Symphonic Love
Friday, February 14, 2025
Brahms: Tragic Overture
Ravel: Bolero
Webber (arr. Calvin Custer): Phantom of the Opera Symphonic Suite
Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet
Eszter Horváth, Music Director
Concerts
2024-2025 Concert Season
Below are the dates of our upcoming concerts. Complete details will be released soon.
Friday, December 13, 2024
Friday, February 14, 2025
Friday, May 2, 2025
Perseverance
Friday, December 13, 2024
Rossini: William Tell Overture
Sibelius: Karelia Suite
Sibelius: Karelia Suite
Price: Symphony 1
Eszter Horváth, Music Director
All About That Cello
Friday, May 2, 2025
Backer-Grøndahl: Scherzo
Holst: A Somerset Rhapsody
Dvořák: Cello concerto (Jeremy Crosmer, soloist)
Eszter Horváth, Music Director
2023-2024 Season
FALL CONCERT
December 1, 2023
Scott Joplin: Overture to “Treemonisha”
George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Emilie Mayer: Symphony No. 1 in c minor
Katherine Benson, Piano Soloist
Eszter Horváth, Music Director
WINTER CONCERT
February 16, 2024
Ethel Smyth: Overture to “The Wreckers”
Georges Bizet: “Carmen” Suite No. 1
L. v. Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36
Luca Antonucci, Guest Conductor
EXUBERANT, JUBILANT BRAHMS
March 17, 2024, 3:30 PM
The Birmingham Musicale, with musicians from Spectrum Orchestra, Detroit Medical Orchestra, and friends, presents:
Johannes Brahms:
Serenade No. 1 in D major, Op. 11
Serenade No. 2 in A major, Op. 16
Eszter Horváth, Conductor
CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT
April 21, 2024, 3:00 PM
Spectrum Orchestra’s first chamber music performance, showcasing our talented musicians in small-group performances.
SPRING SERENADE
May 3, 2024
Fanny Mendelssohn: Overture in C major
W.A. Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 17 in G major, K. 453
Friedrich Chopin: Polonaise for Piano and Orchestra
R. Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony
Pauline Martin, Piano Soloist
Eszter Horváth, Music Director
2022-2023 Season
FALL CONCERT
December 2, 2022
Beethoven: Egmont Overture
Smetana: The Moldau
Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73
Eszter Horváth, Music Director
WINTER CONCERT
February 17, 2023
Holmes: La Nuit et l’Amour
Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 7
Katherine Benson, Soloist
Beach:Symphony in E minor, Op.32 ‘Gaelic’
Eszter Horváth, Music Director
SPRING CONCERT
April 28, 2023
Edvard Grieg: Norwegian Dances
Alexander Borodin: Polovtsian Dances, No 17
Modest Mussorgsky (Ravel): Pictures at an Exhibition
Eszter Horváth, Music Director
2021-2022 Season
FALL CONCERT
October 1, 2021
Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance: Overture
Schubert: Symphony No. 5, D.485, B-flat major
Fauré: Pavane, op. 50
Bizet: L’Arlésienne Suite No. 2
Rotem Weinberg, Music Director
SPRING CONCERT
May 20, 2022
Aleksandr Borodin: Prince Igor Overture
Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35. Ellen Hayashi, Violin Soloist
Vasily Kalinnikov: Symphony No. 1
Rotem Weinberg, Music Director
2019-2020 Season
CLASSICAL MASTERS
October 25, 2019
Beethoven: Creatures of Prometheus Overture
Haydn: Cello Concerto C | Jeremy Crosmer, soloist
Brahms: Symphony No.2
Diego Piedra, Conductor
NOBLE LOVE
December 13, 2019
Grieg: Sigurd Jorsalfar, op. 56 Three Orchestral Pieces
Wagner: Tristan and Isolde Prelude und Liebestod
Massenet: Meditation from Thaïs
Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana
Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet
Diego Piedra, Conductor
2018-2019 Season
EMBRACING HUMANITY
October 26, 2018
Sibelius: Finlandia, Op.26
Elgar: Cello Concerto, Op.85 | Jeremy Crosmer, soloist
Beethoven: Symphony No.7, Op.92
Diego Piedra, Conductor
WATER AND THE HEART
December 14, 2018
Mendelssohn: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, Op 27: Overture
Dvorak: Suite, Op.98 (American)
Smetana: The Moldau
Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 97, “Rhenish”
Diego Piedra, Conductor
WINTER CONCERT
March 15, 2019
Schubert: Rosamunde Overture
George Frederick McKay: Moonlit Ceremony
Gounod: Petite Symphonie
Schubert: Symphony No. 8, “Unfinished”
Adam C. Riccinto, Guest Conductor
SPRING CONCERT
June 7, 2019
Dukas: Fanfare pour précéder La Péri
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, “Pathétique”
Tal Benatar, Guest Conductor
2017-2018 Season
FALL CONCERT
November 17, 2017
Brahms: Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80
Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21
Dvorak: Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104, Jeremy Crosmer, soloist
Kevin Fitzgerald, Conductor
Diego Piedra, Assistant Conductor
WINTER CONCERT
February 11, 2018
Spectrum Orchestra performs with Madrigal Chorale and Stoney Creek Choirs.
