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, Wind Symphony, and Choir to play and rehearse Ottorino Respighi’s Pines of Rome and Leonard Bernstein’s Make Our Garden Grow in an informal and fun gathering of musical students and alumni!
Saturday, October 12th, 2025
Time and location TBA
FAMILY WEEKEND CONCERT
Saturday, October 25th, 2025
6pm, Location TBA
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
SPRING SOUNDS FESTIVAL 2026
Sponsored by the RPI School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences and the Department of Arts
Includes performances by the RPI Choir, Orchestra, and Wind Symphony
April 9th and 10th, 2026
Times TBA, EMPAC Concert Hall
Orchestra
He Zhanhao and Chen Gang – Butterfly Lovers Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, featuring 2025 RPI Concerto Competition Winner Lawrence Miao ’25
Edvard Grieg – Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, featuring 2025 RPI Concerto Competition Winner Armstrong Wang ’27
Choir
Thomas Tallis – Te lucis ante terminum
Thomas Tallis – O Nata Lux
Thomas Tallis – If Ye Love Me
Improvised by Students from Zimbabwe and South Africa/Arr. André Van der Merwe – Nkosi Sikelela Afrika
Franz Biebl – Ave Maria
Morton Lauridsen – Lux aeterna
Wind Symphony
Frank Ticheli – Blue Shades
Adolphus Hailstork – American Guernica
Morton Gould – Symphony no. 4, “West Point”
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