphonic work of the evening, to be performed in the Max Littmann Hall of the Regentenbau, is Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10.

Kissinger Summer

On the eve of the International Shostakovich Days, the Staatskapelle is exploring two key works by the Russian composer. Written for David Oistrakh in 1967, the Second Violin Concerto is a work full of inner tension that captivates with its austere tonal language and chamber music-like density. The Tenth Symphony, composed in 1953 shortly after Stalin’s death, is one of the most discussed orchestral pieces of the 20th century. Here Shostakovich truly makes his mark: featuring his musical monogram – the famous DSCH motif (i.e. D-Eb-C-B) – this work is also an existential cri de coeur. The Tenth has been interpreted as a denunciation of Stalinism, particularly the second movement, which is seen as a savage portrayal of the brutal dictator.

Special Concert International Shostakovich Festival Gohrisch

Palace of Culture

The season finale will be breathtaking: the cycle of all Brahms symphonies will be completed, and Shostakovich's First Violin Concerto delivers pure drama. A somber beginning, a frenzied scherzo, an epic passacaglia, and a furious finale—Shostakovich has arguably created one of the greatest solo concertos of the 20th century. This is music of existential importance that truly gets under your skin. The internationally renowned violinist Vadim Gluzman is the ideal soloist for this bravura piece. Brahms' Fourth Symphony completes his symphonic oeuvre. In his own words, he "wasn't at all eager to write a bad No. 4." And he wasn't—quite the opposite: the composer has created a milestone here. And just as the season began with Brahms, so it ends with him. Brahms, Bremen, and the Bremen Philharmonic belong inextricably together.

Brahms: Symphony No. 4 | Marko Letonja

The Bell, Bremen

Following our captivating performance at Halifax Minster in 2025, we are delighted to return to Halifax as part of our ongoing commitment to Culturedale and our work with UNESCO’s Seeds of Hope initiative.

As echoes of The Lark Ascending continue to resonate across the town, we look forward to bringing another vibrant programme of string repertoire to the Victoria Theatre, celebrating the very best of English music alongside inspiring works from around the world. The programme includes Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on Greensleeves, Piazzolla’s The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, and Grieg’s much-loved Holberg Suite.

We are especially pleased to premiere a new arrangement of Malcolm Arnold’s English Dances and to share the stage with talented young musicians from the Calderdale Music Youth Ensemble. This special concert provides a wonderful opportunity to showcase our award-winning work with schools and community groups across the region before we return to Calderdale again in August.

Close Encounters: Beyond the Lark

Victoria Theatre Halifax

Beethoven / Šostakovič

Imperial Baths

Percussive bombast suggests an advancing army in Haydn’s Military Symphony No. 100 in this thrilling program conducted by Giancarlo Guerrero. After Julia Perry’s energetic Short Piece, young cello virtuoso Oliver Herbert joins the Grant Park Orchestra for Shostakovich’s lively Cello Concerto No. 1.

Haydn Military Symphony

We join RNCM student conductors and International Artist Diploma musicians for an afternoon of extraordinary music making in the BBC Philharmonic Studio.

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and RNCM: International Artist Diploma Performance 1

MediaCityUK

In the second symphony concert, we welcome another outstanding concert soloist: the Swedish soprano Maria Bengtsson, who has performed at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, the Opéra Bastille in Paris, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, and the Berlin State Opera, among others, under the baton of Kirill Petrenko, Daniel Barenboim, Simone Young, Philippe Jordan, Vladimir Jurovsky, Riccardo Muti, Sebastian Weigle, and many others. Bengtsson will perform Alban Berg's "Seven Early Songs" with the Symphony Orchestra: the song cycle, which combines texts by forgotten poets such as Paul Hohenberg and Carl Hauptmann with Rilke, Lenau, and Storm, tells the story of a great love.

Symphony Concert 2

University of Music in Detmold

You can’t have missed the buzz around The Kanneh-Masons; one of Britain’s most musical families.

Steinway Special: The Kanneh-Masons

Bute Park

Following the conclusion of our 25/26 subscription season, join us for “A Community Gift and Dream — for the Love of Music” June 13-14, 2026.

