Join the La Crosse Symphony Orchestra for another LSO tradition, Songs of Freedom, our annual musical salute to our veterans. Bringing together the favorite with the unfamiliar. Violinist Elisa Lee Koljonen — who amazed us back in 2021 with her reading of the romantic Violin Concerto of Samuel Barber — returns to La Crosse. This […]
Concert 3 – The Music of Heinryk Górecki and Grażyna Bacewicz Sunday, November 23, 2025 @ 3:00 PM Viterbo University Nola Starling Recital Hall Michael Chesher, clarinet | Thomas Hunt, horn | Alyssa Gaines, flute | Timothy Shows, oboe Jeff Copp, bassoon | Mary Ellen Haupert, piano PROGRAM Górecki’s “Titanic” Trio and “Burlesca” | Bacewicz’s Quintet for […]
Join the La Crosse Symphony Orchestra for Holiday Glories. The wonderful Wisconsin-born soprano Emily Birsan — now one of Chicago’s indispensable classical artists — returns. Following her exquisite “St. Caecila Mass” is another glorious French confection: Francis Poulenc’s fabulous setting of the GLORIA, written in 1960 for the Boston Symphony. Once again, LSO Assistant Conductor […]
Concert 4 – Happy 40th Anniversary Artaria, Take One! Sunday, February 1, 2026 @ 3:00 PM Viterbo University Nola Starling Recital Hall Artaria String Quartet PROGRAM Schubert’s “Death and the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]