Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra Announces 2026-2027 Season
The Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra invites audiences to hear one orchestra through five distinctive muscal perspectives. Across five Sunday concerts at the Brooklyn Museum, conductors Christian Olson, Claire Lewis, Alison Norris, Eric Mahl, and Alex Wen lead programs filled with sweeping symphonic drama, vivid orchestral color, American voices, and music transformed by memory.
All performances take place Sundays at 2:00 PM at the Brooklyn Museum and are available in person and by livestream. Concert tickets include general admission to the Museum.
This Season’s Concerts
Christian Olson: The Inheritance of Beauty
Sunday, November 1, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Christian Olson, conductor
SERGEI RACHMANINOFF
Symphonic Dances, Op. 45
MAURICE RAVEL
Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2
Rachmaninoff's final orchestral masterpiece, Symphonic Dances, meets the radiant sunrise and ecstatic final dance of Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2. Together, the works explore how musical memory can be inherited, transformed, and set ablaze in orchestral color.
Claire Lewis: Majestic Fifths
Sunday, December 20, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Claire Lewis, conductor · William Wolfram, piano
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major, Op. 73, Emperor
William Wolfram, piano
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64
Two majestic Fifths meet as Beethoven's commanding Fifth Piano Concerto and Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony pair brilliant virtuosity with a sweeping journey through struggle, return, and triumph.
Alison Norris: Painted Soundscapes
Sunday, February 21, 2027 at 2:00 PM
Alison Norris, conductor · Dylan Hamme, violin
JEAN SIBELIUS
Karelia Overture, Op. 10
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 19
Dylan Hamme, violin
HOWARD HANSON
Symphony No. 2, Op. 30, Romantic
Sibelius, Prokofiev, and Hanson turn the orchestra into a richly layered canvas, moving from Nordic landscapes to mercurial lyricism and broad Romantic glow.
Eric Mahl: American Song
Sunday, April 11, 2027 at 2:00 PM
Eric Mahl, conductor · Sarah Joyce Cooper, soprano
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Overture to Candide
CHARLES TOMLINSON GRIFFES
Three Poems of Fiona MacLeod, Op. 11
Sarah Joyce Cooper, soprano
SAMUEL BARBER
Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op. 24
Sarah Joyce Cooper, soprano
MARGARET BONDS
Montgomery Variations
Soprano Sarah Joyce Cooper performs Griffes's Three Poems of Fiona MacLeod and Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915 in a program that also features music by Bernstein and Margaret Bonds - four contrasting American voices, brilliant, intimate, searching, and resolute.
Alex Wen: Romantic Hero
Sunday, June 13, 2027 at 2:00 PM
Alex Wen, conductor · Ruth Stokes, cello
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Cello Concerto in A Minor, Op. 129
Ruth Stokes, cello
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68
Brahms frames Schumann's deeply expressive Cello Concerto in a season finale that travels from collegiate celebration to hard-won symphonic arrival.
Brooklyn Museum and the BSO
As the Orchestra in Residence at the Brooklyn Museum, the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra brings live symphonic music into conversation with one of the world's great collections. Concert tickets include general admission, inviting audiences to experience the galleries before or after the performance.
Join us at the Brooklyn Museum - or online - for a season shaped by five conductors, five points of view, and the shared experience of orchestral music.