In his ASO debut, guest conductor Matthew Halls opens an all-Haydn program with the composer's rarely performed overture to the opera L'isola disabitata (The Deserted Island).

Full Concert:
• HAYDN: L'isola disabitata (The Deserted Island)
• HAYDN: Cello Concerto No. 2
• HAYDN: Sympho...

The ASO welcomes the debut of guest conductor Matthew Halls
in an all-Haydn program culminating in the winsome Symphony No. 101, nicknamed "The Clock."

Full Concert:
• HAYDN: L'isola disabitata (The Deserted Island)
• HAYDN: Cello Concerto No. 2
• HAYDN: Symphony No. 101, “The Clock”...

The ASO welcomes the debut cellist Sterling Elliott in Haydn's Second Cello Concerto. The young cello phenom, who is dazzling critics across the U.S., adds fire to the genial concerto.

Full Concert:
• HAYDN: L'isola disabitata (The Deserted Island)
• HAYDN: Cello Concerto No. 2
• HAYD...

The popular Australian conductor Nicholas Carter leans into the volcanic power of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra for the passionate and alluring First Symphony by William Walton. Fun Fact: The success of Walton's Symphony No. 1 led to a commission to write "Crown Imperial" for the coronation of K...

Popular Australian conductor Nicholas Carter leads the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in Haydn's "Miracle" Symphony.

Full Concert:
• HAYDN: Symphony No. 96, “The Miracle”
• MOZART: Violin Concerto No. 3
• WALTON: Symphony No. 1
Nicholas Carter, conductor
Geneva Lewis, violin
Nov 22 2024 |...

Popular Australian conductor Nicholas Carter leads the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in the brilliant and joyous Violin Concerto No. 3, written by a 19-year-old Mozart. The Orchestra welcomes the debut of rising star violinist Geneva Lewis.

Full Concert:
• HAYDN: Symphony No. 96, “The Miracle” ...

In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Ebenezer Baptist Church reunited in January 2025 for a musical tribute to the legacy of Dr. King – featuring church musicians, the combined ASO and Ebenezer Choruses and guest vocalist Gregory Porter. Georgia Pu...

RACHMANINOFF: Symphonic Dances
Roderick Cox, conductor

With his “remarkably dynamic and daring onstage presence,” Georgia native Roderick Cox delivers a “season high” (ArtsATL), taking the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra full throttle in Rachmaninoff’s seductive orchestral romp Symphonic Dances.

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra welcomes cellist Edgar Moreau, who made his Atlanta debut “with dazzling accuracy and insouciant wit” (ArtsATL). Moreau joins the Orchestra for one of the great masterpieces for the cello, Robert Schumann’s enigmatic Cello Concerto. Nathalie Stutzmann conducts.

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In 1909, Igor Stravinsky was a skinny 28-year-old no-name who got the chance of a lifetime. He took it. He wrote the score for a ballet called The Firebird and became a giant of 20th-century music overnight.

Stravinsky's ballet was an assignment by the impresario Sergei Diaghilev for a Russian...

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra kicks off its first Delta Classical concert of 2025 with the symphonic tone poem Winter Bells, a “gorgeous novelty” by one of music’s rising stars, the young American-based Russian composer Polina Nazaykinskaya. Aziz Shokhakimov conducts.

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• POLINA ...

Uzbek pianist Behzod Abduraimov joins the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra for Rachmaninoff’s show-stopping Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, a pianistic favorite delivering sweeping Romantic melodies and sizzling virtuosity. Aziz Shokhakimov conducts.

Full Concert:
• POLINA NAZAYKINSKAYA: Winter Be...

Guest conductor Lina Gonzalez-Granados makes her Atlanta Symphony Orchestra debut with a delightful mélange of music from the Americas in Gabriela Lena Frank’s musical travelogue, Walkabout: Concerto for Orchestra.

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra presents a world premiere by Atlanta’s own Joel Thompson, an Emmy Award-winning composer working at the intersection of art and social justice.

French pianist Cédric Tiberghien makes his Atlanta Symphony Orchestra debut with a delightful mélange of music in in George Gershwin’s irresistible Classical-meets-jazz mashup, Rhapsody in Blue.

Music Director Laureate and longtime leader of the ASO, Robert Spano, returns to Symphony Hall and brings with him an old friend of the Orchestra, Emmy Award-winning composer Adam Schoenberg and his “Picture Studies,” a modern take on Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.

Says Schoenberg, “My ...

In the piano world, it’s known as the “Rach Three,” a moniker that comes with reverence, a quickening of the heart, and a dash of terror. Among the most difficult of all the popular piano concertos, this Piano Concerto No. 3 was written by one of the greatest pianists who ever lived: Sergei Rach...

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra welcomes Korean virtuoso Yeol Eum Son, a pianist with “power and passion, fireworks and drama aplenty” (Limelight), in her first Atlanta performance with this rare treat, the sassy Piano Concerto written by 25-year-old Benjamin Britten. Dmitry Matvienko conducts.

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Russian choirmaster-turned-conductor Dmitry Matvienko leads the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in the fragrant Symphony No. 2 by Sergei Rachmaninoff.

Full Concert:
• BRITTEN: Piano Concerto
• RACHMANINOFF: Symphony No. 2
Dmitry Matvienko, conductor
Yeol Eum Son, piano
May 3, 2024 | Atlanta Symphon...

Led by Nathalie Stutzmann, Robert Schumann's Symphony No. 4 offers a feverish flight through intense lyricism and bravura.

He was one of the greatest melodists of all time; Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky turned his magic quill upon the fairytale classic of "Sleeping Beauty" and produced an enchanting ballet and inspiration for Disney’s beloved 1959 animated feature film. Tchaikovsky’s The Sleeping Beauty leans into the sec...

The spellbinding German‑Canadian cellist Johannes Moser returns to Symphony Hall for the ravishing cello concerto Tout un monde lointain... (A Whole Distant World) by Henri Dutilleux. Guest conductor Alpesh Chauhan makes his Atlanta debut.