Grammy Award-winning violin icon Joshua Bell unleashes cosmic grandeur and world-shaking virtuosity in The Elements, a stunning sound-plus-video experience which summons the elemental power of Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Space through spellbinding music and immersive video projections. Eternal questions of love, death, and the hereafter are explored through soaring, transcendent music of Wagner and Strauss.

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Joshua Bell Returns: The Elements in Concert

Jones Hall

The Texas Medical Center Orchestra concludes its 2025-2026 season with a concert filled with exploration, innovation, and the joy of music.

Russian Fireworks

Hobby Center for the Performing Arts

The Houston Latin American Philharmonic presents its traditional “Mother’s Day Serenade” to honor the noblest human being on earth, our mothers. The program includes Moliendo Café, A Mi Manera, Yo me Llamo Cumbia,  Como la Flor, Volver Volver, Mexico Lindo y Querido, and much more. The guest artists include Neyda Perdomo, “La Voz de Diamante de Venezuela”; Saul Avalos, El Gallito de Oro, and from Colombia, Andrea Gaetan, “La Reina de la Cumbia.” The Houston Latin Phil is the only full-size professional orchestra in the United States created to promote and elevate Latin American music, musicians, and composers.

Mother’s Day Serenade 2026

Houston favorite Augustin Hadelich returns for one of the most treasured works in all of music, Tchaikovsky’s lushly romantic (and dizzyingly difficult) Violin Concerto. Be transported to a world of soaring beauty and limitless possibility in Jennifer Higdon’s blue cathedral, which, in Higdon’s words, represents an imaginary journey “through a glass cathedral in the sky.” Then, fasten your seatbelts and blast off to menacing Mars, jolly Jupiter, and beyond as the Symphony performs Holst’s sonic, celestial showpiece, The Planets.

The Planets + Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto

Podcast link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFe6mW6x9pc

The Artelize Podcast: 'Amplifying What Makes Us Human'. A conversation with Zuly E. Inirio

Podcast link: https://youtu.be/4hagYvrYbuM

The Artelize Podcast and Kasper Holten - Pedefining Opera for the modern world

Podcast link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d36M5Hi6O80

The Artelize Podcast - A legacy of innovation in Opera: Celebrating Marc A. Scorca

Podcast link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59E40S_EQSY

The Artelize Podcast: A love letter that was never sent

For the grand finale to our classical season, Music Director Juraj Valčuha leads Mahler’s final completed work, the extraordinary Symphony No. 9. To hear one of Mahler’s symphonies live is to feel why it’s an experience unlike anything else in music, and the Ninth is one of his most remarkable—a monumental journey of epic proportions, ending with music of rare transportive power and time-altering beauty.

Valčuha Conducts Mahler 9

Distant Worlds: music from FINAL FANTASY will be performed live in Houston June 6–7, 2026 with the Houston Symphony at Jones Hall.

Distant Worlds: music from FINAL FANTASY

Hip-Hop icon Rick Ross celebrates the 20th anniversary of his groundbreaking debut album Port of Miami with a live orchestral performance alongside the Renaissance Orchestra and the Sainted Trap Choir.

Rick Ross Presents Port of Miami 20

Be part of the glamour and excitement of Opening Night as three-time Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard joins the Symphony for a special performance celebrating America at 250, including favorite songs of George Gershwin and classics from the Great American Songbook.

Celebrating America at 250 with Isabel Leonard

When it comes to electrifying stage presence and explosive vocal power, Tina Turner is still Simply the Best.

Simply the Best: A Tribute to Tina Turner

Rapturous, ravishing, romantic: Rachmaninoff’s music goes straight to the heart.

Rachmaninoff Festival: Rachmaninoff’s Second Symphony

Its staggering technical difficulty is legendary. Its colossal power and depth of expression—breathtaking.

Rachmaninoff Festival: Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3

The spark of genius ignites with commanding, unstoppable force in Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony, setting off a grand display of musical fireworks every bit as astounding today as 200 years ago.

Mozart’s Jupiter & JIJI

Mozart: Cats and Mice is a playful reimagining of Mozart’s Bastien & Bastienne, originally composed when he was just twelve years old. In this enchanting adaptation for young audiences, the pastoral lovers are recast as charming mice. When Bastienne suspects Bastien of being swayed by the allure of a glamorous cat-lady, she follows the advice of a wizardly owl and agrees to use a magical disguise to test his loyalty. Mozart’s music soars through this tale of love, loyalty, and a touch of woodland wizardry. Featuring a new English libretto and vibrant staging, the production blends humor, imagination, and a touch of magic to create a fairy-tale opera experience specially designed for 5th grade audiences. With whimsical costumes, special effects, and a timeless message, Mozart: Cats and Mice delights both seasoned opera lovers and first-time audiences alike.

Mozart: Cats and Mice with Mercury Chamber Orchestra

Celebrate the Queen of Country in this innovative multimedia experience featuring Dolly on screen, leading audiences in a visual and musical journey of her songs, her life, and her stories.

Dolly Parton’s Threads: My Songs in Symphony

Bring your ghosts and ghouls for a morning of boo-tiful tunes and fang-tastic favorites, performed by our haunted Symphony dressed in full costume! Plus, come in costume and grab your Jack-O-Lanterns for in-hall trick-or-treating.

Haunted Halloween

Houston Symphony Concertmaster Yoonshin Song takes center stage for Prokofiev’s electrifying Violin Concerto No. 2, a staggering musical journey supercharged with brooding drama and fast-and-furious energy.

Shostakovich’s Ninth Symphony & Yoonshin Song

Get on your feet and let’s get loud with the greatest hits of the ‘90s and ‘00s Latin pop explosion, including the steamy serenades of Enrique Iglesias, the Miami Sound Machine vibes of Gloria Estefan, the guitar-god grooves of Santana, the unbridled energy of Ricky Martin, iconic Selena songs, and so much more.

La Vida Loca

Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 7 & Shéhérazade will be performed live in Houston November 27–29, 2026 with the Houston Symphony at Jones Hall.

Thanksgiving Weekend: Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 7 & Shéhérazade

Barber’s treasured Violin Concerto runs the gamut from radiant melodies that melt the heart to super-human, finger-flying feats, and an extraordinary experience is in store as the incomparable Gil Shaham (2026–27 Houston Symphony Artist-in-Residence) returns to Jones Hall.

Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8 & Gil Shaham

As we count down to Christmas, gather your little elves and take a sleigh ride to Jones Hall for a magical holiday concert guaranteed to make memories. From favorite carols to sparkling decorations, and Santa Claus himself, it’s the perfect way to celebrate the most wonderful time of the year.

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