Maestro Adam Johnson conducts over 80 musicians on Gustav Mahler’s epic Symphony no. 5, one of the most emotionally powerful symphonies ever written.

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Johnson conducts Mahler's Fifth Symphony

River Center Theatre

To close out the year, this program is a showcase of the exceptional students of the School of Music. George Gershwin's wonderfully colorful inspired work, American in Paris, will kick things off. Winners of the Dean's Concerto Competition will solo with the orchestra-highlighting both graduate and undergraduate talent. The evening closes with an orchestral showpiece for every instrument, Ravel's Bolero.

LSU Symphony Orchestra: Gershwin & Ravel

Louisiana State University

To close the Spring 2026 semester, the LSU Symphonic Winds will present a concert titled “A Strange Trip”. Opening with the pairing of Jennifer Jolley’s How to be a Deep Thinker in Los Angeles and Ivan Trevino’s Run to the Light, the concert will take the audience through an introspective musical journey. Graduate Conductor Carly McClendon joins the ensemble to lead Roy Magnuson’s In the room, great, and green. The concert then concludes with the consortium premiere of Katahj Copley’s Amerykhan Graffiti.

LSU Symphonic Winds Presents "A Strange Trip"

The LSU Symphonic Band examines the beauty of nature and the human experience with “Nurture/Nature”. Under the baton of Graduate Conductors Carly McClendon, Benjamin Adams, and Ryan McCue the Symphonic Band will perform the music of David Maslanka, R. Nathaniel Dett, Conni Ellison, and Morten Lauridsen. To close the spring 2026 semester, the ensemble will perform Viet Cuong’s Diamond Tide.

LSU Symphonic Band Presents "Nurture/Nature"

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The Artelize Podcast Presenting Will Shutes: 'Bring it down out of the clouds to human being level'

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The LSU Concert Orchestra and LSU Percussion Ensemble (Hamiruge) join together for a shared program that features a broad array of both new and familiar repetoire for each group. This is one performance you don't want to miss.

LSU Concert Orchestra & Percussion Ensemble

The LSU Symphonic Band opens their Spring 2026 season with a concert titled “Kaleidoscopes”. Featuring a wide range of styles and influences, this concert includes the music of Katahj Copley, Steven Bryant, Kevin Day, and Erica Svanoe. This concert concludes with William Grant Still’s Folk Suite for Band.

LSU Symphonic Band Presents "Kaleidoscopes"

Join the LSU Chamber Orchestra at University United Methodist Church on March 17th, 2025. The program will feature Heitor Villa-Lobos’s exciting Bachianas Brasileiras No. 9, Igor Stravinsky’s sharp Danses Concertantes, and Claude Debussy’s youthful Petite Suite. This evening of dance-inspired music will be led by Graduate Orchestral Conducting student Jarred Kennedy.

LSU Chamber Orchestra Plays Debussy, Stravinsky, and Villa-Lobos

The LSU Symphonic Winds opens their Spring 2026 season presenting a concert titled “Sacred Spaces”. Opening with Morton Gould’s riveting American Salute, this concert showcases the tapestry of spaces and ideas held sacred to many. Repertoire includes Omar Thomas’ emotional Of Our New Day Begun and Viet Cuong’s introspective John and Jim. This concert concludes with Yasuhide Ito’s powerful Gloriosa – Symphonic Poem for Band.

LSU Symphonic Winds Presents "Sacred Spaces"

GRAMMY Award–winning chamber ensemble Orpheus makes a triumphant return to Baton Rouge. Renowned for their collaborative spirit, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra has played without a conductor since its inception, performing with “edge-of-the-seat intensity” and displaying an “infectious love for making music” (The New York Times) for audiences around the world.

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Guest Artist

The most popular and sought after big band of all time returns to Baton Rouge for two evenings of swing music at the Manship Theatre!

The Glenn Miller Orchestra

Manship Theatre

The LSU Symphony kicks off the spring semester with works full of youthful energy, wit, and passion. The concert opens with Gabriela Frank's Three Latin American Dances—brimming with colorful orchestral timbres and vibrant rhythms. LSU faculty members Michael Gurt and Ross Ahlhorn will be featured in Shostakovich's virtuosic and witty Concerto No. 1 for Piano, Trumpet, and Strings. The evening closes with an early gem of the young Beethoven: his Symphony No. 2 in D Major.

LSU Symphony Orchestra Presents Beethoven No. 2

Join the LSU Symphonic Winds for an inspiring evening of music as they present their final performance of the fall semester, led by Dr. Simon Holoweiko. This concert will feature a thoughtful selection of works that showcase the ensemble’s musical depth, precision, and expressive power. Open to music lovers of all ages, the event offers a wonderful opportunity for the campus and Baton Rouge communities to come together in celebration of the arts.

LSU Symphonic Winds Presents: "Resonance and Resistance"

In its annual concert, the Laptop Orchestra of Louisiana explores the intersection between technology and collective music making, transforming itself into a hybrid virtual percussion ensemble for the evening.

Laptop Orchestra of Louisiana

Dvořák Symphony No. 9

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

Join the LSU Symphonic Winds for an evening of sonic storytelling — where each piece paints a vivid scene in sound. From the vibrant premiere of Ryan Lindveit’s Brilliant Brushstrokes to Shuying Li’s cosmic Starry Ocean, and from the solemn beauty of Fauré’s Chant Funéraire to the submerged mystique of Debussy’s The Engulfed Cathedral, the first half is a feast of color and mood.

LSU Symphonic Winds Presents: "Painted Vistas"

LSU Symphony kicks off the 2025-26 season with a singular work, the Symphony No. 1 of Gustav Mahler "Titan". This massive orchestra brings forward sounds of nature, so inspiring to a young Mahler, as well as horn calls and thunderous percussion blows. A true "tour-de-force" for orchestra, and will be a thrilling start to LSU Symphony's concert season!

LSU Symphony Orchestra Presents "Titan"

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The LSU Symphony Orchestra closes its season with a showcase of talented students at the School of Music.  Dean’s Concerto Competition winner, Nathan Anderson, will play Malcolm Arnold’s Flute Concerto No. 1.  Graduate conductors Kai-Chun Wong and Jarred Kennedy will lead iconic American works by Morton Gould and Aaron Copland.  The evening culminates in boisterous and joyful Symphony No. 8 in G Major by Antonin Dvorak – a fitting close to 2024-2025 LSU Symphony season.

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