WELCOME TO THE 2024 - 2025 season!

The 2024-2025 season marks the 80th anniversary of the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra. And what a season it will be! Esteemed American conductor Robert Spano will debut as Principal Conductor, leading two concerts in the season.

RACHMANINOFF & GERSHWIN - Your season begins when legendary conductor Leonard Slatkin returns to celebrate his joint 80th birthday with the RIPO. Hear Gershwin's An American in Paris and with the phenomenal Olga Kern, Rachmaninoff’s ravishing Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.

ZUKERMAN PLAYS & CONDUCTS BEETHOVEN - Back also in this anniversary season is the esteemed Pinchas Zukerman to play and conduct works of Haydn and of Beethoven.

THE PASSION OF TCHAIKOVSKY - Tchaikovsky’s evocative, rarely encountered First Symphony (Winter Daydreams) will be heard along with Mendelssohn’s beloved Violin Concerto performed by the charismatic Blake Pouliot.

SPANO CONDUCTS BEETHOVEN'S EROICA - For his first concert as Principal Conductor, Robert Spano leads Beethoven’s mighty “Eroica” Symphony. Also, Jennifer Higdon’s All Things Majestic, featuring breathtaking projected images drawn from the natural world. And with students from the RI Philharmonic Music School sitting Side-by-Side with the RIPO, those massed forces present Shostakovich’s rousing Festive Overture.

BOLÉRO! - On Valentine’s Weekend, Ravel’s seductive Boléro, Rachmaninoff’s luxuriant Symphonic Dances, and the poetic Rounds of Jessie Montgomery with path-blazing pianist Awadagin Pratt.

RHAPSODY IN BLUE - Pianist Jeffrey Biegel performs Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue in a program also featuring William Dawson’s inspiring Negro Folk Symphony of 1934, and Rhode Island native Peter Boyer's Rhapsody in Red, White & Blue.

SAINT-SAËNS THUNDERING ORGAN SYMPHONY - Saint-Saëns’ roaring “Organ Symphony” will thunder throughout The VETS. Also, Rachel Barton Pine will dazzle in the Second Violin Concerto of jazz master Billy Childs.

SPANO CONDUCTS BRAHMS' REQUIEM - And to conclude your season – Robert Spano conducts Brahms’ powerful and poetic settings from the Bible, A German Requiem.