Romeo & Juliet
This Sunday matinee is an easy, feel-good afternoon and a perfect date idea. From the explosive drive of The Iron Foundry to Tchaikovsky’s sweeping Romeo and Juliet, this concert packs big emotion into a compact program.
Majestic Horizons: Handel & Schumann
Let the music flow in this evening of brilliance and grandeur! Handel’s Water Music sparkles with regal elegance, setting the stage for Böhme’s Trumpet Concerto, a thrilling showcase of virtuosity and power. The night culminates with Schumann’s Symphony No. 3, a rich and triumphant tribute to the beauty of the Rhine. Don’t miss this night of sweeping melodies and radiant energy!
Dolly Parton’s Threads: My Songs in Symphony
Threads: My Songs In Symphony is an innovative multimedia experience featuring Dolly on screen, leading audiences in a visual-musical journey of her songs, her life, and her stories.
Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi In Concert
Join the rebellion! Experience Return of the Jedi on the big screen with John Williams’ legendary score performed live by the Eugene Symphony. An epic finale to the original Star Wars saga!
Forces of Nature: Grieg & Nielsen
Gabriella Smith's Tumblebird Contrails evokes a wild soundscape of wind and waves. Grieg's Piano Concerto offers breathtaking melodies and virtuosic passion. Nielsen's defiant Symphony No. 4, "The Inextinguishable," culminates the evening with raw orchestral power and resilience. Don't miss this exhilarating concert!
Heroic Transformations: Beethoven
It’s an evening of Beethoven! Beethoven’s Violin Concerto will hook you with a human, voice-like soloist you can watch and connect with in real time, while “Eroica” delivers big drama, bold melodies, and raw intensity that feels closer to a film score than a history lesson.
Together, they offer beauty, tension, and release—music that tells a story and hits you in the gut.
Giancarlo Guerrero Returns
This concert will move you from dream to drama!
Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun opens with sensual, dreamlike melodies. Then Mozart’s Symphony No. 31, “Paris,” sparkles with elegance and youthful energy.
Then the grand finale - Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, a feverish, hallucinatory journey inspired by Berlioz’s own opium-fueled dreams, where obsession, passion, and imagination spiral into one of the most dramatic symphonies ever written.
Handel’s Messiah
Celebrate the season with Handel’s Messiah like you’ve never heard it before!
Elf in Concert
Buddy the elf travels to New York, in full elf uniform, in search of his real father. Now experience this holiday adventure with a live symphony orchestra: Elf in Concert!
Rhythm of the Americas
A thrilling fusion of symphonic mastery and jazz-infused energy! The evening begins with Gabriela Ortiz’s Téenek, pulsing with dynamic rhythms, and concludes with Duke Ellington’s Harlem Suite, a vibrant tribute to the heart of jazz.
John Williams & Music of the Cosmos
A breathtaking symphonic journey through the stars, celebrating the iconic music that has defined our visions of space and the unknown in movies and television.
Fate & Fire
Kick off the Eugene Symphony’s 60th Anniversary Season with an electrifying evening of music and the Masterworks debut of our new Music Director, Alex Prior!