Hear GSO Music Director Trond Sæverud, joined by pianist Evelyn Chen and cellist Brinton Smith, up close in Moody Mansion’s historic ballroom, two nights before Sæverud premieres his own Violin Concerto with the orchestra at The Grand 1894 Opera House.

A world premiere created for GSO: Music Director Trond Sæverud performs and conducts his new Violin Concerto, paired with Nielsen and Sibelius’s Fifth Symphony.

Hear pianist Anton Nel in the more intimate setting of Levin Hall at UTMB on Friday evening, offering a closer experience of his playing before he joins GSO at The Grand on Sunday for Brahms’s sweeping Piano Concerto No. 1.

Pianist Anton Nel joins GSO for Brahms’s bold and deeply lyrical Piano Concerto No. 1, anchoring a Masterworks program that also features Stamitz’s Sinfonia in A Major and Dvořák’s atmospheric The Wood Dove.

Mozart, Haydn and their contemporaries get a lighter turn in a Pops program mixing Classical-era favorites, comic works and a new piece for viola, cello and bass.

Hear Steinway Artist Evelyn Chen up close in the historic ballroom of Moody Mansion. Praised by The New York Times as “a pianist to watch,” Chen performs an evening of solo and chamber music Friday before joining the GSO on Sunday for Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21.

On February 21, Steinway Artist Evelyn Chen, praised by The New York Times as "a pianist to watch," performs Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21, framed by Verdi and Rachmaninoff.

Experience cellist Julian Schwarz and pianist Marika Bournaki together in the historic Moody Mansion. The duo performs Friday evening before Schwarz joins the Galveston Symphony Orchestra on Sunday for Saint-Saëns’ Cello Concerto No. 1.

On April 4, cellist Julian Schwarz, first-prize winner of the Schoenfeld International String Competition, takes on Saint-Saëns' Cello Concerto No. 1, alongside Rossini and Beethoven.

On May 2, internationally celebrated violinist William Hagen, a top prizewinner of the Queen Elisabeth Competition, closes our Masterworks series with Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, alongside Bernstein and Copland.

The Galveston Symphony Orchestra closes Season 48 with a special Pops concert honoring Juneteenth in the city where it began. Join us for an afternoon of music celebrating freedom, culture, heritage and the enduring significance of June 19, 1865.