SSO unveils spectacular 2025/26 season lineup – Yo-Yo Ma, Joe Hisaishi, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Chloe Chua, Julia Hagen and more

Famed Japanese composer-conductor Joe Hisaishi makes his highly anticipated return with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. Witness Hisaishi himself lead, from the piano, the world premiere of his suite from the multi-award-winning 2023 Studio Ghibli film The Boy and the Heron, an instant classic steeped in the deeply heartfelt tradition of Hayao Miyazaki. This is followed by his new Harp Concerto, a co-commission by the Singapore Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Opéra National de Bordeaux and the Philharmonie de Paris, starring LA Philharmonic Principal Harpist Emmanuel Ceysson. Stravinsky’s fantastical tale of Prince Ivan’s fight against evil with the help of the magical Firebird completes these unforgettable evenings.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Joe Hisaishi, conductor & piano / Emmanuel Ceysson, harp

$388, $338, $288, $238, $188, $138, $88, $48

Lift up your spirits with music! The Singapore Symphony Orchestra’s popular free Lunchtime Concert returns in July 2025, taking you on a symphonic journey from Romantic classics to the sounds of Singapore.

Admission is free on a first-come, first-served basis.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Rodolfo Barráez, Associate Conductor

Free admission

Come relax at this cosy recital of melodic classical music performed by musicians of your national orchestra, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra.

Admission is free on a first-come, first-served basis.

Musicians of the SSO

Free admission

The Singapore Symphony Orchestra brightens up the Botanic Gardens this July 2025 with an inspirational programme of Romantic classics – come join us for fresh air and great music with your friends and family!

This concert may be delayed or cancelled in the event of inclement weather. Please check our Facebook and Instagram pages for updates.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Rodolfo Barráez, Associate Conductor

Free admission

“Now at last I have learned to orchestrate,” so remarked Richard Strauss wryly of his awe-inspiring Alpine Symphony. Fielding quadruple winds, four Wagner tubas, two harps, organ, wind and thunder machines, cow bells, tam-tam and celesta on top of a standard orchestra, An Alpine Symphony is a musical odyssey from nocturnal embarkation to sunlit peak, forging its stalwart way through glacier, vertigo, storm and determination. Scale this towering masterpiece with the Singapore Symphony led by Hans Graf, accompanied by majestic scenes projected on screen at the Esplanade Concert Hall under the direction of musician-photographer Tobias Melle – An Alpine Symphony In Images.

Completing your journey, the highly acclaimed 24-year-old Swedish violin virtuoso Daniel Lozakovich stars in Korngold’s Violin Concerto – music of soaring emotions steeped in cinematic nostalgia.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Hans Graf, Quantedge Music Director / Daniel Lozakovich, violin / Tobias Melle, photography and live projection

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

Often described with great reverence and enshrouded in the mystery of its incompletion, Bruckner’s last symphony is the composer’s vision of everlasting serenity. Find a place in the Esplanade Concert Hall and be taken away on this spiritual journey by the Singapore Symphony Orchestra conducted by Hans Graf. Your voyage begins with the grandest launch as pianist Alexei Volodin opens the concert with Tchaikovsky’s splendorous Piano Concerto No. 1.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Hans Graf, Quantedge Music Director / Alexei Volodin, piano

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

Birthed from the Renaissance and reaching new heights of invention in the Baroque, the phenomenon of organ, voices and brass is a signature movement of the 16th and 17th centuries, a transformative time in music history. Be taken back to this time through the music of Gabrieli, Frescobaldi, Monteverdi and more, performed by organist Boey Jir Shin with the Singapore Symphony Chorus and Anglican Chamber Ensemble.

