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CWSO: Romance at the Opera
2026-02-14 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Chicago) | Sentry Theater, 1800 North Point Dr, Stevens Point, 54481, United States
Love is in the air as the CWSO is joined by vocalists Natalie Cummings and Austin Bradley – two lovebirds that met while singing opera! Enjoy operatic favorites from Mozart, Puccini, Verdi, and much more! We will also feature a rising talent as the winner of our annual Jenkins Family Young Artist Concerto Competition.
Tickets:
Adults – $40
Seniors – $35
Child/Student – $15

Racine Symphony Orchestra: Young Artist Competition
2026-02-15 13:00 - 15:00 | UW Parkside – Frances Bedford Concert Hall, 900 Wood Road, Kenosha, 53144, United States
For decades, the Racine Symphony Orchestra’s Young Artist Competition has showcased the most advanced, young classically trained musicians in Racine County. This prestigious event is adjudicated by regional professional musicians, with the competition winner earning the opportunity to perform a concerto with the Racine Symphony Orchestra during the 2025–26 season.
Recent winners include Fath Weigand (2025), Magdalena Masur (2024), and Lydia Morency (2023)—each a shining example of the incredible talent fostered through this program.
Held at UW-Parkside’s Bedford Hall, the competition is free and open to the public, offering a unique chance to witness the dedication and artistry of Racine’s finest young musicians. Join us for an inspiring afternoon and celebrate the future of classical music!

Salon Piano Series presents Hilda Huang
2026-02-28 19:30 - 21:00 | Farley’s House of Pianos, 6522 Seybold Rd, Madison, 53719
Program includes: Bach

Internationally acclaimed artist Hilda Huang will play clavichord, harpsichord, organ, and piano during the Saturday concert and she will give a demonstration of those instruments with commentary on Sunday. She will play works by Bach, Forqueray, and D’Anglebert.

Salon Piano Series presents Hilda Huang
2026-03-01 15:00 - 16:30 | Farley’s House of Pianos, 6522 Seybold Rd, Madison, 53719
Internationally acclaimed artist Hilda Huang will play clavichord, harpsichord, organ, and piano during the Saturday concert and she will give a demonstration of those instruments with commentary on Sunday. She will play works by Bach, Forqueray, and D’Anglebert.

Pictures at an Exhibition
2026-03-07 14:00 - 16:00 | Bradley Symphony Center, 212 W Wisconsin Ave, Milwaukee, 53203, United States
Festival City Symphony invites you to experience the magic of musical storytelling through three vibrant orchestral masterpieces. The concert begins with Benjamin Britten’s The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra—a dazzling exploration of each section of the orchestra. Next, selections from Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite bring to life scenes of mystery and adventure, from the serene beauty of “Morning Mood” to the thrilling energy of “In the Hall of the Mountain King.” The program concludes with Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, a vivid musical tour through an art gallery, where each movement transforms a painting into a dynamic, emotionally rich soundscape. Join us for an unforgettable afternoon of music that paints, tells, and inspires.

ALBA Consort: "Romance of the Rose"
2026-03-07 17:00 - 19:00 | St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 914 Knapp St, Milwaukee, 53202, United States
The rose — a cross-cultural symbol of earthly and divine love — is central to this program of Medieval and Renaissance music and poetry from Europe, Cyprus, North Africa, and Persia. A piece written for the ensemble by Reza Vali, with traditional tuning and bold rhythms, connects the ancient to the present.

"The Seed of Promise" - La Crosse Chamber Chorale
2026-03-07 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-03-08 15:00 - 17:00 | Mary of the Angels Chapel, St. Rose Convent, 901 Franciscan Way, La Crosse, 54601, United States
The Seed of Promise will use an array of beautiful choral music to trace the sacred lineage from Jesus to God in the glorious Mary of the Angels chapel. Through reflective and profound music, we will explore themes of faith, promise, and the enduring power of love that transcends time. This concert will feature music of older composers including Josquin, Byrd, and J.S. Bach, alongside more contemporary composers including James MacMillian, Arvo Pärt, Randall Thompson, and Rosephanye Powell. This concert invites you to reflect on the profound legacy that shapes us all, both spiritually and personally.
Thank you to the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration for their hospitality.

Breaking Barriers
2026-03-14 17:00 - 19:00 | St. Sebastian Parish, 5400 West Washington Blvd, Milwaukee, 53208, United States
Challenging tradition. Expanding the canon.
Reflect on a half-century of change, where voices once silenced have found strength and walls built by prejudice and convention have continued to fall. Through Louise Farrenc’s triumphant overture, Margaret Bonds’ groundbreaking variations, and the vibrant performance of our young concerto competition winner, this program honors the resilience and courage of those who move us forward, reshaping not only music but the world around us.

