Program:
Paola Prestina - My Brilliant Friend: Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (2025)
Paul Wiancko - Violin Concerto No. 1, “Agrifolia” (2026) Livia Sohn, Violin
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 1 in D Major
Program:
Hector Berlioz - Overture to Beatrice et Benedict
Michael Abels - Rhapsody on Omar (2026, world premiere)
Piotr llyich Tchaikvosky - Symphony No. 5 in E minor
For 17 days and nights each spring, Spoleto Festival USA fills Charleston’s historic theaters, churches, and outdoor spaces with performances by renowned artists as well as emerging performers in opera; theater; dance; and chamber, orchestral, choral, jazz, and contemporary music.
Gian Carlo Menotti’s comedic radio opera, The Old Maid and the Theif, featuring live sound effects that evoke the excitement of radio’s golden age
Dates: May 22, 25, 27, 29
Featuring: Tracy Silverman, violin
Program: Antonio Estévez’s Melodia en el Llano; DBR’s Concerto for Violin, Orchestra, and Town Hall Cadenza (world premiere); Dvořák’s Symphony no. 9; Alex Berko’s Unstrung
Featuring: Maxim Lando, piano
Program: Mazzoli’s Sinfonia for Orbiting Spheres; Prokoliev’s Piano Concert no. 2; Beethoven’s Symphony no. 7
Featuring: WSO Horn quartet; Oglebay Institute School of Dance; Visual Design by Doug Fitch
Program: Opening by Eric Nathan; Britten’s Four Sea Interludes & Passacaglia; Schumann’s Konzerstuck; Copland’s Appalachian Spring
Featuring: Sarah Uriate Berry, Myra Maud, and John Risen, vocalists
The WSO pays tribute to the silver screen with an evening of beloved movie scores.
Program
To The Edge of Dream by Toru Takemitsu (Roberto Granados, guitar)
Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, Op. 33a by Benjamin Britten
Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, “From the New World” by Antonin Dvorák
Peter Oundjian, conductor
Program
Phantasmata by Gunther Schuller (Emily Shehi, violin)
Dances of Earth and Fire by Peter Klatzow
Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion by Béla Bartók (Derek Hartman and Alexa Stier, piano; Russell Fisher, percussion)
Program
Perú Negro by Jimmy Lopéz
Concerto for Piano, No. 2, Op. 16, G minor by Sergei Prokofiev
Symphony No. 3, Op. 90, F major by Johannes Brahms
Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor
Program
Seaborne by Garth Neustadter
Coalescence by Kevin Zetina
Rain Tree by Toru Takemitsu
Stress & Flow by Alejandro Vinao
Robert van Sice, director
Directed by Wayne Escoffery
Program
Overture to Egmont, Op. 84 by Ludwig van Beethoven
Poem for Orchestra by William Grant Still
Symphony No. 1, Op. 9 by Samuel Barber
Tuba Concerto by Wynton Marsalis
Peter Oundjian, conductor
Program
Reflections on the Nature of Water by Jacob Druckman
Electric Counterpoint by Steve Reich
To The Earth by Frederic Rzewski
Rebonds by Iannis Xenakis
Program
The Oak by Florence Price
Symphony No. 6 “Fantaisies Symphoniques” by Bohuslav Martinu
Concerto in B minor for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 104 by Antonin Dvorak
Peter Oundjian, conductor