Boey Jir Shin, organ / Singapore Symphony Chorus / Anglican Chamber Ensemble / Musicians of the SNYO / Eudenice Palaruan, Choral Director / Elliot Titcombe, bass

$20, $10

Only a mere 50 years separate Brahms’s final symphony and Berg’s 1935 Violin Concerto. Poised between pensive mystery and surging beauty, Berg’s famous concerto “To the Memory of an Angel” has its unmistakable modernity plucked aside from time to time to reveal glimpses of heaven. Acclaimed violinist Leila Josefowicz plays this haunting work under the baton of popular South Korean conductor Han-Na Chang, who will also lead the SSO in Brahms’s monumental Symphony No. 4.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Han-Na Chang, conductor / Leila Josefowicz, violin

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

Fantasia – Disney’s animated classic and tribute to classical music comes to life on screen at the Esplanade Concert Hall. Let the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and conductor Joshua Tan take you back to the wholesome world of hand-drawn animated artistry invigorated by the unforgettable music of Beethoven, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Bach and many more.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Joshua Tan, conductor

$108, $88, $68, $48, $28

The 8th SSO National Day Concert celebrates Singapore’s 60th birthday with a wide-ranging showcase of Singapore’s growing league of composers and musical artists. Displaying the brilliance of the phenomenal Singaporean saxophonist Lin Chien-Kwan and violinist Jonathan Ong, the programme features classics by Singaporean composers as well as new works, including an arrangement of songs by Charlie Lim and Dick Lee for voices and orchestra.

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

In celebration of the Singapore Symphony Choruses' anniversaries. Learn more.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Singapore Symphony Chorus / Singapore Symphony Youth Choir / Singapore Symphony Children’s Choir / Members of the Singapore National Youth Orchestra / Joshua Tan, conductor / Ellissa Sayampanathan, Assistant Choral Conductor / Jonathan Ong, violin / Lin Chien-Kwan, saxophone / Ng Pei-Sian, cello³ / Charlie Lim, vocalist³ / Syakirah Noble, vocalist³ / Lily Goh, deaf artist-performer

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

With spirits as high as her rising fame, Tchaikovsky’s glorious Violin Concerto is the next virtuoso vehicle of Singapore’s brightest violin star, Chloe Chua. Bernard Hermann’s score for Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 classic Vertigo grips you from the onset, gradually transforming chilling fear into poignant resolution. Directed by SSO Associate Conductor Rodolfo Barráez, this programme also offers Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphosis, with no let-up from its arresting opening all through to its exhilarating conclusion worthy of grand cinema.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Rodolfo Barráez, Associate Conductor / Chloe Chua, violin

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

Called the Paganini and Caruso of the trumpet, Sergei Nakariakov’s superhuman skills with the instrument promises to blow you away on this unique occasion: performing the trumpet concerto by renowned pianist-conductor Mikhail Pletnev, under his baton. Pletnev’s own arrangement of Tchaikovsky’s luscious music for Swan Lake makes a graceful contrast to the bold-as-brass Festive Overture, a jubilant tribute to Shostakovich’s 50th anniversary this 2025.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Mikhail Pletnev, conductor / Sergei Nakariakov, trumpet

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

Come on a musical trek through space! Help our lost adventurer search the musical cosmos in a journey of self-discovery visiting a myriad of planets, each with unique characteristics and soundscapes. Features music by Debussy, Tchaikovsky, John Williams and more, including Britten’s Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra.

• Features actors and visuals projected onscreen.
• This is a relaxed environment performance where rules are eased, allowing audiences to freely enter and exit the concert hall when needed. No modifications are made to the performance.
• Pre-concert activities will begin an hour before each show.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Lien Boon Hua, conductor / Terrance Tan, director

$40, $30

The SSO's popular Babies’ Proms returns this September 2025 with its well-established and familiar programme that has entertained generations of kids over the years. Discover the fun and fantastic world of the orchestra and its different instruments in this free-and-easy musical day out for parents and kids. Be ready to get up from your seats and move along to the music with your lively Babies’ Proms presenter, William Ledbetter “Uncle Bill”!

• The SSO Babies’ Proms programme is identical from year to year.
• This is a relaxed environment performance where rules are eased, allowing audiences to freely enter and exit the concert hall when needed. No modifications are made to the performance.
• Pre-concert activities will begin an hour before each show.

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

$45, $35

The Singapore Symphony’s 2025 President’s Young Performers Concert shines the spotlight on saxophonist Dante Tan, clarinetist Chua Jay Roon and multi-award-winning harpist Renee Yadav, three of Singapore’s finest young musicians showcasing their musical finesse in three masterworks from the 20th century. SSO Associate Conductor Rodolfo Barráez champions them from the podium before concluding the programme with Mendelssohn’s effervescent Italian Symphony.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Rodolfo Barráez, Associate Conductor / Dante Tan Yu Jie, saxophone / Chua Jay Roon, clarinet / Renee Yadav, harp

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

A lazy summer’s frolic, a jester’s gambol with fate, and finally, peaceful Romantic serenity. This attractive programme of chamber music is a display of the versatile voices of the woodwind instrument family.

