The Boston Symphony starts its series celebrating the 125th anniversary of their home venue, Boston, Symphony Hall, & the BSO in 1900, on Oct. 2-4. Andris Nelsons conducts Debussy’s Nocturnes and Mahler’s Symphony No. 4. Soprano Nikola Hillebrand is the soloist. https://www.bso.org/events/oct-2-4-debussy-mahler?performance=2025-10-02-19:30
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| 0 events, | 0 events, | 0 events, | 1 event, | 1 event,The Philadelphia Orchestra will perform the world premiere of a new work by John Adams on Oct. 3-5, a commission by the orchestra. Principal guest conductor Marin Alsop leads the program, which also includes Bartók’s Third Piano Concerto, played by Yunchan Lim, and Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet. https://philorch.ensembleartsphilly.org/tickets-and-events/2025-26-season/marin-alsop-and-yunchan-lim | 0 events, | 0 events, |
| 0 events, | 0 events, | 0 events, | 1 event,Joanna Carneiro leads the East Coast premiere of Andreia Pinto Correia's Cortejo with the Baltimore Symphony on Oct. 9-12. The program also includes Stravinsky's Suite from Pulcinella and the Divertimento from The Fairy's Kiss, and Rafael Aguirre (guitar) is featured in Rodrigo's Concerto de Aranjuez. https://my.bsomusic.org/overview/19594 | 1 event,As its only fully staged opera this season, Opera Baltimore will present Tosca. The opera will be performed at Stephens Hall in Towson. (Oct. 10-12) https://www.operabaltimore.org/20252026-season | 2 events,The Albany Symphony, under conductor David Alan Miller, will play the world premiere of a new work by Alex Berko on Oct. 11. Zlatomir Fung will be the soloist for Dvořák’s Cello Concerto. Sibelius’ Finlandia and Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite bookend the program. https://www.albanysymphony.com/upcomingconcerts/2025/10/11/alex-berko-stravinskys-firebird New England Philharmonic will play the Boston premiere of Carlos Carrillo’s The Gathering Grounds on Oct. 11. The program also includes recent works by Loren Loiacono and Missy Mazzoli, ending with Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. https://nephilharmonic.org/concerts/gathering-grounds | 0 events, |
| 0 events, | 0 events, | 1 event,On Oct. 15, the first night of the Israel Philharmonic’s Carnegie Hall season, Pinchas Zukerman will play a repertoire rarity: Paul Ben-Haim’s Violin Concerto. Lahav Shani also conducts Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony. https://www.carnegiehall.org/calendar/2025/10/15/israel-philharmonic-orchestra-0800pm | 2 events,Making her National Symphony Orchestra debut Oct. 16-19, Isabelle Faust will solo in Beethoven’s Violin Concerto. This all-Beethoven concert, conducted by Christoph Eschenbach, also includes the Egmont Overture and the Seventh Symphony. https://www.kennedy-center.org/nso/home/2025-2026/eschenbach-faust/ Members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center will present music of the relatively unknown composer George Onslow (1784-1853) as well as that of Johann Hummel. There are two different programs pairing Hummel and Onslow, both on Oct. 16. https://www.chambermusicsociety.org/our-concerts/at-lincoln-center/events/25-26/hummel-and-onslow/ | 1 event,Playing a new arrangement for cello by Randall Goosby, cellist Sterling Elliott will perform William Grant Still’s Suite for Violin and Orchestra with the Sphinx Virtuosi on Oct. 17 at Carnegie Hall. Also on the program are works by José White Lafitte, Clarice Assad, Prokofiev, and Ginastera. https://www.carnegiehall.org/calendar/2025/10/17/sphinx-virtuosi-0700pm | 0 events, | 0 events, |
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| 0 events, | 1 event,Delaware Symphony will present a special program called Windswept Tales on Oct. 28. Dramatic readings from literary greats like Shakespeare and Poe will be paired with music by Debussy, Britten, and Tower. https://delawaresymphony.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/instances/a0FRd000005py45MAA | 3 events,Chaya Czernowin’s Unforeseen dusk: bones into wings “leads us to an undiscovered connection between outer and inner nature,” according to the composer, whose work will receive its U.S. premiere by the New York Philharmonic Oct. 29. Brad Lubman conducts this performance, part of the Sound On series, featuring soloists from the Neue Vocalsolisten and with Students from […] The American Composers Orchestra will perform four world premieres at its Oct. 29 program at Carnegie Hall. The works are by Tamar Muskal, Elijah Daniel Smith, Mazz Swift, and Aaron Israel Levin. Conductor Mélisse Brunet opens the program with the New York premiere of a new work by Pulitzer-winning Raven Chacon. https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2025/10/29/American-Composers-Orchestra-0730PM American Composers Orchestra’s Oct. 29 program, The New Virtuoso: For Art’s Sake, features works that utilize newly created instruments and sonic media to explore symphonic texture. Daniel Rozin is creating the “responsive sculptures,” Mélisse Brunet conducts, and soprano Lucy Gibbon is the featured soloist. Composers include Raven Chacon and world premieres by Tamar Muskal, Aaron […] | 0 events, | 0 events, | 0 events, | 0 events, |

























