2025-26 Season
"We are so fortunate to have the sublime experience of hearing live classical music performed by a professional orchestra in our backyard, and we should keep letting others know about it." -- Howard Hsu
One: In The New World
September 27, 2025 - 7:00pm
PRECONCERT CHAT: 6:15pm
- Jessie Montgomery - Soul Force
- Liebermann Concerto No. 1 for Flute and Orchestra, Op. 39
- Sarah Jane Young, Flute
- Dvořák Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95 “From the New World”
Whitehead Auditorium | Reservations Required
Tickets $34/$31/$24 each | www.valdostasymphony.org or call (229) 333-2150
Two: Scenes of Life
November 15, 2025 - 7:00pm
PRECONCERT CHAT: 6:15pm
- Assad - Circus Fantasia
- Barber - Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op. 24
- Copland - Old American Songs
- Long Time Ago
- Simple Gifts
- I Bought Me A Cat
- Maria Valdes, soprano
- Barber Adagio for Strings
- Gershwin Catfish Row: Symphonic Suite from "Porgy and Bess"
Whitehead Auditorium | Reservations Required
Tickets $34/$31/$24 each | www.valdostasymphony.org or call (229) 333-2150
Three: Traditions
February 14, 2026 - 7:00pm
PRECONCERT CHAT: 6:15pm
- Handel - Messiah, HWV 56
- Susan Boddie, soprano
- Lynnette Chambers, mezzo-soprano
- Samuel Cook, tenor
- Bradley Sowell, baritone
- Valdosta State University Concert Choir
- Valdosta State University Chamber Singers
- Valdosta State University Musical Union
- Clell Wright, conductor
Whitehead Auditorium | Reservations Required
Tickets $34/$31/$24 each | www.valdostasymphony.org or call (229) 333-2150
Four: Progression
March 28, 2026 - 7:00pm
PRECONCERT CHAT: 6:15pm
- Higdon - City Scape: Peachtree Street
- Kevin Day - DEPARTURES: Double Concerto for Trombone, Piano, &
Orchestra (Georgia premiere)
- Constanze Hochwartner, piano
- Peter Steiner, trombone
- Gershwin - An American In Paris
- Bernstein - Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
Whitehead Auditorium | Reservations Required
Tickets $34/$31/$24 each | www.valdostasymphony.org or call (229) 333-2150
Five: Made In America
May 2, 2026 - 7:00pm
PRECONCERT CHAT: 6:15pm
- Zwilich - Jubilation
- Leshnoff - Rhapsody on America* (Georgia premiere)
- Joyce Yang, piano
- Bartók Concerto for Orchestra
* Joyce Yang premieres Rhapsody on America in honor of America’s 250th anniversary with the commissioning consortium of the Orchestra Lumos, Pasadena, Valdosta and San Jose Orchestras.
Whitehead Auditorium | Reservations Required
Tickets $34/$31/$24 each | www.valdostasymphony.org or call (229) 333-2150