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)