23/24

Welcome to the Orlando Philharmonic’s 31st Season and the magnificent Steinmetz Hall at Dr. Phillips Center, one of the world’s most acoustically perfect spaces! As always, our inspiring music celebrates the lively diversity of Orlando, which we have strived to reflect with programming and artists who will bring it to exuberant life, strengthening and enriching the musical bonds that unite us.

It is with great pride that we introduce our 2023-2024 Classics Series, which will feature internationally acclaimed pianists Emanuel Ax and Alexandra Dariescu, violinist Bella Hristova, rising star Sterling Elliott, vocalists Jamie Barton and Sarah Shafer, and our brilliant Concertmaster Rimma Bergeron-Langlois joining Music Director Eric Jacobsen and our fabulous orchestra.

Six concerts this season feature women on the podium: Mei-Ann Chen, Chloé van Soeterstède, Chelsea Gallo, and Georgia Mills, and exciting works by women composers Dai Wei, Katarina Leyman, and former Composer-in-Residence Anna Clyne.

You’ll enjoy a brand-new piano concerto by James Lee III, frequent collaborator with the OPO and Music Director Eric Jacobsen, in addition to the grandest masterpieces in the repertoire, like Pictures at an Exhibition, The Rite of Spring, Brahms’s Third Symphony, and Mahler’s deeply moving “Resurrection” Symphony. Please join us for another season guaranteed to delight, inspire, and send your spirits soaring.

All programs and artists are subject to change.

Steinmetz Hall allows the orchestra to really challenge ourselves artistically, challenge the audience, challenge all of us to find a new way to listen to music and new music to listen to.

ERIC JACOBSEN, MUSIC DIRECTOR