Announcing the 2017-18 Season

Bangor, ME – The Bangor Symphony Orchestra left audiences excited for next fall yesterday with the announcement of its 2017-2018 season, the orchestra’s 122nd. The new season offers the range of programming that audiences have come to expect from the BSO’s Grammy Award-winning Music Director and Conductor Lucas Richman: audience favorites and rarely performed masterpieces alongside […]

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BSYO Spring Concert in Hampden, Sunday April 2nd

The Bangor Symphony Youth Orchestras (BSYO) will present their spring concert on Sunday, April 2nd at 4 p.m. at the Hamdpen Academy Auditorium. The concert will feature performances by the Prelude String Orchestra, the Prelude Wind Ensemble, and the Philharmonic Orchestra, led by conductors Sascha Zaburdaeva and Trevor Marcho. The April 2nd concert will conclude […]

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Weather Update for February 12th Concert

Update: Saturday, February 11 @ 8PM We are planning to proceed with our Sunday, February 12, 3PM performance of Scheherazade. Snowfall in the Bangor area is not predicted to start until during or slightly after the concert, and heavy snowfall and blizzard conditions are not predicted until later Sunday night and Monday. Ticketing Policy: Refunds or exchanges […]

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BSYO Fall Concert and Food Drive Set for December 4th

Bangor, ME – The Bangor Symphony Youth Orchestras (BSYO) will present their fall concert on Sunday, December 4th at 4 p.m. at Bangor High School’s Peakes Auditorium. The concert will feature performances by the Prelude String Orchestra, the Prelude Chamber Winds, and the Philharmonic Orchestra, led by conductors Sascha Zaburdaeva and Trevor Marcho. The December […]

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Rachel Barton Pine Plays Brahms, and More

Bangor, ME – The Bangor Symphony Orchestra’s 2016-17 season continues on Sunday, November 20, 2016 at 3 p.m. with ‘The Romantics,’ a program of masterworks from the Romantic era by Brahms, Schumann and Beethoven. Internationally acclaimed violinist Rachel Barton Pine will perform as soloist in the Brahms Violin Concerto. Led by Music Director and Conductor Lucas Richman, […]

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Young People’s Concerts Reach New Heights

Bangor, ME — The Bangor Symphony Orchestra’s annual Young People‘s Concerts took place on Monday, May 16th at the Collins Center for the Arts. For the second year in a row, the educational performances were sold out, with over 2,600 students attending from Milo to Machias and as near as Bangor. The concerts are offered annually […]

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Thank you for making La Bohème a smashing success!

Bangor, ME — On Sunday, April 24, 2016, the Bangor Symphony Orchestra presented its semi-staged production of Puccini’s La Bohème to a sold-out audience at the Collins Center for the Arts. The audience response was instant and prolonged, as the entire cast and creative team received a well-deserved ovation for bringing locally produced opera to the Bangor region in […]

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Special Anniversary Production of La Bohème

Bangor, ME – The Bangor Symphony Orchestra (BSO) will present a semi-staged production of Puccini’s La Bohème on Sunday, April 24th to close the Masterworks series of its 120th Like the BSO, La Bohème premiered in 1896. The production features a full cast of operatic talent, with Lucas Richman conducting, Loren Lester directing, costumes by Patricia Hibbert, and projected […]

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BSYO Spring Concert at Hampden Academy

Date: Saturday, April 9, 2016 Location: Hampden Academy, 89 Western Ave., Hampden, ME Time: 4:00 p.m. (doors open at 3:30 p.m.) Admission: FREE, donations of $5/person and of boxes of cereal encouraged Bangor, ME — The Bangor Symphony Youth Orchestras, an education program of the Bangor Symphony Orchestra, have been rehearsing for three months in […]

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