Season announcement season is in full swing, and here's next year's schedule for the Oakland Symphony, under its new music director Kedrick Armstrong. As is typical of this orchestra and its music directors, there's a nice balance of standards and new/unusual music. Note that if you're still smoldering from the cancellation of the Verdi Requiem at the San Francisco Symphony, you can hear it in Oakland. For more details, see the Oakland Symphony web site.
Season Opening:
DAVE RAGLAND PREMIERE plus THE FIREBIRD!
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2025 | 8:00PM
Paramount Theatre, Oakland
Kedrick Armstrong, conductor
Sara Davis Buechner, piano
ANNA CLYNE This Midnight Hour
MAURICE RAVEL Piano Concerto in G
DAVE RAGLAND Harmony of the Unheard
Oakland Symphony Commission World Premiere
IGOR STRAVINSKY The Firebird Suite (1919)
VERDI’S REQUIEM
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2025 | 8:00PM
Paramount Theatre, Oakland
Kedrick Armstrong, conductor
Tiffany Townsend, soprano
Raehann Bryce-Davis, mezzo-soprano
Robert Stahley, tenor
Reginald Smith Jr., baritone
Oakland Symphony Chorus
CAVA MENZIES Oakland Symphony Commission World Premiere
GIUSEPPE VERDI Requiem
LET US BREAK BREAD TOGETHER
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2025 | 4:00PM
Paramount Theatre, Oakland
Kedrick Armstrong, conductor
An “inspired, multifarious, musical bash!” raves San Francisco Classical Voice of the Oakland Symphony’s Let Us Break Bread Together. Kedrick Armstrong and the Orchestra are joined by the region’s top talent for this annual celebration, this year paying a special tribute to Whitney Houston.
ROUMAIN, MAHLER, ESMAIL & CHEN YI
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2026 | 8:00PM
Kedrick Armstrong, conductor
Tracy Silverman, violin
Oakland Symphony Chorus
CHEN YI Introduction, Andante, and Allegro
GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony No. 10, Adagio
REENA ESMAIL She Will Transform You
DANIEL BERNARD ROUMAIN (Artist-In-Residence)
America, To Us
HAMMOND ORGAN CONCERTO plus
SAINT-SAËNS THUNDERING ORGAN SYMPHONY
FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 2026 | 8:00PM
Paramount theatre, Oakland
Kedrick Armstrong, conductor
Brian Nabors, organ
CLARICE ASSAD Baião N’ Blues
BRIAN RAPHAEL NABORS Hammond Organ Concerto
CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS Symphony No. 3, “Organ”
Season Finale: SCHEHERAZADE!
FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2026 | 8:00PM
Paramount Theatre, Oakland
Kedrick Armstrong, conductor
Oakland Symphony Chorus
JASMINE BARNES Oakland Symphony Commission World Premiere
NICOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade
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