Repertoire:
Overture No. 1, Op. 23 – Louise Farrenc
Concerto chosen by the winner of the Walter A. and Dorothy J. Oestreich Concerto Competition
Montgomery Variations – Margaret Bonds

La Crosse Symphony Orchestra: Classical Magic
2026-03-14 19:30 - 21:30 | Viterbo University Fine Arts Center, 900 Viterbo Drive, La Crosse, 54601
Join the La Crosse Symphony Orchestra for Rising Stars, and Great Romantics – what could be better? Two top winners from the LSO’s annual Rising Stars young artist competition join the Orchestra in favorite movements from the concerto repertoire. Their bookends are two of the great Second Symphonies of the early Romantic Era: the Austrian Franz Schubert, and the German genius Robert Schumann.
Find more information about Classical Magic and the La Crosse Symphony Orchestra’s full season at: https://www.lacrossesymphony.org/events

Rituals, Spells & Charms
2026-03-20 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-03-21 19:30 - 21:30 | Kenilworth Square East – Jan Serr Studio, 1925 E Kenilworth Pl, Milwaukee, 53202, United States
Radhe Rahde; Rites of Holi, from Indian-American filmmaker Prashant Bhargava, features a live-score from the jazz great Vijay Iyer, and portrays the joyful, chaotic and colorful celebration of springtime in India. Canadian composer Nicole Lizée brings a film/composition which is an ode to the Alfred Hitchcock film The Birds.
And the Present Music ensemble gives composer/DJ Jlin Patton’s funky Little Black Book a dynamic choreographic treatment.
David Bloom conducts.

Gershwin and Friends presented by WI Philharmonic
2026-03-22 15:00 - 17:00 | Oconomowoc Arts Center, 641 E Forest Street, Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, 53066, United States
Join us as the Philharmonic gives its first performance in a decade of one of the most beloved of American masterpieces, George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody In Blue” — all surrounded by much of the great American popular music that Gershwin himself would have recognized. Jason Kutz, the young piano genius behind Madison’s hottest Jazz ensemble, Mr. Chair, joins us as soloist for what promises to be an unforgettable event.

George Gershwin, arr. Bruce Chase: Fascinatin’ Rhythm
Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond, arr. Chris Brubeck: The Time Out Suite
Gershwin, arr. Robert Russell Bennett: Porgy and Bess
Various, arr. Calvin Custer: Salute to the Big Bands
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue (Jason Kutz, piano)

Festival of Voices - La Crosse Chamber Chorale
2026-04-10 19:30 - 21:30 | English Lutheran Church, La Crosse, 1509 King St, La Crosse, 54601, United States
We are once again excited to present our 3rd annual Festival of Voices, a grand celebration of choral music in the La Crosse area. We will again join forces with area high school and college singers to create an unforgettable night of choral unity. We are also honored to welcome back Mexican conductor and composer Julio Morales, and his ensemble, Vox A Cappella Band, as our guest clinicians. Together, we will showcase the power of collective singing and the joy that music brings to our community.
Sponsored by Chorus America

CWSO: Peter and the Wolf
2026-04-11 19:30 - 21:30 | Sentry Theater, 1800 North Point Dr, Stevens Point, 54481, United States
Join the CWSO for a concert that celebrates the power of storytelling through music—where classic favorites meet bold new creations. Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 is a radiant and rhythmic masterpiece, full of energy, elegance, and emotional depth, offering a thrilling showcase of the orchestra’s brilliance and spirit. Be among the first to hear the world premiere of The Ugly Duckling by Wisconsin composer Matthew Selenske, a heartfelt new work inspired by the beloved tale that brings the journey of transformation and self-discovery to life with warmth and imagination. Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf rounds out the program with charm and playfulness, introducing characters through music in a way that delights audiences of all ages—perfect for families and first-time concertgoers.
Tickets:
Adults – $40
Seniors – $35
Child/Student – $15

La Crosse Symphony Orchestra: Hollywood Treasures
2026-04-11 19:30 - 21:30 | Viterbo University Fine Arts Center, 900 Viterbo Drive, La Crosse, 54601
Imagine some of the greatest scores of The Golden Age of Hollywood, paired with contemporary favorites like Harry Potter and Mission Impossible — and you have the perfect Movie Night at the La Crosse Symphony Orchestra! Once again, Dustin and Dominique Luecke are your hosts. To top it all off, the La Crosse Youth Symphony joins the LSO, side-by-side, for Rossini’s sparking overture to The Barber of Seville — used to wonderful effect in the great 1979 Midwestern coming-of-age classic comedy, Breaking Away.
Find more information about Hollywood Treasures and the La Crosse Symphony Orchestra’s full season at: https://www.lacrossesymphony.org/events