Brandon Ulrich: Songs of Love and Laughter (World Premiere)
Mozart: Ave Verum Corpus, KV. 618
Bruckner: Te Deum, WAB 45
Giovanni Gabrieli: Canzon Septimi Toni a 8, Ch.172
Kevin Fitzgerald, Conductor
Diego Piedra, Assistant Conductor
SPRING CONCERT
June 1, 2019
Diego Piedra: El Cerro de la Muerte
Diego Piedra: Danzón
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.4
Kevin Fitzgerald, Conductor
Diego Piedra, Assistant Conductor
2016-2017 Season
FALL CONCERT
Guest pianist Pauline Martin joined Spectrum in performance of Mendelssohn’s first Piano Concerto and Chopin’s Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise.
Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3
Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor
Chopin: Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise
Mendelssohn: Selections from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
Kevin Fitzgerald, Conductor
WINTER CONCERT
Beethoven: “Military Music”: Two Marches, Polonaise, Eccosaise, Zapenstreich
Debussy: Prelude a l’apres midi d’un faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 “Pastoral”
Kevin Fitzgerald, Conductor
SPRING CONCERT
Rimsky-Korsakov: “The Procession of the Nobles” from Malda
Mozart: Concerto for Violin No.3 in G Major, K. 216, Samantha Moraes, Violin
Dvorak: Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88
Kevin Fitzgerald, Conductor
2015-2016 Season
FALL CONCERT
Mozart: Overture to “Don Giovanni”
Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 “From the New World”
Kevin Fitzgerald, Conductor
SPRING CONCERT
Berlioz: “Marche Hongroise” from La damnation de Faust, Op. 24
Strauss: Serenade in E flat major, Op. 7
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64
Kevin Fitzgerald, Conductor
SUMMERTIME IN FRANCE
Dukas: Fanfare from La Péri
Fauré: Pelléas et Mélisande, Op. 80
Ravel: Ma mère l’oye “Mother Goose Suite” (selections)
Debussy: Printemps
Bizet: Carmen Suite No. 2 (selections)
Kevin Fitzgerald, Conductor
2014-2015 Season
A SALUTE TO WAGNER
Weber: Der Freischütz Overture, Op. 77
Wagner: Siegfried Idlyll, WWV 103
Debussy: Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Prelude, WWV 96
Daniel Brier, Conductor
SPRING CONCERT
Mozart: The Impresario, K. 486
Sibelius: Karelia Suite, Op. 11
Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (selections)
Offenbach: Orphée aux enfers
Kevin Fitzgerald, Conductor
SUMMER CONCERT
Bizet: L’Arlésienne, Suite No. 2
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67
Kevin Fitzgerald, Conductor
2013-2014 Season
FALL CONCERT
Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man
Brahms: Serenade No. 1 in D Major, Op. 11 (selections)
Holst: The Planets, “Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity”
Mozart: Symphony No. 38 in D major, K. 504 “Prague” (selections)
Stravinsky: The Firebird (selections)
Daniel Brier, Conductor
SPRING CONCERT
Beethoven: Coriolan Overture, Op. 62
Copland: Lincoln Portrait
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2 “Little Russian”
Daniel Brier, Conductor
SUMMER CONCERT
Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia
Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain
Mendelssohn: The Hebrides, Op. 26 “Fingal’s Cave”
Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 Op.46
Daniel Brier, Conductor
2012-2013 Season
INAUGURAL CONCERT
Beethoven: Egmont Overture, Op. 84
Bizet: Carmen Suite for Orchestra No. 2
Anderson: Sleigh Ride
Tchaikovsky: “Waltz of the Flowers” from The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a
Tchaikovsky: Marche Slav
Daniel Brier, Conductor
SPRING CONCERT
Dukas: Fanfare from La Péri
Tchaikovsky: Andante Cantabile from String Quartet No. 1
Strauss: Serenade in E-flat major, Op.7
Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture, H 95
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 “Reformation”
Daniel Brier, Conductor
SUMMER CONCERT
Verdi: Overture to Nabucco
Brahms: Violin Concerto, Op. 77
Dvořák: Slavonic Dances, Op. 46
Daniel Brier, Conductor