A Community Gift and Dream — for the Love of Music

Overture Center for the Arts

Chamber Concert “In memoriam”

Evangelische Akademie Tutzing

Munich Residence

Based on Slavic folklore, this music evokes a world of enchanted princesses, wicked sorcerers and a mythical creature whose flight brings the story to a spellbinding close. It’s no wonder this music catapulted Stravinsky to global fame.

Stravinsky’s The Firebird

Sydney Opera House

We have been searching for the right opportunity to perform Shostakovich's Eleventh Symphony for a long time, until conductor Case Scaglione came up with this desire. After two years, Hungarian virtuoso Gábor Boldoczki also returns to the Prague Symphony to reunite two old friends: Dmitri Shostakovich and Mieczyslaw Weinberg.

Gábor Boldoczki & Case Scaglione

Municipal House

Čajkovskij & Rachmaninov

Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Theatre

The chamber music ensembles of the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole

Gregory Hughes, Artistic Director and Principal Conductor, leads a bold and invigorating program that pairs two revolutionary symphonies. Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 9, full of wit, irony, and unexpected charm, opens the evening with a satirical twist on traditional symphonic form. In contrast, Beethoven’s monumental Symphony No. 3 “Eroica” closes the program—an enduring masterpiece that forever changed the course of classical music with its heroic scale, emotional depth, and sheer power.

Hughes Conducts Beethoven

Athenaeum Center for Thought & Culture

Brothers Demarre and Anthony McGill give a world premiere by jazz piano icon Billy Childs reflecting on America's 250th. Rachmaninoff unapologetically captures the Russian musical spirit in his Symphony No. 3, while Shostakovich elicits a celebratory mood.

Rachmaninoff 3

Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall

The Music Center at Strathmore

The FIFA 2026 World Cup comes to Santa Clara County, but before any of the globe’s greatest soccer players hit the pitch, Symphony San Jose’s all-star musicians will showcase a line-up of international greats of their own.

Symphonic World Cup

California Theatre

The energetic ensemble performs Bacewicz's String Quartet no 3 and Shostakovich's much-loved eighth string quartet, alongside a new work by Oscar Jockel.

ECHO Rising Stars: Javus Quartett

St Giles Cripplegate

Experience our end-of-season Concertino event up close in an informal setting. At the general rehearsal, our supporters can gain an insight into the preparation process.

Meeting point in the foyer of the Liszt Academy between 9:30 and 9:50. Attendance at the general rehearsal is free of charge for members of our BFO Patrons club, but subject to prior registration. Registration is available on the website after logging in.

Concertino: C.P.E. Bach, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Shostakovich, Beethoven

Liszt Academy

This electrifying Australian group, founded in 2007 by brothers Daniel Kowalik (violin) and Karol Kowalik (cello), and friends Thomas Chawner (viola) and David Dalseno (violin), is one of the most exciting string quartets of its generation. Known for their engaging performances, they inspire reviews like this one from the Canberra CityNews: “incredible passion, fire and intensity. The audience erupted in thunderous applause and cheers. It was an electric and enthralling evening of the finest music making.”

Orava Quartet

St. John's Episcopal Church Portsmouth

Luke Wejman, cello

Northwestern Bienen School of Music

Chamber music icons in the former Rothschild orangery. The Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra (hr-Sinfonieorchester) presents three captivating trios by Shostakovich, Rachmaninoff, and Schubert at the premiere of its "Chamber Flicker" series in the historic pavilion in Frankfurt's Günthersburgpark. An early stroke of genius by the young Shostakovich meets a musical gem from the late Schubert and Rachmaninoff's melancholic "Trio élégiaque No. 1." Shostakovich was just 17 when he composed his Piano Trio, which was only published from his posthumous manuscripts in 1983. Schubert's Piano Trio is one of his last and most mature works, which, according to Robert Schumann, swept over the musical scene of the time "like an angry apparition from heaven."

