EarRelevant Staff | 31 MAR 2025
ATLANTA, Georgia— The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra has announced its 2025-26 Delta Classical Concert season, marking its 81st year and Music Director Nathalie Stutzmann’s fourth season with the ensemble. She will conduct 10 of the concerts.
Executive Director Jennifer Barlament described the season as one that “exemplifies what art can do for our community—bringing people together to have transformative experiences that move the heart and challenge the mind.”
Stutzmann will lead 10 on the concerts, including performances of major choral works, such as Schubert’s Mass No. 2 in G major and Bach’s Mass in B minor, and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, performed with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus. Her first appearance on the podium in the new season will be October 3-5 with Richard Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben and Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto, featuring soloist Alisa Weilerstein. Stutzmann will also conduct performances of Bruckner’s Symphony No. 6 in March and Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, Resurrection, in June.
For the season’s first concert, Pianist Lang Lang returns to Atlanta on September 19 to perform Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto in a special one-night program led by conductor Gemma New.
Music Director Laureate Robert Spano will return for two weeks in the spring, leading performances of Bernstein’s first and second symphonies. Other notable guest conductors include Nicholas Collon, Kevin John Edusei, Philippe Jordan, and Giancarlo Guerrero, each making their Atlanta Symphony Orchestra debut.
Guest artists throughout the season include pianists Pavel Kolesnikov, Francesco Piemontesi, Leif Ove Andsnes, and Hélène Grimaud, as well as violinist Daniel Lozakovich.
The orchestra will commemorate the United States’ 250th anniversary with a series of concerts featuring works by American composers, including Leonard Bernstein, Samuel Barber, and Aaron Copland, as well as pieces by Duke Ellington and Artie Shaw. The season includes premieres of works by Valerie Coleman, Reena Esmail, Philip Glass, and Angélica Negrón, among others.
One highlight of the series will be Leonard Slatkin conducting the American premiere of his own work, Schubertiade: An Orchestral Fantasy, alongside Barber’s Violin Concerto, performed by Randall Goosby, and Copland’s Third Symphony. Another program, led by conductor Teddy Abrams, will feature Coleman’s Renaissance: Concerto for Orchestra and clarinet concertos by Shaw and Copland, performed by Martin Fröst.
A special recital by pianist Alexandre Kantorow, who performed at the 2024 Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony, is scheduled for April 19. Additionally, ASO Concertmaster David Coucheron will lead a performance of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons on Jan. 4 and 6.
Subscriptions for the 2025-26 season went on sale March 26. More details are available at aso.org. ■
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra 2025-26 Season:
- September 19, 2025
Special
Gemma New, conductor; Lang Lang, piano
MOZART: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
MOZART: Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”
BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 5, “Emperor” - October 3, 4 & 5, 2025
Nathalie Stutzmann, conductor; Alisa Weilerstein, cello
COPLAND: Fanfare for the Common Man
ELGAR: Cello Concerto
STRAUSS: Ein Heldenleben - October 9 & 11, 2025
Nathalie Stutzmann, conductor; Pavel Kolesnikov, piano*
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chamber Chorus
BACH: Cantata BWV 150
GRIEG: Piano Concerto
BRAHMS: Symphony No. 4 - October 23 & 25, 2025
Vinay Parameswaran, conductor*; Kala Ramnath, Hindustani violin*
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus Women
Nina SHEKHAR: Lumina
Reena ESMAIL/Kala RAMNATH: The Voice of Nature (Concerto for Hindustani violin)
HOLST: The Planets - October 26, 2025
Family Concert: Halloween at Hogwarts + ASO
William R. Langley, conductor - November 6 & 8, 2025
Nathalie Stutzmann, conductor; Francesco Piemontesi, piano*
BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 1
SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 8 - November 13, 15 & 16(m), 2025
Nathalie Stutzmann, conductor; David Coucheron, violin; Elizabeth Koch Tiscione, oboe; Christina Nilsson, soprano; Rhianna Cockrell, mezzo-soprano; Siyabonga Maqungo, tenor*; Leon Košavić, baritone; Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus
BACH: Concerto for Oboe and Violin BWV 1060
BACH: Cantata BWV 56
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 9, “Choral” - November 20 & 21, 2025
Nathalie Stutzmann, conductor; Hélène Grimaud, piano
BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No. 1
SCHUMANN: Symphony No. 3, “Rhenish” - December 4 & 6, 2025
Pietari Inkinen, conductor; Sergey Khachatryan, violin*
SIBELIUS: Finlandia
KHACHATURIAN: Violin Concerto
SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 2 - December 7, 2025
Family Concert: Deck the Halls
William R. Langley, conductor - December 11, 13(m), 13 & 14(m), 2025
Christmas with the ASO
Norman Mackenzie, conductor; Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus; Morehouse College Glee Club, David Morrow, conductor - December 18 & 19, 2025
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Norman Mackenzie, conductor; Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chamber Chorus
HANDEL: Messiah (Part I) - January 4 & 6, 2026
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
David Coucheron, director and violin.
