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 LongfieldMusic 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 ChadwickNoël from Symphonic Sketches
Richard StraussHorn 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 ShostakovichFestive Overture, Op. 96
Henri VieuxtempsViolin Concerto no. 5, Op. 37, John Guarino, violin
Jean SibeliusSymphony no. 3, Op. 52

Saturday, December 13, 2014, 6:30pm

Collaboration with VOICES Boston, Andy Icochea conducting
Mieczysław WeinbergSymphony no. 6 in a, Op. 79

Sunday, March 8, 2015, 3pm

J. S. BachBrandenburg Concerto no. 3 in G, BWV 1048
Dmitry KabalevskySuite from The Comedians, Op. 26(1940)
L. BeethovenOverture to The Creatures of Prometheus, Op. 43
Leonard BernsteinThree 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 ChadwickHobgoblin from Symphonic Sketches
Darius MilhaudLa Création du Monde
Joseph HaydnSymphony No. 60 (6thmovement)
Richard StraussTill Eulenpiegels lustige Streiche

Sunday, December 15, 2013, 3pm

Collaboration with PALS Children’s Chorus
Veni Creator Spiritus
George Frideric HandelArrival of the Queen of Sheba
Henry PurcellCome Ye sons of Art
Felix MendelssohnSelections from A Midsummer Night's Dream

Sunday, May 11, 2014, 3pm

Vítězslav NovákIn der Tatra
Alexander ArutiunianTrumpet Concerto in A flat Major, with concerto competition winner Fred Sienkiewicz
Nikolai Rimsky-KorsakovScheherazade

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 BerliozHarold in Italy, Merrick Nelson, viola
Domenico Cimarosa -Overture to Il Matrimonio Segreto
Alexander MackenzieBenedictus
Johannes BrahmsAcademic 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