The Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra offers a wide-ranging program of American music to celebrate the 250th birthday of the United States. Joan Tower's bold Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman and Leonard Bernstein's unforgettable Symphonic Dances from West Side Story will contrast deeply contemplative music by Samuel Barber and Jonathan Bailey Holland. John Williams' cool jazz score for the film Catch Me if You Can is reimagined as a spellbinding concerto for alto saxophone, expertly played by Champaign's own Taimur Sullivan. The lively Fandangos of Roberto Sierra will bring the evening to an uproarious close.

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Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra: Happy Birthday, America! American Highlights

Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

The Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra offers a wide-ranging program of American music to celebrate the 250th birthday of the United States. Joan Tower’s bold Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman and Leonard Bernstein’s unforgettable Symphonic Dances from West Side Story will contrast deeply contemplative music by Samuel Barber and Jonathan Bailey Holland. John Williams’ cool jazz score for the film Catch Me if You Can is reimagined as a spell-binding concerto for alto saxophone, expertly played by Champaign’s own Taimur Sullivan. The lively Fandangos of Roberto Sierra will bring the evening to an uproarious close.

Happy Birthday, America!

Continuing the BSO's exploration of Caribbean stories and music, the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra makes its Symphony Hall debut under the direction of Maximiano Valdés. One of three non-BSO orchestras featured this season, their performance highlights the vibrant musical traditions of Puerto Rico and beyond. This concert is part of our E Pluribus Unum: From Many, One exploration, honoring the diverse voices that shape our nation’s musical heritage, and will include works by Angélica Negrón, Roberto Sierra, and a selection of Puerto Rico’s rich popular musical traditions.

Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Frequent guest conductor Dima Slobodeniouk leads this celebration of Caribbean composers, beginning with the Pulitzer Prize-winning Cuban American Tania León’s BSO-commissioned Time to Time, whose title reveals the composer’s characteristic preoccupation with duration and rhythm. Puerto Rico-born Roberto Sierra wrote his effervescent, jazz- and Latin-tinged concerto especially for James Carter’s lyricism and technical prowess on both soprano and tenor sax. Johannes Brahms’ Second Symphony is considered among his warmest, most pastoral works.

Brahms Symphony No. 2

Trevor Maliborski – Senior Recital

Hamel Music Center

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

Grimaud Plays Gershwin

Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts

Fanny Mendelssohn and Gustav Mahler brush shoulders with composers of our time, past and present connecting through musical memories.

Midnight Memories:  Mendelssohn, Mahler, Moderns

Noe Valley Ministry

Under the direction of guest conductor Maximiano Valdés, The Santa Fe Symphony presents percussionist Svet Stoyanov in the local debut of Emmanuel Séjourné’s jazz-inspired Concerto for Marimba and String Orchestra. Critics across the U.S. are raving about Stoyanov’s virtuosity on the marimba, calling him inspired and a driving force in the world of modern percussion.

from the new world

Lensic Performing Arts Center

Summer, energy, passion – Gustavo Dudamel and the Berliner Philharmoniker invite you to a end-of-season concert at the Waldbühne. The Venezuelan conductor performed at this venue back in 2008 under the motto Los ritmos de la noche. It was his debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker, and was met with great acclaim by the audience. Dudamel now celebrates the end of the season with the orchestra in the open air for the fourth time. The programme will include rousing dances from Bernstein’s musical West Side Story, in which Latin American sounds and rhythms are all-pervasive.

End-of-season concert: Berliner Philharmoniker and Gustavo Dudamel at the Waldbühne

Waldbühne

The contrasting timbres of the violin, clarinet, and piano bring to life a vibrant variety of musical imaginations in this program of rhythmic vitality and melodic invention.

