FRI APR 17, 2026, 11:00 AM
SAT APR 18, 2026, 7:30 PM
Music Hall
Buy Tickets
Kristiina Poska conductor
Lise de la Salle piano
Julia Adolphe (b. 1989)
Underneath the Sheen
Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849)
Concerto No. 2 in F Minor for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 21
Maestoso
Larghetto
Allegro vivace
INTERMISSION
Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847)
Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 56, Scottish
Andante con moto. Allegro un poco agitato
Vivace non troppo
Adagio
Allegro vivacissimo. Allegro maestoso assai
These performances are approximately 130 minutes long, including intermission.
The CSO is grateful to CSO Season Sponsor Western & Southern Financial Group.
These concerts are endowed by Martha Anness, Priscilla Haffner & Sally Skidmore in loving memory of their mother, LaVaughn Scholl Garrison, a long-time patron of the Orchestra.
The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra is grateful for the support of the Louise Dieterle Nippert Musical Arts Fund of the Greenacres Foundation, the Nina Browne Parker Trust, and the thousands of people who give generously to the ArtsWave Community Campaign, the region’s primary source for arts funding. This project was supported in part by the Ohio Arts Council, which receives support from the State of Ohio and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Pre-Concert Talks are made possible by an endowed gift from Melody Sawyer Richardson.
WGUC is the Media Partner for these concerts. This concert will air on 90.9 WGUC on May 31, 2026, followed by 30 days of streaming at cincinnatisymphony.org/replay.
The CSO in-orchestra Steinway piano is made possible in part by the Jacob G. Schmidlapp Trust.
The Sound of Rain
April & May 2026 Fanfare Magazine
To celebrate Music Director Cristian Măcelaru’s first season with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, we are using his words, “Life is good when you’re surrounded by music” as the theme for the magazine’s first-ever writing competition. Fanfare Magazine invited local undergraduate and graduate students to celebrate the power of music through words.
This essay is by second-place winner Matthew Liversedge.
