2022-2023 CONCERT SEASON

‘It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Celebrate the Holidays with Holiday Pops, one of Phoenix’s most treasured traditions. From the sacred to the secular and across array of songs and traditions, Holiday Pops will get you in the spirit of the season like nothing else!
  • Friday, December 2 at 7:30PM
  • Saturday, December 3 at 2:00PM 
  • Saturday, December 3 at 7:30PM    
  • Sunday, December 4 at 2:00PM
With the “Hallelujah” chorus at its heart, Messiah has become synonymous with Christmas celebration. Tito Muñoz conducts this magnificent sacred masterpiece with The Phoenix Symphony Chorus and soloists. This season, The Phoenix Symphony is pleased to offer four performances of the masterwork in three locations around The Valley.
  • Camelback Bible Church: Thursday, December 15th
  • Mesa Arts Center: Friday, December 16th
  • Pinnacle Presbyterian Church: Saturday, December 17th
  • Pinnacle Presbyterian Church: Sunday, December 18th
Virginia G. Piper Music Director Tito Muñoz conducts this retrospective of the great John Williams. You won’t want to miss this concert of selections from some of his most powerful film scores, including Star Wars, E.T., Harry Potter, Indiana Jones, Saving Private Ryan, and more!
  • Friday, February 17 at 7:30PM
  • Saturday, February 18 at 2:00PM    
  • Saturday, February 18 at 7:30PM    
  • Sunday, February 19 at 2:00PM
From William Walton’s unforgettably majestic Belshazzar’s Feast to the brilliant pianist Jeremy Denk exploring Brahms second piano concerto, this concert promises unforgettable melodies rendered with exquisite care and precision. The concerto, a notable technical challenge for pianists, showcases Brahms’ sharp intellectual prowess and with deep, often tumultuous emotional changes. Belshazzar’s Feast is an oratorio with The Phoenix Symphony with Chorus and Baritone soloist combining for a grand musical spectacle. Based on the Old Testament story concerning the lavish feast thrown by the Babylonian king, Belshazzar.
  • Friday, April 14 at 7:30PM
  • Saturday, April 15 at 7:30PM
  • Sunday, April 16 at 2:00PM
RANDALL THOMPSON: The Peaceable Kingdom
MORTEN LAURIDSEN: Mid-Winter Songs

Our very own Phoenix Symphony Chorus takes center stage in this chorus-only concert featuring Randall Thompson’s monumental “The Peaceable Kingdom,” inspired by Edward Hicks’s painting of the same name. Morten Lauridsen’s modern masterwork, "Mid-Winter Songs'' for virtuosic voices and piano, is a choral cycle on selected poems of the English poet Robert Graves. Hailed as a “gem of Phoenix’s cultural scene,” the Chorus has impressed audiences in performances throughout Arizona, Carnegie Hall in New York City, and as far away as Vienna. The concert will be a journey through these and other thrilling works written specifically for unaccompanied and piano accompanied chorus.

  • Thursday, April 27 at 7:30PM
KEVIN SCOTT Fanfare G.A.F.: An American Overture
LEONARD BERNSTEIN Chichester Psalms for Chorus & Orchestra
JOHANNES BRAHMS Concerto in D Major for Violin & Orchestra, Op. 77
From William Walton’s unforgettably majestic Belshazzar’s Feast to the brilliant pianist Jeremy Denk exploring Brahms second piano concerto, this concert promises unforgettable melodies rendered with exquisite care and precision. The concerto, a notable technical challenge for pianists, showcases Brahms’ sharp intellectual prowess and with deep, often tumultuous emotional changes. Belshazzar’s Feast is an oratorio with The Phoenix Symphony with Chorus and Baritone soloist combining for a grand musical spectacle. Based on the Old Testament story concerning the lavish feast thrown by the Babylonian king, Belshazzar.
  • Friday, May 12 at 7:30PM      
  • Saturday, May 13 at 2:00PM    
  • Saturday, May 13 at 7:30PM