THE 2023-24 SEASON IS HERE NOW!
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- Avoid ticket fees: Ticket fees are waived on additional single tickets purchased in person or by phone throughout the season.
- Advanced access for Special Event tickets: Receive pre-sale access before Special Event tickets go on sale to the general public (The Messiah, Nutcracker Twist, Gospel Meets Symphony). FREE and easy ticket exchanges if you need to miss a performance (upgrade fees may apply if your seating area changes).
- Receive invitations to attend select rehearsals throughout the season.
- Buy One Get One Vouchers: Your subscription includes a Symphoria “Buy One, Get One” voucher, valid for the 2023-24 season. Use yours to grow the Symphoria family!
- Enjoy loyalty benefits! Renewing subscribers receive a special Symphoria Swag Bag each season, customized according to how long you’ve been a subscriber! (Bags will be distributed in September.)
SERIES SUBSCRIPTION
Experience all of the concerts in a series, get first priority for seating, and ensure that the same seats are available for every performance.
SYMPHORIA UNLIMITED
With Symphoria Unlimited you can hear all of the great Symphoria concerts you want. Receive best available seating for all Symphoria Series concerts. Individual Symphoria Unlimited memberships are just $19.99 per month, and offer a single ticket for any regular series (masterworks, pops, casual, spark or kids) performance. Family Symphoria Unlimited memberships are $29.99 per month, and include 2 adult and 2 kids tickets for any regular series performance. Symphoria Unlimited membership are billed to your checking account on the 1st day of each month. Seating in boxes, and section A are excluded from Symphoria Unlimited memberships. Special events are also excluded from Symphoria Unlimited memberships. In addition, Symphoria gives an additional Symphoria Unlimited membership to an adult in need every time a Symphoria Unlimited membership is purchased.
FLEXPACKS
FlexPacks offer the discount of a subscription with an ability to select your specific seat and more concert selection flexibility. Choose any group of four, five, six or eight concerts, across all series. (Note: Seat selection varies from concert to concert.)
- Tickets start at just $16 per concert ($8 if you are a new subscriber!)
- Ticketing fees are waived for all subscribers
- You’ll save 25% on any additional single tickets you purchase throughout the season.
- If you find that you can’t make it to a concert you’ve selected, just exchange your ticket for another concert of your choice!
To purchase subscriptions or FlexPacks offline:
Call (315) 299-5598, ext. 201
Stop by 450 S. Salina Street, Suite 100, Syracuse, NY 13202
Box Office Hours: Monday – Friday 9:30am to 3:30pm and 1 hour prior to each performance at the venue
*PLEASE NOTE: All programs and artists are subject to change.
MASTERWORKS
Brought to you by PEC Inc.
Eight-concert series at Crouse Hinds Theater (Sept.-May). All performances are at 7:30pm on Saturdays.
PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION
SEPT 30
2021 Gramophone Artist of the Year James Ehnes, one of the most sought-after violinists on the international stage, joins us in the first half, followed by Ravel’s orchestral adaptation of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.
WEST SIDE STORY: SYMPHONIC DANCES
OCT 14
We begin with Bernstein’s Candide Overture, a buoyant and lively curtain-raiser, and close the show with symphonic dances from West Side Story. 2019 National Sphinx Competition winner Sterling Elliott plays Schumann’s Concerto for Cello.
CARMINA BURANA
NOV 18
Dallas-based composer Quinn Mason’s A Joyous Trilogy opens the show. Syracuse University Oratorio Society takes the stage to perform Carl Orff’s pop culture classic Carmina Burana, along with its epic movie-famous O Fortuna!
THE FOUR SEASONS WITH RACHEL BARTON PINE
JAN 27
Violinist Rachel Barton Pine leads the orchestra in the second half for Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. The show opens with Missy Mazzoli’s atmospheric Orbiting Spheres and Brahms’s Symphony No. 3, the only remaining Brahms symphony yet to be conducted by music director Lawrence Loh.
THE PLANETS
FEB 17
The Syracuse University Oratorio Society women’s chorus joins Symphoria for Holst’s influential, astrology-inspired orchestral suite, The Planets. Before intermission, principal flutist of the Seattle Symphony and incredible soloist Demarre McGill performs a staple of the Romantic flute repertoire, François Borne’s Carmen Fantasy.
JULIAN PLAYS TCHAIKOVSKY
MAR 9
Longtime favorite returning artist and international award-winning cellist Julian Schwarz plays Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme. Lawrence Loh conducts Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 for the first time, bringing back to our stage one of the most famous purely orchestral Mahler symphonies.
OPERA’S GREATEST HITS
APR 20
Enjoy familiar opera choruses and arias from favorites like Verdi, Puccini, Donizetti, Rossini, and Wagner. Award-winning soprano Jasmine Habersham joins us.
NATASHA PLAYS RACHMANINOFF
MAY 11
Pianist Natasha Paremski returns to perform Rachmaninoff’s Variations on a Theme of Paganini. This is the only work for piano by Rachmaninoff that Natasha has yet to perform with Symphoria. The show opens with Berlioz’s Roman Carnival Overture and concludes with Respighi’s famous Pines of Rome.
