Pictures at an Exhibition
2023-05-21 15:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Dominion Energy Center, 600 E Grace St, Richmond, VA, 23219, United States
Few works can match it for sonic impact or sheer excitement. And no work displays the virtuosity of the Richmond Symphony like Pictures at an Exhibition. Experience it – live – under guest conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya, who also leads works by American masters John Adams, James Lee III, and Florence Price.

Season Finale After Party
2023-05-21 17:00 - 19:00 | Dominion Energy Center, 600 E Grace St, Richmond, VA, 23219, United States
End the season in celebratory style at the season finale after-party! Mingle with Symphony musicians, guest artists, and friends straight after the final performance. Enjoy this festive event with food, drinks, and live music by Quatro na Bossa outdoors behind the Dominion Energy Center. Your ticket is all-inclusive!
Food trucks include Ruby Scoops, Smohk, and The Watering Hole!
Please note, the parking deck will remain open until 7:30 to accommodate patrons attending the party.
The Season Finale After Party is Sponsored by Keiter CPAs.

Chichester Psalms
2023-05-25 19:30 - 21:30 | Second Baptist Church, 9614 River Rd, Richmond , 23229
The Book of Psalms has been a treasure trove of beautiful text on sacred themes for composers for thousands of years. This concert features some of the best psalm settings across the choral canon, highlighting diverse and era-spanning styles. Conductor Anthony Blake Clark is delighted to share Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, – the music of his teacher’s teacher. Daniel Stipe solos on organ for Handel’s As Pants the Hart.

VENUE:
SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH
9614 River Road
Richmond, VA 23229
https://secondbaptistrva.org/
Free Parking

Music in the Galleries 3
2023-05-28 15:00 - 17:00 | Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 200 N. Arthur Ashe Blvd, Richmond, VA, 23220, United States
Experience works of art in VMFA’s galleries as the Richmond Symphony serenades your visit with a live performance. A collaboration between VMFA and the Richmond Symphony.
The Richmond Symphony presents a mixed trio of principal viola, Molly Sharp; principal flute, Mary Boodelll; and harp, Alicia Romeo. The trio will perform a program of all French Impressionist composers. This performance features the music of Claude Debussy, Erik Satie, Germaine Tailleferre, and others.

Carmina Burana
2023-09-22 19:00, 2023-09-23 19:00, 2023-09-24 14:00 | Carpenter Theatre, 612 East Grace Street, Richmond , VA, 23219, United States
In a powerful co-presentation between the Richmond Symphony and Richmond Ballet the two companies bring Carl Orff’s exhilarating Carmina Burana to the Carpenter Theatre with John Butler’s iconic choreography. Audiences will be transfixed by this immersive experience as the Richmond Symphony Chorus performs “surround sound” in the auditorium. Decades after its creation, Carmina Burana remains a bold and astonishing audience favorite. The show is double billed with a beautiful work by the Ballet’s Associate Artistic Director Ma Cong called Thrive.
Richmond Symphony subscribers receive a 15% discount. Call 804.788.1212 x2 for more information or to purchase.
This performance is being co-presented with the Richmond Ballet. Richmond Symphony vouchers, discounts, ticket exchanges, etc are not applicable for this event. Thank you.

Mahler's First
2023-09-30 20:00, 2023-10-01 15:00 | Carpenter Theatre, 612 East Grace Street, Richmond , VA, 23219, United States
The new season begins! Experience the sonic splendor of the Richmond Symphony and Valentina Peleggi in Mahler’s wild, exuberant First Symphony. Plus, concertmaster Daisuke Yamamoto performs the world premiere of a new Violin Concerto by one of Italy’s most acclaimed composers, Andrea Portera.

Tchaikovsky's Pathétique
2023-10-21 20:00, 2023-10-22 15:00 | Carpenter Theatre, 612 East Grace Street, Richmond , VA, 23219, United States
Music of power. And of passion. Music Director Valentina Peleggi conducts Tchaikovsky’s final work – the “Pathétique” Symphony. PLUS, “Don Juan,” a showpiece for orchestra by Richard Strauss. And Paul Neubauer plays the bracing Viola Concerto of Béla Bartók. “One of America’s finest concert artists,” declares the Atlanta Journal. “A true violist,” raves The New York Times. He “exults in his instrument’s dark, rich, sumptuous tone.”