The Music of Reena Esmail @ Out of Our Minds Chamber Music
2026-04-12 15:00 - 17:00 | Viterbo University Fine Arts Center, 900 Viterbo Drive, La Crosse, 54601
Concert 6 – The Music of Reena Esmail
Sunday, April 12, 2026 @ 3:00 PM
Viterbo University Nola Starling Recital Hall
Michelle Elliott, violin | Kristina Gullion, violin | Maritsa Rosamilia, viola | Alexander Fowler, cello Elizabeth Pearse, soprano | Theodora Nestorova, soprano | Mary Ellen Haupert, piano
​PROGRAM
Piano Trio, Jhula Jhule, Dhire Dhire, My Sister’s Voice, Rosa de Sal
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

"A Fine Finale" - La Crosse Wind Symphony
2026-04-12 15:00 - 17:00 | Holmen High School FAC, 1001 McHugh Road, Holmen, United States
The Spring concert on April 12, A FINE FINALE will once again feature select outstanding area high school musicians performing alongside wind symphony members in our annual LWS High School Honor Concert on the 2nd half of a program that will also feature Percy Grainger’s immortal LINCOLNSHIRE POSEY.

Faith, Persistence, and Celebration
2026-04-18 14:00 - 16:00 | Bradley Symphony Center, 212 W Wisconsin Ave, Milwaukee, 53203, United States
Festival City Symphony will close its classical season with an inspiring program that unites the voices of two compelling contemporary composers with the warmth of a Romantic symphonic gem. The concert will open with Adolphus Hailstork’s Sonata da Chiesa, a radiant and expressive orchestral mass that blends lyrical elegance, joyful energy, and a heartfelt call for peace. Wisconsin-based composer Autumn Maria Reed, a passionate advocate for mental health awareness, offers her deeply personal Mental Health Suite that reflects her own journey of healing and resilience. Her music gives voice to those affected by trauma and affirms the power of art to restore and connect. The program concludes with Antonín Dvořák’s Eighth Symphony in G Major. This celebratory and beautifully crafted work weaves Czech folk melodies, classical form, and heartfelt emotion into a vibrant, uplifting finale. Don’t miss this moving afternoon of music that speaks to the soul, the spirit, and the strength of the human experience.

Music from China - Silk & Bamboo
2026-04-18 17:00 - 19:00 | St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 914 Knapp St, Milwaukee, 53202, United States
Rich sonorities and compelling melodies of sizhu music are invoked by musicians performing on traditional Chinese instruments including the erhu, pipa, zheng, and dizi. The ensemble presents masterworks from the Chinese classical and folk repertoire reflecting time-honored traditions and diverse regional styles.

Fantasia!
2026-04-18 19:00 - 21:00 | First Presbyterian Church – Racine, 716 College Avenue, Racine, 53403, United States
The Choral Arts Society unleashes flights of fancy in the works of Faure, Bach, and Vaughan Williams. With its crashingly rebellious solo piano part, Fantasia on the Old 104th echoes the grandeur of Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy. Pianist Randy Bush and Organist Nick Renkosik join the chorus for a resounding Fantasia, which will feature the newly renovated First Presbyterian Church organ and their wonderful Steinway grand piano, adding to the lyric beauty and vocal power of Racine’s finest chorus.

Salon Piano Series presents Angie Zhang
2026-04-18 19:30 - 21:00 | Farley’s House of Pianos, 6522 Seybold Rd, Madison, 53719
Program includes: Margaret Bonds, Clara Schumann, Beethoven

Hailed as “warmly expressive, sensitive, and polished” (New York Concert Review), American pianist Angie Zhang is among her generation’s most multi-faceted artists and pedagogues.

The Beethoven Project: A Grand Beginning
2026-04-18 19:30 - 21:00 | DeKoven Center – Great Hall, 2000 Wisconsin Ave, Racine, 53403, United States
Join the Racine Symphony Orchestra for an unforgettable Spring Concert, featuring Artist in Residence, harpist Rebecca Royce, and the launch of our exciting Beethoven Project. This program beautifully blends the power of Beethoven’s symphonic mastery with the elegance of French Impressionist composers Debussy and Ravel, offering a rich and captivating musical experience.

Sons of Serendip at the LuCille Tack Center for the Arts
2026-04-24 19:30 - 21:30 | LuCille Tack Center for the Arts, 400 N School Street, Spencer, 54479, United States
Billboard charting classical-crossover quartet, Sons of Serendip, won the hearts of fans and judges alike as finalists on America’s Got Talent (NBC) with their ethereal and emotionally stirring interpretations of pop music, arranged with a unique blend of vocals, harp, piano, and cello. The group has performed with the Boston Pops, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and for Oprah Winfrey’s 2020 Vision Tour. The band arranges pop hits to fit a classical ensemble. These unique and soothing arrangements will bring you to tears. The voice of lead singer, Micah Christian, will keep you mesmerized as will pianist, Cordaro Rodriguez, harpist, Mason Morton, and award winning cellist, Nathaniel Taylor.

