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2022–2023 Symphony Season
Subscription sales have now closed for our 22/23 season. Explore the season below and purchase single tickets for all remaining concerts in-person at the Overture Center Box Office, 201 State St., by phone (608) 258-4141, or online.
We’re excited to welcome you back to Overture Hall this fall for live in-person performances! We understand you may have questions about safety protocols. Visit our FAQ page for the latest info.
If you have any further questions about subscriptions, single tickets, or our 22/23 season plans, please call (608) 257-3734, or email us at info@madisonsymphony.org.
Read a letter from Music Director John DeMain
It’s that time of year again — we are launching our new 22/23 Symphony Season and invite you to subscribe. With a stunning array of soloists, beloved staples from the symphonic repertoire, and our ever-expanding table of composers, this season will thrill you from start to finish.
The MSO debut of star British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor, playing the Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3, is a real coup for us. Joining him on our star-studded roster will be the return of violinist James Ehnes (Barber), pianist Yefim Bronfman (Rachmaninoff), two piano team, the Naughton twins (Bruch), and violinist Blake Pouliot (Saint-Saëns) in simply a knock-out season of amazing artists.
We open our season with the thrilling conclusion of our belated Beethoven birthday celebration as we perform his iconic ninth symphony, and honor Marc Fink for his extraordinary tenure as our Principal Oboist. The Madison Symphony Chorus joins us for Beethoven’s 9th, our spectacular Christmas concert, and then closes the season with the enormously popular and exciting Carmina Burana by Carl Orff. Beyond the Score® focuses on the incredibly beautiful and lyrical fourth symphony by Gustav Mahler.
The season includes first-time MSO performances of works by Florence Price and Jessie Montgomery. Every concert will include at least one major work from our core symphonic repertoire, including great symphonies by Mendelssohn, Dvořák, Tchaikovsky, Schubert, and Brahms, plus other great symphonic works by Strauss, Bartók, and Britten. Of course, our enormously popular Christmas concert will be back in all its glory, and we have a bevy of great singers for our choral and Christmas programs. Just writing about next season is getting me excited. There is so much beauty and variety planned for all of you, many of whom have been incredibly loyal patrons over the years.
If you haven’t been back yet to a live performance, next season is the perfect way to take the plunge, and return to something that has been so central and nourishing to your lives, i.e. the LIVE performance of great music.
Be with us.
— John DeMain, Music Director
Enchanted Piano & Personal Favorite
November 11, 12 & 13, 2022
Arturo Márquez, Danzón No. 2
Max Bruch, Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Pathétique
John DeMain, Conducting
Christina and Michelle Naughton, Piano Duo
A Madison Symphony Christmas
December 2, 3 & 4, 2022
John DeMain, Conducting
Adriana Zabala, Mezzo-soprano
Nathaniel Stampley, Baritone
Madison Symphony Chorus, Beverly Taylor, Director
Madison Youth Choirs, Michael Ross, Artistic Director
Mount Zion Gospel Choir, Tamera and Leotha Stanley, Directors
Towering Piano & Virtuosity
January 20, 21 & 22, 2023
Franz Schubert, Symphony No. 3 in D major
Béla Bartók, The Miraculous Mandarin
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor
John DeMain, Conducting
Yefim Bronfman, Piano
Heroic Piano & Premiere
February 17, 18 & 19, 2023
Jessie Montgomery, Coincident Dances
Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor
Antonín Dvořák, Symphony No. 6 in D major
John DeMain, Conducting
Benjamin Grosvenor, Piano
Beyond the Score® Mahler: Symphony No. 4 — Heaven or Earth?
One performance only!
Sunday, March 19, 2023
Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 4 in G major
Beyond the Score® multimedia presentation feat. American Players Theatre actors, visual projections and live musical examples.
Kyle Knox, Conducting
Emily Secor, Soprano
Dan Lyons, Piano
James Ridge, Actor
Colleen Madden, Actor
Gavin Lawrence, Narrator
Beyond the Score® is a production of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Gerard McBurney, Creative Director for Beyond the Score®
Dazzling Violin & Spring
April 14, 15 & 16, 2023
Benjamin Britten, Four Sea Interludes
Camille Saint-Saëns, Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor
Johannes Brahms, Symphony No. 2 in D major
John DeMain, Conducting
Blake Pouliot, Violin
Renaissance & Passion
May 5, 6 & 7, 2023
Florence Price, Symphony No. 3 in C minor
Carl Orff, Carmina Burana
John DeMain, Conducting
Jeni Houser, Soprano
Justin Kroll, Tenor
Ben Edquist, Baritone
Madison Symphony Chorus, Beverly Taylor, Director
Previous Concerts
Infinite Joy
September 23, 24 & 25, 2022
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Oboe Concerto in C major
Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 9 in D minor
John DeMain, Conducting
Marc Fink, Oboe
Laquita Mitchell, Soprano
Kirsten Lippart, Mezzo-soprano
Jared Esguerra, Tenor
Matt Boehler, Bass
Madison Symphony Chorus, Beverly Taylor, Director
Sublime Violin & Journeys
October 14, 15 & 16, 2022
Richard Strauss, Death and Transfiguration
Samuel Barber, Violin Concerto
Felix Mendelssohn, Symphony No. 3 in A minor
John DeMain, Conducting
James Ehnes, Violin
Thank you to our generous season sponsors!
Please take note: We guarantee a refund for tickets to any concert that cannot be performed for any reason. Programs, dates, and artists subject to change.