past concerts
2024-2025 Season
Saturday, October 19, 2024, 8:00 pm
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Ballade
Ernest Bloch, Schelomo, featuring Bouix concerto competition winner Johnny Mok
Ralph Vaughan-Williams, The Lark Ascending, featuring Brookline Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster Jean Huang
Aaron Copland, Appalachian Spring
Saturday, December 14, 2024, 8:00 pm
Joseph Jongen, Suite for Viola and Orchestra, featuring concerto competition winner Bryan Tyler
Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 8
Saturday, March 8, 2025, 7:30 pm
Sunday, March 9, 2025, 3:00 pm
Saturday, March 15, 2025, 7:30 pm
Collaboration with the Metropolitan Chorale
Johannes Brahms, Ein deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem), conducted by Andrew Altenbach
Saturday, May 17, 2025, 8:00 pm
Sergei Prokofiev, Lieutenant Kijé
Missy Mazzoli, Orpheus Undone
Zdenêk Fibich, Symphony No. 2
Sunday, June 15, 2025, 3:00 pm
Summer Pops Concert
2023-2024 Season
Saturday, October 21, 2023, 8pm
Leilehua Lanzilotti, koʻu inoa
Sergei Prokofiev, Violin Concerto No. 2, featuring concerto competition winner David Bernat
Johannes Brahms, Symphony No. 2
Saturday, December 16, 2023 8pm
Maurice Ravel, Shéhérazade, featuring Grace Heldridge, Mezzo-Soprano
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, The Tempest
Sergei Prokofiev, Piano Concerto No. 3 , featuring Sam Wiseman, concerto competition winner
Saturday, March 9, 2024, 7:30pm
Sunday, March 10, 2024, 3pm
Collaboration with the Metropolitan Chorale, and Music Director Lisa Graham
Benjamin Britten, Company of Heaven
Felix Mendelssohn, Psalm 42
Saturday, May 18, 2024, 8pm
Franz Liszt, Hungarian Rhapsody No. 4
Einojuhani Rautavaara, Cantus Arcticus
Antonín Dvořák, Symphony No. 6
Sunday, June 16, 2024, 3pm
John Williams, Raider's March
Henry Mancini / arr. Calvin Custer, A Tribute to Henry Mancini
John Williams / arr. Robert Longfield, Theme from Schindler's List
Klaus Badelt / arr. Ted Ricketts, Pirates of the Caribbean
arr. Sean O'Laughlin, The Greatest Showman
arr. Calvin Custer, Theme from 007
arr. Robert Longfield, Music from La La Land
John Williams / arr. Jerry Brubaker, Harry Potter Symphonic Suite
2022-2023 Season
Saturday, October 22, 2022 8pm
Paola Prestini, The Hotel That Time Forgot
Max Bruch, Violin Concerto, Featuring Concerto Competition winner Liyuan Xie
Robert Schumann, Symphony No.3
Saturday, December 17, 2022 8pm
Gabriel Fauré, Pelleas and Melisande
Frédéric Chopin, Piano Concerto No.1, mvt. 1, Featuring Concerto Competition winner Katherine Liu
Igor Stravinsky, Symphony in C
Saturday, March 18, 2023, 8pm
William Walton, Violin Concerto, mvt 1&3, Featuring Concerto Competition winner Amos Lawrence
Béla Bartók, Concerto for Orchestra
Saturday, May 20, 2023, 8pm
Jessie Montgomery, Hymn for Everyone
George Walker, Lyric for Strings
Sergei Prokofiev, Symphony No.5
2021-2022 Season
Saturday, October 23, 2021 8pm
Missy Mazzoli, Violent, Violent Sea
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 17, ChengCheng Ma
Antonín Dvořák, Symphony No 9.
Saturday, December 18, 2021 8pm
Bedřich Smetana, The Moldau
Alexander Arutunian, Trumpet Concerto with Andrew Harms
Amy Beach, Gaelic Symphony
Saturday, March 19, 2022 8pm
Samuel Barber, Cello Concerto, Peter Stumpf
Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No 5
Saturday, June 5, 2022 8pm
Thea Musgrave, Song of the Enchanter
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Flute Concerto No 2 with Jisun Oh
Dmitri Shostakovich, Symphony No 5.
