A new chapter: The Singapore Symphony unveils 2026/27 season with Hannu Lintu as Music Director

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As part of their worldwide Sacrilegious Games Tour, TwoSet Violin joins the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and conductor Joshua Tan for a night of humour, musical challenges, and unexpected twists. Don’t miss this one-of-a-kind event!

TwoSet Violin / Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Joshua Tan, conductor

$238, $198, $158, $128, $98

Ahead of the 200th anniversary of Beethoven in 2027, the acclaimed pair of violinist Gil Shaham and pianist Akira Eguchi perform all ten of the composer’s violin sonatas. Nine written between 1797 to 1803, and the last composed in 1812, these violin sonatas advanced the genre by reinforcing the violin-piano partnership as one voice of the great composer.

Gil Shaham, violin / Akira Eguchi, piano

$100, $80, $60, $40, $30, $20

Ahead of the 200th anniversary of Beethoven in 2027, the acclaimed pair of violinist Gil Shaham and pianist Akira Eguchi perform all ten of the composer’s violin sonatas. Nine written between 1797 to 1803, and the last composed in 1812, these violin sonatas advanced the genre by reinforcing the violin-piano partnership as one voice of the great composer.

Gil Shaham, violin / Akira Eguchi, piano

$100, $80, $60, $40, $30, $20

Ahead of the 200th anniversary of Beethoven in 2027, the acclaimed pair of violinist Gil Shaham and pianist Akira Eguchi perform all ten of the composer’s violin sonatas. Nine written between 1797 to 1803, and the last composed in 1812, these violin sonatas advanced the genre by reinforcing the violin-piano partnership as one voice of the great composer.

Gil Shaham, violin / Akira Eguchi, piano

$100, $80, $60, $40, $30, $20

The Singapore Symphony launches its 2026/27 season with a bold step into the future. The journey begins with two contemporary works: a newly commissioned piece by Singaporean composer Tan Chan Boon, and Mason Bates’s Nomad Concerto, “the mysterious and soulful music of the wanderer”, written to highlight the Old World warmth and elegance of master violinist Gil Shaham.

Set against these fresh sonic landscapes is Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, a towering masterpiece that captures a world on the brink of transformation. Its electrifying opening, radiant Adagietto and triumphant finale form a grand fin de siècle arc—an eclipse of the old and a blaze of the new.

This powerful programme also marks the dawn of a new chapter for the orchestra: the inauguration of Hannu Lintu as the Singapore Symphony Orchestra’s Music Director. A season opens, a new era begins.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Hannu Lintu, conductor / Gil Shaham, violin

$138, $108, $78, $58, $38, $28

Continuing Hannu Lintu’s inaugural concert series, this programme explores the expressive breadth of orchestral and operatic storytelling. Richard Strauss’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra opens with an incandescent sunrise, a symphonic reflection on humanity, purpose, and destiny. From the light of knowledge, we descend into shadow with Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle, a chilling tale of curiosity, desire, and doom, brought to life through the supernatural textures of his one-act opera.

Award-winning Chinese bass-baritone Shenyang (沈洋, BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2007) and English mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnston (Royal Philharmonic Society Singer of the Year 2021) take on the roles of Duke Bluebeard and the ill-fated Judith, drawing audiences into their dark, suspenseful story.

Seven great doors shut tight, and none shall see what is behind them. Do you dare open one?

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Hannu Lintu, conductor / Shenyang, bass-baritone (Bluebeard) / Jennifer Johnston, mezzo-soprano (Judith) / Gabriel Chan, lighting designer / Michael Huang, surtitles

$100, $75, $55, $40, $30, $15

Travel back to a golden age of English music from the 16th century Tudor era to the early Baroque. Organist Loraine Muthiah, harpsichordist Boey Jir Shin and singers from the Singapore Symphony Chorus take turns to evoke the beauty and melancholy of the incomparable composers of this period such as Tallis, Byrd, Gibbons and Purcell.

