Classic Curations
2020 – 2021
Don’t miss the intimacy and authenticity of Chamber Orchestra concerts in the Kimmel Center’s Perelman Theater, where you can listen a little closer to the music of Mozart and Beethoven, performed by an ensemble known to deliver world-class performances with elegance and bravura.
We’re very excited about next season’s repertoire choices. Our six concert pairs represent some of Philadelphia’s very best reasons to venture out for live orchestral music: from the season-opening Eroica to an anniversary concert pairing Beethoven with Brossé, and between them, a feast of Mozart, Vivaldi, Britten, and Vaughan Williams, among other favorites. We’re equally excited by our outstanding artist roster – which showcases homegrown virtuosos who play to international acclaim, as well as guest conducting appearances by David Hayes and Jeffrey Brillhart.
COVID Update
Given both the current situation and all the uncertainties we’re facing — through, at very least, the end of 2020 — we have decided to pause subscription bookings and delay single ticket sales for now until we know more about how and when our concerts might be able to proceed. Despite months of contingency planning, fall and early winter concerts now look highly improbable, even in whatever alternate venues might technically be available to us. The two orchestra performances originally scheduled for 2020 will be rescheduled in 2021, and we will continue to investigate possibilities for new forms of streamed performance, which we can mount in their place this Fall to help fill the live performance void we all keenly feel.
Explore the season
The Eroica Symphony
October 4 & 5
Death and the Maiden
November 8 & 9
Mozart & The Violin
January 24 & 25
Bach & Rameau
February 21 & 22
The Lark Ascending
April 11 & 12
Beethoven 5 & Brossé
May 16 & 17
The Eroica Symphony
*THIS PERFORMANCE WILL BE RESCHEDULED TO 2021
Dirk Brossé
conductor
Zhenni Li
piano
Nathan Bales – New Commissioned Work
Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Concerto No. 4
Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No. 3, “Eroica”
Death and the Maiden
*THIS PERFORMANCE WILL BE RESCHEDULED TO 2021
David Hayes
conductor
Ludwig van Beethoven – Grosse Fuge
Dmitri Shostakovich – Chamber Symphony
Franz Schubert – Death and the Maiden
Mozart & The Violin
January 24 | 2:30 PM
January 25 | 7:30 PM
PERELMAN THEATER
Dirk Brossé
conductor
Bella Hristova
violin
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Violin Concerto No. 5
Caroline Shaw – Entr’acte
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Symphony No. 41, “Jupiter”
Bach & Rameau
February 21 | 2:30 PM
February 22 | 7:30 PM
PERELMAN THEATER
Jeffrey Brillhart
conductor & harpsichord
Antonio Vivaldi – Concerto Grosso in D Minor
Jean-Phillipe Rameau – Les Boréades: Entrée de Polymnie
Giovanni Battista Sammartini – Symphony in C Minor
Jean-Phillipe Rameau – Le Temple de la Glorie: Air de Tendre
Johann Sebastian Bach – Brandenburg Concerto No. 4
The Lark Ascending
April 11 | 2:30 PM
April 12 | 7:30 PM
PERELMAN THEATER
Dirk Brossé
conductor
Elena Urioste
violin
Benjamin Britten – Sinfonietta
Arvo Pärt – Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten
Ralph Vaughan Williams – The Lark Ascending
Thomas Adés – O Albion
Franz Joseph Haydn – Symphony No. 104, “London”
Beethoven 5 & Brossé
May 16 | 2:30 PM
May 17 | 7:30 PM
PERELMAN THEATER
Dirk Brossé
conductor
Michelle Johnson
soprano
Dirk Brossé – Philadelphia Overture
Dirk Brossé – I Loved You
Dirk Brossé – Elegy for Strings
Ludwig van Beethoven – Ah! perfido, Op. 65
Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No. 5
Experience the complete season by subscribing.
