2023/2024 Season
November: Rising Stars
SFO opens our 2023-24 season with Rising Stars, featuring the new work, Phoenicia, by young American composer Pradhyumn Pradeep, depicting all the experiences and nostalgia associated with a hometown. Then local prodigy Marley Erickson, a veteran of Benaroya Hall and the Walt Disney Concert as our soloist. Rounding out the program is Beethoven’s Overture to Fidelio and Borodin’s Symphony No. 2, his most distinctive and original work.
Family-Friendly Concert
📅 Saturday, November 4th, 2023 @ 2:00PM
General Concert
📅 Sunday, November 5th, 2023 @ 3:30PM
Holiday Extravaganza
Join Seattle’s friendliest orchestra for a cup of cheer at our Holiday Extravaganza Family Concerts. This year’s program includes How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Chanukah Festival Overture, Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel Prelude, A Charlie Brown Christmas and our annual Carol Sing Along. Wear your brightest holiday sweater and celebrate the season with Santa and the SFO.
Saturday Matinee
📅 Saturday, December 9th, 2023 @ 3:00PM
Sunday Matinee
📅 Sunday, Dcember 10th, 2023 @ 3:00PM
Winter 2024: Our Place in this World
Journey into the rainforest with the Seattle Festival Orchestra and explore themes of fate, magic and mimicry at our winter concert, Our Place in This World, led by guest conductor Yuchi Chou. The group continues this year’s theme of featuring new music and young soloists with Parrot in the Rainforest by Korean composer SiHyun Uhm and Haydn’s Oboe Concerto featuring Seattle soloist Bhavani Kotha. Completing the program is Tchaikovsky’s 4th Symphony of which the composer said, “Ought it not to express all those things for which words cannot be found but which nevertheless arise in the heart and cry out for expression.”
Family-Friendly Concert
📅 Saturday, March 9th, 2024 @ 2:00PM
General Concert
📅 Sunday, Marth 10th, 2024 @ 2:00PM
Spring 2024: Ephemeral Bloom
Seattle Festival Orchestra celebrates the fleeting beauty of spring with Ephemeral Bloom featuring the new work Ephemeral Bloom, by composer Yifeng Yvonne Yuan, about the fleeting flowering of a magnolia a midnight; plus Seattle youth soloist Eric Schindler playing Elgar’s challenging Cello Concerto, Johannes Brahm’s Symphony No 3.
Family-Friendly Concert
📅 Saturday, May 18th, 2024 @ 2:00PM
General Concert
📅 Sunday, May 19th, 2024 @ 2:00PM