Loraine Muthiah, organ / Boey Jir Shin, harpsichord / Eudenice Palaruan, choral director / Members of the Singapore Symphony Choruses

$30, $20, $10

Sprinkle some musical vitamins into your lunchtime with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. Come join us for a free one-hour concert at the Victoria Concert Hall, nestled in the heart of Singapore’s civic district, conducted by the SSO’s new Associate Conductor, Nathanaël Iselin.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Nathanaël Iselin, conductor

Free admission

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Nathanaël Iselin, conductor

Free admission

“A performer of near-superhuman technical prowess” (The New York Times), the award-winning Canadian virtuoso pianist Marc-André Hamelin returns to Singapore with Brahms’s popular Piano Concerto No. 2. Considered by many as his finest symphony, Dvořák’s Symphony No. 7 was written as a testament to champion the voice of the Czech people. The Singapore Symphony Orchestra performs these melodic masterpieces from the 1880s conducted by acclaimed German conductor Sebastian Weigle.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Sebastian Weigle, conductor / Marc-André Hamelin, piano

$100, $75, $55, $40, $30, $15

Renowned worldwide for his unrivalled blend of consummate musicianship and brilliant technique, pianist Marc-André Hamelin joins musicians of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in this delectable evening of chamber music from the Romantic era. Brahms’s idyllic horn trio takes you on a refreshing spin through nature, before Schubert’s very famous Trout Quintet cheerfully lets you know the laundry is done.

Marc-André Hamelin, piano / Musicians of the SSO

$50, $40, $30, $20

A nation is defined in many ways, but its inner soul is made of music. The SSO National Day Concert brings together the works of Singapore composers past and present in our continuing journey to make music Singaporeans can recognise as our own. This year’s NDC features compositions from veteran composers Kelly Tang and Tsao Chieh, as well as young composers Sulwyn Lok and Germaine Goh, concluding with the winning compositions of the NDC 2026 Call for Compositions.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Musicians of the SNYO / Lien Boon Hua, conductor / Kevin Loh, guitar / Jonathan Ngeow, ruan / Linying, vocalist / Lily Goh, deaf artist-performer

$75, $55, $40, $30, $15

Written when he was a 25-year-old student at the Sibelius Academy, Rautavaara’s A Requiem in our Time won such praise that it prompted none other than Jean Sibelius himself to recommend him for a scholarship to Julliard. Ron Nelson’s Resonances I embraces chance and spontaneity, while Aulis Sallinen’s Palace Rhapsody weaves neo-Romantic lyricism into modern soundscapes.

The concert culminates with Friedrich Gulda’s rollicking Cello Concerto, scored for a Mozartian wind ensemble fused with a jazz rhythm trio, blending classical virtuosity with playful unpredictability. The concerto alternates seamlessly between “jazz, a minuet, rock, a smidgen of polka, a march, and a cadenza with two spots where the star cellist must improvise.” And the star: SSO’s very own cellist Jamshid Saydikarimov.

Ivan Meylemans, conductor / Jamshid Saydikarimov, cello / Winds and Percussion of the SSO

$40, $30, $20

In celebration of its Golden Jubilee, Apsaras Dance Company proudly presents Agápe, a multidisciplinary work exploring the beauty of human relationships: with oneself, between others, with nature, and across cultures. It serves as an artistic response to the contemporary challenges of mental wellbeing, societal disconnect, and digital alienation.

Led by Artistic Director and Cultural Medallion recipient Aravinth Kumarasamy, Agápe also features conductor Joshua Tan, choreographer and guest dancer Rama Vaidhyanathan (India), principal dancer Mohanapriyan Thavarajah (Sri Lanka), music composer Dr Rajkumar Bharathi (India), music arranger and director Sai Shravanam (India), costume design – MOHA by Priyan (Singapore), set designer Wong Chee Wai (Singapore), and dramaturg Lim How Ngean (Australia).

Apsaras Dance Company / Musicians of the SSO / Joshua Tan, conductor

$100, $80, $60, $45, $30

Singapore Symphony Concertmaster and GK Goh Chair Andrew Beer leads the strings of the SSO in Grieg’s nostalgic Holberg Suite, a tribute to playwright Ludvig Holberg via Baroque dance, and Tchaikovsky’s sumptuous Souvenir de Florence. Two late 19th-century concert hall favourites to showcase the splendid sounds of a string orchestra.

Andrew Beer, violin and leader / Strings of the SSO

$40, $30, $20

Featuring visually stunning imagery and groundbreaking special effects, the action-packed adventure of Jurassic Park pits man against prehistoric predators in the ultimate battle for survival. Experience it now, projected in HD with a full symphony orchestra performing John Williams' iconic score live to picture.

