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“My best work”: Tchaikovsky’s Second
In this video, Music Director Adam Stern and soprano soloist Stacey Mastrian share highlights on our upcoming June concert. We hope you will join us June 1, 2024, 2 pm at Benaroya Hall to hear some impactful music.
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“Intimate and Original”: Dvořák’s Eighth
Jan 13, 2024
In this video, Music Director Adam Stern gives an informative and informal talk about our upcoming January concert. We hope you will join us January 20, 2024, 2 pm at Benaroya Hall to hear some great music!
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Fantasy: A World With No Boundaries
Oct 11, 2023
In this video, Music Director Adam Stern gives an informative introduction to our opening concert of the 2023-2024 season! We hope you will join us October 28, 2023, 2 pm at Benaroya Hall to hear some great music!
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Soloist Spotlight: Sophie Lippert
May 27, 2023
Sophie Lippert will perform Camargo Guarnieri’s Concerto No. 1 for Piano and Orchestra at our June 3 concert. Sophie Lippert is a classical pianist, piano teacher, and founder of Connections Concert Series, praised for her dynamism, warmth, magnetism, expressiveness, and technical prowess. Launched into public acclaim at the age of 17, she won numerous competitions […]
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"In the startled ear of night..."
Oct 1, 2022
In this video, Music Director Adam Stern gives a delightful introduction to our opening concert of the 2022-2023 season!
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A Ruth Gipps Premiere
Apr 24, 2021
One of the hallmarks of the Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra is to perform pieces by composers that, for various reasons, never got the platform they deserved. Such is the case of Ruth Gipps. The Seattle Philharmonic performed the U.S. Premiere of her second symphony on March 31, 2018. The following excerpt is from the program notes […]
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"Serene Cheer and Warm Sunshine": Brahms' Second
Mar 1, 2021
The Philharmonic presents the third U.S. premiere of the season: Pyramid, a stirring tone poem by Sweden-based American composer Molly Kien (“a major new voice” — Fanfare Magazine). The winner of the Philharmonic’s 2019 Don Bushell Competition, the radiant soprano Allison Pohl, will be heard in a selection of lieder by Richard Strauss. Closing the […]
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Holst, The Planets, Voyager 2, and a few Informal Observations
May 25, 2015
We are past the mid-point of the rehearsal cycle for our upcoming season finale, the details being worked are getting smaller and more subtle, and we’re simply getting more and more excited to finally launch into this journey. The music we’ll be playing is tremendously exciting in itself—two pieces by Ralph Vaughan Williams and one […]
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Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
Mar 9, 2015
Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion. – Calvin Coolidge The spirit of heroism has been on my mind of late, as the Philharmonic and I enter into the final rehearsals for our March 28 concert, “Tragic Heroes”. Nearly everyone has some notion – however personal – of what heroism is, […]
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