Education
Concerts
Young People’s Concerts
Every year the MSO offers several concerts designed specifically for school-aged students. Seats for the MSO’s youth concerts are $5 per student. Parents, teachers, and chaperones are free of charge with groups over 10 students. Subsidized tickets are available depending on your school’s participation in the free/reduced lunch program.
The Fall Youth Concerts are typically held in November and attended by thousands of students in grades 4–8 from around the state and beyond. This year’s Fall Youth Concerts will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024 in Overture Center for the Arts Overture Hall (Madison, WI).
Middle and high school aged students are invited to attend our Spring Young People’s Concert held on Thursday, March 6, 2025 in Overture Center for the Arts Overture Hall (Madison, WI).
Symphony Soup is a concert designed for students in grades Kindergarten-3 and is the culminating event of the MSO’s nationally recognized Up Close & Musical® in-school residency program.
Symphony Soup is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, May 13, 2025 in Overture Center for the Arts Capitol Theater (Madison, WI).
Link Up gives students in grades 3-5 the opportunity to explore music through a yearlong curriculum of classroom activities during which they learn to play the soprano recorder. A culminating concert brings the students into Overture’s Capitol Theater to perform with the MSO!
Link Up is scheduled to take place on Thursday, May 15, 2025 in Overture Center for the Arts Capitol Theater (Madison, WI).