Negro Folk Symphony
2023-11-11 20:00, 2023-11-12 15:00 | Carpenter Theatre, 612 East Grace Street, Richmond , VA, 23219, United States
In 1934, William Dawson imagined a symphony that would fuse African rhythms and American laments into the symphonic form. What Dvořák’s “New World” Symphony promised, Dawson delivered. His defiant, triumphant “Negro Folk Symphony” is the greatest symphony you’ve never heard, premiered by no less than Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra to thunderous acclaim. Also, the world premiere of Adolphus Hailstork’s 2nd Piano Concerto “The Peaceable Kingdom”, written for Lara Downes. And Chia-Hsuan Lin joins Valentina Peleggi for a two-conductor meditation by Roxanna Panufnik.

Holiday Brass 2023
2023-12-01 19:30 | Perkinson Center for the Arts & Education
Deck the halls – with Holiday Brass! A shimmering celebration of holiday hits for the whole family, and right in your neighborhood!
Note: The Perkinson Center offers free parking

Holiday Brass 2023
2023-12-02 19:30 | St. Christopher’s School, 6010 Fergusson Rd, Richmond, VA, 23226, United States
Deck the halls – with Holiday Brass! Chia-Hsuan Lin conducts a shimmering celebration of holiday hits for the whole family.

VENUE:
Louis F. Ryan Recital Hall
St. Christopher’s School
6010 Fergusson Rd.
Richmond, VA 23226
https://www.stchristophers.com/arts/arts-facilities

Holiday Brass 2023
2023-12-03 15:00 | Blackwell Auditorium at Randolph-Macon College, 204 Henry Street, Ashland, VA, 23005, United States
Deck the halls – with Holiday Brass! Chia-Hsuan Lin conducts a shimmering celebration of holiday hits for the whole family.

VENUE:
Blackwell Auditorium
Randolph-Macon College
205 Henry Street
Ashland, VA 23005

Santa's Symphony Soirée 2023
2023-12-12 18:00 - 21:00 | Model Tobacco Lofts, 1100 Richmond Highway, Richmond, VA, 23224, United States
Be there for an exclusive holiday fundraising event! Three chances to experience stellar performances from Richmond Symphony ensembles, accompanied by festive food, craft cocktails, thematic glassware, and UNLIMITED amounts of holiday cheer and décor. Come as your full festive self and dazzle with your tacky holiday garb! The perfect way to kickstart the season of giving by supporting the Richmond Symphony Youth Orchestra Program.
Come for one night or enjoy all three sparkling performances. Seating is limited – so don’t end up on Santa’s naughty list, and act today! Doors open at 6pm and the performance begins at 6:30pm.

Santa’s Symphony Soirée
2023-12-13 18:00 - 21:00 | Model Tobacco Lofts, 1100 Richmond Highway, Richmond, VA, 23224, United States

Santa’s Symphony Soirée 2023
2023-12-14 18:00 - 21:00 | Model Tobacco Lofts, 1100 Richmond Highway, Richmond, VA, 23224, United States

Brahms, The Romantic
2024-01-20 20:00, 2024-01-21 15:00 | Carpenter Theatre, 612 East Grace Street, Richmond , VA, 23219, United States
Your Richmond Symphony presents Brahms’ lyrical Symphony No. 2, the world premiere of Sinfonia Americana by composer in residence Damien Geter, and Francesca Dego as the soloist in the Violin Concerto of Ferruccio Busoni. No less a romantic than Brahms, who echoes throughout this concerto, Busoni was a singular voice, an iconoclast who composed music for the future. This centennial celebration may be the moment time catches up to Busoni.

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The Four Seasons
2024-01-26 19:30 | Perkinson Center for the Arts & Education
Celebrations of nature’s renewal. Fusing the glory of the baroque and the seduction of the tango. Be embraced by Vivaldi’s “Summer” and “Autumn” from “The Four Seasons,” and captivated by the rhythms of Piazzolla’s “Winter” and “Spring” from “The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires.” Menuhin Richmond 2021 Junior First-Prize Winner Keila Wakao joins the Richmond Symphony.

