Celebrate the start of the 2026/2027 season with your first look at Benaroya Hall’s boldly reimagined public spaces. On stage, Xian and the orchestra will be joined by superstar pianist Yuja Wang for a dazzling showpiece: Sergei Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto, plus the symphonic suite version of Lieutenant Kijé.
In Xian’s sophomore season as music director, she starts the Symphonic Series with a dose of Romantic-era firepower in Bruch and Berlioz. The program opens with brilliant soloist James Ehnes joining the orchestra for Bruch’s soaring First Violin Concerto, followed by Berlioz’s darkly autobiographical Symphonie fantastique.
In Xian’s sophomore season as music director, she starts the Symphonic Series with a dose of Romantic-era firepower in Bruch and Berlioz. The program opens with brilliant soloist James Ehnes joining the orchestra for Bruch’s soaring First Violin Concerto, followed by Berlioz’s darkly autobiographical Symphonie fantastique.
In Xian’s sophomore season as music director, she starts the Symphonic Series with a dose of Romantic-era firepower in Bruch and Berlioz. The program opens with brilliant soloist James Ehnes joining the orchestra for Bruch’s soaring First Violin Concerto, followed by Berlioz’s darkly autobiographical Symphonie fantastique.
Celebrate the start of the 2026/2027 season with your first look at Benaroya Hall’s boldly reimagined public spaces. On stage, Xian and the orchestra will be joined by superstar pianist Yuja Wang for a dazzling showpiece: Sergei Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto, plus the symphonic suite version of Lieutenant Kijé.
In Xian’s sophomore season as music director, she starts the Symphonic Series with a dose of Romantic-era firepower in Bruch and Berlioz. The program opens with brilliant soloist James Ehnes joining the orchestra for Bruch’s soaring First Violin Concerto, followed by Berlioz’s darkly autobiographical Symphonie fantastique.
In Xian’s sophomore season as music director, she starts the Symphonic Series with a dose of Romantic-era firepower in Bruch and Berlioz. The program opens with brilliant soloist James Ehnes joining the orchestra for Bruch’s soaring First Violin Concerto, followed by Berlioz’s darkly autobiographical Symphonie fantastique.
In Xian’s sophomore season as music director, she starts the Symphonic Series with a dose of Romantic-era firepower in Bruch and Berlioz. The program opens with brilliant soloist James Ehnes joining the orchestra for Bruch’s soaring First Violin Concerto, followed by Berlioz’s darkly autobiographical Symphonie fantastique.