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.

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.

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.

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.