Curtis Symphony Orchestra

October 11, 2025 | Marian Anderson Hall, Kimmel Center

Join Grammy-winning conductor Christoph Eschenbach for Bruckner’s monumental Symphony No. 3. Also experience Samuel Barber’s witty and fast-paced overture The School for Scandal and Krzysztof Penderecki’s Concerto Grosso for Three Cellos, featuring Curtis alumni Nicholas Canellakis, Yumi Kendall, and Christine Jeonghyoun Lee—a striking work that blends lyrical beauty with bold dissonance and rhythmic intensity.

January 25, 2026 | Marian Anderson Hall, Kimmel Center

Embark on a musical odyssey with renowned Finnish conductor Osmo Vänskä for Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra—a dazzling, folk-inspired showcase highlighting every section of the ensemble, a celestial work inspired by planetary motion from Missy Mazzoli, a deeply personal tone poem from Henry Dorn, and the world premiere of a woodwind concerto by David Serkin Ludwig, featuring Grammy-winning quintet Imani Winds.

March 26, 2026 | Marian Anderson Hall, Kimmel Center

Join Curtis Symphony Orchestra and Grammy winner Yannick Nézet-Séguin for William Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony, a groundbreaking 1934 work blending African American spirituals with classical symphonic traditions alongside Gustav Mahler‘s vivid and richly expressive Des Knaben Wunderhorn.

October 27, 2024 | Marian Anderson Hall, Kimmel Center

Experience a transcendent musical journey with renowned Finnish conductor Osmo Vänskä, GRAMMY Award-winning ensemble Time for Three, and Curtis Symphony Orchestra. As we commence the historic centennial season, our program plays homage to the past while embracing the future with Jean Sibelius’s Finlandia, Jennifer Higdon’s Concerto 4-3, and Sergei Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5.

November 22, 2024 | Marian Anderson Hall, Kimmel Center

Embark on a musical odyssey with GRAMMY Award-winning conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Curtis Symphony Orchestra. In this enchanting evening, delight in groundbreaking works by luminaries Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Florence Price, harmoniously paired with Antonín Dvořák’s pastoral Symphony No. 8.

December 13, 2024 | Marian Anderson Hall, Kimmel Center

Renowned violinist Ray Chen, celebrated for his “gorgeous tone” (Chicago Tribune) and “full-bodied lyricism” (New York Times), joins forces with Curtis Symphony Orchestra for an electrifying rendition of Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto, conducted by acclaimed artist and Curtis alumnus Teddy Abrams. 

April 26, 2025 | Marian Anderson Hall, Kimmel Center

Witness the breathtaking culmination of Curtis Symphony Orchestra’s 2024–25 series as acclaimed pianist and Curtis alumna Yuja Wang takes center stage. Celebrated for her “exceptional power, depth, and dazzle” (Los Angeles Times), Yuja collaborates with award-winning conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin to deliver a tour de force performance of Einojuhani Rautavaara’s Piano Concerto No. 1, a stunning work of musical and emotional extremes—raw, primal, and explosively cinematic, yet achingly romantic and quietly ethereal.

Orchestral concerts are supported by the Jack Wolgin Curtis Orchestral Concerts Endowment Fund. Guest conductor appearances for each Curtis Symphony Orchestra performance are made possible by the Rita E. and Gustave M. Hauser Chair in Conducting Studies.

Orchestral concerts are supported by the Jack Wolgin Curtis Orchestral Concerts Endowment Fund.