Bring your gently used orchestra and band instruments to Bethlehem Public Library for this instrument drive hosted by Vanguard.
Albany Symphony Crescendo Club enhances the symphony experience, creating connections and building a community surrounding Albany Symphony concerts. Attend pre-concert events filled with fun activities and expert conversations over food and drinks before heading to a concert!
Joel Thompson: To See the Sky
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2
Edward Elgar: Enigma Variations
Joel Thompson: To See the Sky
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2
Edward Elgar: Enigma Variations
Vanguard’s always-popular luncheon returns this spring! Attend this fun, festive afternoon including a fashion show!
The music of John Williams has transported us beyond our imagination. To new worlds. Through heart-pounding adventures. Be there as David Alan Miller conducts all your John Williams favorites: Superman, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Harry Potter, E.T., and of course, Star Wars.
Embark on a magical music adventure with David Alan Miller and the Albany Symphony and introduce your children and students to the imaginative world of orchestral music.
Geared for children between the ages of 18-months and 6 years, Tiny Tots concerts are interactive school day performances that have thrilled preschool audiences, their teachers, and parents for over 20 years.
Embark on a magical music adventure with David Alan Miller and the Albany Symphony and introduce your children and students to the imaginative world of orchestral music.
Geared for children between the ages of 18-months and 6 years, Tiny Tots concerts are interactive school day performances that have thrilled preschool audiences, their teachers, and parents for over 20 years.
A concert showcasing over 30 years of innovative works exclusively commissioned for Dogs of Desire. Founded in 1994, Dogs of Desire has earned a national reputation as an incubator for the most inventive musical creations of our time. Experience the highlights of over 200 works commissioned for this ensemble.
Dogs of Desire, the orchestra’s electrifying, genre-bending new music group, presents newly penned works by some of today’s most adventurous American composers.
Viet Cuong: New Work (world premiere)
Christopher Theofanidis: New Work
Clarice Assad: Terra, Concerto for Bassoon & Orchestra
Plus, America250 Commissions by: Brittney Benton, Jihyun Kim, & Max Vinetz
Francisco del Pino: New Work (world premiere)
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4
Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 7
Francisco del Pino: Ritual
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4
Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 7
The Albany Symphony has dedicated the Valentine’s Weekend concerts to honor Vanguard and the Symphony volunteers.
To continue the celebration, Vanguard will be hosting a delightful reception following the Sunday performance at the Hart Cluett Museum. They will offer food from Old Daley, champagne, and more! This will be part of Vanguard’s major fundraising effort for the Symphony.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: The Tempest
Gustav Mahler: Songs of a Wayfarer
Loren Loiacono: New Vocal Work (world premiere)
Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 3, “Rhenish”
Crescendo Club Pre-Concert Event Available!
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: The Tempest
Gustav Mahler: Songs of a Wayfarer
Loren Loiacono: New Vocal Work (world premiere)
Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 3, “Rhenish”
Albany Symphony Crescendo Club enhances the symphony experience, creating connections and building a community surrounding Albany Symphony concerts. Enjoy food, drinks, fun activities, and a Symphony 101 presentation where you’ll get to know everything there is about symphony concerts.
Jennifer Higdon: TenFold
Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Concerto
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10
Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5
Isaac Thomas: Pocket-Sinfonietta (world premiere)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20
Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 94, “The Surprise”
Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5
Isaac Thomas: Pocket-Sinfonietta (world premiere)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20
Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 94, “The Surprise”
Make the Albany Symphony your home for the holidays and celebrate the season with family and friends at the Capital Region’s most beloved holiday spectacular. Performing sparkling carols, holiday favorites and more: The Music Studio, Capital District Youth Chorale, Northeast Ballet Company, and Rince go Bràch!
The School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at RPI, in conjunction with Albany Symphony Orchestra, New York State Canal Corporation, and New York Power Authority, would like to present Reflections on Waterways, a symposium which revisits the various celebratory performances done along the route of the Erie Canal commemorating the 200th anniversary of the waterway, with commentary from several guest speakers.
Bobby Ge: Violin Concerto, “Ballet du Son” (world premiere)
Gustav Holst: The Planets
Support your Albany Symphony at Vanguard’s Jazz Brunch! Enjoy fare by Chef Will Brown and music by the Joe Barna Trio at beautiful June Farms in West Sand Lake.
Through the generosity of the Innovation Partnership, the Albany Symphony and the Empire State Youth Orchestra (ESYO) presents the third annual Symphony Side-by-Side, an afternoon of collaborative musicianship and mentoring. Student musicians from ESYO and the entire Capital Region rehearse and perform alongside the GRAMMY-winning Albany Symphony Orchestra to experience the symphonic performance process at the professional level.
Jean Sibelius: Finlandia
Antonín Dvořák: Cello Concerto
Alex Berko: Look Up (world premiere)
Igor Stravinsky: The Firebird Suite (1919)