MOZART: Symphony No. 25
VIVALDI: The Four Seasons - January 15 & 16, 2026
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Nathalie Stutzmann, conductor; Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chamber Chorus
SCHUBERT: Ballet No. 2 from Rosamunde
SCHUBERT: Mass No. 2 in G Major
SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 9, “The Great” - January 22 & 24, 2026
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
David Danzmayr, conductor; Yeol Eum Son, piano.
ELLINGTON: The Three Black Kings
SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Concerto No. 2
ELGAR: Enigma Variations - January 29 & 31, 2026
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Slatkin, conductor; Randall Goosby, violin
LEONARD SLATKIN: Schubertiade: An Orchestral Fantasy (American Premiere)
BARBER: Violin Concerto
COPLAND: Symphony No. 3 - Thursday, February 12 & 14, 2026
Teddy Abrams, conductor*; Martin Fröst, clarinet*
Artie SHAW: Clarinet Concerto
Valerie COLEMAN: Renaissance: Concerto for Orchestra
COPLAND: Clarinet Concerto
BERNSTEIN: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story - February 19 & 21, 2026
Liubov Nosova, conductor*; Sergei Babayan, piano*
Angélica NEGRÓN: En otra noche, en otro mundo
RACHMANINOFF: Piano Concerto No. 4
ZEMLINSKY: The Little Mermaid - February 26 & 28, 2026
Nicholas Collon, conductor*; Kian Soltani, cello*
Outi TARKIAINEN: The Ring of Fire and Love
LUTOSŁAWSKI: Cello Concerto
SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 5 - March 5 & 7, 2026
Nathalie Stutzmann, conductor; Leif Ove Andsnes, piano*
BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 3
BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 6 - March 12, 14 & 15(m), 2026
Nathalie Stutzmann, conductor; Camilla Tilling, soprano; Fleur Barron, mezzo-soprano; Lunga Eric Hallam, tenor; Krešimir Stražanac, baritone*; Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus
BACH: Mass in B minor - March 19 & 21, 2026
Kevin John Edusei, conductor*; Isabelle Faust, violin*
KODÁLY: Dances of Galánta
BARTÓK: Violin Concerto No. 2
MUSSORGSKY/RAVEL: Pictures at an Exhibition - March 22, 2026
Family Concert: Mo Willems’ Because
William R. Langley, conductor - April 9 & 10, 2026
Jerry Hou, conductor; Jennifer Koh, violin
Nicky SOHN: New work (world premiere)
Philip GLASS: Violin Concerto No. 1
RACHMANINOFF: Symphony No. 1 - April 16 & 18, 2026
Philippe Jordan, conductor*; Bertrand Chamayou, piano
BERLIOZ: Roman Carnival Overture
SAINT-SAËNS: Concerto No. 5, Egyptian
BERLIOZ: Symphonie fantastique - April 19(m), 2026
Recital
Alexandre Kantorow, piano
BACH/LISZT: Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen
MEDTNER: Piano Sonata in F minor
BEETHOVEN/LISZT: Symphony No. 6, Pastorale - April 23 & 25, 2026
Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor*; Pacho Flores, trumpet*
ROBERTO SIERRA: Fandangos
PACHO FLORES: Morocota
ARTURO MÁRQUEZ: Concierto de Otoño
REVUELTAS: Sensemayá
PIAZZOLA: Sinfonía Buenos Aires - April 30 & May 2, 2026
Robert Spano, conductor; Stephen Hough, piano; Kelley O’Connor, soprano
Christopher THEOFANIDIS: On the Bridge of the Eternal
BERNSTEIN: Symphony No. 1, Jeremiah
RACHMANINOFF: Piano Concerto No. 1 - May 7 & 9, 2026
Robert Spano, conductor; Zhenwei Shi, viola; Conrad Tao, piano
BERLIOZ: Harold in Italy
BERNSTEIN: Symphony No. 2, The Age of Anxiety - May 14 & 15, 2026
Jörg Widmann, conductor*; Alina Ibragimova, violin*
WIDMANN: Con brio
MOZART: Violin Concerto No. 5, Turkish
MOZART: Symphony No. 41, Jupiter - May 28 & 30, 2026
Nathalie Stutzmann, conductor; Daniel Lozakovich, violin
TCHAIKOVSKY: Violin Concerto
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 6, Pathétique - June 4, 6 & 7(m) 2026
Nathalie Stutzmann, conductor; Talise Trevigne, soprano; Rihab Chaieb, mezzo-soprano*; Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus
MAHLER: Symphony No. 2, Resurrection
EXTERNAL LINKS:
- Atlanta Symphony Orchestra: aso.org
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