Spring Contrasts

Piedmont Center for the Arts

There’s rhythm in the air, and it’s not just confined to Roberto Sierra’s toe-tapping Fandangos. It’s the driving force behind the nostalgic melodies of Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances – the sound of a Russian composer stranded in Centerport, New York, and amid the freeways and palm trees of 1940s California. In between, Pablo Ferrández summons up the quiet power and deep poetry of Elgar’s hugely popular Cello Concerto. “A star in the making” says one critic: we say he’s already up there!

Elgar’s Cello Concerto

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic

The 46th concert season concludes with a diverse variety of music. It will feature Andrea Reinkemeyer's vibrant piece NaamJei, Puerto Rican trombonist Luis Fred performing Stevenson's Braziliano concerto, and Roberto Sierra's Latin-infused Sinfonia No. 4. The concert will end with Gershwin's ever-popular An American in Paris complete with real taxi horns!

Global Flavors

Ohio Wesleyan University

Galician Symphony Orchestra - Pacho Flores - José Luis Gómez - Concert in Ferrol

Ferrol Auditorium

Opera Palace of A Coruña

Music Director Andreas Delfs leads the buoyant, joyous “Haffner”, the first of Mozart’s miraculous final set of symphonies. The great strength and nobility of Brahms’ Fourth and final Symphony places it among his most profound achievements. And soloists from your Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra take center stage for the newly composed Sinfonia Concertante by esteemed composer and Cornell professor, Roberto Sierra.

Mozart & Brahms

Eastman Theatre

Celebrate the music of Latin America with this brilliant program led by Maestro Guillermo Figueroa, presenting the talents of your Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra and guest soloists JP Jofre and Miguel del Águila. JP Jofre, one of the world’s leading performers of the bandoneón—the Latin American version of the accordion—joins us for Astor Piazzolla’s Concerto for Bandoneón, “Aconcagua.” We are also honored to have a special appearance by Latin GRAMMY®-nominated composer and musician Miguel del Águila playing the conga on his popular Conga, a not-to-be-missed performance! This exciting afternoon of great music also presents Roberto Sierra’s brilliant Symphony No. 3, “La Salsa” and Ariel Ramírez’ Misa Criolla, with a side-by-side performance with The Santa Fe Symphony Youth Symphony Orchestra, plus appearances by local guitarists and percussionists.

Music of Latin America

Under the baton of Andreas Delfs, this concert unfolds with the tender melodies of Debussy’s Clair de lune, setting the stage for an evening of emotional depth and beauty. Roberto Sierra’s Violin Concerto, performed by the brilliant Juliana Athayde, promises a voyage of sorrow and remembrance, dedicated to the memory of a friend’s lost child. The journey culminates with Schubert’s Symphony No. 9, “The Great,” an expansive work that traverses through joy, despair, and triumphant optimism. This concert is a testament to the power of music to encapsulate the breadth of human emotion, offering a space for reflection, solace, and exhilaration.

Schubert Symphony No. 9, “The Great”

Kleinhans Music Hall

Violinist Soojin Han performs Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D Major. Concert also includes Roberto Sierra's lively Fandangos, then followed by Maurice Ravel's evocative Alborada del gracioso, and concluding with the mesmerizing waltz rhythms of Ravel's La valse.

Dancing Around The World

Long Center for the Performing Arts

Bach’s Double Violin Concerto is a family affair featuring BPO concertmaster Nikki Chooi and his equally virtuosic brother, Timothy Chooi, in an energetic exchange of musical one-up-man-ship. Timothy solos on Prokofiev’s lyrical and romantic Violin Concerto No. 1, and the BPO performs the beautifully melodic Third Symphony of Brahms. Puerto Rico’s Roberto Sierra contributes the sizzling Dos Piezas.

