The Planets + Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto

About This Concert Holst’s The Planets and Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto will be performed live in Houston May 15–17, 2026 with the Houston Symphony at Jones Hall. Houston favorite Augustin Hadelich returns for one of the most treasured works in all of music, Tchaikovsky’s lushly romantic (and dizzyingly difficult) Violin Concerto. Be transported to a world … Continued

Joshua Bell Returns: The Elements in Concert

About This Concert Joshua Bell returns to Houston May 7, 9 & 10, 2026 for The Elements in Concert with the Houston Symphony at Jones Hall. Grammy Award-winning violin icon Joshua Bell unleashes cosmic grandeur and world-shaking virtuosity in The Elements, a stunning sound-plus-video experience which summons the elemental power of Earth, Water, Fire, Air, … Continued

Adams Conducts Adams & Appalachian Spring

About This Concert John Adams conducts Appalachian Spring live in Houston April 18–19, 2026 with the Houston Symphony at Jones Hall. Piano concertos don’t get any more fun than John Adams’s Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes?, a showstopping whirlwind filled with funky grooves, propulsive rhythmic drive, and pop music influences from bebop … Continued

Grieg’s Peer Gynt

About This Concert The Houston Symphony performs Grieg’s Peer Gynt live in Houston March 27–29, 2026 at Jones Hall. Featuring the ethereal “Morning Mood” and the hair-raising “In the Hall of the Mountain King”—both pop-culture staples you’ll recognize instantly—Grieg’s Peer Gynt is one of classical music’s most enduringly popular works. In this special performance, actors from the … Continued

Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony + Timpani World Premiere

About This Concert The Houston Symphony performs Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony live in Houston March 20–22, 2026 at Jones Hall. The most famous four notes in history launch a towering masterpiece for the ages in Beethoven’s legendary Fifth Symphony. Award-winning composer Andy Akiho is known for bold, immersive music that shatters preconceptions, and you do not … Continued