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Revolutionaries: Mozart / Saint-Georges

Two 18th century composers, both revolutionaries in their own right, created sparkling works that still connect today What’s Interesting About This Concert For the first time in its history, the BSO performs the music of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, who was born into slavery in the French West Indies and navigated France’s colonial “Code […]

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Never underestimate local talent

The Bangor Daily News

Mar 6 at 3pm

Masterworks IV

From Firebird to the Future

Stravinsky’s iconic Firebird Suite anchors a program of innovation and merging traditions What’s Interesting About This Concert A world-premiere by Ellis-Beauregard Foundation Composer Award winner Jessica Meyer is sure to push boundaries Conni Ellisor’s Blackberry Winter has been featured on NPR and fuses the sounds of mountain folk and American classical, brought to life here by Maine-based dulcimer […]

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Knife-edge anticipation opens on to unexpected, often ecstatic musical realms, always with a personal touch and imaginatively written

Gramophone Magazine

Mar 19 at 7pm

Special Event

The Warming Sea

The Maine Science Festival is returning in March 2022 and the headlining event is the world premiere of Lucas Richman’s The Warming Sea, performed by the Bangor Symphony Orchestra. The evening will combine art and science, beginning with an overview of climate change in Maine from some of Maine’s leading climate researchers followed by a […]

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Will a composer’s new music hold up for the long term? If popularity with audiences is one of the criteria, then conductor and composer Lucas Richman’s brand new Concerto certainly qualified.

The Knoxville News Sentinel

Apr 10 at 3pm

Masterworks V

A Grand Finale

A blockbuster program of Dvořák, Beethoven and Borodin marks the end of a celebratory season What’s Interesting About This Concert Italian pianist Roberto Plano makes his BSO debut in Beethoven’s magnificent Piano Concerto. No. 4 Dvořák’s Carnival Overture was part of his “Nature, Life, and Love” trilogy of overtures, forming the second part, “Life” The Polovtsian Dances come from […]

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I saw a kind of quiet exuberance from Plano, with sparkling clarity and gobs of technique at its service. He plays the piano with a truly genuine approach...

NPR

Come Experience the Bangor Symphony Orchestra

As the Bangor Symphony Orchestra enters its 126th anniversary season, we invite you to join us once again for live performances at the Collins Center for the Arts. Learn more.

Lucas Richman, Music Director & Conductor

Upcoming Concerts

Masterworks III

Revolutionaries: Mozart / Saint-Georges

Jan 30 3pm

Masterworks IV

From Firebird to the Future

Kenneth Fuchs Named 3rd Annual Ellis-Beauregard Foundation Composer Award Recipient

Rockland, ME – The Ellis-Beauregard Foundation is pleased to announce Kenneth Fuchs is the recipient of its 3rd annual $20,000 Composer Award. With the Award, Fuchs will create a new work to be performed in 2023 by the Bangor Symphony Orchestra. Fuchs, a Grammy Award-winning composer and professor of composition at the University of Connecticut, was selected through a juried national […]

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