The Philadelphia Orchestra

10/12/2026

Happy Halloween! 🎃

Our annual Children’s Halloween Spectacular concert returned this past weekend complete with plenty of music, costumes, and family fun. Featuring music from Ghostbusters, Jaws, and Coco, this was a concert everyone could enjoy.

Family Concerts are a fun way to introduce young listeners to the magic of live orchestral music. There are still three more concerts to experience this season. Bring the whole family and make a new musical memory together! https://philorch.ensembleartsphilly.org/philadelphia-orchestra-series-and-subscriptions/family-discovery-series

10/12/2026

This week on WRTI, tune into a program entirely curated by the musicians of The Philadelphia Orchestra featuring works by Mozart, Shaw, Bartók, and Hindemith. Plus, hear Principal Bass Joseph Conyers’s Orchestra solo debut in Tan Dun’s Contrabass Concerto: Wolf Totem. Tune tonight on WRTI, or listen here:

Join us on Sunday, Oct. 11 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, Oct. 12 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 as The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you a "Musicians' Choice" concert, featuring a wide variety of works selected by the players themselves.

10/12/2026

Tonight on SiriusXM, tune in to Symphony Hall on channel 66 at 7 PM to hear acclaimed pianist Haochen Zhang perform Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 along with conductor Tugan Sokiev leading Wagner’s Overture to Tannhäuser and Strauss’s Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks and “Dance of the Seven Veils” from Salome. Listen here:https://www.siriusxm.com/channels/symphony-hall?fbclid=IwY2xjawUyB8ZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBwZG9mBXNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR6bMh6BgMOLHmIKjIZLVObdGUv_jb3cTA3Ah89HBlsQMBaZZ1XqI06T6Mbv-g_aem_oQy1QPLiyP6riuAIhkzPLw

Classical music from yesterday and today performed by top orchestras, chamber music ensembles and instrumental soloists.

10/08/2026

Emmy®-nominated singer-songwriter and composer Ben Folds joins The Philadelphia Orchestra for an evening featuring his genre blending, piano-driven pop rock blown up to symphonic proportions. Folds has spent the last two decades bringing his distinctive sound to the orchestral stage, performing with many of the world’s leading ensembles. Don’t miss this one-night-only performance on December 16.
The musicians of The Philadelphia Orchestra are graciously donating their services for this concert and one dollar from every ticket sold will benefit Ben Folds’s Keys for Kids.
Learn more: https://philorch.ensembleartsphilly.org/tickets-and-events/2026-27-season/ben-folds-with-the-philadelphia-orchestra

10/07/2026

The Philadelphia Orchestra is truly an international ensemble, with members hailing from around the world, and those different backgrounds and cultures have influenced the “Philadelphia Sound.”
In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, Principal Clarinet Ricardo Morales (Puerto Rico), French horn player Ernesto Tovar Torres (Mexico), and Assistant Conductor Sara Aldana (Colombia) gathered at Leo, for a conversation about music, family traditions, and cultural influences.

You can watch the full conversation on our YouTube channel now: https://youtu.be/oVbP68Vzg9k?si=y-bLpzYQOqt-470u

10/07/2026

Respighi uses the glockenspiel in the first movement of his Pines of Rome to depict the bright, joyful energy of children playing in the pine groves.
Listen to Principal Percussion Christopher Deviney perform one of these excerpts and hear the entire work at Orchestra After 5: Fall on October 8 and at Pines of Rome concerts on October 9 and 10. Learn more: www.philorch.org/tickets

10/06/2026

Gil Shaham returns to The Philadelphia Orchestra to perform Saint-Saëns’s brilliant Violin Concerto No. 3 at Orchestra After 5: Fall on October 8 and at Pines of Rome concerts on October 9 and 10. Join us for wonderful performances this week: www.philorch.org/tickets

10/05/2026

Halloween is coming early this year! Join us this weekend for the Orchestra’s first Family Concert of the season, the Children’s Halloween Spectacular!

The fun begins at 10:30 AM in Commonwealth Plaza at the Kimmel Center, where superheroes, witches, and everyone in between can participate in Halloween-themed arts and crafts and snap a picture in the photo booth. Audiences will be bewitched in Marian Anderson Hall at 11:30 AM as the Orchestra performs Halloween classics, complete with a performance by dancers from Ballet Folklórico Yaretzi.

Don't forget your costumes! For more information, visit https://philorch.ensembleartsphilly.org/philadelphia-orchestra-series-and-subscriptions/family-discovery-series/halloween-spectacular

10/05/2026

Tonight on SiriusXM, tune in to Symphony Hall on channel 66 at 7 PM to hear conductor and harpsichordist Nicholas McGegan lead an ensemble of musicians in an all-Baroque program featuring Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 2, 3, and 4, and Handel’s “The Cuckoo and the Nightingale” Organ Concerto with Paul Jacobs. Listen here:

Classical music from yesterday and today performed by top orchestras, chamber music ensembles and instrumental soloists.

10/04/2026

This week on WRTI, conductor Matthias Pintscher leads violinist Leila Josefowicz and the Orchestra in his own work, Assonanza. Also on the program are excerpts from John Williams’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Copland’s Symphony No. 3. Tune in at 1 PM today or 7 PM tomorrow, or listen here:

Join us on Sunday, Oct. 4 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, Oct. 5 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 as The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you film music by John Williams, Aaron Copland's Symphony No. 3, and Matthias Pintscher's Assonanza, a violin concerto for Leila Josefowicz. Pintscher leads the....