Naples Philharmonic Classical Music Series
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2025-26 Season Performances
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Ax & Alexander
April 23 and 25, 2026
Thursday and Saturday at 7:30pm
Prelude at 6:30pm
Naples Philharmonic
Alexander Shelley, artistic and music director
Emanuel Ax, piano
Barber — Adagio for Strings
Mozart — Piano Concerto No. 22
Strauss — Also sprach Zarathustra
Even casual listeners will recognize the powerful works in this program featuring piano icon Emanuel Ax and Artistic and Music Director Alexander Shelley. From Amadeus and Platoon to 2001: A Space Odyssey, the music of Barber, Mozart and Strauss takes center stage.
Piazzolla Four Seasons
May 8 and 9, 2026
Friday and Saturday at 7:30pm
Prelude at 6:30pm
Naples Philharmonic
Alexander Shelley, artistic and music director
Karen Gomyo, violin
Jonathan Cziner — Rear-view
Piazzolla — Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
Brahms — Symphony No. 4
The season's final Masterworks reflects the past, present and future. Violinist Karen Gomyo joins for Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, alongside Cziner’s nostalgic Rear-view and Brahms’ powerful Symphony No. 4 — a fittingly profound conclusion to the season’s Masterworks series.
2026-27 Season Performances
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© Marco Borregreve
Masterworks 1
Beethoven and Brahms
October 29 and 30, 2026
Thursday and Friday at 7:30pm
Prelude at 6:30pm
Naples Philharmonic
Alexander Shelley, artistic and music director
Yeol Eum Son, piano
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich — Jubilation
Beethoven — Piano Concerto No. 3
Brahms — Symphony No. 1
The Masterworks series opens with Artistic and Music Director Alexander Shelley leading the Naples Philharmonic and celebrated pianist Yeol Eum Son in Beethoven’s storm-lit Third Piano Concerto, followed by the weight and resolve of Brahms’ monumental First Symphony.
© Tom Zimberoff
Masterworks 2
Josefowicz and Rachmaninoff
November 20 and 21, 2026
Friday and Saturday at 7:30pm
Prelude at 6:30pm
Naples Philharmonic
Markus Stenz, conductor
Leila Josefowicz, violin
John Adams — Scheherazade.2
Rachmaninoff — Symphonic Dances
Renowned German conductor Markus Stenz returns to lead the Naples Philharmonic and violinist Leila Josefowicz in John Adams’ dramatic Scheherazade.2, his modern take on One Thousand and One Nights, before concluding with Rachmaninoff’s singular final masterpiece, Symphonic Dances.
© Martin Romero
Masterworks 3
Alexander Conducts The Firebird
December 10 and 11, 2026
Thursday and Friday at 7:30pm
Prelude at 6:30pm
Naples Philharmonic
Alexander Shelley, artistic and music director
Anthony McGill, clarinet
Lera Auerbach — Icarus
Gabriel Kahane — If Love will not swing wide the gates
Stravinsky — The Firebird
Alexander Shelley and the orchestra are joined by America’s most recognized clarinetist, Anthony McGill, to perform Gabriel Kahane’s lyrical exploration of love and empathy before the program turns to Stravinsky’s boldly colorful and rhythmic mythic ballet score The Firebird.
© Andrew Eccles
Masterworks 4
Fleming and Hampson
January 7 and 9, 2027
Thursday and Saturday at 7:30pm
Prelude at 6:30pm
Naples Philharmonic
Alexander Shelley, artistic and music director
Renée Fleming, soprano
Thomas Hampson, baritone
Naples Philharmonic Chorus
Jeremy T. Warner, director
Beethoven — Overture to Fidelio
Shostakovich — Symphony No. 9
John Adams — Three Scenes from Nixon in China
Acclaimed soprano Renée Fleming and premier baritone Thomas Hampson join Alexander Shelley and the orchestra for a joyously varied program featuring Beethoven’s overture to his lone opera, Shostakovich’s sardonic Ninth Symphony and three scenes from Nixon in China, John Adams’ operatic fusion of jazz, big band and wry political theater.
© Darron Silva
Masterworks 5
Zachary and Rachmaninoff
January 28 and 29, 2027
Thursday and Friday at 7:30pm
Prelude at 6:30pm
Naples Philharmonic
Teddy Abrams, conductor
Zachary DePue, violin
Gabriel Kahane — Judith
Szymanowski — Violin Concerto No. 2
Rachmaninoff — Symphony No. 2
A Naples Philharmonic program shaped by Gabriel Kahane’s portrait of an aging widow and Szymanowski’s shimmering Second Violin Concerto brings Concertmaster Zachary DePue to the fore under the baton of Grammy-winning conductor Teddy Abrams, concluding with the broad lyricism of Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2.