Singapore National Youth Orchestra / Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Joshua Tan, conductor

$88, $68, $48, $38, $28

This September school holidays, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra presents the classic fairy tale of  Little Red Riding Hood – except this time, Roald Dahl’s feisty Little Red is no pushover! Watch as the SSO and actors of Dandi Productions use clever lighting, music, bold costumes and lively theatre to show you how Little Red thwarts the Big Bad Wolf to save the day.

This is a relaxed environment performance where rules are eased. Audiences are allowed to freely enter and exit the concert hall when needed.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Nathanaël Iselin, conductor / Dandi Productions

$40, $30 (Family package available)

The 2026 President’s Young Performers Concert proudly presents three superlative young talents from Singapore: bassoonist Shi Jia Ao, soprano Natasha Da Costa and violinist Kaelyn Soh. Be wowed by their musical virtuosity in three soloist-showcases accompanied by the Singapore Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jason Lai – Swedish Romantic composer Franz Berwald’s lively concert piece for bassoon, the lush poetry of Ravel’s song cycle Shéhérazade (of The Arabian Nights fame) and the cinematic gleam of Korngold’s Violin Concerto.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Jason Lai, conductor / Shi Jia Ao, bassoon / Natasha Da Costa, soprano / Kaelyn Soh, violin³

$75, $55, $40, $30, $15

Laughter and fruitfulness fill Our Garden, a cantata for children’s choir and orchestra by Estonia’s most famous composer today, Arvo Pärt. Hear its infectious joy radiate from the Singapore Symphony Children’s Choir in this evening with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra.

The programme also stars cellist extraordinaire Gautier Capuçon in Saint-Saëns’s uplifting Cello Concerto No. 1, an audience favourite from the late-Romantic era. Finally, witness the gargantuan forces rallied by Vasily Petrenko, one of today’s leading interpreters of Shostakovich’s music, to perform Shostakovich’s incredible Fourth Symphony, a wild maelstrom of modernity with nary a dull moment, high-speed harmonic heists punctuated by the disquieting tick-tocks of oblivion.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Singapore Symphony Children’s Choir / Vasily Petrenko, conductor / Gautier Capuçon, cello / Wong Lai Foon, choirmaster

$100, $75, $55, $40, $30, $15

Violinist Augustin Hadelich’s phenomenal technique, insightful interpretations and ravishing tone have astounded audiences the world over, and he’s back in Singapore to perform Tchaikovsky’s popular violin concerto. Under the vigorous direction of French maestro Pierre Bleuse, this exciting combination gives way to two contrasting tales of supernatural sensuality – the cloak-and-dagger clamour of Béla Bartók’s controversial The Miraculous Mandarin, and the primal beauty of Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé. Dream(e)scapes, a new work by Singaporean composer Zechariah Goh, opens this programme.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Pierre Bleuse, conductor / Augustin Hadelich, violin

$100, $75, $55, $40, $30, $15

“The essence of Hadelich’s playing is beauty: revelling in the myriad ways of making a phrase come alive on the violin … revealing something from a plane beyond ours.” (The Washington Post). Augustin Hadelich, one of the finest violinists today, performs a solo recital of showpieces from Baroque to Paganini, plus Ysaÿe’s evocative Fifth Sonata and Blue/s Forms by the remarkable American composer Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson. Not to be missed.

Augustin Hadelich, violin

$100, $80, $60, $40, $30, $20

The SSO's popular Babies’ Proms returns this October 2026 with its well-established and familiar programme that has entertained generations of kids. Discover the fun and fantastic world of the orchestra and its different instruments in this free-and-easy musical day out for families. Be ready to get up from your seats and move along to the music with your lively Babies’ Proms presenter, William “Uncle Bill” Ledbetter!

This is a relaxed environment performance where rules are eased. Audiences are allowed to freely enter and exit the concert hall when needed.