Trio élégiaque

Orangerie

Tristen Johnson, cello

35th Season Finale

San Francisco Conservatory of Music

For our final program, Maestro Haimor has chosen Valerie Coleman’s anthem of unity Umoja to begin, followed by the return of Bay Area native and Marin favorite, cellist Oliver Herbert, performing Shostakovich’s virtuosic and exciting Cello Concerto No.1. We close our season with Dvořák’s optimistic, triumphant Eighth Symphony.

Masterworks 4: Shostakovich & Dvořák

College of Marin

Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra

Northwestern University

Osborne brings his love of both genres to the fore, performing Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 1 (for piano and trumpet soloists) alongside his favourite jazz standards, arranged specially for this programme. 

We’re also joined by the brilliant trumpeter Aaron Azunda Akugbo, whose playing moves effortlessly from the mellow charm of Gershwin to the raw intensity of Shostakovich. 

Fantasia Orchestra with Steven Osborne

Three of the world’s most celebrated musicians perform three powerful, idiosyncratic piano trios. The first half of the program is steeped in Jewish music and memory, pairing Rosowsky’s rarely performed Fantastic Dance on Hebrew Themes for Piano Trio with Shostakovich’s devastating Piano Trio No. 2, a searing expression of both intense personal grief and freshly discovered horrors perpetrated during World War II. Tchaikovsky’s immense, sole Piano Trio follows. A wide-ranging and folk-infused musical elegy, it is a notable predecessor to Shostakovich’s trio, and yet it remains one-of-a-kind in its fascinating, masterful construction.

Evgeny Kissin, Piano, Joshua Bell, Violin, and Steven Isserlis, Cello

Folly Theater

Šostakovič - Symphony No. 5

William Johnson, cello

Stravinsky’s extravagant Song of the Nightingale is based on a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. John Adams’s work was inspired by the colors, shapes, and sounds of Stravinsky’s piece. Stories of fanciful birds continue with music from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake and DSO Principal Cello Wei Yu performs Shostakovich’s moving concerto.

Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake and Other Tales

Detroit Symphony Orchestra

Three times Shostakovich, and three times a completely different facet: first in a thrillingly exhilarating orchestral overture, then in the powerfully fresh sonic shower of the Second Piano Concerto with its warm, jewel-like middle movement, and finally in the Fifth Symphony, which triumphs in an almost surreal way. Kahchun Wong, who in 2016 became the first Asian to win the prestigious Mahler Competition of the Bamberg Symphony, takes the podium of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra for the first time. He will delve deep into Shostakovich's world, together with a pianist who knows his way around it like few others. "I'm addicted to Shostakovich's music, to this raw power," says Boris Giltburg, whose CD recording of the Shostakovich piano concertos is among the best currently available. What Giltburg observes for himself also defines the listening experience: "This is music that makes you tremble.

Pure Shostakovich

Hessischer Rundfunk

Having already conducted two hugely popular works from the symphonic canon this season – Beethoven's 9th Symphony and Bruckner's 7th Symphony – Stefan Blunier 's third guest appearance presents compositions we don't often encounter in concert. Dmitri Shostakovich may be one of the 20th century's most important composers, but with "Two Pieces by Domenico Scarlatti for Wind Orchestra" we experience him at the very beginning of his career, before he was banned by the Soviet cultural watchdogs. The program then features Paul Hindemith, ostracized by the Nazis, one of Duisburg-born Frank Peter Zimmermann 's favorite composers . His recording of Hindemith's Violin Concerto has even been praised in the music press as a new benchmark recording: a work that shows the composer less as a feared "public enemy," but rather exposes his accessible, lyrical side. The final movement of Carl Nielsen's Symphony No. 4 offers a spectacular "duel" between two timpani. Here, the horrors of the First World War resonate, to which the composer counters the "inextinguishable" in the hymn-like chorale at the end: the elemental will to live, as Nilsen himself interpreted the title.

The Indelible

CityPalais

Explore how music and poetry unite to amplify powerful voices of dissent, resistance, and hope with the Portland Chamber Orchestra. Banner & Burden: Music and Spoken Word is a bold collaboration with the Oregon Poetry Association, featuring original spoken word performances by emerging young poets whose words illuminate the tribulations—and triumphs—of our community.