Musicians of the SSO

$30, $20

Yo-Yo Ma – legendary cellist, global personality, Time 100 and Gramophone Hall of Fame honoree, United Nations Messenger of Peace, recipient of countless awards including 19 Grammies – makes his highly anticipated return to Singapore with this solo recital at the Esplanade.

Programme to be announced.

Yo-Yo Ma, cello

$388, $288, $208, $158, $108, $68

Blazing with sunset longing and soul-searing ardour, Dvořák’s Cello Concerto is the masterpiece in this gala concert starring one of the world’s most beloved cellists, the legendary Yo-Yo Ma. Spanish conductor Juanjo Mena leads this programme beginning with Nielsen’s exuberant Symphony No. 4, so named for the composer’s goal to express the elemental will to live. Music is Life, and like it, it is Inextinguishable.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Juanjo Mena, conductor / Yo-Yo Ma, cello

$388, $288, $208, $158, $108, $68

Filled to the brim with lively polkas and irresistible waltzes, Johann Strauss II’s Die Fledermaus (“The Bat”) is a tale of love affairs and lovers’ identities gone awry. From the same people who brought you 2024’s Figaro in a Pocket, come see this abridged 90-minute version of one of the most popular comic operettas of all time.

Musicians of the SSO / Xiaoming Wang, leader/violin

$50, $40, $30

Subtitled Ghosts, the Concerto for Orchestra by Scottish composer Sir James MacMillan (b. 1959) is a co-commission by orchestras across Great Britain, Sweden, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and the USA. Come witness this riveting showpiece in its Asian premiere by the SSO and Hans Graf. The veteran French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard joins us to bring the kaleidoscopic frenzy of Bartók’s Second Piano Concerto, notorious for its hair-raising difficulty, before we set the stage for Prokofiev’s potent take on the loves lived and lives lost in Romeo & Juliet.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Hans Graf, Quantedge Music Director / Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano

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

Relish beautiful Denmark through Nielsen’s choral tributes to love, life and springtime. Celebrating their anniversaries this season, three generations of the Singapore Symphony Choruses under the baton of SSO Associate Conductor Rodolfo Barráez will sing Nielsen’s Hymn of Love (Hymnus Amoris) and revel in Springtime in Funen (Fynsk Forår). Distinguished Austrian pianist Rudolf Buchbinder returns to Singapore to complete his cycle of Beethoven Piano Concertos with the composer’s magnificent Emperor Concerto.

In celebration of the Singapore Symphony Choruses' anniversaries. Learn more.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Singapore Symphony Chorus / Singapore Symphony Youth Choir / Singapore Symphony Children’s Choir / Rodolfo Barráez, Associate Conductor / Eudenice Palaruan, Choral Director / Wong Lai Foon, Choirmaster / Rudolf Buchbinder, piano / Frederikke Kampmann, soprano / Anders Kampmann, tenor / Steffen Bruun, baritone/bass / Yang Kai Wong, baritone

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

In a follow-up to his 2023 recital, the renowned Austrian pianist Rudolf Buchbinder plays Schubert’s sparkling Op. 90 Impromptus before embarking on two more of Beethoven’s most famous piano masterpieces, the stormy Tempest and the spirited Waldstein Sonatas.

Rudolf Buchbinder, piano

$80, $60, $45, $30, $20

The award-winning British-Australian organist Joseph Nolan has been hailed as “indisputably one of the world’s finest organists” (Limelight) “for his towering technique, vivid virtuosity, and inspired interpretive insight’’ (Gramophone). Step into the Victoria Concert Hall this October and hear him play haunting classics on the Klais Pipe Organ, including Bach’s famous “Toccata” (BWV565), Saint-Saëns’s Danse Macabre and selections from Boëllmann’s Suite Gothique.

