Full Season Schedule
Updated June 18, 2024
2024-2025 Season Schedule
Concerts
Note: Audience talk-backs directly follow each Symphony Orchestra concert. Concert Orchestra performances typically start with chamber ensemble performances.
Symphony Orchestra • Shriver Hall • Jed Gaylin, Conductor • 7:30pm Concerts |
| Saturday October 5, 2024 |
| Saturday December 7, 2024 |
| Saturday March 1, 2025 |
| Saturday April 19, 2025 |
Concert Orchestra • Bunting-Meyerhoff Interfaith Center • 3pm Concerts |
| Sunday November 10, 2024 |
| Sunday February 16, 2025 |
31st Annual Free Family Concert: Sunday March 2, 2025, 3pm |
Auditions
Current orchestra members to not need to re-audition. For more info visit our auditions page.
Auditions for the Hopkins Symphony's 2024-25 season will be held on (subject to change):| Dates | Times | Instruments | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday, Aug 29, 2024 | 5 – 8 pm | strings | TBD |
| 8 – 10 pm | woodwinds/brass | ||
| Friday, Aug 30, 2024 | 5 – 8 pm | strings | TBD |
| 8 – 10 pm | woodwinds/brass | ||
| Saturday, Aug 31, 2024 | 10 am – 12 pm | woodwinds/brass | TBD |
| 1 – 6 pm | strings |
Symphony Orchestra Rehearsals and Performances
- All rehearsals are 7–9:30 p.m., in Shriver Hall, except where noted.
- For directions visit our Venues and Directions page.
- Contact HSO for parking info.
HSO Concert Cycle #1: Dvořák’s New World Symphony (7 rehearsals)
Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 (New World Symphony)
Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto in G Major
William Grant Still: Serenade
Conducted by Jed Gaylin, Music Director
- Monday, September 9, 2024
- Monday, September 16, 2024
- Thursday, September 19, 2024
- Monday, September 23, 2024
- Monday, September 30, 2024
- Thursday, October 3, 2024
- Friday, October 4, 2024 Dress Rehearsal
- Saturday, October 5, 2024, 7:30pm CONCERT
HSO Concert Cycle #2: Winter Fest (9 rehearsals)
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 & BSA Choir; Mark Hardy, director
Conducted by Jed Gaylin, Music Director
- Monday, October 14, 2024
- Monday, October 21, 2024
- Monday, October 28, 2024
- Monday, November 4, 2024
- Monday, November 11, 2024
- Monday, November 18, 2024
- NO REHEARSAL Monday, November 25, 2024 (JHU Thanksgiving Break)
- Monday, December 2, 2024
- Thursday, December 5, 2024 *(8:30PM-10PM Rehearsal)
- Friday, December 6, 2024 Dress Rehearsal
- Saturday, December 7, 2024, 7:30PM CONCERT
HSO Concert Cycle #3: Rhapsodies & Beethoven (8 Rehearsals)
Georges Enescu: Romanian Rhapsody No. 2
Drew Zaremba: Nightfall Rhapsody—Anjan Shah, Bansuri flute, tenor saxophone; Nabin Shrestha, tabla; Jonathan Epley, guitar; Amy Shook, bass; Sarah Morelli, Kathak artist
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7
Conducted by Jed Gaylin, Music Director
- Monday, January 27, 2025
- Monday, February 3, 2025
- Monday, February 10, 2025
- Thursday, February 13, 2025
- Monday, February 17, 2025
- Monday, February 24, 2025
- Thursday, February 27, 2025
- Friday, February 28, 2025 – Dress Rehearsal
- Saturday, March 1, 2025, 7:30PM CONCERT
- Sunday, March 2, 2025, 3:00PM FAMILY CONCERT
Concert Cycle #4: HSO—Bruckner 4 (8 rehearsals)
Carl Nielsen: Flute Concerto—Marina Piccinini, flute
Franz & Karl Doppler: Fantasy on “Rigoletto”—Marina Piccinini and Giorgio Consolati, flute
Alban Berg: Violin Concerto—Stefan Jackiw, violin
Conducted by Jed Gaylin, Music Director
- NO REHEARSAL Monday, March 3, 2025
- Monday, March 10, 2025
- NO REHEARSAL Monday, March 17, 2025 (Spring Break)
- Monday, March 24, 2025
- Thursday, March 27, 2025
- Monday, March 31, 2025
- Monday, April 7, 2025
- Monday, April 14, 2025
- Thursday, April 17, 2025
- Friday, April 18, 2025 Dress Rehearsal
- Saturday, April 19, 2025 7:30PM CONCERT
Concert Orchestra Rehearsals and Performances
- All rehearsals are 2-4:30 p.m. except as noted.
- All rehearsals take place at the Interfaith Center
- For directions visit our Venues and Directions page.
- Contact HSO for parking info.
HCO Concert Cycle #1 (5 rehearsals)
Heitor Villa-Lobos: Suite for Strings
William Grant Still: Danzas de Panama
Conducted by Michael Djabarov
- Saturday, October 26, 2024
- Saturday, November 2, 2024
- Sunday, November 3, 2024
- Saturday, November 9, 2024
- Sunday, November 10, 2024 – 12-2PM Dress Rehearsal
- Sunday, November 10, 2024 3:00PM CONCERT
*Dates are subject to change*
HCO Concert Cycle #2 (7 rehearsals)
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622
Mahler: Adagietto
Nielsen: Little Suite
Conducted by Michael Djabarov
- Saturday, Jan 25, 2025
- Sunday, January 26, 2025
- Saturday, February 1, 2025
- Saturday, February 8, 2025
- Sunday, February 9, 2025
- Saturday, February 15, 2025
- Sunday, February 16, 2025 12-2PM Dress Rehearsal
- Sunday, February 16, 2025 3:00PM CONCERT
*Dates are subject to change*