Willson Auditorium

Once again we’ll team up with the Montana Ballet Company, only this year we’ll join them for TWO productions.

A Bozeman favorite for 28 years, The Nutcracker will get you in the holiday spirit in an expanded production featuring exciting choreography by Co-Artistic Directors Amy Lynn Stoddart and Elizabeth DeFanti, and live music with members of the Bozeman Symphony and guest conductor Kyle Pickett. In April, Matthew Savery will conduct Montana Ballet’s Gala performances of Léo Delibes’ classic 19th century comic ballet, and triumphant success, Coppélia.

Saturday, March 31 - 7:30 pm
        Sponsored by: Michael & Sharon Beehler
        Sunday, April 1 - 2:30 pm

He was a giant of the late Romantics, and his music has captivated the world. Join us as we present one of Gustav Mahler’s most special masterpieces; the famous Resurrection Symphony.

The grand finale of our 44th concert season brings the Orchestra and Symphonic Choir together to tackle Mahler’s grand vision of redemption and resurrection. Featuring Soprano Stacey Stofferahn and Mezzo-soprano Emily Lodine, this performance promises to be our most profound of the season.

Divine!

Symphony No. 2, C minor Gustav Mahler
            (Resurrection; Auferstehungssymphonie)

Saturday, March 3 - 7:30 pm
    Sponsored by:   Big Sky Western Bank
Sunday, March 4 - 2:30 pm
    Sponsored by:   The C’Mon Inn

It was an explosion of creative genius for which no one was prepared. It shattered the rules! It shocked and bewildered the world. It was the piece that changed the course of music forever and cemented Beethoven’s reputation as the greatest living composer of his time. Join us as we present Beethoven’s monumental Symphony No. 3, better known as Eroica.

The program begins with the Bozeman debut of world-renowned cellist Colin Carr performing Robert Schumann’s deeply profound Concerto for Cello in A minor. From Lincoln Center to the Royal Festival Hall in London, from the Philadelphia Orchestra to the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Colin Carr is one of the world’s most sought-after classical music stars, and we’re honored to share the stage with him! This is one artist and concert you won’t want to miss!

Concerto, Violoncello, op. 129, A minor Robert Schumann
Symphony No. 3, op. 55, E-flat Major (Eroica) Ludwig van Beethoven

Saturday, February 11 - 10:30 am; 1:00 pm
Sponsored by:
      Tim & Mary Barnard
      Dr. William & Carol Mealer
      Yellowstone Club Community Foundation
      Montana Cultural Trust
      Montana Arts Council

Saturday, February 4 - 7:30 pm
        Sponsored by: Morgan Stanley Smith Barney
Sunday, February 5 - 2:30 pm
        Sponsored by: Donald & Signe Farris

The elegance and refinement of the chamber orchestra provide a sparkling clarity for this most intimate program of beautiful music. Grieg’s miniature masterpiece, the Holberg Suite, will begin the program with its exciting bursts of romantic virtuosity coupled with its delicate folk themes. Next up, and for all you lovers out there, Richard Wagner’s gorgeous Siegfried Idyll—a love song presented to his wife Cossima on Christmas Day, 1870. The program concludes as we welcome former concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Symphony Andrés Cárdenes, as he teams up with former student, and our very own Carrie Krause, performing one of the most cherished works in all the symphonic repertoire; Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante.

Classic!

Holberg Suite, op. 40 Edvard Grieg
Siegfried Idyll, WWV 103 Richard Wagner
Sinfonia Concertante, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
        K. 364, E-flat major

Montana State University
Reynolds Recital Hall

Friday, October 7 - 7:30 pm, Diane Walsh
    Sponsored by: Elise Donohue
                          Denis & Barbara Prager
                          Arch & Gwen Wagner
                          Anonymous
Friday, January 27 - 7:30 pm, Soyeon Lee
        Sponsored by: Donald and Signe Farris
                          Anonymous

The Bozeman Symphony is proud to enter our 9th season presenting world class pianists in recital. The beautiful Reynolds Recital Hall on the Montana State University Campus offers a superb setting to enjoy the vast variety of repertoire for solo piano and we are pleased this season to present the internationally renowned talents of Diane Walsh and Soyeon Lee.

Saturday, December 10 - 7:30 pm
    Sponsored by: First Security Bank
    Artist Sponsor: Chico Hot Springs
Sunday, December 11 - 2:30 pm
    Sponsored by: ERA Landmark
Insty Prints
    Artist Sponsor: Chico Hot Springs

The Holidays are a time for gathering family and friends in joyous celebration, and that’s precisely what we intend to do with this beautiful program of music for the season.

