Symphony in the Gardens
Birmingham Botanical Gardens
September 27, 2026 4:00 pm
Join us for the 29th Annual Symphony in the Gardens, one of Birmingham’s favorite community events! This free concert is hosted by The Alabama Symphony Orchestra Women’s Board, a volunteer organization that supports the Alabama Symphony Orchestra’s community and educational outreach…
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Thief, Poet, & Songs
UAB’s Alys Stephens Center — Jemison Concert Hall
October 2, 2026 11:00 am
Price: $22 - $42
Rossini & Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8 Christopher Confessore leads the Alabama Symphony Orchestra in Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8 — a work brimming with folk-inflected melodies and irresistible energy — paired with Rossini’s sparkling overture to La gazza ladra. A perfect…
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Thief, Poet, & Songs
UAB’s Alys Stephens Center — Jemison Concert Hall
October 2, 2026 7:00 pm
Price: $36 - $90
Rossini, Rachmaninoff & Dvořák With special guest pianist Dina Kasman, Christopher Confessore leads the Alabama Symphony Orchestra in a program that moves from Rossini’s brilliant comic overture (La gazza ladra) to one of the most beloved piano concertos ever written.…
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Explorer Concert: The Symphony Is All Around You
Thompson High School Performing Arts Center
October 7, 2026 9:30 am
Price: $10
Explorer Concert: The Symphony Is All Around You This lively concert is a perfect first introduction to the sound of a live, professional symphony orchestra. Led by conductor Chris Confessore, the Alabama Symphony Orchestra takes families on a journey through…
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Requiem
UAB’s Alys Stephens Center — Jemison Concert Hall
October 23, 2026 7:00 pm
Price: $36 - $90
Mozart’s Requiem with Mahler’s Adagietto & Kindertotenlieder Ming Luke conducts the Alabama Symphony Orchestra in one of classical music’s most enduring and mysterious works: Mozart’s Requiem, left unfinished at the composer’s death and completed by his student Franz Süssmayr. Joining…
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After Dark: A Symphony of Shivers
UAB’s Alys Stephens Center — Jemison Concert Hall
October 30, 2026 7:00 pm
Price: $36.50 - $95.50
Get ready for a night of thrills and chills as the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Chris Confessore, brings the dark and dramatic to life. From the haunting halls of Harry Potter and Wicked to the spine-tingling suspense of Psycho…
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Levity
UAB’s Alys Stephens Center — Jemison Concert Hall
November 6, 2026 11:00 am
Price: $22 - $42
Brahms’ Symphony No. 2 & Montgomery’s Starburst Daniel Cho leads the Alabama Symphony Orchestra in Brahms’ Symphony No. 2 — sunny, expansive, and the most warmhearted of his four — paired with Jessie Montgomery’s Starburst, a short, propulsive work that…
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Levity
UAB’s Alys Stephens Center — Jemison Concert Hall
November 6, 2026 7:00 pm
Price: $36 - $90
Brahms’ Symphony No. 2 with Tessa Lark With violin virtuoso Tessa Lark as our guest, Daniel Cho leads the Alabama Symphony Orchestra in a program that balances celebration with substance. Jessie Montgomery’s Starburst opens with a burst of energy —…
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Mutations
Avon Theater
November 12, 2026 7:00 pm
Price: $42.50
Associate Conductor Daniel Cho leads a program built around transformation. Mutations from Bach opens the evening, a regal piece for brass ensemble by American composer Samuel Barber, which deftly transforms a 17th-century chorale melody into a setting of the same…
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English Light
UAB’s Alys Stephens Center — Jemison Concert Hall
November 20, 2026 7:00 pm
Price: $36 - $90
Elgar’s Enigma Variations & Vaughan Williams Molly Turner leads the Alabama Symphony Orchestra in an all-English program anchored by two of the repertoire’s most beloved works. Elgar’s Enigma Variations is a musical portrait gallery — fourteen variations, each a sketch…
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Sleigh Bells & Symphony: A Holiday Classic
UAB’s Alys Stephens Center — Jemison Concert Hall
December 1, 2026 7:00 pm
Price: $25, General Admission
There’s something about hearing the classics played live that makes the season feel real. Sleigh Bells & Symphony: A Holiday Classic is the Alabama Symphony Orchestra’s gift to Birmingham families — an evening of all the songs you grew up…
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Handel’s Messiah
UAB’s Alys Stephens Center — Jemison Concert Hall
December 18, 2026 7:00 pm
Price: $36 - $90
Handel’s Messiah Daniel Cho leads the Alabama Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in the ASO’s annual performance of Handel’s Messiah — one of the most beloved and enduring works in the choral repertoire. Tenor David Tayloe and baritone Edward Vogel join…
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New Year’s Eve Celebration
UAB’s Alys Stephens Center — Jemison Concert Hall
December 31, 2026 6:00 pm
Price: $39 - $82
Viennese New Year’s Concert Christopher Confessore leads the Alabama Symphony Orchestra in its annual Viennese New Year’s Concert — a beloved tradition that fills Jemison Hall with the effervescent spirit of Old World Europe on the last night of the…
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Birmingham Does Broadway
UAB’s Alys Stephens Center — Jemison Concert Hall
January 15, 2027 7:00 pm
Price: $36.50 - $95.50