• The SSO Babies’ Proms programme is identical from year to year.
• Pre-concert activities will begin an hour before each show.
• Recommended for ages 6 and below.
• Tickets are required for children aged 2 and above. Free for children under 2 years if accompanied by an adult with a ticket.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / William Ledbetter, presenter / Leonard Tan, conductor

$45, $35

Singapore’s young star violinist Chloe Chua performs Mendelssohn’s lyrical Violin Concerto, “The most inward, the heart’s jewel” among the great German violin concertos. Led by our Music Director Hannu Lintu, this attractive programme that the SSO will bring on its China Tour also presents Singaporean composer Wang Chenwei’s picturesque tone poem, The Sisters’ Islands, now an established work in Singapore’s symphonic repertoire. Mahler’s First Symphony, a titan among symphonies, concludes the concert.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Hannu Lintu, conductor / Chloe Chua, violin

$40, $30, $20

Three years after their first collaboration with the SSO, violinists Chloe Chua and He Ziyu return for another take on Mozart’s charming Sinfonia Concertante for violin and viola. Don’t miss this exciting reunion at the University Cultural Centre (NUS) conducted by Hannu Lintu, who will also lead the SSO in Mahler’s First Symphony.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Hannu Lintu, conductor / Chloe Chua, violin / He Ziyu, viola

$40, $30, $20

Musicians of the SSO

Free admisson

Phoon Yu, organ

$30, $20

Enter a world of myth and legend with Finnish conductor Pietari Inkinen and the Singapore Symphony. Sibelius’s triumphant Lemminkäinen’s Return and Finlandia feature in this two-part exploration with the Singapore Symphony Chorus and Youth Choir lending its voices to the latter’s magnificent hymn, before soprano Johanna Rusanen soothes the evening with six wistful orchestral songs such as Illale (“To Evening”) and Var det en dröm (“Was it a dream?”). In the second half, we bring to life the Nibelungenlied in Inkinen’s own suite of epic chapters from Wagner’s Götterdämmerung, culminating in the fiery sacrifice of Brünnhilde’s Immolation Scene.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Singapore Symphony Chorus / Singapore Symphony Youth Choir / Pietari Inkinen, conductor / Johanna Rusanen, soprano / Eudenice Palaruan, choral director / Wong Lai Foon, choirmaster

$100, $75, $55, $40, $30, $15

We’re taking a musical trip to the movies! Travel to a galaxy far, far away with the music of Star Wars, drop in on Hogwarts with the tunes of Harry Potter, visit magical Colombia in Encanto, and many more!

This is a relaxed environment performance where rules are eased. Audiences are allowed to freely enter and exit the concert hall when needed.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Nathanaël Iselin, conductor / Alasdair Malloy, presenter

$40, $30 (Family package available)

Musicians of the Singapore Symphony are joined by acclaimed violinist Paul Huang in Schubert’s serene Octet in F major, written for an ensemble of clarinet, horn, bassoon, violins, viola, cello and double bass. Schubert’s Octet came about as a commission by Count Ferdinand Troyer, an amateur clarinettist in the court of the Archduke Rudolf of Austria, whose tender and beautiful handling of the instrument is reflected in the piece.

Paul Huang, violin / Musicians of the SSO

$40, $30, $20

Subito con forza – Suddenly with power is renowned South Korean composer Unsuk Chin’s fiery tribute to Beethoven: five minutes of belligerence and frustration, a composer struggling with growing deafness, interspersed with glimpses of inner quiescence. It is a fitting precursor to Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, an orchestral turbine of irresistible energy with a heart of unforgettable angst. Known for his “unfailing attractive, golden, and resonant tone” (The Strad), Taiwanese-American violinist Paul Huang makes his SSO debut with Dvořák’s sunny Violin Concerto in this programme conducted by Macau-born maestro Lio Kuokman.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Lio Kuokman, conductor / Paul Huang, violin

$100, $75, $55, $40, $30, $15

Hypermelody. John Adams’s word to describe his “implacably melodic” 1993 Violin Concerto. Let Dutch violinist Simone Lamsma take you on a mesmerising ride accompanied by an orchestra augmented by electronic synthesisers. A startling contrast to the celebrated dances of Appalachian Spring by 20th century contemporary Aaron Copland. These American portraits of nostalgia and discovery are followed by Schumann’s Fourth Symphony, a symphony composed twice – written in 1841 after No. 1 and revised in 1851 after his middle symphonies. The Singapore Symphony Orchestra performs these remarkable works under the baton of our Music Director Hannu Lintu.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Hannu Lintu, conductor / Simone Lamsma, violin

$100, $75, $55, $40, $30, $15

Programme to be announced.