Joseph Nolan, organ

$30, $20

Put on your spookiest costume this Halloween and join our Master of Ghostly Revels, Alasdair Malloy in this fun-filled, goosebump-generating Halloween Spooktacular! Help us raise the spirits at the Victoria Concert Hall together with our ghostbusting conductor Rodolfo Barraéz, as we conjure our masquerade of wily witches, grinning ghouls and stumbling skeletons!

• This is a relaxed environment performance where rules are eased, allowing audiences to freely enter and exit the concert hall when needed. No modifications are made to the performance.
• Pre-concert activities will begin an hour before each show.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Rodolfo Barráez, Associate Conductor / Alasdair Malloy, presenter

$40, $30

The Singapore Symphony welcomes back celebrated British pianist Sir Stephen Hough in this attractive programme under the baton of SSO Associate Conductor Rodolfo Barráez. Our distinguished guest will grace the Singapore stage with the Asian premiere of his own piano concerto – The World of Yesterday, an instantly appealing work infused with wistful nostalgia and intoxicating waltz, with a terrific finish you won’t want to miss. Saint-Saëns’s Organ Symphony is equal parts tranquillity and majesty, the finest example of what a massive pipe organ joining the ranks of a symphony orchestra can achieve together.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Rodolfo Barráez, Associate Conductor / Stephen Hough, piano / Isaac Lee, organ

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

Hannu Lintu, preeminent Finnish conductor and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra’s Music Director-designate returns to lead the SSO and our Choruses in two masterworks with a vital role for voice. A hundred years separate Haydn’s Missa in angustiis and Mahler’s Fourth Symphony: one, a mass written in troubled times that gives way to victory and hope, earning its dignified epithet Nelson Mass; the other, Mahler’s evocative musings on paradise, leading to a child’s vision of heaven.

In celebration of the Singapore Symphony Choruses' anniversaries. Learn more.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Singapore Symphony Chorus / Singapore Symphony Youth Choir / Hannu Lintu, conductor / Eudenice Palaruan, Choral Director / Wong Lai Foon, Choirmaster / Hera Park, soprano / Virginie Verrez, mezzo-soprano / Elgan Llŷr Thomas, tenor / Edward Grint, bass baritone

$168, $138, $108, $78, $58, $38

It's that wonderful time of the year again as the Singapore Symphony family dresses up the stage for the holidays. Join us in this classic and heartwarming programme for the Christmas season – be prepared to sing along!

In celebration of the Singapore Symphony Choruses' anniversaries. Learn more.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Singapore Symphony Chorus / Singapore Symphony Youth Choir / Singapore Symphony Children’s Choir / Rodolfo Barráez, Associate Conductor / Eudenice Palaruan, Choral Director / Wong Lai Foon, Choirmaster

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

A Singaporean piano concerto played by a Singaporean – the SSO proudly presents the world premiere of Jonathan Shin’s Piano Concerto (an SSO commission) starring pianist Churen Li, both award-winning household names in our classical music scene. Conducted by Hans Graf, the programme also features Shostakovich’s titanic Tenth Symphony, a massive saga of gloom and terror that sends listeners hurtling to its victorious conclusion.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Hans Graf, Quantedge Music Director / Churen Li, piano

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

In this multi-hued collaboration with the renowned Ding Yi Music Company of Singapore, musicians of the SSO explore an elemental gathering of Chinese/Asian and Western musical traditions, with music by Singaporean composers Sulwyn Lok and Ho Chee Kong as well as Chinese-American composers Tan Dun and Zhou Long.

Musicians of the SSO / Musicians of Ding Yi Music Company / Dedric Wong, conductor

$50, $40, $30

True to its 56 years of history collaborating with over 300 composers to birth new music for their instrument, the Raschèr Saxophone Quartet presents the world premiere of the quadruple saxophone concerto by renowned Danish-German composer Søren Nils Eichberg (b. 1973), a commission by the Singapore Symphony.