The Four Seasons
2024-01-27 19:30 | St. Christopher’s School, 6010 Fergusson Rd, Richmond, VA, 23226, United States
Celebrations of nature’s renewal. Fusing the glory of the baroque and the seduction of the tango. Be embraced by Vivaldi’s “Summer” and “Autumn” from “The Four Seasons,” and captivated by the rhythms of Piazzolla’s “Winter” and “Spring” from “The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires.” Menuhin Richmond 2021 Junior First-Prize Winner Keila Wakao joins the Richmond Symphony.

VENUE:
Louis F. Ryan Recital Hall
St. Christopher’s School
6010 Fergusson Rd.
Richmond, VA 23226
https://www.stchristophers.com/arts/arts-facilities

The Four Seasons
2024-01-28 15:00 | Blackwell Auditorium at Randolph-Macon College, 204 Henry Street, Ashland, VA, 23005, United States

Tchaikovsky's First Concerto
2024-02-24 20:00 | Carpenter Theatre, 612 East Grace Street, Richmond , VA, 23219, United States
“Worthless,” declared the composer’s friends. “Impossible to play”. But Tchaikovsky refused to change a note of what became history’s most popular piano concerto. Ukrainian pianist Dinara Klinton plays Tchaikovsky’s First Concerto. “She is a real virtuoso,” declares legendary pianist András Schiff. “A born pianist, a very natural player.” Plus Ravel’s seductive suite from Daphnis et Chloé, featuring the Richmond Symphony Chorus who also performs a new work by Richmond’s own Zachary Wadsworth. The Washington Post has acclaimed his music as “fresh, deeply felt and strikingly original.”
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Tchaikovsky's First Concerto
2024-02-25 15:00 | Carpenter Theatre, 612 East Grace Street, Richmond , VA, 23219, United States
“Worthless,” declared the composer’s friends. “Impossible to play”. But Tchaikovsky refused to change a note of what became history’s most popular piano concerto. Ukrainian pianist Dinara Klinton plays Tchaikovsky’s First Concerto. “She is a real virtuoso,” declares legendary pianist András Schiff. “A born pianist, a very natural player.” Plus Ravel’s seductive suite from Daphnis et Chloé, featuring the Richmond Symphony Chorus who also performs a new work by Richmond’s own Zachary Wadsworth. The Washington Post has acclaimed his music as “fresh, deeply felt and strikingly original.”
Sponsored By:

An American in Paris
2024-04-06 20:00, 2024-04-07 15:00 | Carpenter Theatre, 612 East Grace Street, Richmond , VA, 23219, United States
Gershwin’s jazzy musical postcard highlights this program of the Americas. From South America, dazzling works by Revueltas, Ginastera, and Moncayo’s rousing Huapango. And from the states, Carlos Miguel Prieto conducts Leonard Bernstein’s dances from On the Town, plus Gershwin’s An American in Paris.

A Little Night Music
2024-04-26 19:30 | Perkinson Center for the Arts & Education
The elegance, the genius of Mozart. His exquisite “Eine kleine Nachtmusik and Symphony No. 27. Experience the artistry of Victoria Chung, as she performs Jennifer Higdon’s evocative Oboe Concerto. Also Stravinsky’s delightful homage to Bach, “Dumbarton Oaks.”
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A Little Night Music
2024-04-27 19:30 | St. Christopher’s School, 6010 Fergusson Rd, Richmond, VA, 23226, United States
The elegance, the genius of Mozart. His exquisite “Eine kleine Nachtmusik and Symphony No. 27. Experience the artistry of Victoria Chung, as she performs Jennifer Higdon’s evocative Oboe Concerto. Also Stravinsky’s delightful homage to Bach, “Dumbarton Oaks.”
VENUE:
Louis F. Ryan Recital Hall
St. Christopher’s School
6010 Fergusson Rd.
Richmond, VA 23226
https://www.stchristophers.com/arts/arts-facilities
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