The Wellesley Symphony concert season begins September 28 with "Dissent and Beauty"

The Wellesley Symphony Orchestra begins its 77th season on September 28 at MassBay Community College in Wellesley with music of Margaret Brouwer, Alan Hovhaness, and Dmitri Shostakovich.

Our 2025-2026 season is full of musical treasures old and new, including Shostakovich's epic 5th symphony, Tchaikovsky's iconic Piano Concerto No. 1 featuring Young Steinway Artist Taige Wang, Beethoven's Eroica, women composers for Women's History Month, music of Pierné and Debussy, featuring our own Emily Richardson, Copland's Lincoln Portrait, and a commissioned piece in memory of our clarinetist and board member, Dianne Mahany.

All that along with our holiday concert and winner of the Michael H. Welles Young Soloist Competition. Join us!

Concerts are at the MassBay Community College Wellesley Hills campus. For further information, please visit our website or email us at info@wellesleysymphony.org

September 28, 2025 - "Dissent and Beauty"

• Margaret Brouwer - Path at Sunrise, Masses of Flowers
  
• Alan Hovhaness - Symphony No. 1, Exile
• Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5

Sunday, November 2, 2025 - "Remembrance"

• Pyotr Tchaikovsky - Capriccio Italien
• William Grant Still - Symphony No. 3 - The Sunday Symphony
• Pyotr Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No. 1, Taige Wang, piano

Saturday, December 6, 2025 - HOLIDAY CONCERT!

• Featuring the Fireside Barbershop Quartet and holiday favorites

Sunday, February 8, 2026 - "We the People"

• Carlos Chavez - Sinfonia India
• Aaron Copland - Lincoln Portrait
• Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 3 - Eroica

Sunday, March 22, 2026 - "Women Compose!"
A Symphonic Celebration of Women's History Month

• Featuring the winner of the Michael H. Welles Young Soloist Competition
• Mark Latham - Elegy in Memoriam of Dianne Mahany
• Compositions tba

Sunday, May 10, 2026 - "DANCE!"

• Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - Four Waltzes
• Gabriel Pierné - Concert Piece, Harp, Op. 39
• Claude Debussy - Dances Sacres et Profanes, Emily Richardson, Harp
• Alberto Ginastera - Estancia: Four Dances
• Igor Stravinsky - Petruchka