Our guest conductor Kolja Blacher leads the SSO in his father Boris Blacher’s sixteen dazzling orchestral variations on the famous theme from Paganini’s 24th Caprice, before taking you back to the familiar strains of the evergreen concert hall favourite, Dvořák’s New World Symphony.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Kolja Blacher, conductor / Raschèr Saxophone Quartet

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

Baroque and Beyond in this instalment of the SSO Organ Series takes you from the familiar hymns and heights of Bach and Corelli to the majestic Organ Concerto No. 2 by Josef Rheinberger (1839–1901).

re:Sound / Koh Jia Hwei, organ / Isaac Koh, chamber organ

$30, $20

A new Earth – an SSO commission written by Singaporean composer Joyce Koh – joins Holst’s orchestral spectacular The Planets, completing this famous musical portrait of our solar system. Witness our place in the universe cast in symphonic soundscapes, from the shattering war engines of Mars to the towering majesty of Jupiter, ending in Neptune’s mystical glimpse of eternity. Be pulled back to the ground as the SSO and Hans Graf explore the emotional gravity of the human condition through Elgar’s heart-rending Cello Concerto, starring Austrian cellist Julia Hagen.

In celebration of the Singapore Symphony Choruses' anniversaries. Learn more.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Treble Voices of the Singapore Symphony Chorus and Youth Choir / Hans Graf, Quantedge Music Director / Julia Hagen, cello / Eudenice Palaruan, Choral Director / Wong Lai Foon, Choirmaster

$168, $138, $108, $78, $58, $38

Go on a journey of incredible images and sounds with the SSO and conductor Pierre Bleuse, starting with Prokofiev’s Scythian Suite – a fantastical saga written for an orchestra of mythic proportions, bursting with ferocious energy and ending in primeval sunrise. Continue through the famed galleries of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, painted in striking colours via Ravel’s famous orchestration. The acclaimed French pianist Bertrand Chamayou stars in a masterpiece between these musical murals – Liszt’s First Piano Concerto, a Romantic portrait of the legendary pianist-composer.

Hear Pictures at an Exhibition again in a completely different orchestration by Kahchun Wong on 24 Apr 2026.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Pierre Bleuse, conductor / Bertrand Chamayou, piano

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

Shostakovich and Beethoven – two giants among composers whose names and music have commanded respect since their time, well past the 50 years and two centuries respectively since their passing. Renowned for their ability to harness titanic sounds from orchestras, they are also masters of invoking symphonic gravitas from the smallest of ensembles. Hear for yourself in these one-hour recitals performed by musicians of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra.

Musicians of the SSO

$30, $20

Beethoven and Shostakovich – two giants among composers whose names and music have commanded respect since their time, well past the two centuries and 50 years respectively since their passing. Renowned for their ability to harness titanic sounds from orchestras, they are also masters of invoking symphonic gravitas from the smallest of ensembles. Hear for yourself in these one-hour recitals performed by musicians of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra.

Musicians of the SSO

$30, $20

Bach’s concertos are the pinnacle of Baroque finesse and splendour. They effortlessly encapsulate vigour, beauty and austerity in scores as succinct as they are unforgettable. Surviving only as versions for harpsichord, no one knows what instrument BWVs 1052 and 1056 were originally written for. But these were certainly the first solo keyboard concertos ever to exist, setting the stage for the piano. The formidable Polina Osetinskaya brings you the piano versions of these masterworks in this programme conducted by Swiss maestro Mario Venzago, who also leads the Singapore Symphony in Schumann’s noble Second Symphony.

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

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Mario Venzago, conductor / Polina Osetinskaya, piano

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

From Princess Mononoke to Harry Potter, this programme invites you to be transported for an enchanted hour to a place somewhere between cinematic fantasy and classical rapture. Specially curated by conductor Jason Lai, this lineup also stars SSO Principal Tuba Tomoki Natsume in the animated and witty tuba concerto by Young Sherlock Holmes composer Bruce Broughton. Even if you recognise few of the titles in the list, we know you’ll enjoy this musical box of chocolates that’s sure to sweeten your evening.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Jason Lai, conductor / Tomoki Natsume, tuba

$98, $78, $58, $48, $38, $28

In this relaxed one-hour programme at the Esplanade’s new Black Room, take an intimate look into the heart and soul of the string quartet by the father of the genre, Joseph Haydn, and prolific Singaporean composer Chen Zhangyi. Excerpts performed by musicians of the Singapore Symphony will be interspersed with introductions by Chen Zhangyi himself.

