Bring your pipes, and your friends and family, to raise a joyful noise with the Overture Concert Organ and Andrew Schaeffer on Saturday, May 4. Free and open to the public.
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.
This concert is the culmination of a yearlong curriculum of classroom activities during which students in grade 3-5 explore music and learn to play the soprano recorder.
MSOL Party of Note: May 17th, step back in time to Paris between the wars among the glitterati and literati at Django Reinhardt’s sizzling hot gypsy jazz club.
Please join the Madison Symphony Orchestra League for our Spring Luncheon and Annual Meeting at Maple Bluff Country Club. Registration is now closed for this event.
MSOL Party of Note: Join Madison Trust for Historic Preservation docent Teri Venker for a walking tour of the University Heights Historic District.
Enjoy a tasting delight at the Wisconsin Brewing Company. Learn about the brewing process during a tour of this award winning brewery. Sample beers, mustards and brats. Hear classical guitarist Christopher Allen.
MSOL Party of Note: June 6th, enjoy an elegant dinner and an intimate conversation with Maestro John DeMain and his wife, Barbara, at the lakeside home of Mary Lang and Hans Sollinger.
Join organist Jared Stellmacher for a FREE organ concert on Sat., June 29 at 11:00 a.m.
MSOL Party of Note: July 18th, tour a National Hemerocallis (Day Lily) Display Garden.
Join organist Bruce Bengtson for a FREE organ concert on Sat., July 27 at 11:00 a.m.
MSOL Party of Note: July 30th, enjoy the tasting of a selection of fine bourbons and bluegrass music.
MSOL Party of Note: August 11th, expand your horizons while viewing a private collection of traditional art from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Join organist David Ball for a FREE organ concert on Sat., August 31 at 11:00 a.m.
Conducted by Stephen Layton, the Trinity College Choir of Cambridge accompanied by the organ opens our 2019–2020 Overture Concert Organ series on Wednesday, September 11.
Don't miss this Madison Symphony Orchestra League event happening Friday, September 13. Registration is now closed.
MSOL Party of Note: Join Trevor Stephenson, Director of the Madison Bach Musicians, for a lecture-performance at his home studio on the music of Frederick Chopin.
Our all-orchestral 2019-2020 season-opening concerts, Sept. 27–29, feature Principal Organist Greg Zelek and pieces by Wagner, Barber, Debussy, and Dvořak.
Experience our Rhapsodie Quartet in performance at UW-Whitewater on October 8, featuring selections by Gabriel Fauré, Samuel Barber and Edvard Greig.
Join us for the final rehearsal leading up to Rachel Barton Pine Plays Khachaturian, Oct. 18-20. Space is limited. RSVP required.
Join the MSOL for their annual fall luncheon at Blackhawk Country Club on Friday, October 18th, with musical guest Johanna Wienholts, Principal Harp. Registration is now closed.
Rachel Barton Pine appears in her Madison Symphony debut Oct. 18–20 in a program featuring three Soviet composers: Prokofiev, Khachaturian, and Shostakovich.
Organist at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in NYC and Wisconsin native Michael Hey and Violinist Christiana Liberis make their Madison debut Tuesday, October 22.
MSOL Party of Note: October 27th, enjoy Argentinian cuisine accompanied by a tango demonstration and one-hour dance lesson.
Join guest speaker Dan Lyons, Principal Pianist, on November 7 for a presentation and conversation about our November 8–10 concerts, Joyce Yang Plays Prokofiev.
Join Joyce Yang for an intimate afternoon at Nakoma Golf Club as she discusses in-depth musical topics over a delicious meal. RSVP by October 18.
Joyce Yang is featured as soloist on Prokofiev's third piano concerto. The Nov. 8–10 program opens with Kernis's Newly Drawn Sky and closes with Schumann's second symphony.
Bring your pipes, and your friends and family, to raise a joyful noise with the Overture Concert Organ and Mark Brampton Smith on Saturday, November 9. Free and open to the public.
This beloved annual tradition embraces the season with Christmas classics and enchanting new music featuring the orchestra, three choruses and opera stars Dec. 13–15.
On Saturday, Dec. 14, raise a joyful noise with the Overture Concert Organ. Join our Principal Organist Greg Zelek to celebrate and share the spirit of the season together. It's FREE and all ages are welcome!
One performance only! A multimedia presentation starring American Players Theatre actors, visual projections and Prokofiev's Symphony No. 5 in its entirety on Sunday, January 19.
Relive the magic of your favorite wizard in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban™ in Concert featuring the Madison Symphony Orchestra.
Known as one of the most exciting organists of the 20th century, international concert organist Hector Olivera will entertain and exhilarate the audience with an unforgettable performance on Tuesday, February 11.
We welcome Pinchas and Amanda Feb. 14–16 as they reprise their fabulous performance of the Brahms Double Concerto, with which the duo made their Madison Symphony debut in 2001.
Join Kenneth Woods for an intimate afternoon at Blackhawk Country Club as he discusses in-depth musical topics over a delicious meal.
Blake Pouliot play Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, and Kenneth Woods conducts March 6–8.
The Madison Symphony Chorus and four guest singers join the MSO to perform Dvořák’s Requiem April 3–5. TAKE NOTE: this concert has been canceled due health and safety concerns and the closure of Overture Center through April 24, 2020.
Russian-Israeli powerhouse Yefim Bronfman was set to perform Brahms’s first piano concerto May 1–3. We regret that his concert is now CANCELED.
Paul Jacobs, Grammy-winning artist and established member of the Juilliard School Organ Department, performs from Overture Hall in a streamed performance on November 17. Available for viewing through November 18.
Celebrate the joy of the season together when we present an hour-long virtual concert that is certain to lift our hearts and spirits. Premieres Wednesday, December 16 at 7:30 p.m., and can be viewed through 12/31/20.
Experience the Christmas magic all over again! View the one-hour special broadcast of our2018 Christmas concert on Sunday, December 20 at 4:00 p.m.
Join us on January 28 as we explore the past and future of the MSO's education programs in a conversation with with John DeMain, Kathryn Schwarzmann, and Kyle Knox.
Trumpeter Ansel Norris joins Principal Organist Greg Zelek for an exhilerating virtual concert from Overture Hall on April 27.
MSOL Party of Note: Enjoy a guided walking tour of historic homes in Maple Bluff with refreshments and socializing afterwards on May 19.
MSOL Party of Note: Join the President of the Wisconsin Archeological Society for a guided tour of the mounds at the Mendota Mental Health Institute on May 29.
MSOL Party of Note: Enjoy a performance by MSO violinists Tim Kamps and Laura Mericle on June 15 in this beautiful historic Italianate home built on the shores of Lake Mendota.
