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Aug 17, 2022
2021-22 Season
Bass & Flute Extravaganza
New Jersey Symphony Special Presentation with The Newark Museum of Art
Ha Young Jung bass & curator
New Jersey Symphony Chamber Players
New Jersey Symphony Principal Bass Ha Young Jung has crafted a chamber music program starring the bass and flute! With a concert featuring classic works from Bach, Rossini and Schulhoff and contemporary sounds from composers Dorothy Rudd Moore, Morton Gould and Valerie Coleman, you are in for an unforgettable treat.
Oct 7 - 9, 2022
2022-23 Season
Yefim Bronfman Plays Rachmaninoff
Opening Weekend! New Jersey Symphony Classical
Xian Zhang conductor
Yefim Bronfman piano
Nimbus Dance Company
New Jersey Symphony
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Jessie Montgomery Banner
The season opens with Jessie Montgomery’s tribute to the “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Her piece Banner draws on musical and historical sources to create a rhapsody that blends cultures through music.
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Copland Appalachian Spring Suite
The orchestral suite of Copland’s iconic ballet is quintessential Americana with both celebratory exuberance and somber undertones. The music depicts a newlywed couple’s mixed emotions around unity in rural Pennsylvania in the 20th century. Dancers from Nimbus Dance Company add dynamic original choreography to our Newark and Morristown performances.
Due to space limitations, Nimbus Dance does not appear at the performance in Red Bank. -
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3
Sergei Rachmaninoff performed this thrilling concerto for the first time in 1909 in New York. Superstar pianist Yefim Bronfman will thrill audiences with his interpretation of one of the most challenging and virtuosic concertos in the repertoire.
Oct 20 - 23, 2022
2022-23 Season
Xian Zhang Conducts Brahms
New Jersey Symphony Classical
Xian Zhang conductor
Michelle Cann piano
New Jersey Symphony
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Dorothy Chang Northern Star
Award-winning composer Dorothy Chang wrote her inspirational and bright Northern Star as part of a larger collection of commissions from several Canadian composers in 2017. New Jersey Symphony Music Director Xian Zhang performed it for the first time in Vancouver in 2018.
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Strauss Burleske for Piano and Orchestra
Michelle Cann makes a triumphant return to the Symphony stage for the first time since 2014 with Strauss’ light, virtuosic and witty Burleske for Piano and Orchestra.
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Brahms Symphony No. 4
Brahms’ final symphony balances autumnal hues with virtuosic power. Scaling the heights of this monumental work is an orchestral and emotional feat of Mount Everest proportions—and one musicians relish playing.
The Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival will share dynamic contemporary poets offering dramatic readings between the orchestral works during the performances at NJPAC in Newark.
Oct 28 - 30, 2022
2022-23 Season
Jaws in Concert
New Jersey Symphony at the Movies
Nicholas Hersh conductor
New Jersey Symphony
The original summer movie blockbuster, with an Academy Award®-winning score by composer John Williams, Jaws is an unforgettable film-with-live-orchestra experience!
In the words of Chief Brody, “You’re gonna need a bigger boat!”
Nov 12, 2022
Yo-Yo Ma with New Jersey Symphony
Centennial Gala & Concert - New Jersey Symphony Special Concert
Xian Zhang conductor
Yo-Yo Ma cello
New Jersey Ballet
New Jersey Symphony
IT’S HERE! This landmark event marks 100 years of musical excellence, innovation and inclusion—and we are so excited to celebrate it with you. The legendary and groundbreaking cellist Yo-Yo Ma will take center stage at NJPAC in Newark to masterfully perform the king of cello concertos: Dvořák’s passionate concerto. Join Music Director Xian Zhang and your favorite orchestra musicians for a night to remember.
- Wynton Marsalis Herald, Holler and Hallelujah (New Jersey Symphony Co-Commission)
- Dvořák Cello Concerto
- Ginastera Four Dances from Estancia
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