Chooi Brothers & Bach

Amici Chamber Ensemble presents DIASPORIC BRIDGES

Trinity-St. Paul's United Church and Centre for Faith, Justice and the Arts

Roman Holiday

Broome County Forum Theatre

Venezuelan conductor Domingo Hindoyan makes his BSO debut leading the American premiere of Roberto Sierra’s Symphony No. 6, a BSO co-commission. Also making his BSO debut is Spanish cellist Pablo Ferrández in Edward Elgar’s regal and impassioned Cello Concerto, often interpreted as a profound reaction to the First World War. One of the repertoire’s greatest symphonies, Czech composer Antonín Dvořák’s darkly majestic Symphony No. 7 exudes his love for his native Bohemia as well as the influence of his mentor, Johannes Brahms.

Domingo Hindoyan conducts Sierra, Elgar, and Dvořák with Pablo Ferrández, cello

Boston Symphony Hall

You will be dancing in your seat from the first note to the last as you listen to Domingo Hindoyan conduct the Minnesota Orchestra with guest trumpet soloist Pacho Flores. In Arturo Márquez’s new trumpet concerto, Flores delivers the many colors and flavors of Latin American dance bands while he performs on four different types of trumpets. These concerts conclude with Dvořák’s radiant Eighth Symphony, interwoven with a multitude of folksongs and delightful dance melodies.

Dvořák Symphony No. 8

Minnesota Orchestra

Eastman Wind Orchestra

NEC alumna Mary K. Schneider is tonight's guest conductor of the NEC Wind Ensemble in a program of Mozart, Roshanne Etezady, Steven Stucky, and Roberto Sierra. NEC faculty and BSO member Mickey Katz will be the cello soloist in this program. 

NEC Wind Ensemble + Mary K. Schneider: Mozart, Etezady, Stucky, Sierra

New England Conservatory

Manhattan School of Music’s public programs are made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

MSM Orchestral Performance Program: OPUS130 conducted by Leonard Slatkin

Manhattan School of Music

Dudamel and the LA Phil are joined by Silvana Estrada for a night that pays tribute to Latina artists and activists, featuring two world premieres.

Canto en resistencia: Dudamel and the LA Phil featuring Silvana Estrada

Walt Disney Concert Hall

Departmental Recitals showcase performance departments through its students. Featuring various students and repertoire, and curated by the faculty, performances in this recital highlight SFCM programs and the wide range of study. 

Guitar Department Recital

San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Celebrate the interconnectedness of music and dance with the Weidner Philharmonic! Let the rhythm move you as this symphonic program explores and reimagines dance music genres from around the world! From the passionate folk music of the Argentinian countryside, to a spirited tribute to Motown, to the deconstruction and disintegration of the classic waltz, this genre-bending program will have you dancing in your seat!

Weidner Philharmonic

The Weidner

Mozart & More at the Hatch

Hatch Memorial Shell

Mozart & More in the Community

Hibernian Hall

Peoples Baptist Church

This season’s superstar conductors have led the most acclaimed orchestras in the U.S and the world, and join us in Santa Barbara to conduct the brilliant fellows that comprise the Academy Festival Orchestra. Our most popular series is back.

Academy Festival Orchestra: Symphonic Dances

Granada Theatre

We are delighted to announce an exciting new partnership with Medici TV for all our forthcoming Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra On Demand concerts. This will mean that all our upcoming On Demand concerts will now be free to view with Medici TV for up to 30 days from their release.

On Demand: Fiesta!

Join us for a special, free performance dedicated to the people of this great city we call home! Led by BSO Music Director Andris Nelsons and Boston Pops Conductor Keith Lockhart, Concert for the City will feature a diverse musical program meant to celebrate the City of Boston and strengthen our community through the shared experience of remarkable music.

Concert for the City - BSO

This concert is the culminating performance of a week-long Minnesota Orchestra Common Chords residency in Austin, Minnesota that features Orchestra musicians performing at more than two dozen events in and around Austin from April 30 to May 6. 

Minnesota Orchestra in Austin

Knowlton Auditorium

This session features an hour-long talk by Liverpool Philharmonic flautist Helen Wilson, discussing key composers from Latin America and how their chamber music reflects their wider orchestral works. This is followed by a recital by Helen and pianist Benjamin Powell of works by Tania Leon, Roberta Sierra, Gabriela Ortiz and others.

