2024-2025 Season
2024-25 Season
Bold strokes! Each program in our season contains rhythmic drive, powerful melodies. and soloists that come with dramatic individuality. As we journey through repertoire from the classics, like Beethoven's 7th Symphony, to new premieres, like the raga-inspired Rhapsody in Raag in Jog, we believe you leave each performance transformed.
Tickets go on sale August 1, 2024Dvorak’s New World Symphony
Sat, Oct 5, 2024 | 7:30PM | Shriver Hall
Jed Gaylin, Music Director
*Tickets go on-sale August 1, 2024
HSO opens the season with Dvorak’s New World Symphony. This famous work, written in 1893, was intended to demonstrate what an American-inspired orchestral piece might sound like, placing emphasis on Native and African American elements. The impact of this work resonated across the ocean and can be felt in Ravel’s Piano Concerto, which the orchestra will perform with the brilliant Terrance Wilson. The evening’s program will start off with William Grant Still’s alluring Serenade, setting the tone for an epic night of music.
WILLIAM GRANT STILL: Serenade
MAURICE RAVEL: Piano Concerto in G Major—Terrence Wilson, piano
ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK: Symphony No. 9 (New World Symphony)
Winter Fest
Sat, Dec 7, 2024 | 7:30PM | Shriver Hall
Jed Gaylin, Music Director
*Tickets go on-sale August 1, 2024
This December, get into the holiday spirit with HSO as we perform a selection of seasonal pieces, culminating with Poulenc’s Gloria featuring the JHU choral society, BSA choir, and Towson University Chorale, and soprano Lori Hultgren. With a pop-up holiday market in the lobby before the concert, you’re sure to get a dose of winter magic.
RUSSEL STEINBERG: Light’s On!
ADOLPHUS HAILSTORK: Three Spirituals
WILLIAM WALTONG: Wise Virgins
FRANCIS POULENC: Gloria—Lori Hultgren, soprano; JHU Choral Society & BSA Choir, led by Mark Hardy
Rhapsodies & Beethoven
Sat, March 1, 2025 | 7:30PM | Shriver Hall
Jed Gaylin, Music Director
*Tickets go on-sale August 1, 2024
Rhapsody and rhythm are the musical forces behind this multi-faceted program. HSO will premiere Drew Zaremba’s Rhapsody in Raag in Jog, which combines traditional Indian music motifs, jazz, and classical sounds. Bansuri flute, table, saxophone, and Karthak dancing will bring these expressions to life in a work that opens with mystery and closes with incisiveness. Enesco’s haunting Romanian Rhapsody invokes an other-worldly sensibility, and the evening will conclude with a performance of Beethoven’s famously brilliant 7th symphony.
GEORGES ENESCO: Romanian Rhapsody No. 2
DREW ZAREMBA: Rhapsody in Raag in Jog—Anjan Shah, Bansari flute, tenor saxophone; Nabin Shrestha, tabla ; Jonathan Epley, guitar; Amy Shook, bass; Sarah Morelli, Kathak artist
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 7
Rhapsody in Raag performance
31st Annual Free Family Concert
Sun, Mar 2, 2025 |=3:00PM | Shriver Hall
Jed Gaylin, Music Director
*Tickets go on-sale August 1, 2024
Hopkins Symphony Orchestra presents their 31st Annual Free Family Concert! Join us at the beautiful Shriver Hall for a 45-minute orchestral program that is kid-friendly! Tickets are free, registration is required.
Bruckner 4
Sat, April 19, 2025 | 7:30PM | Shriver Hall
Jed Gaylin, Music Director
*Tickets go on-sale August 1, 2024
For our last performance of the season, internationally renowned soloist Marina Piccinini graces our stage to perform Nielsen’s Flute Concerto. This Danish work miraculously combines abandon and energy with a clean-lined Scandinavian tilt and will be followed by a delightful duet with flutist Giorgio Consolati. In contrast, we finish with the mystery and spiritual drama of Bruckner’s dramatic “Romantic” Symphony.
CARL NIELSEN: Flute Concerto—Marina Piccinini, flute
FRANZ & KARL DOPPLER: Fantasy on “Rigoletto”—Marina Piccinini and Giorgio Consolati, flute
ANTON BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 4