Singapore National Youth Orchestra / Joshua Tan, conductor

To be announced

This programme curated by Music Director Hannu Lintu begins fittingly with Schubert’s most famous symphony, the “Unfinished,” a work whose lyrical immediacy and structural boldness would echo far beyond his own time. Schubert’s legacy is taken up directly in Berio’s Rendering, the 20th-century Italian composer’s imaginative mosaic of the D. 936A Symphony Schubert sketched in the final weeks of his short life in 1828. In Rendering, Schubert’s symphonic poise dissolves into curious veils of celesta and then re-emerges, transformed, revealing the kintsugi-like artistry with which Berio restores and reimagines the fragments.

Schubert was also a profound inspiration to his younger contemporary Schumann, whose Cello Concerto completes the arc of the evening. Its poetic introspection and restless lyricism find a compelling advocate in British cellist Steven Isserlis, the soloist for tonight’s performance.

This concert is dedicated to the late Maestro Choo Hoey, the founding Music Director of the SSO.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Hannu Lintu, conductor / Steven Isserlis, cello

$100, $75, $55, $40, $30, $15

The snowy fairy tale of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker joins John Rutter’s jubilant Gloria in the Singapore Symphony’s annual Christmas Concerts. It’s a joyous and colourful evening of celebration with our traditional Christmas medley singalongs, featuring the Singapore Symphony Choruses, conducted by our Associate Conductor Nathanaël Iselin.

This concert will be streamed live on the Singapore Symphony YouTube channel and Mediacorp’s meWatch.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Singapore Symphony Chorus / Singapore Symphony Youth Choir / Singapore Symphony Children’s Choir / Nathanaël Iselin, conductor / Eudenice Palaruan, Choral Director / Wong Lai Foon, Choirmaster

$228, $168, $108, $88, $68, $48

Songstress Nathania Ong’s rise from Singapore to the shining spotlights of London’s West End is a tale cast with determination and passion, and a voice of inspiration. Accompanied by the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and joined by fellow Singaporean vocalists Preston Lim and Vanessa Kee, Nathania leads this spectacular evening of music from the very best of musical theatre, Broadway and Disney, including songs from Les Misérables, Frozen and Wicked.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Joshua Tan, conductor / Nathania Ong, vocals / Preston Lim, vocals / Vanessa Kee, vocals

$148, $118, $88, $68, $48, $28

Take wing with Lera Auerbach’s shimmering vision of Icarus, be buffeted by the turbulence of Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet, and ascend into the radiant brilliance of Scriabin’s Le Poème de l'extase in this soaring programme conducted by Music Director Hannu Lintu. Let Sibelius’s Violin Concerto carry you to even loftier heights with South Korean virtuoso Inmo Yang, First Prize winner at both the 2015 Paganini Competition and the 2022 Jean Sibelius Violin Competition.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Hannu Lintu, conductor / Inmo Yang, violin

$100, $75, $55, $40, $30, $15

Slonimsky’s Earbox, an imaginatively titled burst of colours, shapes and sounds takes its cue from Stravinsky’s Song of the Nightingale, both works paired tonight in celebration of the remarkable American composer John Adams’s 80th birthday.

Equally kaleidoscopic is South Korean composer Donghoon Shin’s Upon His Ghostly Solitude, a 2023 orchestra showpiece, inspired by W. B. Yeats’s devastating war-tone poem Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen. Rounding out this exhilarating programme, the superlatively acclaimed Chinese pianist Haochen Zhang tackles Prokofiev’s fearsomely demanding Second Piano Concerto in partnership with our Music Director Hannu Lintu.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Hannu Lintu, conductor / Haochen Zhang, piano

$100, $75, $55, $40, $30, $15

The Singapore Symphony proudly presents our Conductor Laureate Lan Shui, returning to the podium of the Esplanade Concert Hall for this homecoming concert. Joining him is Liao Chang Yong, widely regarded as China’s finest baritone, in Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer, a symphonic song cycle of romantic heartbreak, loneliness and despair. In 1937, Arnold Schoenberg orchestrated Brahms’s Piano Quartet No. 1 and dressed it in symphonic splendour, a brilliant score that inspired the father of American ballet George Balanchine to choreograph it for the New York City Ballet in 1966 as the Brahms–Schoenberg Quartet.

