What’s Special About This Concert:

• Oklahoma Chamber Symphony dedicates this season’s annual film music festival to the music of Hans Zimmer.

• Experience music from the Dark Knight, Pirates of the Caribbean, Gladiator, and Man of Steel franchises.

The Program:

• HANS ZIMMER/arr. Lavender: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006) | 7 mins

• HANS ZIMMER/arr. Lavender: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (symphonic highlights) (2007) | 8 mins

• HANS ZIMMER: Interstellar Suite (2014) | 7 mins

• HANS ZIMMER/arr. Wasson: Music from Gladiator (2000) | 7 mins

• HANS ZIMMER/arr. Ford: Man of Steel selections (2013) | 10 mins

• HANS ZIMMER/arr. Lopez: The Dark Knight Suite (2008) | 7 mins

• HANS ZIMMER/arr. Ford: Batman: The Dark Knight Rises (2012) | 7 mins

Featured Musicians:

• Kaleb Benda, Music Director & Conductor

• Katie Crim, Conducting Fellow

• Musicians of the Oklahoma Chamber Symphony

Additional Information:

• Admission is free.

• Approximately 75 minutes with no intermission.

• See our Concert FAQ Page for more information about parking, entry, seating, and more.

What’s Special About This Concert:

• Oklahoma Chamber Symphony celebrates Oktoberfest with some of the holiday’s most traditional songs.

The Program:

• German Festival Band Book | 30 mins

Featured Musicians:

• Kaleb Benda, Music Director & Conductor

• Musicians of the Oklahoma Chamber Symphony

Additional Information:

• Admission is free.

• Approximately 30 minutes with no intermission.

• See our Concert FAQ Page for more information about parking, entry, seating, and more.

What’s Special About This Concert:

• Oklahoma Chamber Symphony celebrates the 150th birthday of composer Gustav Holst by performing his galactic masterpiece, The Planets.

• OCS Composer in Residence Clint Williams gives the first ever performance of a new piece based on the theme of Pluto.

• Inspired by the Austrian Alps, In This Broad Earth will be performed as a representation of our home planet. This piece was originally composed for concert band in 2015, but has since been rescored for orchestra in 2022. OCS will perform the orchestral version.

The Program:

• STEVEN BRYANT: In This Broad Earth (2015/2022) | 4 mins

• CLINT WILLIAMS, Composer in Residence: Pluto, Shepherd of Souls (2024) | 5 mins

  • World Premiere Performance

• HOLST: The Planets, op. 32 (1916) | 51 mins

Digital Program available here.

Featured Musicians:

• Kaleb Benda, Music Director & Conductor

• Clint Williams, Composer in Residence

• Musicians of the Oklahoma Chamber Symphony

• Edmond Community Chorale

Additional Information:

• Admission is free.

• Approximately 75 minutes with no intermission.

• See our Concert FAQ Page for more information about parking, entry, seating, and more.

What’s Special About This Concert:

• Oklahoma Chamber Symphony performs a rarely heard piece, by one of the greatest female composers who is only now getting the recognition she deserves.

The Program:

• LOUISE FARRENC: Nonet, op. 38 (1849) | 31 mins

Featured Musicians:

• Kaleb Benda, Music Director & Conductor

• Musicians of the Oklahoma Chamber Symphony

Additional Information:

• Admission is free.

• Approximately 31 minutes with no intermission.

• See our Concert FAQ Page for more information about parking, entry, seating, and more.

What’s Special About This Concert:

• Oklahoma Chamber Symphony musicians will showcase in a series of small ensembles with music of diverse genres.

The Program:

• TBA

Featured Musicians:

• Musicians of the Oklahoma Chamber Symphony

Additional Information:

• Admission is free.

• Approximately 30 minutes with no intermission.

• See our Concert FAQ Page for more information about parking, entry, seating, and more.

Join the Oklahoma Chamber Symphony for an Oklahoma City Baseball Club game! OCS will be performing the national anthem.

Join Oklahoma Chamber Symphony for a season finale featuring some of the grandest music ever composed.

What’s Special About This Concert:

• Celebrate the 120th anniversary of the oldest pipe organ in the state of Oklahoma with a piece that pulls out all the stops, Saint-Saëns’ symphony with an unconventional featured instrument, the organ!

• OCS musicians share the spotlight as winners' of the Oklahoma Chamber Symphony Concerto Competition, playing a piece by an unknown composer so great, his music was often attributed to Haydn. It’s a piece so fantastic, two winners will perform in a double concerto - a genre usually reserved for a single soloist.

• OCS Composer-In-Residence Clint Williams gives the first ever performance of a brand new piece.

The Program:

• CLINT WILLIAMS: Tribulation | 15 mins

  • World Premiere Performance

• JOHANN BAPTIST VANHAL: Concerto in F major for Two Bassoons (concerto competition winner) | 23 mins

  • Dr. Kate Sekula & Dustin Seay, bassoons

• DAVID BALAKRISHNAN: Skylife | 5 mins

• SAINT-SAËNS: Symphony No. 3 in C minor, op. 78 “Organ Symphony” | 36 mins

  • performed in celebration of the 120th anniversary of the organ at First Church OKC

Admission is free. Approximately 75 minutes with no intermission. See our Concert FAQ page for information about parking, entry, seating, and more.

