Overture Center for the Arts

The dynamic Canadian Tania Miller is featured as guest conductor, and Grammy Award-winning cellist Zuill Bailey makes his Madison debut.

John DeMain and the Madison Symphony Orchestra celebrate the arrival of the holiday season with a myriad of musical collaborations, including Christmas classics alongside regional choirs such as the Mt. Zion Gospel Choir, the Madison Youth Choirs, and esteemed opera singers Cecelia Violetta Lopez and Kyle Ketelsen.

Beyond the Score® is a multimedia presentation featuring APT actors, stunning visual projections, and musical examples. Join Mendelssohn on his travels across the historic cities of Italy and discover how the country became the inspiration for this buoyant symphonic work. The entire work is performed in the second half.

Violinist James Ehnes and John DeMain’s Madison Symphony Orchestra team up for an event of colossal talent; featuring Madison-resident Harbison’s The Most Often Used Chords, Brahms’ Violin Concerto, and Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, the extraordinary program is one of both supreme quality and musicianship.

The Madison Symphony Orchestra celebrates three of its own artists — Concertmaster Naha Greenholtz, Clarinetist JJ Koh, and Tubist Joshua Biere — exhibiting a technical and evocative mastery of their respectful instruments via a series of solo pieces from Prokofiev, Debussy, and Vaughan Williams. Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 opens, and Gershwin’s An American in Paris open and close the concert.

Marc-André Hamelin brings his trailblazing prodigal piano talent to the collaborative minds of the Madison Symphony Orchestra for two European impressionistic compositions — Strauss’ Burleske, Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G. for his debut with MSO. Mozart’s Symphony No. 38 and Debussy’s La Mer. complete the poetic program.