100 Years Together In Music

Beginning this fall, your Madison Symphony Orchestra will celebrate a century of joy bringing live music to life. You’ll experience breathtaking moments and memories throughout our 100th season. We’re composing a new future connecting community and expanding musical horizons. Share our love of music. Join us — everyone can be a part of it! Since this is our Centennial season we have added 2 Centennial Opening Weekend Concerts in September 2025. You will be able to add these onto your subscription package to kick off our season!

The Madison Symphony Orchestra’s 25/26 concert season will take place between October 2025 and May 2026, and will include 8 Triple-Performance Subscription Concerts featuring orchestral masterpieces performed by our own MSO musicians and world-renowned guest soloists, plus 2 MSO at the Movies Live-to-Film Concerts that you will be able to add on to your subscription package. Closing our season we will also be partnering with the community to bring a Centennial Closing Weekend Festival of free to attend performances from groups all around the area. The closing weekend will conclude with one final free community concert with our Maestro John DeMain and winner of the 2017 Bolz Young Artist Competition, Julian Rhee.

You can read our official press release of our season launch here.

Scroll down to explore more about each concert we have scheduled this season and secure your seats with a subscription by clicking the Subscribe Now button below!

25/26 Symphony season subscribers may purchase any number of tickets to this special presentation before single tickets go on sale August 23, 2025. Add to your order when you subscribe!

Featuring
John DeMain, Conductor
Olga Kern, Piano

25/26 Symphony season subscribers may purchase any number of tickets to this special presentation before single tickets go on sale August 23, 2025. Add to your order when you subscribe!

Featuring
John DeMain, Conductor
Cirque de la Symphonie, Special Guest Artists

Music
Richard Rodgers, The Carousel Waltz from Carousel
John Kander, Selections from Chicago
Lalo Schifrin, Theme from Mission Impossible
James Horner, My Heart Will Go On from Titanic
Leonard Bernstein, Overture to West Side Story
…and so many more

Music
Mason Bates, Resurrexit
César Franck, Symphonic Variations, M. 46
Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 2 in C minor, “Resurrection”

Featuring
Kazem Abdullah, Guest Conductor
Yefim Bronfman, Piano

Music
Gabriela Lena Frank, Escaramuza
Richard Strauss, Suite from Der Rosenkavalier, Op. 59
Johannes Brahms,Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major, Op. 83

Featuring
Tania Miller, Guest Conductor
Rachel Barton Pine, Violin

Music
Felix Mendelssohn, Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 21
Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35
Claude Debussy, Prélude á l’après-midi d’un faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun)
Igor Stravinsky, Petrushka (1947 version)

Featuring
John DeMain, Conductor
Emanuel Ax, Piano

Music
Richard Strauss, Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, Op. 28
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 25 in C Major, K. 503
Gabriela Ortiz, Téenek – Invenciones de Territorio
Ottorino Respighi, Pines of Rome, P.141

25/26 Symphony season subscribers may purchase any number of tickets to this special presentation before single tickets go on sale August 23, 2025. Add to your order when you subscribe!

Featuring
Kyle Knox, Conductor

Featuring
Laura Jackson, Guest Conductor

Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
John Dearman
Matt Greif
Bill Kanengiser
Douglas Lora

Music
Jimmy López, Fiesta! Four Pop Dances for Orchestra
Joaquín Rodrigo, Concierto Andaluz
Jean Sibelius, Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43

Featuring
John DeMain, Conductor
Ailyn Pérez, Soprano
Madison Symphony Chorus,Beverly Taylor, Director
Mt. Zion Gospel Choir, Tamera & Leotha Stanley, Directors
Madison Youth Choirs, Michael Ross, Artistic Director

Music
Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67
Jake Heggie/Gene Scheer, EARTH: A Choral Symphony (World Premiere)

Featuring
John DeMain, Conductor
Julian Rhee, Violin
Madison Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Beverly Taylor, Director
Vocal Soloists: TBD

Music
Dmitri Shostakovich, Festive Overture, Op. 96
Pablo de Sarasate, Fantasy on Bizet’s “Carmen,” Op. 25
George Gershwin, An American in Paris
Gustav Holst, Mars, Mercury and Jupiter from The Planets, op. 32
Ludwig van Beethoven, Finale from Symphony No. 9, op. 125, D minor

Please take note: We guarantee a refund for tickets to any concert that cannot be performed for any reason. Programs, dates, prices, and artists subject to change.