The concert begins playfully with Johann Strauss Jr.’s Fledermaus Overture. Then soprano Catherine Savery joins us performing Mozart’s joyous Exsultate jubilate. Next up, Bozeman cellist Andree Werner, winner of the 2010 Montana Association of Symphony Orchestras Young Artist Competition, will perform the thrilling final movement from Dvorak’s beloved cello concerto. Finally, Catherine will return to the stage, this time joined by the Bozeman Symphonic Choir, as we present Francis Poulenc’s festive Gloria.

Mirthful indeed!

Fledermaus: OvertureJohann Strauss Jr.
Exsultate jubilate, K. 165Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concerto, Violoncello, op. 104,Antonin Dvorak
      B minor (mvt. 3)
Gloria Francis Poulenc

Willson Auditorium

Once again we’ll team up with the Montana Ballet Company, only this year we’ll join them
TWO productions.

A Bozeman favorite for 28 years, The Nutcracker will get you in the holiday spirit in an expanded production featuring exciting choreography by Co-Artistic Directors Amy Lynn Stoddart and Elizabeth DeFanti, and live music with members of the Bozeman Symphony and guest conductor Kyle Pickett. In April, Matthew Savery will conduct Montana Ballet’s Gala performances of Léo Delibes’ classic 19th century comic ballet, and triumphant success, Coppélia.

Saturday, November 12 - 7:30 pm
MSU Student Union Ballroom
Doors open at 5:30 pm

Grab a date and reserve a table as we
return to the MSU SUB Ballroom for a
trip down memory lane Back to the 50’s.
Dust off your poodle skirt, don your
bobby socks and saddle shoes, roll
up your jeans and slick back your hair for
this nostalgic concert of music from the dawning
age of Rock ‘n Roll. You’ll bop ‘till you drop with hip 1950’s favorites
such as Tutti Frutti, Rock Around the Clock, Hound dog, Hunka Burnin’ Love, Chantilly Lace, Peggy Sue, and much, much more. There’ll be neat-o 1950s cuisine and cocktails, and for the dancers in the crowd we’ll even have a sock-hop after the concert. So don’t miss our biggest, and most fun fundraiser of the year.

Cool Daddy-O!

Saturday, October 29 - 7:30 pm
Sponsored by: Indian Uprising Gallery
Mergenthaler Transfer & Storage
Sunday, October 30 - 2:30 pm

You’re in for a real treat with this one! We’ll welcome Delta David Gier, Music Director of the South Dakota Symphony, for this fascinating, and uplifting program.

The concert begins with the sparkling orchestral wizardry of Berlioz’s Overture to Béatrice et Bénédict. Next, violinist Elissa Lee Koljonen will enchant you with two solo works representing two sides of a coin—First, Ernest Chausson’s lyrical rhapsody Poème, and second, the virtuosic fireworks of Ravel’s Tzigane. The program concludes in epic fashion as Maestro Gier and orchestra perform the soaring and majestic Symphony No. 5, by one of the greatest rhapsodists of all: Jean Sibelius.

Oh Bliss, Oh Rapture!!

Béatrice et Bénédict: Overture Hector Berlioz
Poème, op. 25 Ernest Chausson
Tzigane, rapsodie de concert, Maurice Ravel
     for Violin and Orchestra
Symphony No. 5, op. 82, E-flat Major Jean Sibelius

Saturday, September 24 - 7:30 pm
        Sponsored by: Edward Jones Investments
        Artist Sponsor: Montana Expressions
Sunday, September 25 - 2:30 pm
        Sponsored by: J. David & Rose Ann Penwell
        Artist Sponsor: Montana Expressions

The passion and drama of the Romantic Period are on full display
in this thrilling opening to our 44th concert season.

We begin with Glinka’s brilliantly orchestrated and exuberant Overture to Russlan and Ludmilla. Next, after his stunning Bozeman Symphony debut in 2009 and his equally successful appearance on our recital series last season, we’ll welcome back Spencer Myer, gold medalist from the 2008 New Orleans International Piano Competition, performing the virtuosic and universally adored second piano concerto of Camille Saint-Saëns. Finally we’ll present Tchaikovsky’s crowning achievement; the deeply profound Symphony No. 6, better known as the Pathétique.

Breathtaking!

Russlan and Ludmilla Overture Mikhail Glinka
Concerto, Piano, No. 2 Camille Saint-Saëns
Symphony No. 6, op. 74, Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
        B minor (Pathétique)