Highlights of the 2021-22 Philharmonics Series include:
Sept. 23 and 25: Delfs leads the orchestra in the Romantic-era selections “Dawn & Siegfried’s Rhine Journey” by Wagner and Brahms’s Symphony No. 1, as well as Jennifer Higdon’s Violin Concerto, featuring violin soloist Benjamin Beilman.
Mar. 24 and 26, 2022: Delfs conducts Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, “Emperor” (with soloist Jorge Osorio) and Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5, alongside “Something for the Dark” by Sarah Kirkland Snider.
April 14 and 16, 2022: Guest conductor Ken-David Masur music director of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra leads the RPO in the world premiere of Jessie Montgomery’s Piano Concerto with pianist Awadagin Pratt, as well as Brahms’s “Variations on a Theme by Haydn” and Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 5, also known as “Reformation.”