This concert is dedicated to the late Dr Goh Keng Swee, founding patron of the SSO.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Lan Shui, conductor / Liao Chang Yong, baritone

$100, $75, $55, $40, $30, $15

Stravinsky’s Dumbarton Oaks is a neoclassical work for chamber ensemble brimming with his signature wit and modelled after the architectural finesse of the Brandenburg Concertos, while Schoenberg’s Chamber Symphony of 1906 is a richly scored condensation of the classical symphonic form for just 15 instruments. Led by SSO Conductor Laureate Lan Shui, musicians of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra assemble for these compact masterworks as well as Mozart’s lively Prague Symphony.

Lan Shui, conductor / Musicians of the SSO

$40, $30, $20

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Nathanaël Iselin, conductor

Free admission

Playful exuberance and melodic charisma, words that describe both French conductor/oboist François Leleux and Mozart’s sunny Oboe Concerto, one of the finest works in the genre that’s a delight from start to finish. Brahms (in)famously took 21 years to finish his First Symphony, writing in the shadow of his illustrious predecessor, Beethoven. Its premiere in 1876 was just 40 years before the 26-year-old Prokofiev produced his Classical Symphony in 1917 – four decades that saw the Late Romantic Symphony transform into the many flavours of the 20th century such as Neoclassicism.

Please note the different venues and concert start times for 27 Feb and 28 Feb.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / François Leleux, oboe/conductor

$100, $75, $55, $40, $30, $15

Singapore Symphony Conductor Laureate Hans Graf returns with a vivid programme spanning centuries of artistry. The journey begins with Hindemith’s Mathis der Maler (Matthias the Painter), the 1934 symphony inspired by Matthias Grünewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece. Hindemith brings to life three of the altarpiece’s dramatic panels, transforming Renaissance imagery into modern symphonic colour. Respighi’s Pini di Roma continues this thread of artistic re-imagination, painting the Eternal City in four luminous scenes.

Likewise, one virtuoso pays homage to another. Benjamin Schmid, returning after his critically acclaimed 2024 appearance, performs Prokofiev’s evocative First Violin Concerto alongside Fritz Kreisler’s witty and ingenious concert paraphrase on Paganini’s Violin Concerto No. 1 — a work that playfully honours and expands on the legendary showmanship of its original composer.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Hans Graf, conductor / Benjamin Schmid, violin

$100, $75, $55, $40, $30, $15

Martin Schmeding, organ

$10

Programme to be announced.

Australian Youth Orchestra Symphonists / Christoph Altstaedt, conductor

To be announced

Schumann’s only Piano Concerto, born from a single-movement Phantasie and later transformed into a “hybrid of symphony, concerto, and grand sonata,” comes alive in the hands of Van Cliburn Gold Medallist Vadym Kholodenko.

Renowned Bruckner-exponent, Markus Stenz leads the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in the composer’s majestic Seventh Symphony, whose radiant opening theme was said to have been revealed to him by an angel in a dream. Let its glowing waves of sound and reverently lyrical sweep carry you into the heart of Bruckner’s most beloved masterworks, heard in all its transcendent grandeur.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Markus Stenz, conductor / Vadym Kholodenko, piano

$100, $75, $55, $40, $30, $15

Programme to be announced.

Singapore National Youth Orchestra / Australian Youth Orchestra Symphonists / Joshua Tan, conductor / Christoph Altstaedt, conductor

To be announced

Lights, music, MAGIC! Hop on a magical musical meander through a musician’s life of ups and downs, accompanied by orchestral music of fantasy and whimsy. Bring your kids to help popular Hong Kong magician Harry Wong save our weary young maestro from despair and reignite his deep love of music. 

Features magician performing magic tricks with classical music performed by the orchestra. Magician Harry may invite some children on stage to be part of a magic act.

This is a relaxed environment performance where rules are eased. Audiences are allowed to freely enter and exit the concert hall when needed.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Joshua Tan, conductor / Harry Wong, magician

$40, $30 (Family package available)

On the bicentenary of Beethoven’s death, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra opens with his jubilant overture, The Consecration of the House, a celebration of artistic renewal. From this cornerstone of the Germanic tradition, the programme journeys through Brahms’s radiant Second Symphony, written 150 years ago in 1877, music of “rippling streams, blue sky, sunshine, and cool green shadows”, before embarking on the fantastical escapades of the would-be knight, Don Quixote.

