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 beloved classics, like Beethoven's 7th Symphony, to new works, like the raga-inspired Rhapsody in राग जोग (Raag Jog), I believe you will leave each performance transformed.
—Jed Gaylin, Music Director Tickets go on sale August 1, 2024Winter 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, Towson University Chorale, Baltimore School for the Arts Choir, 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.
RUSSELL STEINBERG: Light’s On!—A Hanukkah Celebration
ADOLPHUS HAILSTORK: Three Spirituals
EDWARD ELGAR: Cello Concerto, movement 1—Vea Freeman, cello (HSO Concerto Competition Winner)
WILLIAM WALTON: Wise Virgins
FRANCIS POULENC: Gloria—Lori Hultgren, soprano; JHU Choral Society, Towson University Chorale, & BSA Choir; Mark Hardy and Diana Saez, choral directors
Lori Hultgren, soprano Vea Freeman, cello
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 give its debut performance of Drew Zaremba’s Rhapsody in Raag in Jog, which combines traditional Indian music motifs, jazz, and classical sounds. Bansuri flute, tabla, saxophone, and Kathak 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 ecstatic 7th symphony.
GEORGES ENESCU: Romanian Rhapsody No. 2
DREW ZAREMBA: Rhapsody in राग जोग (Raag Jog)—Anjan Shah, Bansuri 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.
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 7
Marina Piccinini & Stefan Jackiw
Sat, April 19, 2025 | 7:30PM | Shriver Hall
Jed Gaylin, Music Director
*Tickets go on-sale August 1, 2024
To close out our 2024-25 season, HSO will feature not one, but two world-class soloists. Sibelius’ Finlandia will open the program, followed by a performance from the illustrious Stefan Jackiw, who will grace our stage with Berg’s haunting Violin Concerto. Internationally-acclaimed performer Marina Piccinini will dazzle on Nielsen’s Flute Concerto. This Danish work miraculously combines abandon with a clean-lined Scandinavian tilt and will be followed by a delightful duet with flutist Giorgio Consolati. Audiences will not want to miss this star-studded event.
JEAN SIBELIUS: Finlandia
ALBAN BERG: Violin Concerto—Stefan Jackiw, violin
CARL NIELSEN: Flute Concerto—Marina Piccinini, flute
FRANZ & KARL DOPPLER: Fantasy on “Rigoletto”—Marina Piccinini and Giorgio Consolati, flute
