The Albany Symphony Announces 2025-2026 Season
The Albany Symphony 2025-2026 season will run from October 2025 through June 2026. Photo provided.
ALBANY — The Albany Symphony 2025-2026 season will feature masterworks including Stravinsky’s The Firebird Suite, Holst’s The Planets, Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2, Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10, as well as new works by celebrated composers of the modern day.
Concerts will take place at Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, the Palace Theatre in downtown Albany, Proctors in Schenectady, and EMPAC at RPI in Troy. The season continues at the Albany Symphony’s multi-year festival project Water Music New York: More Voices, which commemorates the Erie Canal Bicentennial.
Opening night in October features Igor Stravinsky’s The Firebird Suite and Dvořák’s heartbreakingly beautiful Cello Concerto, performed by cellist Zlatomir Fung.
Gustav Holst’s The Planets will be the centerpiece of the November concert and features a haunting offstage chorus of 40 women from Albany Pro Musica.
Christina Bouey, Albany Symphony’s multi-talented new concertmaster, Goldberg Charitable Trust chair, will be one of the soloists in December, performing J.S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5. Also on the program, Yi-heng Yang returns to perform Mozart’s most romantic concerto, the Piano Concerto No. 20.
The 2025-2026 season runs from October 2025 through the American Music Festival in June 2026.
Water Music New York: More Voices will continue in 2025-2026. This multi-art, creative placemaking initiative in partnership with the New York State Canal Corporation commemorates the bicentennial of the completion of the Erie Canal.
The season will conclude with the orchestra’s annual survey of the most exciting, noteworthy recent American music, the American Music Festival in June 2026. Three new America250 commissions, honoring the semi-quincentennial of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, by Brittney Benton, Jihyun Kim, and Max Vinetz will complete the program.
Subscriptions offer patrons the opportunity to purchase their favorite seats before tickets go on sale to the general public. For more information about the season or to purchase a subscription online, visit www.albanysymphony.com or call the Albany Symphony Box Office at 518-694-3300.