Tickets available at Eventbrite. A program of American composers for our first series at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music! Featuring guest artist Weiyin Chen at the piano for George Gershwin’s beloved Rhapsody in Blue, a fusion of classical music and jazz effects. We will be taken on an excursion with Gerard Schwarz’s orchestral tone poem, A Journey, for its NYC premiere. The orchestra’s own Angela Shankar will introduce us into the world of jazz with Artie Shaw’s virtuosic Clarinet Concerto and a world premiere piece by TCS composer-in-residence Aaron Dai entitled Allegretto Giocoso will open the concert.

Tickets available at mtf.nyc. Musical Theatre Factory and The Chelsea Symphony invite you to Get Yourself Some NEW ORCHESTRATIONS! MTF’s inaugural gala concert will launch the “New Orchestrations” series, an exciting new series which pairs emergent musical theatre writers with Broadway orchestrators to commission stunning new orchestrations of their shows. Excerpts from four new musicals (and one reimagined favorite!) will be brought to life by the 35-piece Chelsea Symphony and a cast of Broadway stars. The Honorary Host Committee includes Tony Award-winners Daryl Roth (Kinky Boots, August: Osage County), James Lapine (Into The Woods, Sunday In The Park With George), and Michael Cerveris (Fun Home, Assassins), and all proceeds will benefit the Musical Theatre Factory.

Enjoy this holiday season with The Chelsea Symphony’s December concert series. Opening with the prelude from Humperdinck’s classic opera, Hänsel und Gretel, this concert features exciting seasonal favorites. Phong Ta will show us the orchestral adaptation of an ancient legend with He Zhanhao and Chen Gang’s The Butterfly Lovers’ Violin Concerto, written in traditional pentatonic style featuring Chinese melodies and patterns. Melanie Chirignan will bring Griffes’ Poem for Flute and Orchestra to life with its lush melodies and exciting technique. The concert will end with the holiday classics Sleigh Ride by Leroy Anderson featuring a surprise guest conductor, and The Night Before Christmas by Aaron Dai with our special guest narrator, Seth Rudetsky!

During our January series, promenade with us through Pictures at an Exhibition. This concert will open with a world premiere from TCS composer Tim Kiah. The Friday concert will feature Susan Mandel on cello, performing Max Bruch’s Kol Nidrei, based on a series of variations on two main themes of Jewish origin. We will also hear Rob Wilkerson perform one of Fernande Breilh-Decruck’s sonatas for alto saxophone. Saturday’s concert will showcase Alex Hu on Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D Major, considered one of the most technically difficult and virtuosic pieces for the instrument.

TCS presents two children's concerts on the theme "Welcome to the Zoo!"

Our March series will feature Dawn by Paul Frucht, the winner of The Chelsea Symphony’s second annual Composition Competition. TCS welcomes back conductor Ankush Bahl on the podium for Schumann's triumphant Second Symphony. The Friday concert will feature Adam Schommer in Richard Strauss’ Second Concerto for Horn in E-flat Major, as well as Jane Yoon in Dohnányi’s Concertino for Harp and Orchestra. Saturday will bring us Alice Bacon on Dvořák’s Cello Concerto in B minor, the beloved last solo concerto of the composer.

This April, The Chelsea Symphony will host a chamber orchestra concert series, opening with the NYC premiere of Caroline Shaw’s Entr’Acte for string orchestra. Friday will showcase Mozart concerti performed by our double reed players on their respective instruments, oboist Phil Rashkin and bassoonist Colin Mannes. On Saturday, we will hear flautist Anna Urrey on two contemporary pieces by American composers and double bassist Mort Cahn with bass solo on Mozart's "Per questa bella mano." We will also present Stravinsky's suite from his ballet Pulcinella, an effervescent piece signifying the shift into Stravinsky's neoclassicist phase, his "discovery of the past."

The Chelsea Symphony presents its tenth anniversary season finale at the DiMenna Center featuring Mahler's epic First Symphony. Sunday will feature Rick Quantz on the viola in the NYC premiere of Takemitsu’s A String Around Autumn. On Saturday, hear Rebekah Butler perform Michael Daugherty’s violin concerto entitled Fire and Blood. Tickets now available at http://thechelseasymphony.eventbrite.com