WELCOME!
Please join Maestro James Ogle and the Meridian Symphony Orchestra as we celebrate our 33rd season playing "for the love of it".
The Meridian Symphony Orchestra is proudly based in Meridian, Idaho. We appreciate the talented musicians, audience members, patrons and other supporters who have helped us grow over the past 33 years from a small ensemble
to a dynamic 70-piece orchestra.
2023/2024 Concert Schedule
Fall Concert
OCTOBER 28, 2023
7:30 PM
Innovation and craftsmanship have long been integral to products created and produced in the United States. And that is especially true of the beautiful and evocative music from America’s composers.
The opening concert of our 33rd season features some of that homegrown music, including Copland’s “Appalachian Spring,” Williams’ “The Cowboys” overture and selections from Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess.”Young Artist Competition winner, Hayoon Lee, also takes the stage to perform the first movement of Barber’s Violin Concerto with the orchestra.
Concert Venue: Kuna High School Performing Arts Center
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Holiday Concert
December 15 (Friday) and
December 16 (Saturday), 2023
7:30 PM
It’s the most wonderful time of the year – but also the busiest, filled with expectations, events, and travel. We invite you to take a break from the hustle and bustle and enjoy some of the season’s most beloved music at our annual holiday concert being performed on both Friday and Saturday evenings.
Favorite selections include Anderson’s “A Christmas Festival,” songs from Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker,” Hess’s “Christmas Overture” Lovrien’s whimsical “Minor Alterations” and Krogstad’s “The Bells of Christmas.” The Meridian High School choir will sing accompanied by the orchestra and Young Artist Competition winner, Darren Lu, will also be featured with his winning Mozart Piano Concerto.
Concert Venue: Meridian High School Performing Arts Center
1900 W Pine Ave, Meridian ID
Don't you wish you could hear that one again? Our Meridian Symphony musicians agree, and so this concert will be filled with pieces that we love to play and love for you to enjoy! Some of these favorites include Bizet's Carmen, Haydn's Clock Symphony, Brahms Academic Festival Overture, as well as well-loved pieces by Schubert, Tchaikovsky, and Prokofiev.
Concert Venue: Centennial High School Performing Arts Center, 12260 W McMillan Rd, Boise, ID
Beautiful music from around the globe is featured in our final concert of the regular season, aptly titled “Here, There, Everywhere.” Selections include Resphigi’s famous tone poem, “The Pines of Rome,” which depicts four settings in the Eternal City, Strauss’s “Emperor Waltz,” composed as a symbolic toast of friendship from Austria-Hungary to the German Empire, and Gould’s lively Latin American Symphonette, based on the dance rhythms of rhumba, tango, guaracha and conga.
Concert Venue: To be announced
Spring Concert
MARCH 2, 2024
7:30 PM
Final Regular Season Concert
MAY 4, 2024
7:30 PM
Outdoor Community Concert
JUNE 8, 2024
Presented by the City of Meridian
This family-friendly free concert, part of the City of Meridian's annual Gene Kleiner Day will feature some of the orchestra's "greatest hits". Bring a picnic, a blanket or a chair and enjoy!
Concert Venue: Julius M. Kleiner Memorial Park bandshell,
1900 N. Records Avenue, Meridian ID