New York Stories presented by WI Philharmonic
2026-04-26 15:00 - 17:00 | Oconomowoc Arts Center, 641 E Forest Street, Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, 53066, United States
Concluding a year in which the Philharmonic celebrates great Wisconsin artists, we finally bring the world to Waukesha with Andrey Gugnin, one of the great young Russian pianists of our time, now residing in Western Europe and making his name on the international scene. He’ll bring his extraordinary gifts to one of the very greatest of romantic Russian piano concertos — given its world premiere, once upon a time, by no less than the New York Philharmonic. Juilliard School president William Schuman, and Connecticut Yankee Charles Ives — two of the very favorite American composers of Leonard Bernstein during his tenure as the Philharmonic’s maestro — bring our gloriously American season to a triumphant close.

William Schuman: New England Triptych
Charles Ives: Symphony No.3, “The Camp Meeting”
Serge Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No.3 (Andrey Gugnin, piano)

Around the World - A Festival of Dances: Spring Pajama Jamboree
2026-04-29 19:00 - 20:00 | Bradley Pavilion of the Marcus Performing Arts Center, 123 E State St, Milwaukee, 53202, United States
Composers love to dance just like you! Join Festival City Symphony for a lively, toe-tapping concert featuring dance-inspired music from around the world. From the elegance of Tchaikovsky’s ballet Sleeping Beauty to Copland’s energetic Hoe-Down, this performance is bursting with rhythm and color. In honor of America’s 250th anniversary, young audience members will even have the chance to conduct the orchestra during Sousa’s patriotic favorite, Stars and Stripes Forever! Share the joy of music and motion with friends and family as Milwaukee’s own Festival City Symphony brings the stage to life—an experience sure to inspire a lifelong love of classical music!

La Crosse Symphony Orchestra: Andrey Returns!
2026-05-02 19:30 - 21:30 | Viterbo University Fine Arts Center, 900 Viterbo Drive, La Crosse, 54601
Once again the La Crosse Symphony Orchestra will finish out the season with another “over-the-top” orchestral journey. The young Russian phenomenon Andrey Gugnin — who, last season, entered our hearts with a magisterial rendition of the Grieg Piano Concerto, done miraculously with the LSO without rehearsal! — returns. This will no doubt be an equally majestic reading of the first of two concertos of Johannes Brahms, with whom our season began On our second half, in another great La Crosse tradition, our two winning Conductor Wannabees will regale us with their podium talents! Two works redolent of the joys of summer — a poignant, forgotten gem of the Englishman Frederick Delius, and the ecstatic and oh-so-French “Daphnis and Chloe” ballet of Maurice Ravel — carry us through what will be a magnificent grand finale!
Find more information about Andrey’s Return and the La Crosse Symphony Orchestra’s full season at: https://www.lacrossesymphony.org/events

The Newberry Consort - Revolution!
2026-05-09 17:00 - 19:00 | St. Joseph Chapel, 1515 S Layton Blvd, Milwaukee, 53215, United States
As the United States nears the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, explore music from 1776 through the start of the Civil War, performed on period instruments! This program draws on a wide variety of traditional works, including choral and sacred instrumental music, military music, spirituals, and abolitionist music.

American Inspirations
2026-05-09 19:00 - 21:00 | St. Sebastian Parish, 5400 West Washington Blvd, Milwaukee, 53208, United States
We close our season of rediscovery with a reflection on musical identity as varied, searching and complex as the nation itself. From Quinn Mason’s vibrant overture to the open-hearted lyricism of Copland’s clarinet concerto, we hear voices shaped, like this country, by many histories and traditions. Dvorak’s Symphony No. 8 is a work from abroad that continues to echo in the music of America, reminding us that influence, like music and identity, is always evolving. As the CCO enters its next half-century, we will carry these voices into the future we are still discovering.
Repertoire:
Inspiration! – Quinn Mason
Clarinet Concerto – Aaron Copland
Symphony No. 8 – Antonin Dvorak

Nathalie Joachim at Present Music
2026-06-05 19:30 - 21:00 | Milwaukee Art Museum, 700 N. Art Museum Dr, Milwaukee, 53202
Our final concert features composer/flutist/vocalist Nathalie Joachim, who will perform her piece Ki Moun Ou Ye, which explores her Haitian heritage.
The concert is a partnership with the museum exhibit Gertrude Abercrombie; Jazz; Chicago; Gentrification in Hyde Park, and also the museum’s extensive Haitian art holdings.
