2010-11 Season-Experience the Music...LIVE!
The Des Moines Symphony's 2010-11 Masterworks Season is filled with extraordinary experiences that only hearing this great music performed live can bring:  PASSION, VIRTUOSITY, POWER, ROMANCE, MUSICAL INTRIGUE, MAJESTY and much more - experiences you will want to share with your friends and family.

During the 2010-11 season the Symphony will perform many of the Classical world's most beloved pieces along with many orchestral works that feature our musicians as soloists. Click here for complete details. A few highlights from the season include:

▪ The return of Des Moines favorite Arnaldo Cohen and his powerful performance of Beethoven's Emperor Piano Concerto. This year's Season Debut will be proceeded by Symphony Week, a new week long initiative that takes the Orchestra & Academy to you-throughout Greater Des Moines with exciting and intimate performances by the Symphony & Academy Ensembles, Lunch & Learns and Meet & Greets, not at the Civic Center, but at your businesses, parks and local shops; and then bringing it all back home with our Season Debut.

 

▪ A partnership with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra-Beyond the Score: The New World Symphony, a revealing exploration of Dvorak's Symphony No. 9

 

▪ Cirque de la Symphonie, back again by popular demand; their artistry and strength will ring in the New Year with the Orchestra during our annual New Year's Eve Pops

▪ Prodigy Chad Hoopes, our recent discovery making his Des Moines debut, plays Tchaikovsky's immortal Violin Concerto

▪ The renowned and vibrant Ahn Trio will light up the stage with their vibrancy and virtuosity

▪ Concerts highlighting several of our own gifted Orchestra members; Concertmaster Jonathan Sturm & Julie Fox Henson and clarinetists John Klinghammer & Clarence Padilla - you will leave those concerts exhilarated

▪ The season ends with a spectacular finale of all Russian music including the essence of Romanticism, Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 performed by emerging Russian superstar Ilya Yakushev

Attendees can enhance their concert experience with Classical Conversations, with Dr. Eric Saylor for four (4) informal, accessible and enjoyable classes that introduce you to the music the Orchestra will be performing during the 2010-11 season. Intended for all listeners-from long-time attendees to first-time concert- goers-and everyone in between.

Our free Concert Prelude Talks will be held in the East Lobby 45-minutes before each concert. Join us for a lively and informal preview of the concert, the music, the composers and the guest artists and conductors.

To Order Your Season Tickets click here