POPS
Brought to you by the Slutzker Family Foundation.
Five-concert series at Crouse Hinds Theater (Oct.-May). All performances are at 7:30pm on Saturdays.
COUNTRY HITS: SYMPHORIA LOVES COUNTRY
OCT 7
Symphoria Loves Country brings to life the classic hits of Patsy Cline, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, and Johnny Cash, as well as songs by the biggest artists of today, like Garth Brooks, Tim McGraw, The Chicks, and Kacey Musgraves.
HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS
DEC 16
Bring family and friends together to experience Symphoria’s annual Holiday Pops! This year, we welcome back local vocalist Katie Weber as well as the Syracuse Pops Chorus under the direction of Lou Lemos.
RHAPSODY IN BLUE
FEB 10
Celebrate the 100th anniversary of the premiere of Rhapsody in Blue with Robert Auler as the soloist. Gershwin incorporates influences of his contemporaries, such as Ravel (the tuneful first movement from Le Tombeau de Couperin) and Debussy (Clair de Lune) to pull back the layers and reveal what made Gershwin and his music so timeless and beautiful.
BIG HAIR SATURDAY NIGHT
APR 13
Travel back in time to the 1980s, when arcades, Polaroids, and Walkmen were popular—and pop, punk, rock, metal, and new wave music reigned supreme in the charts. Tease up your hair, dig out your ripped jeans and neon, or your shoulder pads and polo shirts, and join us for a spring evening of niche and nostalgia.
JURASSIC PARK IN CONCERT
MAY 18
Honoring its 30th anniversary, Jurassic Park comes to life on the stage as we view the complete original film at one of Syracuse’s biggest movie theaters. Symphoria performs John Williams’s entertaining and suspense-filled music live.
CASUAL
Four-concert series at Saint Paul’s Syracuse. All performances are at 3:00pm.
MOZART WITH HANNAH WHITE
NOV 12
Hannah White returns to perform Mozart’s Straussburg with Symphoria. At age nine, Hannah began performing with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, and she has traveled the globe dazzling audiences ever since. The concert begins with music composed by Jessie Montgomery, and Schumann’s Spring Symphony rounds out the afternoon.
WALTZ ALONG THE BLUE DANUBE
JAN 14
Celebrating music that inspired movement through polka, marches, and the waltz, Symphoria performs the works of Offenbach, Strauss, and Korngold. Familiar tunes including Can-Can from Orpheus in the Underworld and Blue Danube will fill the hall for this afternoon concert at our favorite neighborhood watering hole!
CORONATION CELEBRATION
MAR 3
Music that evokes images of royal ceremony, including Clarke’s Trumpet Voluntary and Haydn’s Symphony No. 104. Pachelbel’s well-known Canon and Gigue in D Major are followed by the Concerto for Harpsichord in G Minor. Handel completes the afternoon with Zadok the Priest, performed alongside the Syracuse University Oratorio Society.
BACH, COPLAND, AND SHOSTAKOVICH
APR 28
Symphoria welcomes back Monica Fosnaugh, English horn player from the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, to join principal trumpet John Raschella in a performance of Copland’s Quiet City. The work is bookended by Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony at the start and Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 4 in D Major to complete the afternoon.
SPARK
All performances are at 7:00pm at various locations.
OKTOBERFEST
SEPT 23
Enjoy an Autumn festival complete with Bavarian music and refreshments to embrace the sights, sounds, and tastes of the season.
LUNAR NEW YEAR
FEB 3
Welcome in the Year of the Dragon and celebrate the Asian community in Central New York. Experience the unique melodies, instruments, and arrangements of some of the oldest and most complex music in the world.
MUSIC OF MACHINES
MAR 23
The sounds of science create intriguing moments of music in this program that will engage and entertain audiences of all ages. KIDS concert at 10:30am and SPARK concert at 7:00pm.
Performed at Redhouse Arts Center.
KIDS
Brought to you by the Syracuse Sounds of Music Association.
All performances are at 10:30am.
MUSICAL FAIRY TALES
OCT 28
Kids of all ages will enjoy the familiar tines of fairy tales and magical stories. Imagine the characters coming to life with the music on the stage! Costumes are encouraged!
Performed at Carrier Theater at the OnCenter.
PETER & THE WOLF
FEB 3
Sergei Prokofiev’s famous Peter and the Wolf is performed by Symphoria, offering his “symphonic fairy tale for children.”
Performed at Redhouse Arts Center.
MUSIC OF MACHINES
MAR 23
The sounds of science create intriguing moments of music in this program that will engage and entertain audiences of all ages. KIDS concert at 10:30am and SPARK concert at 7:00pm.
Performed at Redhouse Arts Center.
FREQUENTY ASKED QUESTIONS
If you have other questions about subscriptions and the upcoming season, please call our box office at 315-299-5598.