Mark Your Calendar for These 5 Philadelphia Concerts, Performances This Season

The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia opens the second half of its 2025-2026 season with concerts in this new calendar year on Friday, Jan. 16, at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, Jan. 17, at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, Jan. 18, at 2:30 p.m.

According to a Chestnut Hill Local report, the first performance is set for the Rhoden Theater, the second for Goodhart Hall, and the third for Holy Trinity Church. The program features two violin concertos by Mozart and his Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola, and Orchestra in E-flat major, K. 364. Violinist Francisco Fullana will conduct all three scores and be a soloist in the Concertante along with violist Mary SangHyun Yong. Ticket information is available online.

Valentin Radu's Vox Renaissance Consort will present A Renaissance Candlemas on Feb. 21 at 7:30 p.m. at the Episcopal Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. Ticket information is available on the website.

Piffaro, the Renaissance Band, returns March 14 to the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill with Ferrara: Splendor of the Renaissance, exploring 14th- and 15th-century Ferrara. For ticket information, call 215-235-8469 or visit the website. 

Osmo Vänskä will conduct the Curtis Symphony Orchestra on Jan. 25 at 3 p.m. in Marian Anderson Hall, featuring works by Missy Mazzoli, Henry Dorn, David Ludwig, and Bela Bartók. Ticket information is available on the symphony orchestra's website.

The Philadelphia Orchestra will perform in Marian Anderson Hall from Jan. 9 to 11 under the baton of Dalia Stasevska, presenting Adams's Short Ride on a Fast Machine, Barber's Violin Concerto with Augustin Hadelich, and Mahler's Symphony No. 4.