The Yale Symphony Orchestra Announces its 2021-22 Season

Publication Date: 
Wednesday, August 25, 2021
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After a year and a half without the joy of live music, we are excited and grateful to announce the Yale Symphony Orchestra’s 2021-2022 season, featuring four regular-season concerts and 14 composers, many of whom our orchestra has never programmed before.

As the YSO enters its 56th season, it has embraced its role as an American university orchestra, one that hopes to foster diverse musical discourse and provide a meaningful experience for performers and audience members alike. We hope that with the upcoming season, we can reflect on our role within a world full of not only pain and anxiety but also hope.

As our concert dates approach, we will announce additional details and concert protocols. Keep an eye out for those, as well as additional special projects that we’re planning. To stay up-to-date on concert and event offerings, please sign up for our mailing list. We will also communicate any changes to our programming. For now, we look forward to sharing music in live concert again.

Here are the programs for each of our upcoming season’s concerts, selected by our Music Director and student programming committee:

Hope (October 16, 2021)

OMAR THOMAS Of Our New Day Begun

SERGEI RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 2

                George Hua, piano

VALERIE COLEMAN Seven O’Clock Shout

RICHARD STRAUSS Der Rosenkavalier Suite


Fantasy (November 13, 2021)

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Overture to The Magic Flute

EMMANUEL SÉJOURNÉ Marimba Concerto

                Alvin Chung, marimba

REENA ESMAIL Testament (from Vishwas)

HECTOR BERLIOZ Symphonie Fantastique


The Age of Anxiety (February 19, 2022)

LEONARD BERNSTEIN Symphony No. 2 “The Age of Anxiety”

Max Hammond, piano

DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 10


The Year 1943 (April 9, 2022)

DUKE ELLINGTON Black, Brown and Beige

Winner of the 2021-2022 William Waite Concerto Competition (TBD)

WILLIAM GRANT STILL Mother and Child

BÉLA BARTÓK Concerto for Orchestra