2026-27 Classical Full

Music Director Alexander Shelley conjures a night of magic. Hear The Sorcerer's Apprentice, the runaway broom music from Disney’s Fantasia. Let a violin soar in a new concerto from the composer of The Hunger Games, James Newton Howard. Then let the sunrise from 2001: A Space Odyssey wash over you. No screens—all goosebumps.

One of the most electrifying piano works ever written takes center stage as Nobuyuki Tsujii performs Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3, a masterpiece of sweeping melody, white-hot virtuosity, and towering emotional power. Led by Alexander Shelley, the orchestra completes the program with Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra, a vivid showcase of color and character from the composer’s American years.

Ruth Reinhardt makes her Pacific Symphony debut in a festive, holiday-ready program celebrating international voices that shaped American concert life. Grieg’s beloved Piano Concerto, performed by Joyce Yang, anchors the evening with sweeping lyricism and radiant melody. Glanert’s American Prelude No. 1 and Dvořák’s sun-filled Sixth Symphony complete this uplifting concert of warmth and joy.

Beethoven Revolution Festival - Night 1

BEETHOVEN: Overture to Coriolan
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 1
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 2

Beethoven Revolution Festival - Night 2

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 3, “Eroica”
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 4

Beethoven Revolution Festival - Night 3

Experience a powerful, award-winning music-play by Tama Matheson with a journey through Beethoven’s life and indomitable spirit, featuring selections from Beethoven's concertos, sonatas, and Sixth, Seventh, and Ninth symphonies.

Beethoven Revolution Festival - Night 4

Beethoven Revolution Festival - Night 5

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 7
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 8

Beethoven Revolution Festival - Night 6

RUNESTAD: A Silence Haunts Me
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 9, “Choral”

When President Nixon landed in Beijing in 1972, it was the diplomatic gamble of the century. Pulitzer Prize–winning composer, John Adams’ thrilling opera Nixon in China comes vividly to life in a theatrically staged production created for the concert hall. With its richly layered score, soaring vocal writing, and intimate human drama, this masterpiece unfolds with gripping dramatic power under Alexander Shelley.

Otherworldly concert vibes abound as Maestro Shelley takes us on a cosmic journey through the sweeping and familiar melodies. John Williams’ Star Wars sets the stage for saxophone star Jess Gillam in Catch Me If You Can. Experience Holst’s perennial favorite, The Planets, in immersive visual spectacle—including the favorites “Mars, the Bringer of War” and “Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity.”