San Antonio Symphony Announces 2016-2017 Season

Mozart Festival 

January 6 and 7, 2017, 8pm
Mozart's 40th Symphony

Sebastian Lang-Lessing, conductor
Soloists, TBD

Mozart - Ave verum corpus
Fauré - Requiem
Mozart - Symphony No. 40 in G minor

January 13 and 14, 2017, 8pm
Mozart and Mendelssohn

KoljaBlacher, conductor and violin

Mozart - Symphony No. 36 in C major
Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto in E minor
Mozart - Symphony No. 38 in D major

January 27 and 28, 2017, 8pm
Mozart and Rach

Gerard Schwarz, conductor
Lola Astanova, piano

Mozart - Posthorn Symphony, K. 320
Hanson - Symphony No. 2, “Romantic”
Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor

February 3 and 4, 2017, 8pm
Mozart Piano Concerti

Jeremy Denk, conductor and piano

Rossini - Sonata No. 3 in C major
Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 19 in F major, K. 459
Mendelssohn - Sinfonia No. 2 in D major
Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K. 488

February 10 and 11, 2017, 8pm
Mozart No. 39 and Jupiter

Sebastian Lang-Lessing, conductor

Mozart - Serenade: Eine kleine Nachtmusik
Mozart - Symphony No. 39 in E-flat major
Mozart - Symphony No. 41 in C major, “Jupiter”

March 17 and 18, 2017, 8pm
Masks

Sebastian Lang-Lessing, conductor
Eric Gratz, violin

Khachaturian - Masquerade Suite
Bartók - Violin Concerto No. 1
Stravinsky - The Firebird

March 24 and 25, 2017, 8pm
From Piano Duo to Cinderella

Sebastian Lang-Lessing, conductor
Christina and Michelle Naughton, piano duo

Dukas - The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Poulenc - Concerto in D minor for Two Pianos
Prokofiev - Selections from Cinderella

March 31 and April 1, 2017, 8pm
The Unfinished Symphony and Mahler No. 4

Sebastian Lang-Lessing, conductor
Mane Galoyan, soprano

Schubert - Ave Maria
Schubert - Symphony No. 8 in B minor, “Unfinished”
Mahler - Symphony No. 4 in G major

May 12 and 13, 2017, 8pm
Susan Graham, An American in Paris

Sebastian Lang-Lessing, conductor
Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano

Ravel - Le Tombeau de Couperin
Berlioz - La Mort de Cléopâtre
Gershwin - An American in Paris

*Part of the Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the Arts Celebrated Artists Series.

May 19 and 20, 2017, 8pm
Debussy — Ibéria

Sebastian Lang-Lessing, conductor
Pablo Villegas, guitar

Chabrier - España
Villa-Lobos - Bachianas Brasileiras
Rodrigo - Fantasía para un Gentilhombre
Debussy - Ibéria

March 4, 2017, 8pm
Spring Gala
An Evening with Gil Shaham

Akiko Fujimoto, conductor
Gil Shaham, violin

*Part of the Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the Arts Celebrated Artists Series.