FIRST YEAR CONVOCATION with the RPI Wind Symphony and Choir
Wednesday, August 27th, 2025
6pm, East Campus Athletic Village
As part of the warm welcome to first year students at RPI, the RPI Wind Symphony will perform Paul Hindemith’s March from his Symphonic Metamorphosis. The RPI Choir will join forces with various a cappella groups on campus and the brass of the RPI Wind Symphony to perform RPI’s Alma mater.
ALUMNI WEEKEND – ALUMNI PLAY-ALONG with the RPI Orchestra and Wind Symphony
Musical alumni return with their instruments and voices to perform side-by-side with the joined forces of the RPI Orchestra and Wind Symphony to play and rehearse Ottorino Respighi’s Pines of Rome in an informal and fun gathering of musical students and alumni!
Saturday, October 11th, 2025
4-6pm, 258 Hoosick
FAMILY WEEKEND CONCERT
Saturday, October 25th, 2025
6pm, West Hall Auditorium
This program features performances from a wide range of student music groups from across campus, including the RPI Ensembles as well as student music clubs.
Orchestra
Missy Mazzoli – Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres)
George Gershwin – “Summertime” from Porgy and Bess, featuring 2025 RPI Concerto Competition winner Avery Roach ’25, tenor
Bedřich Smetana – Ma Vlast (My Fatherland), Mvt. 2, “Die Moldau”
Choir
Pavel Chesnokov – Salvation is Created
Christopher Tin – Baba Yetu
Wind Symphony
Mark Camphouse – Movement for Rosa
Alfred Reed – El Camino Real
RPI HOLIDAY CONCERT AND VICTORIAN STROLL KICK-OFF EVENT
Saturday, December 6th, 2025
7pm, EMPAC Concert Hall
Orchestra
Bedřich Smetana – Ma Vlast (My Fatherland), Mvt. 2, “Die Moldau”
Saint-Saëns – Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso featuring 2025 RPI Concerto Competition winner Reese Bush ’27
Steven Stucky – Funeral Music for Queen Mary, performed by RPI Orchestra’s Winds and Percussion
Leonard Bernstein – “Make Our Garden Grow” from Candide, with the RPI Choir, RPI Wind Symphony, the Rensselyrics and special guests
Choir
Pavel Chesnokov – Salvation is Created
Morton Lauridsen – “O Nata Lux” from Lux aeterna
Christopher Tin – Baba Yetu
Wind Symphony
Howard Hanson – Dies Natalis – Finale
Mark Camphouse – Movement for Rosa
Reed – El Camino Real
RPI’s INAUGURAL FESTIVAL OF LESSONS AND CAROLS featuring the RPI Choir
In partnership with RPI’s Office of Religious and Spiritual Life
Thursday, December 11th, 2025
7pm, Chapel and Cultural Center, RPI Campus
Program will include:
Maurice Durufle – Ubi Caritas
Pavel Chesnokov – Salvation is Created
U2/R. Chilcott – MLK
Johannes Brahms – “Wie lieblich sind diene Wohnungen” from Ein deutches Requiem
Anna Thorvalsdottir – Heyr þú oss himnum á
Rachmaninov – Bogoroditse Djevo from All-Night Vigil
Otto Kotilainen – Varpunen jouluaamuna
Luke Wadding/arr. David Willcocks – Sussex Carol
RPI ORCHESTRA, CHOIR, AND WIND SYMPHONY SPRING CONCERT 2026
Saturday, April 11th, 2026
2pm, West Hall Auditorium
APRIL CONCERT - ESYO COLLABORATION – MAHLER’S SYMPHONY NO. 1
The RPI Symphony Orchestra and Empire State Youth Orchestra Symphony Orchestra unite to perform Gustav Mahler’s epic Symphony no. 1.
Saturday, April 19th, 2026
2pm, EMPAC Concert Hall
Dr. Robert Whalen, conductor
Etienne Abelin, Music Director of ESYO Symphony Orchestra and guest conductor
Gustav Mahler – Blumine
Gustave Mahler – Symphony no. 1