Music Director Hannu Lintu leads the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in this journey exploring Beethoven’s enduring musical influence, through Brahms’s lyrical mastery and Strauss’s inventive storytelling, featuring Singapore-based Australian cellist Qin Li-Wei and SSO Principal Viola Manchin Zhang.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Hannu Lintu, conductor / Qin Li-Wei, cello / Manchin Zhang, viola

$100, $75, $55, $40, $30, $15

The Andante from Tchaikovsky’s String Quartet No. 1 caused Leo Tolstoy to shed tears when it was played in tribute to him. When it was played to her, Helen Keller said, “a miracle is wrought, sight is given the blind, and deaf ears hear sweet, strange sounds.” Come hear this beautiful work performed by musicians of the Singapore Symphony, alongside Schumann’s exuberant Piano Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 47.

Musicians of the SSO

$30, $20

Acclaimed violinist Clara Jumi Kang makes her Singapore debut with Benjamin Britten’s Violin Concerto, an intensely virtuosic work both darkly lyrical and wildly exciting, often compared to Prokofiev’s examples in the genre. Britten’s chamber orchestra arrangement of the second movement from Mahler’s Third Symphony, What the Wild Flowers Tell Me, was written in 1941 at a time when Mahler’s symphonies were yet to become the concert hall staples of today.

Distinguished British conductor Mark Wigglesworth leads the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in these works, culminating in Beethoven’s signature Fifth Symphony as we celebrate his 200th anniversary.

Saturday Afternoon Concert – the 3 Apr concert begins at 4pm.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Mark Wigglesworth, conductor / Clara Jumi Kang, violin

$100, $75, $55, $40, $30, $15

The esteemed Gábor Takács-Nagy, Music Director of the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra and founding member of the famous Takács Quartet, leads the SSO in Haydn’s Clock Symphony and Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony, two masterpieces which capture the elegance, wit, and expressive breath of the Austro-Hungarian classical tradition.

He is joined by his Hungarian compatriot and former Principal Violist of the Berlin Philharmonic, Máté Szücs, in Béla Bartók’s Viola Concerto, a dazzling work pulsing with folk-inspired rhythms and colour, bridging the centuries from classical refinement to virtuosic brilliance.

Saturday Afternoon Concert – the 10 Apr concert begins at 4pm.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Gábor Takács-Nagy, conductor / Máté Szücs, viola

$100, $75, $55, $40, $30, $15

Programme to be announced.

re:Sound and members from Singapore National Youth Orchestra

To be announced

The Singapore Symphony Orchestra performs music by two American icons: Barber’s monumental one-movement First Symphony and John Adams’s The Rock You Stand On, a new work written for one of the most outstanding conductors of our time, Marin Alsop – an icon among women conductors in her own right. With the critically acclaimed James Ehnes joining us in Elgar’s lyrically noble Violin Concerto, this is a concert not to be missed.

Saturday Afternoon Concert – the 17 Apr concert begins at 4pm.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Marin Alsop, conductor / James Ehnes, violin

Principal Horn of the Berlin Philharmonic, Stefan Dohr’s “thundering tone that resounds valley-wide” (Berliner Zeitung) is perfectly suited to Richard Strauss’s marvellous Horn Concerto No. 2, a lively prelude to Schumann’s lively Spring Symphony in this programme by the Singapore Symphony led by Portuguese conductor Dinis Sousa.

Saturday Afternoon Concert – the 24 Apr concert begins at 4pm.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Dinis Sousa, conductor / Stefan Dohr, horn

A musical memorial of intense drama and immense scale, Verdi’s Requiem traces its history to the idea for a collaborative funeral mass in honour of Rossini, who died in 1868. Although this was not realised in the manner of his vision, Verdi’s contribution became the root of the 90-minute Requiem in honour of the pioneer Italian writer Alessandro Manzoni.

