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Lights! Camera! Music! 100 Years of Epic Film Scores

About This Concert Lights! Camera! Music! 100 Years of Epic Film Scores will be performed live in Houston May 29–31, 2026 with the Houston Symphony at Jones Hall. We’re rolling out the red carpet for the most famous movie-soundtrack moments in Hollywood history, from classic themes like King Kong and The Godfather to modern favorites like Pirates of the Caribbean, … Continued

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

Abracadabra! A Magical Musical Adventure

About This Concert Looking for a kids concert in Houston? Abracadabra! A Magical Musical Adventure brings music and magic together in a fun, family-friendly performance. Abracadabra! Grab your magic wands (or batons) for a spellbinding musical adventure—we’re conjuring up a morning of magical musical fun! Bring your little wizards and witches to Jones Hall and … Continued

Icon: The Voices that Changed Music

About This Concert Celebrate the greatest voices of all time—including Elvis, Prince, and Whitney Houston—live in Houston April 24–26, 2026 at Jones Hall. Elvis. Prince. Michael Jackson. Diana Ross. Whitney Houston. Stevie Wonder. Celebrate the greatest voices of all time in this powerhouse concert. Houston favorites Capathia Jenkins and Ryan Shaw join forces with the … 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 to … Continued

Víkingur Ólafsson Plays Beethoven

About This Concert We regret to inform you that, due to health reasons, Víkingur Ólafsson has had to withdraw from next weekend’s recital on Friday, April 17, and the performance has been cancelled.

Disney’s Fantasia In Concert

About This Concert Disney’s Fantasia in Concert will be performed live in Houston April 3–4, 2026 by the Houston Symphony at Jones Hall. This Easter weekend in Houston, treat the entire family to the classic that’s captivated generations—Disney’s Fantasia in Concert. Stunning animation fills the giant screen at Jones Hall as the Houston Symphony performs … Continued

Lang Lang in Recital

About This Concert Pianist Lang Lang performs live in Houston April 1, 2026 at Jones Hall. “The hottest artist on the classical music planet” (The New York Times). Superstar pianist Lang Lang performs an unmissable, one-night-only solo recital at Jones Hall, featuring a hand-picked program of beloved piano works, including Chopin’s dazzling Polonaise in F-sharp minor, delightful … 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

Mozart + Elgar’s Enigma Variations

About This Concert The Houston Symphony performs Mozart and Elgar’s Enigma Variations live in Houston March 13–15, 2026 at Jones Hall. Mozart’s genius is on full display in his elegant and high-spirited Piano Concerto No. 9, and in the hands of Jan Lisiecki—recognized as one of today’s most astounding young talents—it promises pure magic. In … Continued

Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde

About This Concert Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde will be performed live in Houston February 28–March 1, 2026 by the Houston Symphony at Jones Hall. In Wagner’s groundbreaking opera Tristan and Isolde, a romance for the ages plays out through some of the most revelatory and transcendent music ever written. Act II of this masterpiece has … Continued

Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet

About This Concert Hear Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet performed live in Houston February 20–22, 2026 by the Houston Symphony at Jones Hall. Instantly recognizable thanks to its use throughout pop culture, Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet soars with tender poetry and heart-on-sleeve passion. Blazing with originality and raw intensity, Sofia Gubaidulina’s In Tempus Praesens (“For the … Continued

Symphonie espagnole + Symphonie fantastique

About This Concert Filled with sultry tango melodies, infectious Spanish dance rhythms, and dizzying displays of virtuosity, Lalo’s Symphonie espagnole will sizzle in the hands of Clara-Jumi Kang. Then, buckle up for classical music’s ultimate thrill ride: with its wild story of a lovelorn artist who overdoses on opium, plunges into a hallucinogenic nightmare, and … Continued

When Instruments Roamed The Earth

About This Concert RAWRR! Come ready with your best dinosaur roar, and join us on a Jurassic adventure, back to a time when Instruments roamed the Earth! Hosted by “paleo-musicologist” Sir Humphrey Treble Clef, this all-ages family concert is filled with laughs, multi-media projections, on-stage action (and, maybe even a T-Rex sighting…) A perfect introduction … Continued