2019-2020 Season
Saturday, October 26, 2019 8pm
Alexander Borodin, Overture to Prince Igor
Carl Reinecke, Flute Concerto, Featuring 2019 Concerto Competition winner Kristyn Moore
Johannes Brahms - Symphony No.1
Saturday, December 14, 2019 8pm
Julia Adolphe, Shiver and Bloom
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Violin Concerto No.2, Featuring 2019 Concerto Competition winner Eva Aronian
Edward Elgar, Enigma Variations
2018-2019 Season
Saturday, October 27, 2018 8pm
Anna Clyne - Rewind
Henri Tomasi - Trumpet Concerto, Featuring 2018 Concerto Competition winner Andrew Heath
Johannes Brahms - Symphony No.4
Saturday, December 15, 2018 8pm
Carl Nielsen - Helios Overture
Anna Thorvaldsdottir - Hrim
Jean Sibelius - Symphony No. 5
Saturday, March 16, 2019, 8pm
Samuel Barber - Knoxville: Summer of 1915
Florence Price - Symphony No. 3
Grace Williams - Fairest of Stars, Featuring Jessica Jacobs, soprano
Samuel Barber - Essay No. 2 op.17
Saturday, June 1, 2019, 8pm
Zdenek Fibich - A Night at Karlštejn Castle
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No.1
2017-2018 Season
Saturday, October 21, 2017 8pm
Beethoven Violin Concerto, op.61, Yun Jae Choi, violin (2017 Concerto Competition Winner)
Tchaikovsky Symphony No.3, op.29 "Polish"
Saturday, December 9, 2017 8pm
Brahms Tragic Overture, op.81
Mahler Rückert Lieder
Jonathan Holland Shards of Serenity
Beethoven Symphony No.2, op.36
Saturday, March 17, 2018, 8pm
Sunday, March 18, 2018, 3pm
Collaboration with the Metropolitan Chorale
Lili Boulanger - Psalm 129
Maurice Ravel Trois Chansons
Gabriel Fauré - Cantique de Jean Racine, op.11
Claude Debussy - Trois Nocturnes
Gabriel Fauré - Requiem op.48
Saturday, May 19, 2018, 8pm
Jennifer Higdon - Blue Cathedral, 2018 Concerto competition winner
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphony No.5
2016-2017 Season
Saturday, October 22, 2016, 8pm
Giuseppe Verdi, Overture to I Vespri Siciliani
Wolfang Amadeus Mozart, Flute Concerto in D, K314, Weronika Balewski, flute
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 5, Op. 64
Sunday, December 11, 2016, 3pm
Richard Wagner, Prelude and Liebestod fromTristan and Isolde, MichelleTrainor, soprano
Maurice Ravel, Tzigane, StacieLin, violin
Modest Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition (Orchestrated by Maurice Ravel)
Saturday, March 18, 2017, 8pm
Otto Nicolai, Overture to The Merry Wives of Windsor
Felix Mendelssohn, Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64, AbigailKarr, violin
Robert Schumann, Symphony No. 1 in B-flat major, Op. 38 “Spring”
Sunday, May 21, 2017, 3pm
Jacques Offenbach, Overture to La Belle Hélène
Jean Sibelius, Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47, Subaiou Zhang, violin
Antonín Dvořák, Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88
2015-2016 Season
Saturday, October 24, 2015
Oliver Caplan, Fairsted: A Brookline Overture, A Brookline Symphony Orchestra commission & première
Pablo Sarasate, Carmen Fantaisie for clarinet & orchestra, Sang Yoon Kim, clarinet
VasilyKalinnikov, Symphony no. 1 in g minor
Sunday, December 13, 2015, 3pm
George Chadwick –Noël from Symphonic Sketches
Richard Strauss –Horn Concerto No. 2, Peter Kronheimer, french horn
Manuel de Falla, El Amor Brujo
Saturday, March 19, 2016, 8pm
Sunday, March 20, 2016, 3pm
Collaboration with Metropolitan Chorale
