Benaroya Hall

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.