This moving program showcases evocative works by composers who have used their music to speak truth to power, including the vibrant, contemporary voice of Jessie Montgomery, Valerie Coleman’s celebration of identity and unity, and the deeply expressive music of Dmitri Shostakovich, composed in the shadow of political oppression.

Banner & Burden: Music and Spoken Word

Patricia Reser Center for the Arts

Guest performance in Dortmund

Konzerthaus Dortmund

With the performance of Shostakovich’s 5th symphony, the Diablo Symphony remembers this great composer in his 50th anniversary season. The difficulties under which Shostakovich composed permeate the deep and complex emotions of this extraordinary and brilliant work. Performed alongside works by two American composers which celebrate the joys and bravery of everyday existence, this program explores the whole gamut of human emotions. Don’t miss this powerful finale to our season!

Season Finale: Shostakovich 5

Lesher Center for the Arts

Season Finale 2026

The Independence School

An uplifting program of resilience, remembrance, and inspiration. Featuring stirring works like Fanfare for the Common Man, selections from Shostakovich’s mighty Fifth Symphony, and the moving Song of Hope. Trumpet soloists Dan Marbes, Adam Gaines, and Kevin Short, along with student and community brass players, join the Civic Symphony of Green Bay to celebrate the power of music to unite and heal. Concertmaster Taylor Giorgio will be featured on Schindler’s List.

Harmonies for Hope

University of Wisconsin-Green Bay

The concerts of the Gewandhaus Orchestra are the centrepieces of Frankfurt's Opera Square. It goes without saying that great symphonic music is on the programme at the regular dates of the orchestra with its significant history. On the podium: Andris Nelsons, who has been Gewandhauskapellmeister since 2018. This time, Nelsons and the Leipzig orchestra will be performing two powerful masterpieces that give a glimpse into the soul of their creators: One theory about Dmitri Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony is that he worked through times of deep suffering after Stalin's death. The theory is controversial, but it cannot be denied that the composer gave a harrowing testimony to himself with this work. Sergei Rachmaninov composed himself back to life from a severe creative crisis with his second piano concerto. For Yulianna Avdeeva, music is also a spiritual indicator: ‘With the piano, you share your innermost feelings and thoughts that you often can't put into words.’

Gewandhaus Orchestra

Alte Oper

It seems strange to suggest that Hana Chang is at the beginning of a great career. But a glance at her diary shows that this young artist is already at the centre of international concert life. She performs with orchestras such as the Stuttgart Philharmonic, the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Utah Symphony Orchestra. Recitals have taken her to America, Europe and Asia. Her chamber music partners include Janine Jansen, Daniel Müller-Schott and Francesco Piemontesi. Hana Chang's competition successes are equally impressive: she has won prizes at the Concert Artists Guild Competition, the International Louis Spohr Competition, the Yehudi Menuhin Violin Competition and many others. In the Debut Series, Hana Chang, who is currently receiving the finishing touches as an outstanding performer with Christian Tetzlaff at the Kronberg Academy, will also be making her debut at the Alte Oper.

Hana Chang, Violin

New Voices is Trio con Brio's new three-year concert series, which Aarhus Musikforening shares with Boulez-Saal Berlin and Diamanten in Copenhagen. Two of the concerts fall in the 25/26 season, and each concert program includes a world premiere, an important 20th-century piano trio, and one of the great piano quintets.

Trio con Brio - New Voices 2

Lille Sal Musikhuset

The Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation Orchestral Commissions Program: American Composers Orchestra and League of American Orchestras have established two 30-orchestra consortiums, each supporting commissions by six women and nonbinary EarShot alumni. Each composer writes a 6–8 minute orchestral work and develops an educational or community-focused program presented in partnership with each orchestra. In the 2025–26 season, composers have their works performed by nineteen orchestras across the U.S.

