Single tickets on sale tomorrow (Thursday, 7/25) for the BSO's 2024–25 Season

Single tickets on sale Thursday, 7/25 at 10 a.m. for the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s 2024–25 season through BSO.ORG or 888-266-1200

Single tickets go on sale Thursday, July 25 at 10 a.m. for the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s 144th season (September 19, 2024, through May 3, 2025), Music Director Andris Nelsons’ tenth anniversary season with the orchestra. 

Click here for the BSO 2024–25 Season Press Kit 

Fall 2024 Program Highlights

Opening weekend, September 19–21, showcases the breadth of the upcoming season, with performances by both the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Boston Pops. Opening Night Gala includes mezzo-soprano Susan Graham, husband-and-wife pianists Lang Lang and Gina Alice Redlinger, and the winner of the BSO's 2023 Concerto Competition, Keila Wakao. The program features the first commission (Festive Overture and Fanfare) of the BSO’s new Composer Chair, Carlos Simon in celebration of Music Director Andris Nelsons’ tenth anniversary and the first official Symphony Hall concert with newly appointed Concertmaster Nathan Cole (Sept. 19). The weekend continues as talented circus performers tumble to the music of the Pops led by Keith Lockhart in Cirque Goes to the Cinema (Sept. 20), and we once again welcome audiences across Greater Boston to Symphony Hall for a free Concert for the City (Sept. 21).  

The 2024–25 season builds upon the BSO’s legacy of commissioning and championing new music, reflecting “the sense of innovation that is at the core of the BSO,” as CEO and President Chad Smith told the New York Times in recent interview.  Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Tania León premieres BSO co-commission Time to Time for the season’s second weekend (Sept. 26–28), and Assistant Conductor Samy Rachid and the BSO revisit Michael Gandolfi’s Ascending Light (Oct. 10–12), first performed by the orchestra in 2015. Composer Chair Carlos Simon curates an all-American concert with the Boston Symphony Chamber Players on Sept. 29. 

In early October, Nelsons conducts Mahler’s ambitious Eighth Symphony, the so-called “Symphony of a Thousand” for eight soloists, large chorus, children’s chorus, organ, and orchestra (Oct. 4–6). Other programmatic highlights this fall include Franz Liszt’s dramatic Piano Concerto No. 2 with soloist Jean-Yves Thibaudet (Oct. 24–26), a tribute to the groundbreaking Duke Ellington (Nov. 7 & 9), and Kevin Puts’ song cycle The Brightness of Light with soprano Renée Fleming and baritone Rod Gilfry (November 21–23). 

Thematic concerts with Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops punctuate this BSO season. Pre-season Pops activity celebrates the music of John Williams, with Star Wars: The Force Awakens in Concert* (Sept. 5–6) and A Grand Suite from Harry Potter (Sept. 7–8). For Halloween, organist Brett Miller provides live accompaniment to the 1922 silent horror classic Nosferatu (Oct. 30), and Lockhart and the Pops present Disney Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas in Concert* (Oct. 31, Nov. 2). The Pops honor Mexican tradition with their first-ever Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) concert at Symphony Hall (Nov. 1). 

The BSO continues to offer free events throughout greater Boston and the Berkshires, building community through music. In addition to the free Concert for the City (Sept. 21), the BSO also will offer Community Chamber Concerts in venues throughout the state (dates to be announced), participate in the Fenway Alliance’s Opening Our Doors Festival (Oct. 14), and offer free tickets to High School Open Rehearsals and Youth & Family concerts to students and teachers from Boston Public Schools. As Yo-Yo Ma said in a recent interview, "This belief — that music is service — is in the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s founding DNA, and it’s a purpose that I see guiding the BSO today.” 

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