Celebrate Music in the Schools Month and hear the Oklahoma musicians of tomorrow in this side-by-side concert featuring local music students performing with Oklahoma Chamber Symphony musicians. Click here to register a student.

• VERDI: Aïda Triumphal March | 7 mins

• CLINT WILLIAMS: Undaunted Symphony | 5 mins

  • mvt. 1

• BRAHMS: Hungarian Dance No. 5 in G minor | 3 mins

• WILLIAMS: Suite from the Star Wars Epic | 10 mins

• RICHARD ROGERS: Oklahoma! | 4 mins

Admission is free. Approximately 60 minutes with no intermission. See our Concert FAQ page for information about parking, entry, seating, and more.

Join Oklahoma Chamber Symphony for an evening exploring changes in nature through time. Our concertmaster, Dr. Elaine Bastos will perform Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and Astor Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, a tango twist on Vivaldi’s music.

What’s Special About This Concert:

• OCS Concertmaster, Dr. Elaine Bastos, will showcase two imaginations of the seasons. The first, by Vivaldi, was one of the first pieces to incorporate extra musical elements - poems to tell the story, bird calls and dog barks on string instruments, chattering teeth in snow, a thunderstorm, and more!

• The second, by Piazzolla, is an homage of Vivaldi’s Italian story as a collection of Argentinian tangos.

• The first of a three piece cycle of nature, life, and love, Dvorak’s overture introduces his musical theme of life that would later appear in the rest of the cycle.

The Program:

• DVORÁK: In Nature’s Realm Overture, op. 91, B. 168 | 12 mins

• VIVALDI: “The Four Seasons” (Le Quattro Stagioni) | 37 mins

  • Dr. Elaine Bastos, violin

• PIAZZOLLA: “The Four Seasons of Buesons Aires” (Cuatro Estaciones Portoñas) | 25 mins

  • Dr. Elaine Bastos, violin

Admission is free. Approximately 90 minutes with no intermission. See our Concert FAQ page for information about parking, entry, seating, and more.

Kick off the holiday season with our annual Sounds of the Season concert. This seasonal favorite is sure to get you in the holiday spirit with a program featuring settings of traditional Christmas music, music from the Trans Siberian Orchestra, and our traditional Christmas Carol sing-along. Our parting gift is the gift you know can’t fail, Oklahoma’s unofficial Christmas Carol.

Pre-concert festivities will begin at 7:00pm with a silent auction and hot chocolate bar.

PROGRAM

• TCHAIKOVSKY: Dances from The Nutcracker | 22 mins

• JONATHAN : Chanukkah Divertimento | 5 mins

• TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA/O’NEILL & KINKEL: Wizard’s in Winter | 5 mins

• TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA/O’NEILL & KINKEL: Dreams of Fireflies | 4 mins

• TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA/O’NEILL & KINKEL: Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24 | 3 mins

• TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA/O’NEILL & KINKEL: A Mad Russian’s Christmas | 5 mins

• LEROY ANDERSON: A Christmas Festival | 7 mins

Admission is free. Approximately 95 minutes with intermission. See our Concert FAQ page for information about parking, entry, seating, and more.

For Oklahoma Chamber Symphony’s annual Film Music Festival concert, enjoy an evening of music from throughout the Harry Potter franchise.

PROGRAM

• WILLIAMS/WAGNER: Harry’s Wondrous World

• WILLIAMS/BRUBAKER: Harry Potter Symphonic Suite | 7 mins

• WILLIAMS/CERULLI: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - Themes | 5 mins

• WILLIAMS/STORY: Selections from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | 4 mins

• DOYLE/BRUBAKER: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (concert suite) | 9 mins

• HOOPER/LOPEZ: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (concert suite) | 5 mins

• HOOPER/BRUBAKER: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (concert suite) | 7 mins

• DESPLAT/LOPEZ: Suite from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 | 7 mins

• DESPLAT/BRUBAKER: Suite from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 | 8 mins

Admission is free. Approximately 75 minutes with no intermission. See our Concert FAQ page for information about parking, entry, seating, and more.

Join us for our Season Premiere for a concert about beginnings, from the beginning of the world to the foundation of symphonies. You will hear music ranging from folk music to a never before heard piece.

PROGRAM

• HAYDN: The Creation Overture (representation of chaos) | 7 mins

• VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: English Folk Song Suite | 10 mins

• CLINT WILLIAMS: Odyssey (world premiere) | 13 mins

• MOZART: Symphony No. 41 in C major, K. 551, “Jupiter” | 31 minutes

Admission is free. Approximately 75 minutes with no intermission. See our Concert FAQ page for information about parking, entry, seating, and more.