Virginia B. Toulmin Commission by Karena Ingram with Asheville Symphony

First Baptist Church of Asheville

His Fifth Symphony depicts "the development of personality," explained Dmitri Shostakovich. But the highly emotional music from 1937 also documents his threatening situation during the Stalin era. At times pleading, at times hectically overexcited, the music culminates in an overwhelming finale. Franz Liszt's First Piano Concerto is similarly captivating. It is a welcome challenge for the up-and-coming Israeli pianist Yoav Levanon, making his debut with the WDR Symphony Orchestra. The conductor is the Greek Constantinos Carydis. He opens the evening with a work by his fellow countryman Periklis Koukos: a sonorous prologue to Homer's "Odyssey."

Between the Lines - Shostakovich's Fifth

Violins of Hope

Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Join Maxim and the SCO musicians for an electrifying and emotional conclusion to the Season – with one of the most cherished symphonies of them all.

Dvořák 'New World' Symphony

Usher Hall

City Halls

Perth Concert Hall

Join Maxim and the SCO musicians for an electrifying and emotional concert featuring one of the most cherished symphonies of them all.

Perth Concert Series: Scottish Chamber Orchestra - Dvořák 'New World' Symphony

Seen as the one of the most exciting chamber ensembles of their generation, the Paddington Trio, winners of the 2023 Parkhouse Award, have been recognised in international competitions and live performances for their fresh interpretations and exuberant energy. Like the famous bear of the same name, Finnish violinist Tuulia Hero, Irish cellist Patrick Moriarty and American pianist Stephanie Tang have made London their home. They are now considered one of the leading piano trios of their generation.

Paddington Trio

Corn Exchange Newbury

Join us as the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra offers a festive preview of some of the upcoming season's musical highlights. Look forward to a potpourri of exuberant excerpts and movements, presented in an inviting format that whets the appetite for all that awaits.

Preview: Season 26/27

Aarhus Music Hall

Reimagined brings familiar works into unexpected instrumental settings, offering a fresh perspective on well-known repertoire. Featuring Franck’s Violin Sonata arranged for saxophone and piano, Martin’s Ballade, and Shostakovich’s Piano Trio No. 1, the program explores new colours, contrasts, and dialogue between instruments, bringing energy and character to these timeless masterpieces.

Reimagined

Ian Hanger Recital Hall - IHRH

Mary Brook Hartmann, Cello and Stephen Chang, Viola

The Juilliard School

6.  Chamber Concert

Salón Coliseo

Alban Gerhardt, one of today's leading cellists, accepted the Rostock invitation and, with his technical perfection and profound musicality, promises an extraordinary concert event. The versatile artist will perform Dmitri Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No. 2, which, between the lines, was intended as an ironic response to the double standards of the Soviet officials who denounced him during Stalin's lifetime and later courted him. Written for Mstislav Rostropovich, the concerto premiered with the legendary cellist on the composer's 60th birthday in Moscow on September 25, 1966.

9th Philharmonic Concert / Finally

Volkstheater Rostock

Culinary Sunday Matinee No. 6

Hotel & Restaurant Schwarzer Bär

YOSA Philharmonic closes the season with Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5, a gripping journey from darkness to triumph. The program also includes Walton’s Crown Imperial, a spotlight on the YOSA Concerto Competition winner, and a performance by YOSA Capriccio Strings.

Shostakovich Five

YOSA

YOSA Philharmonic brings its season to a close with Shostakovich’s Symphony No.5, a gripping journey from darkness to triumph. This deeply moving work was born under the pressure of Soviet oppression and captures the resilience of the human spirit in the face of fear and control. Full of raw emotion, irony, and defiance, it continues to provoke and move listeners nearly a century after its premiere.

YOSA Presents: Shostakovich Five

Tobin Center for the Performing Arts

Gold Medalist of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2013 and a Fort Worth favorite, Vadym Kholodenko’s distinguished pianism and profound artistic gifts have led to invitations from many of the world’s finest orchestras and concert halls. Combining fierce pianism, an unrivalled breadth of repertoire, and a level of interpretative refinement that ascends to the realms of poetry, Mr. Kholodenko rises as an artist the likes of which the world has rarely seen since the great pianists of the Golden Age. He has forged strong musical partnerships with many leading conductors and has appeared on the world’s leading stages — from London, Paris, and Vienna to Boston, Chicago, and New York — where he is praised for his “iron-clad technique, capable of moments of crystalline delicacy” (The Guardian).

