We are excited to launch our 53rd Season! With our move a year ago to a venue in the Lansdale/North Penn area, audiences experience SPSO in the welcoming, comfortable, and accessible Calvary Baptist Church – let alone the wonderful acoustics to feature our music-making. The internationally noted guest artists continue to excite audiences, and the popular new Mozart By Candlelight will return in November 2024.
Celebrating Achievements
Musicians from throughout the region audition to be a part of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Symphony Orchestra, your regional professional orchestra. So many of these musicians create impacts in their communities as artists. Many have trained the next generation of musicians, and we are thrilled to shar the SPSO’s Principal Viola Nina Wilkinson was recently honored with the prestigious Ovation Award given by the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra to an influential teacher and mentor.
Also, the American Harp Society awarded SPSO’s Principal Harp Cheryl Cunningham with the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award! Cheryl remains an active performer and advocate for harpists around the nation.
2024-2025 Season
MASTERWORKS CONCERT I:
Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue at 100!
Saturday, 28 September 2024, 7:30 p.m.
Season 53 opens with an evening of music by American icon George Gershwin, including music from Porgy & Bess, An American in Paris, and the celebrated, jazz-inspired Rhapsody in Blue for its 100th anniversary featuring internationally noted Pianist Carl Cranmer.
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MASTERWORKS CONCERT II:
Mozart By Candlelight
Saturday, 2 November 2024, 7:30 p.m.
Experience the music of Mozart in a whole new way.
Weaving turbulence and passion, Mozart’s instantly recognizable Symphony No. 40 is coupled with his Overture to La Clemenza di Tito and Beethoven’s witty and cheerful Fourth Symphony – and all by candlelight.
This nearly sold-out concert last season is not to be missed.
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MASTERWORKS CONCERT III:
All Seeing Sky
Saturday, 15 February 2025, 7:30 p.m.
The performance opens with Wagner’s jubilant Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin with brass blazing and strings to capture the medieval tale of chivalry and betrayal. Then SPSO presents one of the first performances of New Zealand Composer John Psathas’ All Seeing Sky, an evocative work for two percussionist soloists and orchestra, featuring world acclaimed percussionists Lynn Vartan and Weichin Lin. Dvořák’s emotionally profound Seventh Symphony concludes the concert as a personal reflection on grief and joy.
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MASTERWORKS CONCERT IV:
The Firebird & Harry Potter
Saturday, 10 May 2025, 7:30 p.m.
Be transported to a world of enchantment, imagination, and wonder with the timeless of allure of Stravinsky’s Firebird and a musical journey from the films of Harry Potter.
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CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT SERIES
Chamber Music Concert 1
Mozart & Beethoven
Sunday, 13 October 2024, 3:00 p.m.
Chamber Music Concert 2
Wind Quintet Plays American Music
Sunday, 19 January 2025, 3:00 p.m.
(snow date: Sunday, 26 January 2025)
Chamber Music Concert 3
Brass Bash!!!!
Sunday, 9 March 2025, 3:00 p.m.
Chamber Music Concert 4
Four Cellos Play Tangos, Bach, & Carmen
Sunday, 6 April 2025, 3:00 p.m.
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