Join the Oklahoma Chamber Symphony Harmonie as we celebrate International Play Music on the Porch Day! OCS will perform Antonín Dvorák’s joyous and fun serenade for winds, cello, and bass on The Big Friendly Brewery’s patio.

• DVORÁK: Serenade in D minor, op. 44, B. 77 | 24 mins

Admission is free. Approximately 30 minutes with no intermission.

Our season finale focuses on the great “lasts” of composers. This concert will feature some of the most exciting music ever composed, and the winner of our annual concerto competition.

Digital Program

• Clint Williams: Phoenix (world premiere) | 10mins

• Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A major, KV 622 | 25mins

  • Jenny Rucker, clarinet

• Richard Rogers: Oklahoma! | 4mins

• Dvorák: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, op. 95 “From the New World” | 40mins

Admission is free. Approximately 90 minutes with no intermission.

Celebrate Music in the Schools Month and hear the Oklahoma musicians of tomorrow in this side-by-side concert featuring local music students performing with Oklahoma Chamber Symphony musicians.

Student Musicians wishing to participate should complete this application form.

Digital Program

• Giacomo Meyerbeer: Coronation March from “The Prophet”

  • Nicholas Han, assistant conductor

• Clint Williams: Greenwood, Archer & Pine

• John Powell/arr. Sean O’Loughin: How to Train Your Dragon

• George Bizet: L’Arlesienne Suite No. 2

• Richard Rogers: Oklahoma!

Side-by-Side concert featuring student musicians from the community.

Admission is free. Approximately 60 minutes with no intermission.

Get in the Valentine Mood with this concert featuring all things Love. This concert features music of the tales of love, including many recognizable melodies. Bring your date for this free love themed Valentine concert.

• Mozart: Ballet Music from Idomeneo, KV 367

• Clint Williams: A Love Like No Other (world premiere)

  • Original Artwork by Luena Comas

• Fauré: Pelléas et Mélisande Suite, op. 80

• Mendelssohn: Selections from Incidental Music to Midsummer Night’s Dream

Admission is free. Approximately 60 minutes with no intermission.

Digital Program

Join in the only annual Messiah sing-along in the State of Oklahoma. Messiah sing-alongs have become holiday traditions around the world. Participate in a performance of the magnificent work, concluding with a rousing Hallelujah Chorus. Audience members are encouraged to bring their own scores, scan QR codes at the concert to access an online score, or download the music here.

• Handel: Messiah (sing-along)

Performed in collaboration with Oklahoma Master Chorale. Soloists:

• Sarah Kuhlmann, soprano

• Alexandria Carmon, alto

• Jeffery Picón, tenor

• Rob Glaubitz, bass

Admission is free. Approximately 60 minutes with no intermission.

Kick off the holiday season with our annual Sounds of the Season concert. This seasonal favorite is sure to get you in the holiday spirit with a program featuring settings of traditional Christmas music, music from the Trans Siberian Orchestra, and our traditional Christmas Carol sing-along. Our parting gift is the gift you know can’t fail, Oklahoma’s unofficial Christmas Carol.

Pre-concert festivities will begin at 7:00pm with a silent auction and hot chocolate bar.

• Samuel Coleridge-Taylor:Christmas Overture, op. 74

• Victor Hely-Hutchinson: A Carol Symphony

• Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on “Greensleeves”

• Vaughan Williams: A Vaughan Williams Christmas

• Jonathan Allentoff: Chanukah Divertimento

• Trans-Siberien Orchestra/arr. Philips: Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24

• Trans-Siberien Orchestra/arr. Philips: A Mad Russian’s Christmas

• Leroy Anderson: A Christmas Festival (sing-along)

Admission is free. Approximately 90 minutes with a 15 minute intermission.

Join members of the Oklahoma Chamber Symphony and the First Church OKC Music Department in a joint fundraising concert. This concert will feature a variety of ensembles including the Oklahoma Chamber Symphony, the Oklahoma Chamber Symphony String Quartet, the First Church OKC Choir, the First Church OKC Handbell Ensemble, and more!

• Anderson: A Christmas Festival

• Mendelssohn/arr. Moore: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

• Traditional/arr. Foster & Wall: The First Noel

Admission is free. Approximately 60 minutes with no intermission.

A Ukraine benefit concert by the Oklahoma Chamber Symphony. All proceeds will be donated to Ukrainian aid charities.

• Mykhailo Verbytsky: Ukrainian National Anthem (“Ukraine has not yet perished”)

• Sibelius: Finlandia, op. 26

• Dr. Zachary Daniels: Prayer for Peace (world premiere)

• Brian Balmages: Kyiv, 2022

• Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2 in C minor, op. 17 “Ukrainian”

Admission is free. Approximately 1 hour with no intermission.

• Haydn: Il Mondo Della Luna Overture

• Shaw: Entr’acte

• Haydn: Symphony No. 92 in G major, Hob. I:92 “Oxford”

• Haydn: Divertimento in B-flat major, Hob. II:46

• Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn, op. 56

Admission is free. Approximately 1 hour with no intermission.