2025-2026 Season
WMHT Next Generation Festival
Sunday, March 22
Troy Savings Bank Music Hall
3pm. RPI Orchestra will perform Smetana's “Die Moldau”
RPI Orchestra/ESYO Concert
Mahler’s Symphony no. 1, Grieg Piano Concerto with 2025 Concerto Competition Winner Armstrong Wang ’26, and the Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto with 2025 Concerto Competition Winner Lawrence Miao ’25. Guest conductor Etienne Abelin, ESYO Symphony Orchestra’s Music Director, will conduct Smetana’s “Die Moldau”.
EMPAC Concert Hall
March 31st, 7:30pm
RPI Wind Symphony Concert
Chapel and Cultural Center
April 16th,7pm
Music of Gould, Whitacre, Copland, and Hailstork.
RPI Concert Choir Concert
Chapel and Cultural Center
2125 Burdett Avenue
April 16th, 7pm
Morton Lauridsen’s Lux aeterna, plus works by Tallis, Biebl, and a stunning setting of Nkosi Sikelel iAfrika.
2024-2025 Season
APRIL CONCERT - ESYO COLLABORATION
Side-by-Side with Full ESYO Symphony Orchestra
Saturday, April 5th, 2025
2pm, EMPAC Concert Hall
Orchestra
Lachenmann – Marche fatale
Thomas Read – Concerto for Oboe and Strings, with Rensselaer Concerto Competition Winner Gianna Scire, ‘25
Berlioz – Symphonie fantastique (complete)
Choir
Brahms – Ein deutsches Requiem, version for Choir and Organ (complete)
Wind Symphony
Shostakovich (trans. Hunsberger) – Festive Overture
Hindemith (trans. Keith Wilson) – Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of Carl Maria von Weber
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RPI’S HOLIDAY CONCERT
Saturday, December 7th, 2024
7pm, EMPAC Concert Hall
Orchestra
Samy Moussa – Elysium
Berlioz – Symphonie fantastique, Mvt. 2 “Un bal”
Sibelius – Violin Concerto, Mvt. 1, with Rensselaer Concerto Competition Winner Luca Osborne, ‘24
Borodin – Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor
Choir
Arr. S.A. Otieno – Sigalagala
Brahms – Ein deutsches Requiem, “Wie lieblich sind deinen Wohnungen”
Thorvaldsdottir - Heyr þú oss himnum á
Arr. J. David Moore – Will the Circle Be Unbroken
Wind Symphony
Offenbach/arr. Odom – Overture to La belle Hélène
Ives, orch. Schuman, trans. Rhoads – Variations on “America”
J.S. Bach, arr. Reed – My Jesus, O What Anguish
Holst – Jupiter from The Planets
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FAMILY WEEKEND CONCERT
Saturday, October 19th, 2024
6:00pm, EMPAC Concert Hall
Orchestra
Wagner – Prelude from Tristan und Isolde
Verdi – “Patria oppressa” from Macbeth (with Choir)
Mozart – Flute Concerto no. 1 in G Major, Mvt. 3, K. 313, with Rensselaer Concerto Competition Winner Rachael Marseglia, ’27
Berlioz – Symphonie fantastique, mvt. 5, “Songe d’une nuit du sabbat”
Choir
Arr. S.A. Otieno – Sigalagala
Hailstork – Wake Up, My Spirit
Verdi – “Patria oppressa” from Macbeth (with Orchestra)
Brahms – Ein deutsches Requiem, “Denn alles Fleisch, es ist wie Gras
Copland – Old American Songs; 1) I got me a cat 2) The Dodger 3) Zion’s Walls
Wind Symphony
Offenbach/arr. Odom – Overture to La belle Hélène
Respighi – Huntingtower Ballad
Holst – Jupiter from The Planets
2023-24 Season
FAMILY WEEKEND CONCERT
Saturday, October 28th, 2023
7:30pm, EMPAC Concert Hall
Coleridge-Taylor – Ballade for Orchestra
inti figgis vizueta – coradh (bending)
Inocente Carreño – Margariteña; glosa sinfónica
RPI’S HOLIDAY CONCERT
Sunday, December 10th, 2023
3pm, EMPAC Concert Hall
Coleridge-Taylor – Ballade for Orchestra
Debussy – Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Frédéric Chopin – Piano Concerto no. 1 in E minor, op. 11, Movement 2
-Rory Devin, piano; Rensselaer Concerto Competition Winner
APRIL CONCERT - ESYO COLLABORATION
Side-by-Side with Full ESYO Symphony Orchestra
Saturday, April 13th, 2024
7pm, EMPAC Concert Hall
Samuel Barber – Violin Concerto, op. 14, Movement 1
-Maya Johnson, violin; Rensselaer Concerto Competition Winner
Jessie Montgomery – Hymn for Everyone
Shostakovich – Symphony no. 5 [Complete]
2022-23 Season
FAMILY WEEKEND CONCERT
Saturday, October 29th, 2022
7pm, EMPAC Concert Hall
Adhan - Call to Prayer
Mxolisi Matyila - Bawo Thixo Somandla (arr. Sidumo Nyamezele)
Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony no. 7, Movement 2
Georg Friedrich Händel – “O Terror and Astonishment” from Semele
Edward Elgar – Variations on an Original Theme, op. 34 “Enigma”, Movement 9, “Nimrod”
Olivier Messiaen – Livre du Saint-Sacremént, Movement 10, “Résurrection” (arr. Whalen)
Augusta Read Thomas – Far Past War
David Nelson/George Root – The Shining Shore (arr. Fisher-Lochhead)
PRESIDENT’S HOLIDAY CONCERT
Sunday, December 11th, 2022
3pm, EMPAC Concert Hall
Valerie Coleman – Seven O’Clock Shout
George Shearing/George David Weiss – Lullaby of Birdland
Piotr Musial – Music from Frostpunk (arr. Bollerman)
Mxolisi Matyila - Bawo Thixo Somandla (arr. Sidumo Nyamezele)
Marc Cary – Running Out of Time
Arvo Pärt – Magnificat
Edward Elgar – Variations on an Original Theme, op. 34 “Enigma”, Movement 9, “Nimrod”
Vivek Pandya & Rohan Misra – Tabla/Sarangi Duet
Lili Boulanger – Les Sirènes
eden ahbez – Nature Boy
Antonin Dvorak – Carnival Overture
APRIL CONCERT – ESYO/MUSIC-EYES COLLABORATION
Saturday, April 29, 2023
7pm, EMPAC Concert Hall
Jean Sibelius – Finlandia
Erykah Badu/James Yancey – Didn’t Cha Know (arr. Fisher-Lochhead)
Joni Mitchell – Hejira (arr. Fisher-Lochhead)
James Francies – My Day Will Come (arr. Fisher-Lochhead)
Maurice Ravel – Shéhérazade, Movement I ("Asie")
Matthew Goodheart – Ocularities (world premiere)
Modest Mussorgsky – Pictures at an Exhibition (excerpts)