Subtle Connections Across the World - Vadym Kholodenko and Friends

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

The future is now! The Reno Phil welcomes all four of its Youth Orchestras to the Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts stage to showcase their hard work. See the Youth Strings Ensemble, Youth Strings Symphonia, Youth Concert Orchestra and Youth Symphony Orchestra perform as they play a variety of favorites.

RPYO Spring Showcase

Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts

A Good Man is Hard to Find draws inspiration from the 2008 financial crash, and the “Cremation of Care” ceremony; an annual ritual ceremony where the global elite banish their guilt, by the San Francisco private members club Bohemian Grove.

BULLYACHE A Good Man is Hard to Find

Sadler's Wells East

Jake Westerbeke, viola

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

A superb young Toronto pianist plays Beethoven's noble Emperor Concerto and  the season wraps with one of Shostakovich's most personal masterpieces and the eternal genius of Bach 

The Emperor

Meridian Arts Centre

The superb young Toronto pianist Vanessa Yu joins the orchestra in one of the greatest concertos of all time, Beethoven’s noble Piano Concerto No. 5, the “Emperor.” Music director Nurhan Arman leads the orchestra in Dmitri Shostakovich’s poignant and personal Chamber Symphony in C minor Op. 110a and finishes with the powerful reassurance of J.S. Bach’s “Contrapunctus 1” and “Contrapunctus 2” in beautifully transparent orchestral versions.

Sinfonia Toronto: THE EMPEROR | Beethoven - Shostakovich - Bach

Elim Chan leads Rachmaninoff’s ever-popular Piano Concerto No. 3, performed by Lukáš Vondráček, along with Shostakovich’s playful and witty Ninth Symphony. The program also includes a moving World Première by Indigenous composer Cris Derksen, created in collaboration with the Centre for Addiction and MentalHealth (CAMH).

Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3

David Pecaut Square

In turbo speed from the 18th to the 20th century: The Sonic.Art Saxophone Quartet moves effortlessly from Bach's B Minor Suite to Bernstein's West Side Story in the space of half an hour, condensing the sound colours of an entire orchestra onto soprano, alto, tenor and baritone saxophones. In the lunchtime concert, the four musicians from Belarus, Australia, Japan and Germany show how these worlds can be brought together with virtuosity. Their stylistic confidence, joy of playing and technical as well as musical perfection have already earned these well-rehearsed musicians a number of important international awards. We are looking forward to their debut at the Alte Oper and combine the event with an invitation to a small lunch in our foyers after the concert.

sonic.art Saxophonquartett

Great things come in small packages! The prelude and fugue is a musical form as old as Bach – a concentrated work-out for mind, heart and (of course) fingers. Shostakovich was never more playful – or profound – than in his Preludes and Fugues for solo piano, and today RWCMD artist-in-association Llŷr Williams completes his personal adventure through all 24 of these jewels of 20th century piano music.

Llŷr Williams: Shostakovich Preludes & Fugues II

In the ensemble's final performance of the season, the KSUSO will perform the powerful and emotionally complex Symphony No. 5 by Dimitri Shostakovich. Join the KSUSO for this special performance on Thursday, April 30 at 7:30 p.m. in the McCain Auditorium. This concert is free and open to the public.

Composer

Dmitri Shostakovich

Events

Upcoming events

Aug 5, 2026

Trio Fortuny · Festival Perelada

Aug 8, 2026

Piano Recital · Newburyport Chamber Music Festival

Aug 13, 2026

Return of Jon Deak · Newburyport Chamber Music Festival

Aug 15, 2026

Twenty-Five Years of NCMF · Newburyport Chamber Music Festival

21 - 23 Aug, 2026

Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto · Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Past events

Jul 20, 2026

Chamber Concert · National Repertory Orchestra

Jul 18, 2026

Brahms & Shostakovich · The Cleveland Orchestra

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