Sibelius, Symphony No. 4
Vaughan Williams, Dona nobis pacem
Sunday, May 15, 2016, 3pm
Edward Elgar, Cello Concerto in E minor, Javier Iglesias-Martin, cello
Aaron Copland, Symphony No. 3
2014-2015 Season
Sunday, October 19, 2014, 8pm
Dmitri Shostakovich –Festive Overture, Op. 96
Henri Vieuxtemps –Violin Concerto no. 5, Op. 37, John Guarino, violin
Jean Sibelius –Symphony no. 3, Op. 52
Saturday, December 13, 2014, 6:30pm
Collaboration with VOICES Boston, Andy Icochea conducting
Mieczysław Weinberg–Symphony no. 6 in a, Op. 79
Sunday, March 8, 2015, 3pm
J. S. Bach– Brandenburg Concerto no. 3 in G, BWV 1048
Dmitry Kabalevsky–Suite from The Comedians, Op. 26(1940)
L. Beethoven–Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus, Op. 43
Leonard Bernstein–Three Dances Episodes from On the Town (1945)
Sunday, May 10, 2015, 3pm
Samuel Jones, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1972)
Gustav Mahler, Symphony no. 4
2013-2014 Season
Sunday, October 27, 2013, 3pm
George Chadwick –Hobgoblin from Symphonic Sketches
Darius Milhaud –La Création du Monde
Joseph Haydn –Symphony No. 60 (6thmovement)
Richard Strauss –Till Eulenpiegels lustige Streiche
Sunday, December 15, 2013, 3pm
Collaboration with PALS Children’s Chorus
Veni Creator Spiritus
George Frideric Handel –Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Henry Purcell –Come Ye sons of Art
Felix Mendelssohn –Selections from A Midsummer Night's Dream
Sunday, May 11, 2014, 3pm
Vítězslav Novák –In der Tatra
Alexander Arutiunian –Trumpet Concerto in A flat Major, with concerto competition winner Fred Sienkiewicz
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov –Scheherazade
2012-2013 Season
Sunday, November 11, 2012 8pm
Gioachino Rossini, Overture from L'italiana in Algeri
Dmitri Shostakovich, Symphony No. 9 , Op. 70
Edvard Grieg, Symphonic Dances, Op. 64
Sunday, March 3, 2013 8pm
James D. Norman -Regatta
Edward Elgar -Sea Pictures, Op. 37, Emily Marvosh, contralto
Felix Mendelssohn, Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56
Sunday, May 12, 2013 8pm
Hector Berlioz –Harold in Italy, Merrick Nelson, viola
Domenico Cimarosa -Overture to Il Matrimonio Segreto
Alexander Mackenzie –Benedictus
Johannes Brahms –Academic Festival Overture
2011-2012 Season
Sunday, November 6, 2011 8pm
Giovanni Gabrieli, Canzon V a 7 (from Canzoni e sonate, 1615)
Ralph Vaughan Williams, The Wasps, Aristophanic suite
Igor Stravinsky, Suite No. 1 for chamber orchestra
Joseph Haydn, Symphony No. 104
Sunday, March 4, 2012 8pm
Georges Bizet, Jeux d'Enfants – Petite Suite d'Orchestre
Anton Bruckner, Symphony No. 4 in E-flat major
Sunday, May 20, 2012 8pm
Carl Nielsen, Symphony No. 2, Op. 16 “The Four Temperaments”
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 18, Ryan Liu
2010-2011 Season
Sunday, November 21, 2010 7:30pm
Carl Maria von Weber, Overture to Oberon
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony No. 39
Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 7
Sunday, February 20, 2011 7:30pm
Jean Sibelius, Andante Festivo
Maurice Ravel, Ma Mère l'Oye (suite)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 4
Sunday, May 8, 2011 3pm
Giuseppe Verdi, Overture to La Forza del Destino
Antonín Dvořák, Romance in F minor, Jaya Varma – violin
Leoš Janáček, Lachian Dances
Robert Schumann, Symphony No. 4 in D minor