SEPTEMBER 18-19
Rossen Milanov, Music Director
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A beloved summer tradition returns with iconic artists and unforgettable performances. Tickets on sale now!
🎻‼️ It`s that time of the year!! It`s opening night for the Columbus Symphony, at the Ohio Theatre, our amazing home! Our 75th Anniversary season gets started with an exciting concert featuring a dazzling piano concerto and a showpiece for the entire orchestra. Tickets with the link in our bio!
Are you looking for an affordable family-friendly concert to get into the spooky spirit? Check out our Halloween Spooktacular. Purchase with the link in our bio!
Arrive early for Halloween fun for the whole family starting at 2 p.m., including:
– Make Paper Bag Monsters & Spooky Spiders
– String Instrument “Petting Zoo”
– Selfies with Bee-thoven
– Choose Your Own Musical Tattoo
– Ghost Bowling & Limbo
– Trick-or-Treating
– Halloween Costume Contest
Come in costume, explore, play, and then enjoy an unforgettable concert filled with spooky favorites and larger-than-life orchestral sound. It’s a Halloween celebration the whole family will love!
🩸 Be the first person in your blood line to come see our opening night! Tickets with the link in our bio!
🖖 We come in peace! Well... we`ll see about the trumpet players 🎺 😈 . Come see us at the Davidson Theatre for Hollywood Sci-Fi Spectacular with Principal Pops Conductor, Stuart Chafetz. Find tickets with the link in our bio!
Get ready to stand for Messiah at the Southern Theatre with the Columbus Symphony Chorus and conductor, Elias Miller! Purchase tickets with the link in our bio.
🎂 Because it`s our 75th anniversary, we can`t not post this photo from our 30th birthday in 1981! Help us celebrate more with the link in our bio!
Columbus Symphony Orchestra members Frank Kinnan, Mimi Buchsbaum, Margia Griesy, Robert Hightshoe, Gertrude Kuehefuhs, George Hardesty, director Evan Whallon, and board member Dr. Thomas Langevin celebrate the orchestra`s 30th anniversary.
📓 🎶Take notes and listen to Eva tell us about the amazing concerto she is playing for our opening night on September 18 & 19. Reserve your tickets with the link in our bio!
Say hi to Hugo, our amazing Principal Oboe player. Hugo Souza has been performing with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra since the 2019-20 season. The 2021-22 season was his first year as Principal Oboe. To see Hugo at opening night, head to the link in our bio!
Hugo has performed extensively throughout Brazil, North America, and Europe as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral player. Prior to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, he had the honor of performing with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, as a guest artist at Music@Menlo, and with the ensemble Pentaèdre in Montreal. He also has performed with the American Ballet Theatre and American Symphony Orchestra.
Born into a musical family in Natal, Brazil, he began playing oboe at age fourteen and immediately fell in love. He went on to earn his bachelor’s degree in oboe performance at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), where both of his parents serve as faculty in the music department.
Hugo continued his studies in the United States, earning his Master of Music from SUNY Purchase as a student of Maestro Humbert Lucarelli. He is a doctoral candidate at the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester, where he studies with Richard Killmer.
During his time at Eastman, Hugo took a leave to accept a teaching position at his alma mater in Natal (UFRN). While on faculty at UFRN, he played an integral role in raising the oboe’s visibility and popularity throughout the country. He co-founded the Brazilian Double Reed Society, which has since held major international conferences featuring masterclasses with world renowned double reed artists. This organization continues to foster a thriving community for double reed players and has amplified classical music’s role in Brazilian culture.
Hugo is on faculty at Capital University’s Conservatory of Music. He resides in Columbus, where he enjoys spending time with his wife and kids, exploring the surrounding culinary scene, and creating fusion recipes.
🐝 The bee griddy of orchestral envy. Take the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to meet the coolest dancing bug in Columbus on opening night, September 18th and 19th! Bee-thoven can`t wait to welcome you to the Symphony`s 75th season! Tickets with the link in our bio!
🎹 You won`t hear this anywhere else! Pianist Eva Gevorgyan joins the Columbus Symphony on opening night to perform one of the most dramatic piano concertos in the repertoire: Rachmaninoff`s Piano Concerto No. 3. Join us and celebrate the start of our iconic 75th anniversary series. 🔗 Link in bio to purchase tickets.
🌰❤️🩶 As we start the OSU football season this Saturday, we wanted to feature a special moment from the 1982/83 season. Woody Hayes, then head football coach, conducted and introduced the Columbus Symphony Orchestra! Talk about a #throwbackthursday GO BUCKS!
🎺 It`s official, Justin Kohan is our new Principal Trumpet! In addition to his role as Principal Trumpet of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, Kohan is also Principal Trumpet of the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra, the Canton Symphony Orchestra, the Akron Symphony Orchestra, the Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra; Second Trumpet of the Erie Philharmonic; and a member of the Grand Teton Music Festival in Jackson Hole Wyoming.
An active performer, Kohan routinely performs with groups such as The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Chicago’s Music of the Baroque, and The Richmond Symphony. He can be heard with the Buffalo Philharmonic in their GRAMMY nominated recording of Kodály: Háry János Suite on the Naxos label.
Dedicated to music education, Kohan is a professor of trumpet at Youngstown State University where he oversees not only his studio of graduate and undergraduate students, but also teaches a classes aimed at expanding the reach of music education to non-majors as well. Before his time at YSU, he previously served as an adjunct professor at Chatham University in Pittsburgh.
Kohan received his B.M. from the New England Conservatory, and a M.M. from Carnegie Mellon University. He is a native of Orchard Park, New York and currently splits his time between Columbus and Pittsburgh with his wife, violinist Jorie Butler-Geyer.
🎻 COLLEGE CLUB IS BACK 🎻
College students get FREE tickets to all 12 Masterworks concerts for just $25/year.
✨ Free entry to every Masterworks performance
✨ Best available seating
✨ Bring friends! Extra tickets are just $8
✨ Members-only pre/post-concert events
Your $25 pays for itself after one concert. 🎟️
Join again with the link in our bio!
Happy September! Help celebrate our 75th anniversary with our opening night on September 18 & 19! Tickets and info about all our events here: https://columbussymphony.com/events/
🐒 🍌 Today is National Zoo Awareness day and we would like to take a moment and thank our amazing friends at the Columbus Zoo! From family concerts, to parrot duets, the Columbus Zoo has always been a part of our history! And yes, that is a chimpanzee dancing to a violin and horn.
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Celebrating 75 Years of World-Class Artistry, Meaningful Collaboration, and a Commitment to Community.
Subscriptions on sale now.
Single tickets on sale May 4th.
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The Columbus Symphony is excited to announce the appointment of Maureen O’Brien as its new Chief Executive Officer, effective July 15, 2025. With a distinguished career in arts leadership and a deep commitment to community engagement, O’Brien will lead the organization into its next chapter of artistic excellence and innovation and bring to fruition the vision of a future home for the orchestra.
