Our Orchestra

2023-2024 SEASON HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:

• Robert Spano, former Music Director of the Atlanta Symphony, begins the season in September with Shostakovich’s triumphant Symphony No. 5. And Karen Gomyo returns to perform Bruch’s beloved Violin Concerto.

• Nicholas McGegan, master of the Baroque and Classical, leads the October program with music of Bach and Mendelssohn, and is joined by the brilliant Jeremy Denk for Mozart’s exquisite Piano Concerto No.22.

• Morihiko Nakahara, conductor of the South Carolina Philharmonic, leads Debussy’s sensuous La mer in November, along with music of Benjamin Britten and Gabriella Smith. Randall Goosby is the soloist in the colorful Violin Concerto of Hollywood master Erich Wolfgang Korngold.

• Ruth Reinhardt returns to begin the New Year with music from Prokofiev’s passionate Romeo and Juliet, and Tchaikovsky Competition winner Zlatomir Fung is the soloist in Haydn’s delightful Cello Concerto No.1.

• José Luis Gómez, Music Director of the Tucson Symphony, arrives in February to lead showpieces by Respighi, Ravel, and Valerie Coleman. And, in his eagerly awaited return to Rhode Island, piano titan Garrick Ohlsson plays Rachmaninoff’s romantic Third Piano Concerto.

• Joseph Young, Berkeley Symphony’s recently appointed Music Director, whose conducting has garnered much praise, leads Brahms’ First Symphony in March, and is joined by Tony Siqi Yun for Tchaikovsky’s immortal First Piano Concerto.

• Benjamin Manis, an in-demand guest conductor here in the U.S. and just as much abroad, leads Mahler’s youthful, exuberant First Symphony in April. This concert also features Orli Shaham performing Beethoven’s sparkling Second Piano Concerto.

• Thomas Wilkins, the laureate conductor of the Omaha Symphony and well-known to New England audiences, will conclude your season in May with Berlioz’ fiery symphonic hallucination, the Symphonie fantastique in a concert also featuring the Violin Concerto of Jazz Master Wynton Marsalis, as performed by the dazzling Kelly Hall-Tompkins.