Buy Tickets The season finale opens with a piece by Gabriela Ortiz exploring the Kauyamari, or "blue deer," from Mexican folklore, a spiritual guide transformed through an extended pilgrimage. The concert follows with the epic Carmina Burana, a thrilling cantata by Carl Orff based on medieval poems celebrating the joys[...]
Buy Tickets The 2026–27 season opens with a Friday night concert highlighting music inspired and created by powerful women—from Björk to Cleopatra, spanning 19th-century Vermont to the Persian Empire. The concert premieres a VSO commission by composer Clarice Assad, based on the historic Weybridge, VT couple Charity Bryant and Sylvia[...]
Buy Tickets Celebrate Halloween with a spine-tingling orchestral matinee! From the mischievous magic of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice by Paul Dukas to eerie selections from Symphonie fantastique by Hector Berlioz and Michael Abels’ film score for NOPE, this program conjures thrills and chills. Hear music from Danny Elfman, Michael Daugherty, and[...]
We’re creating an immersive, visual soundtrack to classical music! First presented in 2022, VSO’s Visualizer Orchestra concerts feature video design company Lightware Labs’ bespoke visuals to accompany evocative music by Samuel Barber (Adagio for Strings), Felix Mendelssohn (Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream), contemporary composers Mark Lomax II, Jeffrey Scott,[...]
Buy Tickets Welcome spring with an evening of music inspired by the natural world and the human spirit. From the surging energy of Anna Clyne’s Restless Oceans to the icy beauty of Vermont composer Marcus Goddard’s Antarctica: Life Emerging, with accompanying video and cello soloist John Dunlop, this program captivates[...]
Buy Tickets VSO’s 2026/27 season closes with a bold program of reinvention and discovery. Maurice Ravel’s famed Boléro, last performed by the VSO 40 years ago, transforms a simple Spanish dance into a hypnotic, driving crescendo. The U.S. premiere of a trumpet concerto by Danny Elfman—featuring the principal trumpet of[...]