Musicians of the SSO / Chen Zhangyi, composer & presenter

$20

Venezuelan conductor Rodolfo Barráez has brought the vibrant music of his homeland and made it a colourful facet in the SSO’s musical landscape. In his final season with us as our Associate Conductor, he leads SSO in this free lunchtime concert programme of music from Singapore and the Americas, melding tradition and dance from two ends of the world.

Admission is free on a first-come, first-served basis.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Rodolfo Barráez, Associate Conductor

Free admission

Celebrate the vibrant cultures of Singapore and the Americas where Venezuelan conductor Rodolfo Barráez hails from in this free, open-air concert at Gardens by the Bay.

This concert may be delayed or cancelled in the event of inclement weather. Please check our Facebook and Instagram pages for updates.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Rodolfo Barráez, Associate Conductor

Free admission

Hailed as “a virtuoso in the grand Romantic tradition, plumbing the depths of demanding repertoire with no trace of empty display,” organist Jens Korndörfer is credited for “creating performances that are deeply musically satisfying as well as exciting” (The American Organist). Experience his artistry in this eloquently curated programme of organ music from France and Germany.

Jens Korndörfer, organ

$10

Embark on a journey of discovery and friendship with Wild Symphony, an interactive picture book and live concert experience composed by Dan Brown (yes, the author). This modern musical carnival of animals details the adventures of Maestro Mouse and his companions from the animal kingdom. Fusing family-friendly sounds and pithy poetry with a positive message, Wild Symphony is an immersive feast for eyes, ears, and mind — all at the same time.

• Features live orchestral music with illustrations from the Wild Symphony book projected on screen, and a story narrated by a presenter.

• This is a relaxed environment performance where rules are eased, allowing audiences to freely enter and exit the concert hall when needed. No modifications are made to the performance.

• Pre-concert activities will begin an hour before each show.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Rodolfo Barráez, Associate Conductor

$40, $30

Deeply respected for his masterful interpretations, Eliahu Inbal conducts the Singapore Symphony in Shostakovich’s colossal Symphony No. 11 – “The Year 1905”, its title commemorating the Russian Revolution in an apocalyptic storm of musical despair and triumph. Joining him is the critically acclaimed pianist Simon Trpčeski, the “best thing to come out of Macedonia since Alexander the Great”, in Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto, the beloved concert hall favourite laden with fin de siècle nostalgia and poignant passion. Not to be missed!

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Eliahu Inbal, conductor / Simon Trpčeski, piano

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

Sublime Mozart and glorious Mendelssohn – this concert led by Austrian conductor Thomas Rösner takes you from noble remembrance to triumphant celebration. Popular South Korean pianist Yeol Eum Son joins the SSO to play Mozart’s 23rd Piano Concerto, its elegant poise and joyous sunlight an uplifting prelude to Mendelssohn’s Reformation Symphony. Written in 1830 in honour of the 300th anniversary of the Augsburg Confession, this is a symphonic interpretation of Martin Luther’s rousing Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott (“A Mighty Fortress Is Our God”) – the battle hymn of the Reformation.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Thomas Rösner, conductor / Yeol Eum Son, piano

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

This powerhouse combination of famed Greek violin virtuoso Leonidas Kavakos and SSO Music Director-designate Hannu Lintu is one you won’t want to miss. Witness the full fury and ultimate triumph of Shostakovich in his relentless First Violin Concerto as well as his Seventh Symphony. Recorded in the history books for its role during the devastating 872-day Siege of Leningrad, the Leningrad Symphony is famed for being played there in 1942 under desperate circumstances and deliberately broadcast over public radio in bitter defiance at the enemy.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Hannu Lintu, conductor / Leonidas Kavakos, violin

$148, $118, $88, $68, $48, $38

Conductor Masaaki Suzuki and violinist Sayaka Shoji are two of the most eminent Japanese personalities in the classical music world. Both make welcome returns at the Singapore Symphony to present Mozart’s delightful Violin Concerto No. 5 and two Romantic symphonies by Bohemian composer Jan Kalliwoda (1801–1866), often called the missing symphonic link between Beethoven and Schumann.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Masaaki Suzuki, conductor / Sayaka Shoji, violin

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

The SSO is joined by musicians of the Singapore Chinese Orchestra as Singaporean conductor Kahchun Wong presents his orchestration of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition for symphony orchestra with five traditional Chinese instruments, the dizi (笛子 bamboo flute), erhu (二胡 two-string fiddle), yangqin (扬琴 hammered dulcimer), pipa (琵琶 Chinese lute) and percussion.

