Upcoming Concerts & Performances
5 upcoming concerts and performances from Brockton Symphony Orchestra, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All classical in Greater Boston →
Sun Oct 18 · 3:00pm
The Brockton Symphony opens its first season after its centennial with Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir's Metacosmos, premiered by the New York Philharmonic in 2018 and described by the orchestra as "a vast, otherworldly soundscape." Holst's seven-movement suite The Planets, composed during the First World War, follows, with movements including "Mars, the Bringer of War" and "Venus, the Bringer of Peace."
Sun Dec 20 · 3:00pm
The Brockton Symphony's holiday programme, inspired by recordings Arthur Fiedler popularized with the Boston Pops, includes music from Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker, Lucas Richman's Hanukkah Festival Overture, "Believe" from The Polar Express, the theme from Elf, "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", Leroy Anderson's "Sleigh Ride" and a Christmas singalong. Dancers and the choruses of West and Ashfield Middle Schools join the orchestra.
Sun Jan 24 · 3:00pm
Young soloists lead this chamber-orchestra programme. Brockton's own Damion Sampath, Jr. plays Ibert's Concertino da camera, a 1930s showcase for alto saxophone, and Angel Cheng, winner of the orchestra's 2025 Youth Competition, plays Schumann's Cello Concerto in A minor. Brazilian-American composer Clarice Assad's Impressions for string orchestra, a portrait "blending Brazilian rhythms, cinematic color, virtuosity, and warmth," opens the afternoon, and Sibelius's Valse triste closes it.
Sun Mar 14 · 3:00pm
Brahms's Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn, which takes a simple hymn melody and recasts it in each variation before a full finale, opens the Brockton Symphony's second Masterworks programme. Pianist Clayton Stephenson then joins the orchestra for Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, and the concert closes with Am Abend (At Twilight), a contemplative evening piece by the Czech Romantic composer Zdeněk Fibich.
Sun May 16 · 3:00pm
The Brockton Symphony closes its season with Opera del West in a concert performance of Puccini's La Bohème, with vocal soloists, dancers and chorus. The opera follows a circle of young artists in bohemian Paris, moving from comedy and youthful high spirits to the romance of Mimì and Rodolfo and, finally, loss; it later inspired Jonathan Larson's Broadway musical Rent. Eve Budnick is Opera del West's artistic director.
