Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Season 2024
Living Sound. Find Your Moment.
Join Chief Conductor Simone Young and a dazzling roster of guest artists in performances that unleash the power of music that is totally alive.
Every Sydney Symphony performance is unique. Each is an opportunity to experience a musical story as it unfolds around you. Make those moments yours.
October
Berlioz & Ravel
11 & 12 Oct 2024
There are countless chamber works written for the best-known instruments, but what about the more obscure ones?
George Gershwin’s An American in Paris
17 & 18 Oct 2024
The Roaring Twenties was a time of heady optimism in Paris. Artists and composers of every genre flocked to the city.
Electric Fields
19 Oct 2024
Multi-award-winning Australian electronic music duo Electric Fields joins forces with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra for a concert that will have you on your feet from the first note – for one night only at the Sydney Opera House.
Elgar’s Enigma Variations
25 & 26 Oct 2024
There are few pieces like Elgar’s Enigma Variations. And in the hands of Sir Andrew Davis, we will experience every bit of its profound emotion.
Ingrid Fliter performs Chopin
30 Oct – 2 Nov 2024
Chopin's glittering First Piano Concerto captures the powerful feelings of youth. Written when he was 20, it's one of two works he composed for orchestra.
November
Simone Young conducts Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony
8 & 9 Nov 2024
Sydney Symphony Chief Conductor Simone Young presents three masterpieces that defined their eras and looked forward to the next.
Simone Young conducts Die Walküre
15 & 17 Nov 2024
A merciless storm rages over Wotan’s kingdom as his son Siegmund is pursued by brutal enemies in the second instalment of Wagner’s epic Ring Cycle.
Vasily Petrenko conducts The Rite of Spring
27 – 30 Nov 2024
Paris in the early 20th century was a cultural explosion of art, literature and music – and the Ballet Russes was entirely reinventing the artform.
Home Alone in Concert
5 – 8 Dec 2024
A true holiday favourite, this beloved comedy classic features renowned composer John Williams’ charming and entertaining score performed live to film by the Sydney Symphony.
A Welcome to the 2024 Season from Sydney Symphony Chief Conductor Simone Young
Exhilarating music heard live can be a life-changing experience.
When there are only a few metres between you and the world’s greatest musicians, you can feel the power of the music. The sound waves, the atmosphere. That’s something that only live music can create.
In 2024, discover an extraordinary season of concerts. It is a season full of landmarks and large-scale epics that can only be truly experienced live, alongside music full of the most intimate moments.
We mark 150 years of Arnold Schoenberg with the Sydney premiere of his epic love story Gurrelieder, featuring 125 musicians and 200 singers. We join in the global celebrations for Anton Bruckner’s 200th anniversary, performing his Eighth Symphony – a true cathedral of sound.
You will be able to discover major voices in new music. I am delighted to be directing the Australian premiere of French composer Camille Pépin’s exquisite Violin Concerto. Deborah Cheetham Fraillon’s Eumeralla, A War Requiem for Peace, a powerful reminder of our own history, and Wata by Paul Grabowsky, a song of new beginnings, both receive their Sydney premieres.
World-renowned artists will bring their enormous talent and creativity to Sydney, including Renaud Capuçon, Augustin Hadelich, Víkingur Ólafsson, Alban Gerhardt, Ying Fang, Nobuyuki Tsujii and Ingrid Fliter. Spanish pianist Javier Perianes returns to continue our rediscovery of Beethoven’s piano concertos.
As the year unfolds, you will be able to share in the vision of esteemed conducting colleagues, including Sir Donald Runnicles, Dalia Stasevska, Osmo Vänskä, Vasily Petrenko, Sir Andrew Davis and Eduardo Strausser.
And I am thrilled to continue our multi-year Ring Cycle in concert with Wagner’s Die Walküre, bringing a truly world-class cast of Australian and international singers to Sydney – including Anja Kampe, Michaela Schuster and our very own Stuart Skelton – for this once in a generation event. It is a season full of unforgettable moments that simply must be experienced live. I hope you will join us.
Simone Young AM
Chief Conductor