Witness this tremendous mass of operatic proportions performed by the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Chorus, Youth Choir, and guest vocalists, under the baton of Music Director Hannu Lintu.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Singapore Symphony Chorus / Singapore Symphony Youth Choir / Symphonia Choralis / Hannu Lintu, conductor / Eudenice Palaruan, choral director / Wong Lai Foon, choirmaster / Chong Wai Lun, chorus master (Symphonia Choralis) / Iwona Sobotka, soprano / Olesya Petrova, mezzo-soprano / Joshua Guerrero, tenor / Alexander Vinogradov, bass

Blind from birth, but whose artistry is witnessed by music lovers all over the world, Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii is an inspiration to musicians and composers worldwide. Accompanied by the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Hannu Lintu, Tsujii performs Rachmaninoff’s towering masterpiece, the Piano Concerto No. 3.

Blasting off in gravity-repelling E minor chords, John Adams’s Harmonielehre is the result of the composer’s extraordinary dream of a supertanker taking off rocket-like from the waters off the San Francisco Bay. A symphonic hyperspatial journey traversing the soundscapes of Schoenberg, Sibelius, Debussy and Mahler follows – and what a trek it is!

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Hannu Lintu, conductor / Nobuyuki Tsujii, piano

Programme to be announced.

Singapore National Youth Sinfonia / Seow Yibin, conductor

To be announced

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Hannu Lintu, conductor

Free admission

Although published as No. 3, Mendelssohn’s soulful 1842 Scottish Symphony was the last of his five symphonies to be completed. Wintry melancholy, sprightly reels and the sweeping grandeur of the highlands are all captured by Mendelssohn in fervent Romantic soundscapes.

The fast-rising Italian conductor Umberto Clerici makes his Singapore Symphony debut together with acclaimed French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet in Beethoven’s magisterial Piano Concerto No. 3, a work of soaring drama, tender beauty, and virtuosic brilliance that stands as one of the composer’s crowning achievements.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Umberto Clerici, conductor / Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, piano

Horn, clarinet, bassoon and strings. Musicians of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra present select movements from some of most delectable chamber pieces for winds and strings, interspersed with commentary. The evening ends with Beethoven’s popular Septet where all come together as one.

Musicians of the SSO

$20

The SSO’s 2026/27 season-closing concert begins with a majestic send-off: E.T. goes home riding John Williams’s soaring, unforgettable music for the classic 1981 Steven Spielberg film. Before Gershwin’s signature Rhapsody in Blue, Kapustin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 adds a heady dose of jazz with saxophones, drum set, guitar and just sheer musical fun. What better exponent to join us than pianist Frank Dupree with his infectious energy and sparkling enthusiasm?

The glitter continues with Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer Kevin Puts’s cinematic Concerto for Orchestra, a 6-part gem that includes a “Hymn for the Hurting”, “Music Box with Aretta”, a tender Sicilienne and lively chases to bring the season to a terrific close.

Note:

• SSO Donor Passes are applicable to this concert. See Donor Benefits for more information.
• This concert is eligible for SG Culture Pass redemption.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Joshua Tan, conductor / Frank Dupree, piano / Obi Jenne, drums

$128, $98, $68, $48, $38, $28

Renowned choral conductor Stephen Layton returns to lead the Singapore Symphony Youth and Children’s Choirs in this remarkable programme spanning the 20th and 21st centuries. Joined by SSO Principal Harp Gulnara Mashurova and guest organist Harrison Cole, the choirs begin from the ancient traditions of India via Holst’s settings of Vedic poetry, traverse Poulenc’s Litanies to the Black Virgin of Rocamadour, and follow with a celebration of music by three of the greatest choral composers at the turn of the 21st century: John Tavener, Arvo Pärt and John Rutter.

Singapore Symphony Youth Choir / Singapore Symphony Children’s Choir / Stephen Layton, conductor / Wong Lai Foon, choirmaster / Gulnara Mashurova, harp / Harrison Cole, organ

$60, $40, $30, $20

The great composers like Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven often wrote music not so much for the public, but for their VIPs - Very Important Patrons – emperors, kings, counts … and sometimes just for best friends. In this relaxed concert, musicians of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra will share with you the tales of these VIPs in the composers’ lives, and play their music for you, our VIPs today.

Musicians of the SSO

$20

Koh Jia Hwei, organ

$30, $20, $10

Programme to be announced.

Singapore National Youth Orchestra

To be announced