This impressive programme also features Cambodian-American composer Chinary Ung’s strikingly imposing Water Rings, showcasing his multi-textured synthesis of Cambodian musical tradition and symphony orchestra to grand effect. And what better way to pair this than with the SSO’s signature piece, Debussy’s evocation of the sea, La Mer.

Check out the celebrated Ravel orchestration of Pictures at an Exhibition in a performance conducted by Pierre Bleuse on 30 & 31 Jan 2026.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Kahchun Wong, conductor / Musicians of the Singapore Chinese Orchestra / Benjamin Boo, percussion / Lee Jun Cheng, dizi / Ma Huan, yangqin / Tan Manman, erhu / Wang Siyuan, pipa

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

In his second outing with the SSO this season, trail-blazing Singaporean conductor Kahchun Wong directs the world premiere of a new work by acclaimed Singaporean composer Wang Chenwei. Immerse yourself in the heartfelt Romanticism of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the outstanding Leeds Piano Competition Gold Medallist Eric Lu, before the SSO regroups for Bartók’s modern masterpiece – the Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta that places percussion and keyboards centre stage flanked by split strings, making for a visually and aurally striking experience.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Kahchun Wong, conductor / Eric Lu, piano

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

In the first of his Farewell Concert Series as the Singapore Symphony Orchestra’s Quantedge Music Director, Hans Graf conducts Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, transporting you into the magical world of One Thousand and One Nights. Let its titular heroine tell you of seafaring sagas, desert princes and the spiced festivals of Arabian legend, painted in five captivating canvases. Spanish violinist Leticia Moreno also joins the SSO in the intense, heady brilliance of the Second Violin Concerto by Polish composer Karol Szymanowski.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Hans Graf, Quantedge Music Director / Leticia Moreno, violin

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

Give mom the gift of music, brought to you live by the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in our annual Mother’s Day celebration at the Singapore Botanic Gardens.

This concert may be delayed or cancelled in the event of inclement weather. Please check our Facebook and Instagram pages for updates.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Lien Boon Hua, conductor

Free admission

From Dutilleux’s prismatic Mystère de l’instant to the vivacious finesse of Poulenc’s Sinfonietta, this programme encapsulates every facet of French musical art: alluring, thought-provoking, spontaneous. Hans Graf is joined by two young musical stars: violinist He Ziyu in two favourites of the virtuoso repertoire, Saint-Saëns’s rhapsodic Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso and Ravel’s fiery Tzigane; and Singaporean saxophonist Samuel Phua in Milhaud’s Scaramouche.

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Hans Graf, Quantedge Music Director / He Ziyu, violin / Samuel Phua, saxophone

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

Legend has it that his contemporary, the composer Antonio Salieri, poisoned Mozart out of jealousy, leading to the latter’s premature death in 1791, aged just 35. Is this true? Consider for yourself in this psychological drama – in essence, Rimsky-Korsakov’s version of the celebrated film Amadeus, if in a much darker, introspective 2-act operetta based on Pushkin’s play.

Specially curated by our Music Director Hans Graf, this final concert in the SSO’s 2025/26 season keeps you thinking as we present a piano concerto by each of the two composers: Mozart’s contemplative No. 14 and Salieri’s charming Piano Concerto in C major. Our piano soloists are the SSO’s President’s Young Performers from 2024, the talented Adrian Tang and Toby Tan. We’re pretty sure they’re good friends!

Singapore Symphony Orchestra / Hans Graf, Quantedge Music Director / Adrian Tang, piano ³ / Toby Tan, piano / Boris Stepanov, tenor³ / Mikhail Svetlov, bass³

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

International keyboard duo Scott Brothers Duo (Jonathan & Tom Scott) perform a fun-filled concert of duos for piano and organ for everyone in the family, featuring thrilling music accompanied by Tom Scott’s captivating animations, including Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite, Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, and much more!

Jonathan Scott, organ / Tom Scott, piano & animation

$40, $30, $20