Columbus Recreation and Parks Department and the Columbus Symphony Orchestra partner to bring you Sundays With The Symphony! This free concert features the full Columbus Symphony performing familiar classical pieces, movie soundtracks and popular favorites at Bicentennial Park! Come spend your Sunday evening with the Columbus Symphony along Columbus’ Scioto Mile.

Sunday with the Symphony

Bicentennial Park

Our season concludes with this vibrant finale featuring the Columbus Symphony musicians and Chorus, and dancers from BalletMet. Dvořák’s The American Flag is a spirited blend of nationalism and folk elements that celebrates the composer’s expressions of American patriotism and freedom. Orff’s Trionfo di Afroditi is the final installment of a musical trilogy that opens with the well-known Carmina Burana. This spectacular work showcases the full power of the chorus and orchestra, explores love and beauty, and embraces the listener in its powerful climaxes.

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Orff: Triumph of Aphrodite

Ohio Theatre

Join the Columbus Symphony Youth Orchestras Repertory Orchestra for a concert with free admission. Repertoire includes I Vespri Siciliani (Verdi), selections from L’Arlesienne (Bizet), Lieutenant Kijé (Prokofiev), and the Grammy- and Oscar-winning hit song Golden from K-Pop Demon Hunters! Email Nia Dewberry (ndewberry@columbussymphony.com) for more information.

The Columbus Symphony Youth Orchestras are committed to supporting the lives of young musicians and their families through professional and enriching rehearsals and performances. We are here to serve and inspire the passionate music-makers of central Ohio and elevate our community through musical excellence and innovation.

Repertory Orchestra Concert

Weigel Auditorium

Enjoy an evening of classic wind band repertoire led by conductors, Paul Bissler and Brooke Woods, University Band; and Phil Day, Collegiate Winds.

University Band and Collegiate Winds

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The Wind Symphony welcomes world-renowned composer, David Amram, for the premiere performance of the band version of his orchestra work This Land: Symphonic Variations on a Song by Woody Guthrie. DMA Wind Conducting student Shawn Davern will conduct the Wind Symphony on this transcription, completed by Davern in collaboration with the composer. The program also includes William Schuman’s New England Triptych and Sousa's The Liberty Bell March.

Wind Symphony

Campus Orchestra offers non-majors throughout the university, as well as music majors playing a secondary instrument, opportunities to perform within a full orchestral setting without committing to a formal musical degree.

Campus Orchestra

Musical brilliance abounds in this concert featuring works by three prominent composers from the Classical and Romantic eras. Beethoven’s overture to Egmont is part of the incidental music he composed for the play by Goethe. It portrays in a brilliant and powerful way the ideas of oppression, struggle, and freedom. Schumann’s music captures with its romantic passion and energy while offering an innovative formal design where all the movements of the symphony are linked together.

Beethoven, Schumann, & Brahms

The Columbus Symphony Youth Orchestras are committed to supporting the lives of young musicians and their families through professional and enriching rehearsals and performances. We are here to serve and inspire the passionate music-makers of central Ohio and elevate our community through musical excellence and innovation.

Columbus Symphony Youth Orchestra Concert

Riffe Center Studio Theatres

This evocative concert begins with the Grammy-nominated ensemble Sandbox Percussion’s performance of Viet Cuong’s Re(new)al—for percussion quartet and orchestra full of eclectic soundscapes that explore themes of transformation and resilience. Shostakovich’s Symphony No.8 is a powerful work reflecting on war as a force of destruction and suffering, while juxtaposing it with the endurance and resilience of the human spirit.

Shostakovich 8

Immerse yourself in this exhilarating concert filled with heroic sounds, dazzling virtuosity, and musical drama! Janáček’s dynamic Taras Bulba offers a vivid orchestral portrayal of heroism and sacrifice inspired by Nikolai Gogol’s tales of war and death. Symphony pianist Caroline Hong brings Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue to life with sweeping lyricism and jazzy flair. Rachmaninoff’s lush and dramatic Symphony No. 3 weaves a poignant musical tapestry that will captivate your heart and stir your soul.

Rachmaninoff 3

The Wind Symphony plays host to the 2026 North American Saxophone Alliance Biennial Conference, featuring winners of the NASA concerto competition. An all-star cast of soloists includes Michael Rene Torres, Ohio State University, Sarah Hatrick, University of Arkansas, Otis Murphy, Indiana University, and the Assembly Quartet.  The program includes works by Karel Husa, David Maslanka, Alexandra Gardner, and a world premiere by Katajh Copley.

The musicians of Symphonic Band present a program largely influenced by American composer Steven Danyew. This program features Danyew’s Magnolia Star, Six Little Songs featuring soprano soloist Xio Liu (DMA graduate student), and Lauda, in addition to Vincent Persichetti’s Symphony No. 6.

Symphonic Band

This concert showcases the winners of our annual concerto competition for undergraduate and master's students, including the world premiere of student composer Quinn Jensen's Achilles.

Symphony Orchestra Concerto Winners Concert

This captivating concert features Jeffrey Mumford’s Double Concerto, a stunning fusion of rich textures, innovative harmonies, and intricate dialogue between the orchestra and soloists Lauren Cauley, violin, and Mariel Roberts, cello. The program culminates with Mahler’s monumental Symphony No. 1 (“Titan”), a work that takes listeners on a journey through expansive soundscapes of emotion, from robust triumph to serene reflection.

Mahler 1

Experience the vibrant energy of Aaron Copland’s Rodeo. Four folk-inspired dances from the ballet come alive, bursting with frontier spirit and lively rhythms. Described as elegant and thoughtful (Cincinnati Business Courier), violinist Melissa White will capture the sounds of American classical music with the soul-stirring lyricism of Florence Price’s Second Violin Concerto. Finally, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.1 (“Winter Dreams”) will take us on a charming musical ride full of dreamy landscapes and emotional depth.

Price & Tchaikovsky

Observe a working rehearsal as the musicians and conductor put the finishing touches on the weekend’s concert.

Friday Coffee Dress – Price & Tchaikovsky

Symphony Orchestra

The ensembles present a joint concert featuring selections they will perform at the annual OMEA Conference.*

Women's Glee Club and Symphony Orchestra give OMEA Preview

The musicians of Symphonic Band welcome guests for the annual High School Honor Band Weekend with a performance that includes compositions by Dmitri Kabalevsky, Michael Daugherty, Viet Cuong, Dan Forrest, and Percy Grainger. This program will be performed again on January 30 at the Ohio Music Education Association Professional Development Conference in Columbus, Ohio.

Symphonic Band opens High School Honor Band Weekend

The Columbus Symphony brings magic to the Ohio Theatre in December, transforming it with a show of lights, festive music, heavenly voices, and seasonal cheer!  The Columbus Symphony Chorus, Columbus Children’s Choir and special guests join to present the most-loved holiday songs and carols!

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