Discover: Music from Latin America

The Music Room

THE PRIMAVERA PROJECT is an ongoing series of 81 commissions for cello, celebrating a rich tapestry of distinct and diverse compositional palettes. Each composer has been asked to respond to two paintings, Sandro Botticelli’s Primavera (c.1480) and Charline von Heyl’s Primavera 2020. This three-day residency at the Barge offers a curated survey divided into three thematic programs, featuring 17 works heard for the first time in NYC and world premieres by Tyshawn Sorey, Texu Kim, Layale Chaker, Analia Llugdar, and Aaron Jay Kernis. Works by Josquin des Prez and J.S. Bach offer a musical grounding through the centuries.

Eclectic Series: The Primavera Project / RITES OF SPRING / Matt Haimovitz

Bargemusic

An American masterpiece, Leonard Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story tells of cultures colliding, a theme that plays out across this program. Declared by Mahler himself to be “the start of modern music,” Chabrier’s España is paired with Lalo’s rhapsodic Cello Concerto to make up the first half of the program. The first American in four decades and youngest musician ever to win First Prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition Cello Division, Zlatomir Fung, joins the RPO as soloist. Roberto Sierra’s colorful Fandangos, a rhythmic piece inspired by the triple meter Spanish dance, follows the Bernstein to end the lively evening.

Andreas Conducts West Side Story

Boston Conservatory at Berklee student Harold Rivas performs a selection of pieces for solo percussion and chamber ensembles, featuring El Grupo H and student performers from Boston Conservatory at Berklee and Berklee College of Music.

Heliocentric: Journey of Musical Worlds

Boston Conservatory at Berklee

JoAnn Falletta conducts superstar violinist Midori in her return engagement with the BPO performing the lush and lyrical Korngold Violin Concerto. Fandangos is a colorful showpiece for orchestra that provides the perfect season opener, and the epic Scheherazade tells the story of the Arabian Nights and the 1,001 Tales, featuring concertmaster Nikki Chooi.

Midori Returns

Five-time GRAMMY Award-winning Nicaraguan conductor Giancarlo Guerrero leads the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in a south-of-the-border immersion, packing plenty of heat into a fusion of Afro-Caribbean, Central and South American traditions, including the tango-infused Sinfonía Buenos Aires. The renowned Venezuelan soloist Pacho Flores dips into Mexico's rich trumpet-playing tradition for a piece written by him and for him by Arturo Márquez.

Flores Performs Márquez

The Woodruff Arts Center

Richard Strauss’ tone poems are arguably among some of the most richly orchestrated and strikingly adventurous pieces written for orchestra. Ein Heldenleben (A Hero’s Life) is no exception as it closely follows the composer’s own real-life conflicts, resolutions, and romances along the way through its bold battle music, soaring melodies, and passionate spirit.

Sierra and Strauss

The season reaches a thrilling climax as Andreas Delfs leads the RPO, the Rochester Oratorio Society, a children’s choir, and powerhouse soloists in Carl Orff’s electrifying Carmina Burana—a choral spectacle of fate, fortune, and unrelenting rhythm. The program opens with Pacho Flores performing Roberto Sierra’s stunning trumpet concerto Salseando. Don’t miss this astonishing finale, where voices and orchestra unite in one of the most exhilarating masterpieces of all time!

Roberto Sierra

Events

Upcoming events

23 - 25 Apr, 2026

Flores Performs Márquez · Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

29 - 31 May, 2026

Sierra and Strauss · Los Angeles Philharmonic

30 - 31 May, 2026

Season Finale: Carmina Burana · Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra

Past events

Mar 7, 2026

Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra: Happy Birthday, America! American Highlights · Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

Mar 7, 2026

Happy Birthday, America! · Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra

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