The Ruth Reinhardt era has begun! For her inaugural season as Music Director, Ruth has crafted compelling, creative programs and invited many of music's most acclaimed international artists...

RUTH REINHARDT INAUGURAL! - Ruth Reinhardt conducts Brahms' great and noble Fourth Symphony. Plus, she has invited Steven Banks, the saxophone virtuoso of the new generation, for the concerto by jazz-master Billy Childs, bringing their widely acclaimed partnership in this work to Rhode Island.

THE MOLDAU & MORE - Smetana's graceful The Moldau under Ruth Reinhardt, who has invited her friend Andrei Ioniţă to perform an 1882 work by Marie Jaëll, her romantic Cello Concerto.

BEETHOVEN VIOLIN CONCERTO - Elena Urioste plays Beethoven's towering Violin Concerto. "She is capable of the most exquisitely hushed soft playing, the kind that grabs the heart and holds on to it," raves The Washington Post. Also, Earl Lee leads Sibelius' bracing Second Symphony.

THE BLUE DANUBE - Ruth begins the New Year with Strauss' Blue Danube Waltz, plus Prokofiev's triumphant Fifth Symphony. Concertmaster Charles Dimmick plays for the exquisite Poème of Chausson.

ROMANTIC RACHMANINOFF  - For Valentine's Day, Ruth has asked Alessio Bax to make his RIPO debut in Rachmaninoff's ravishing Second Piano Concerto, in a concert also featuring Wagner's passionate music from Tristan and Isolde.

TCHAIKOVSKY'S FOURTH - Marcelo Lehninger leads Tchaikovsky's fiery Fourth Symphony, and with the dazzling Joyce Yang, Beethoven's youthful First Piano Concerto.

ALL MOZART! - An All-Mozart concert under Ken-David Masur featuring the great "Prague" Symphony, and the exquisite Piano Concerto No.23 with the legendary Robert Levin.

BEETHOVEN'S FIFTH! - And to conclude the season, Ruth Reinhardt conducts Beethoven's Fifth Symphony plus music of Unsuk Chin.