Join JoAnn Falletta on a captivating journey through centuries of seasonal music highlighted by soprano Sirgourney Cook performing “O Holy Night,” John Jacob Niles’ “I Wonder as I Wander” and Handel’s “Let the Bright Seraphim” from Samson. Perfect for the whole family, this performance promises a warm, illuminating feast celebrating winter’s spirit and charm.

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JoAnn’s Classical Christmas

Kleinhans Music Hall

Theatre maker Daniel F. Lendzian adapts Charles Dickens' classic holiday tale into a gorgeous new production for our time. Directed by Chris J Handley with scenic design by Justin and Christopher Swader (White Rabbit Red Rabbit), the Alleyway brings a fresh new spirit to our longstanding holiday tradition!

A Christmas Carol 2025

Alleyway Theatre

Magical holiday decorations, pre-concert activities, and a sing-along as Santa conducts the orchestra make this concert a festive occasion for the entire family. It’s a jolly good time!

Jingle Bell Jam

Deck the halls for Western New York’s most cherished holiday tradition! Ron Spigelman conducts a celebration of the sounds of the season with help from the Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus, the Buffalo United Community Choir, and a few surprises!

Holiday Pops

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Our Mozart Festival opens with the “Prague” Symphony No. 38, composed on the heels of The Marriage of Figaro‘s tremendous success. Rich in complex subtleties and lyrical sophistication, it spans a full spectrum of emotion. Mozart’s unfinished “Great” Mass in C minor—his most exalted and personal work—was deeply influenced by the Baroque traditions of Bach and Handel. Its original movements journey from somber to soaring, with later 20th-century revisions completing the piece.

Mozart’s Great Mass

The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra hosts incredible guest artists each year on our Classics Series. We make many of these masters available to the community in our Masterclass series. These artists will work one-on-one with talented local students in front of a live audience. All events are FREE with a required reservation.

Masterclass with Aubree Oliverson, violin

Clement House Buffalo

Continuing our Mozart Festival, enjoy works by two peers: Joseph Bologne’s jaunty Symphony No. 2 and Maria Theresia von Paradis’s Overture to The School Candidate, her sole surviving orchestral piece, in commedia dell’arte form. Mozart’s five violin concertos, composed in 1775, culminate in a Fifth that is imaginative and technically challenging. The fiery “Haffner” Symphony, honoring a former Salzburg patron, is bold and regal.

Mozart’s Violin

Two immersive performances designed as a unique, intimate, informal concert experience. Led by BPO concertmaster Nikki Chooi and host BPO bassist Jonathan Borden, the program provides backstory and insight to the short classical music pieces while the audience is seated around the orchestra.

BPO UpClose

Some of rock’s most iconic music is recreated in this Windborne Production featuring lead singer Juan Del Castillo, a full rock band, and rock lighting accompanying the BPO.

The Music of Journey

It Don’t Mean a Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing! Inspired by Harlem’s famed musical hot spots like The Cotton Club and The Savoy, this swingin’ night of musical sensations focuses on Harlem’s heyday when Duke Ellington’s orchestra was the house band, and Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald, and Ethel Waters showcased the classics of the Great American Songbook.

Uptown Nights with Byron Stripling

Composed to acknowledge an honorary degree despite not attending university, a mischievous Brahms penned the tongue-in-cheek Academic Festival Overture, featuring boisterous student drinking songs. Reinecke’s Concerto in E minor spotlights the harp in a virtuosic display of shimmering arpeggios and rhythmic optimism. The forced optimism of Symphony No. 5, glorifying Stalin’s regime, proved both career- and lifesaving for Shostakovich.

Shostakovich No. 5

A special Saturday morning session for our littlest listeners, age 0-5, with their caregivers. Join BPO musicians and community partners for fun musical activities designed specifically for tiny ears and growing minds.

BPO Little Kids

Join us for an enchanting performance by candlelight! Space is extremely limited.

Candlelight and Romance

From his roots in Gospel to forays into R&B and Jazz to top winner of American Idol’s second season, Ruben Studdard has always considered Luther Vandross his hero. He recreates the velvet tones of songs like Here and Now, Aint No Stoppin’ Us Now, Always and Forever, and Dance with my Father for a sentimental return to the ’80s and ’90s.

Ruben Studdard – My Tribute to Luther Vandross

Four notes instantly recognizable across generations welcome back the much-loved Symphony No. 5 to the Kleinhans stage. Dance Symphony‘s rhythmic jazz motifs were drawn from an evocative Copland ballet about a morbid conjurer who could raise the dead and make them dance. Beethoven expands on Mozart’s influence in his Piano Concerto No. 1, featuring challenging key changes and bold harmonies.

Beethoven’s Fifth

The premier Pink Floyd experience returns to the BPO with classic hits timed to a laser light show, celebrating 50 years since the studio album Wish You Were Here.

The Music of Pink Floyd with The Machine

Broadway and Hollywood combine for a romantic and entertaining evening of song and dance inspired by the likes of Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Gene Kelly, and Eleanor Powell. With hit tunes like They Can’t Take That Away from Me and Let’s Face the Music and Dance to Singin’ in the Rain and Begin the Beguine, this evening will put a smile on your face and a spring in your step.

Dancing & Romancing

Join us for a special side-by-side concert with the Fredonia Symphony Orchestra! This collaboration features Fredonia’s College Symphony Orchetra performing alongside the BPO featuring conductors JoAnn Falletta and Emily Schaad.

Fredonia Side-by-Side

A myriad of eclectic instruments—including pots, pans, and metal gadgets—accompany world-renowned percussionist Colin Currie and his acclaimed BPO ensemble in performing Danny Elfman’s offbeat, idiosyncratic Percussion Concerto, composed without brass or woodwinds. Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony, once plagued by poor reviews and personal self-doubt, endures as a beloved, emotionally lyrical masterpiece, proving its timeless appeal.

Tchaikovsky Meets Elfman

The Bat Signal lights up Buffalo when the BPO performs Danny Elfman’s iconic score live while the star-studded Micahel Keaton and Jack Nicholson movie is projected above the orchestra.

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