Broadway comes to Birmingham as the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Chris Confessore, brings the magic of Broadway to life in one unforgettable night. Birmingham Does Broadway spans the full sweep of musical theater — from the sweeping romance of…
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Cave to Palace
UAB’s Alys Stephens Center — Jemison Concert Hall
January 29, 2027 11:00 am
Price: $22 - $42
Beethoven Symphony No. 4 & Mendelssohn The Alabama Symphony Orchestra performs Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4 — a work of wit, elegance, and surprising emotional depth — paired with Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture, a vivid tonal portrait of the Scottish coastline and…
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Cave to Palace
UAB’s Alys Stephens Center — Jemison Concert Hall
January 29, 2027 7:00 pm
Price: $36 - $90
Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4 & Mendelssohn The Alabama Symphony Orchestra performs one of Beethoven’s most underappreciated symphonies — the Fourth, a work of wit, elegance, and surprising emotional depth that often gets overshadowed by its more famous neighbors. The program…
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Young People’s Concert: Make Our Garden Grow — The World of Music
Hoover High School Performing Arts Center
February 11, 2027 9:30 am
Price: $10
A Field Trip Concert for Grades 3–6 Bring your class on a field trip to the Alabama Symphony Orchestra for Make Our Garden Grow — The World of Music, a Young People’s Concert designed for students in grades 3 through…
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American Ground
UAB’s Alys Stephens Center — Jemison Concert Hall
February 19, 2027 11:00 am
Price: $22 - $42
Copland’s Appalachian Spring & Hanson’s Romantic Symphony Christopher Confessore leads the Alabama Symphony Orchestra in two distinctly American works. Copland’s Appalachian Spring has come to sound like the American landscape itself — open and unhurried, rooted in Shaker melody. Howard…
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American Ground
UAB’s Alys Stephens Center — Jemison Concert Hall
February 19, 2027 7:00 pm
Price: $36 - $90
Copland’s Appalachian Spring & American Voices Christopher Confessore leads the Alabama Symphony Orchestra in a program devoted entirely to American voices. Copland’s Appalachian Spring is the cornerstone of the evening — a ballet score that has come to sound like…
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Young People’s Concert: The Trumpet of the Swan
Birmingham Children's Theatre
March 2, 2027 10:00 am – March 5, 2027 10:00 am
Price: $10
Based on the beloved novel by E. B. White, The Trumpet of the Swan: A Novel Symphony brings Louis’s story to life through orchestral music by Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown and a stage adaptation by Pulitzer Prize winner…
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Seven
UAB’s Alys Stephens Center — Jemison Concert Hall
March 19, 2027 7:00 pm
Price: $36 - $90
Beethoven Symphony No. 7 & Daniel Cho Daniel Cho leads the Alabama Symphony Orchestra in a program unified — perhaps not so subtly — by the number seven. The evening opens with Arturo Márquez’s Danzón No. 7, a propulsive, dance-driven…
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Rivers
UAB’s Alys Stephens Center — Jemison Concert Hall
April 9, 2027 11:00 am
Price: $22 - $42
Schumann’s Rhenish Symphony & Schubert Kensho Watanabe leads the Alabama Symphony Orchestra in Schumann’s Symphony No. 3 — the “Rhenish” — inspired by the Rhine and capturing both the grandeur of the river landscape and the warmth of the communities…
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Rivers
UAB’s Alys Stephens Center — Jemison Concert Hall
April 9, 2027 7:00 pm
Price: $36 - $90
Schumann’s Rhenish Symphony with Evren Ozel Mozart specialist Evren Ozel joins the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, led by Kensho Watanabe, in a program inspired by Europe’s rivers. Schumann’s Third Symphony — the “Rhenish” — was inspired by the Rhine and captures…
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Planets
UAB’s Alys Stephens Center — Jemison Concert Hall
May 7, 2027 11:00 am
Price: $22 - $42
Holst’s The Planets Daniel Cho leads the Alabama Symphony Orchestra in Gustav Holst’s The Planets — a seven-movement suite that travels from the driving, martial energy of “Mars” to the ethereal wordless chorus of “Neptune” — one of the most…
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Planets
UAB’s Alys Stephens Center — Jemison Concert Hall
May 7, 2027 7:00 pm
Price: $36 - $90
Holst’s The Planets & Walton’s Viola Concerto Daniel Cho leads the Alabama Symphony Orchestra in one of the most spectacular works in the orchestral repertoire: Gustav Holst’s The Planets, a seven-movement suite that travels from the driving, martial energy of…
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Parrots & Palms: Tropical Rock
UAB’s Alys Stephens Center — Jemison Concert Hall
May 14, 2027 7:00 pm
Price: $36.50 - $95.50
The Alabama Symphony brings Parrots & Palms Tropical Rock and the sound of the islands to Birmingham for an evening of tropical favorites, led by conductor Chris Confessore at UAB’s Alys Stephens Center. The program moves through the songbooks of…
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The Emperor & The Revolutionary
UAB’s Alys Stephens Center — Jemison Concert Hall
May 21, 2027 7:00 pm
Price: $36 - $90
Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto with Joyce Yang Welcoming back Birmingham’s favorite pianist, Joyce Yang, to the stage with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra for a season finale led by Resident Conductor Christopher Confessore, pairing two of music’s most commanding works. Beethoven’s Piano…
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