Our 26/27 season is here. ✨
Our 98th season is one of celebration and exploration, uniting beloved classics with bold contemporary works, familiar faces with fresh voices, and cherished stages with exciting new venues. Explore the full season at the link in our bio.
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Our 25/26 season finale brought Maestro Earl Lee (@earlleeconductor ) and the A2SO back to Hill Auditorium for an evening filled with powerful music, contagious smiles, and celebratory cheer!
From the shimmering first notes of Caroline Mallonee's A2SO co-commissioned work Lakeside Game, to the deeply moving performance of Elgar's Cello Concerto, brought to life by the exceptional Maximilian Hornung (@maximilianhornung ), and the transcendent beauty of Holst's The Planets, featuring the UMS Choral Union (@umspresents ) in its final, otherworldly moments, the evening was nothing short of phenomenal. 🪐🎻
We'd like to extend our sincerest appreciation to the Martin Family Foundation, Michigan Arts and Culture Council, and National Endowment for the Arts for their generous concert support. We are also deeply grateful to our musicians, volunteers, stagehands, and Hill Auditorium staff who brought this evening to life — and to you, our community, for filling the hall with your exuberant energy and supporting our mission throughout the year.
Stay tuned for news about our 2026/27 season coming very soon. 👀
Photos: @charlottesmithphoto
With just two days until our 25/26 season finale at Hill Auditorium, here's a #ThrowbackThursday to where it all began at our opening night concert 🥹🫶
Hear Gustav Holst's celestial masterpiece The Planets, Caroline Mallonee's Lakeside Game, along with Edward Elgar's cello concerto featuring renowned cellist Maximilian Hornung (@maximilianhornung ), this Saturday at 7:30 PM.
Visit the link in our bio for more info, read concert bios, and get tickets to the final concert of our 97th concert season!
Want to learn more about orchestral music or want to introduce friends and family to the magic of the symphony while hearing one of the genre’s all-time greatest hits? The Explorer Concert was created just for you!
Composer, director, and writer Bill Barclay hosts this performance, taking audiences through the magic of Beethoven and one of the most famous pieces of music ever written: Symphony No. 5. Its iconic “da-da-da-dum” opens a world of drama and brings the audience on an unforgettable orchestral journey.
🔺For tickets and more information, visit the link in our bio
April 14
630pm
Symphony Hall
Boston, MA
#beethoven #classicalmusic #bostonsymphonyorchestra
Wonderful flashback working with musicians of the @necmusic few years back. Looking forward to bringing this titan of a piece to @theroyalconservatory@calgaryphil soon!
The Colburn Orchestra is revving things up in preparation for tomorrow’s performance at Walt Disney Concert Hall!
Don’t miss this larger-than-life program under the baton of @earlleeconductor , Sunday, March 29 at 7:30 pm.
Following last season’s powerful performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, the Colburn Orchestra and conductor Earl Lee return to Walt Disney Concert Hall with another larger-than-life program.
Two atmospheric works—Samy Moussa’s 2021 piece Elysium and Richard Strauss’ famous symphonic poem Also sprach Zarathustra, best known for its use in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey—bookend the concert with soaring melodies and theatrical tone shifts.
In between, the lush orchestration and sparkling virtuosity of Max Bruch’s Violin Concerto provide a break from the musical theatrics.
Colburn Orchestra
Earl Lee, conductor
Eunice Lee, violin
Program
Samy MOUSSA
Elysium
BRUCH
Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26
Intermission
STRAUSS
Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30
Earlier this month, audiences experienced a journey across sound, space, and time with “Star-Crossed Rendezvous”—an immersive collaboration between LA Phil Insight and MOCA that physically spanned the museum galleries and Walt Disney Concert Hall.
The evening began at MOCA, where acclaimed artist Haegue Yang’s multisensory installation invited audiences to explore the legacy of the late Korean composer Isang Yun.
Then, the experience continued at the Hall with a performance of Yun’s 1977 Double Concerto for oboe, harp, and small orchestra by the LA Phil New Music Group and conductor Earl Lee with Principal Harpist Emmanuel Ceysson and Principal Oboist Ryan Roberts. Yang set the tone for the concert with a custom-choreographed “lighting prelude,” bringing her signature artistic abstraction into the Hall.
📸: @farahstop