© Ben Ealovega
Masterworks 6
James Plays Mozart
February 12 and 13, 2027
Friday and Saturday at 7:30pm
Prelude at 6:30pm
Naples Philharmonic
James Ehnes, violin, leader and artistic partner
Jessie Montgomery — Strum
Mozart — Violin Concerto No. 4
Dvořák — Serenade for Strings
Renowned worldwide for his serene lyricism and effortless virtuosity, Artistic Partner James Ehnes leads the Naples Philharmonic in a program centered on the vitality of strings—pairing Mozart’s graceful Fourth Violin Concerto with Dvořák’s warm, folk-inflected Serenade for Strings.
Masterworks 7a
Beethoven 1 and 2
March 4, 2027
Thursday at 7:30pm
Prelude at 6:30pm
Naples Philharmonic
Alexander Shelley, artistic and music director
Beethoven — Symphony No. 1
Beethoven — Symphony No. 2
A program devoted to Beethoven’s early symphonies, led by Alexander Shelley, reveals the composer’s growing ambition as the clarity and wit of the First Symphony give way to the broader scale, bolder color and emerging fire that animate the Second.
Masterworks 7b
Beethoven 3 and 4
March 6, 2027
Saturday at 7:30pm
Prelude at 6:30pm
Naples Philharmonic
Alexander Shelley, artistic and music director
Beethoven — Symphony No. 3, "Eroica"
Beethoven — Symphony No. 4
Alexander Shelley leads the Naples Philharmonic in Beethoven’s groundbreaking Symphony No. 3, “Eroica,” a powerful and dramatic work that redefined the possibilities of the symphonic form, before taking on the light and exuberant Fourth Symphony.
Masterworks 8a
Beethoven 5 and 6
March 18, 2027
Thursday at 7:30pm
Prelude at 6:30pm
Naples Philharmonic
Alexander Shelley, artistic and music director
Beethoven — Symphony No. 5
Beethoven — Symphony No. 6, "Pastorale"
Alexander Shelley conducts a program built around two contrasting Beethoven symphonies. Beginning with this revolutionary and most famous work, the Fifth Symphony, the storminess of the opening half subsides in the Pastorale, a five-movement depiction of peaceful countryside scenes interrupted by a brief yet powerful thunderstorm.
Masterworks 8b
Beethoven 7 and 8
March 19, 2027
Friday at 7:30pm
Prelude at 6:30pm
Naples Philharmonic
Alexander Shelley, artistic and music director
Beethoven — Symphony No. 7
Beethoven — Symphony No. 8
Beethoven’s inventive genius coalesces as Alexander Shelley leads the orchestra through Beethoven’s relentlessly energetic Seventh Symphony, where rhythm drives the music forward, and the bright, rapid-fire Eighth—the shortest and most concentrated of his symphonies.
Masterworks 8c
Beethoven 9
March 20, 2027
Saturday at 7:30pm
Prelude at 6:30pm
Naples Philharmonic
Alexander Shelley, artistic and music director
Karen Slack, soprano
Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo-soprano
Michael Spyres, tenor
TBD, baritone
Naples Philharmonic Chorus
Jeremy T. Warner, director
Jake Runestad — A Silence Haunts Me
Beethoven — Symphony No. 9
The final Masterworks program devoted to Beethoven sees Alexander and the orchestra welcoming four celebrated vocalists—along with the Naples Philharmonic Chorus—for Jake Runestad’s touching choral reflection on Beethoven’s struggle with deafness before turning to the Ninth Symphony, his monumental finale that shattered the traditional symphonic form.
Masterworks 9
Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony
April 9 and 10, 2027
Friday and Saturday at 7:30pm
Prelude at 6:30pm
Naples Philharmonic
Stephanie Childress, conductor
Time for Three
Nicolas Kendall, violin
Charles Yang, violin
Ranaan Meyer, bass
Mary Kouyoumdjian — Commissioned Work
Jennifer Higdon — Concerto 4:3
Mendelssohn — Symphony No. 4, “Italian”
The penultimate Masterworks program of the season sees Franco-British conductor Stephanie Childress make her Naples Philharmonic debut, joining the “classically trained garage band” Time for Three and the orchestra for Jennifer Higdon’s Concerto 4:3 before closing with Mendelssohn’s Italian Symphony, inspired by the composer’s travels in sun-soaked Italy.
© Marco Borregreve
Masterworks 10
Alexander Conducts The Planets
April 29 and May 1, 2027
Thursday and Saturday at 7:30pm
Prelude at 6:30pm
Naples Philharmonic
Alexander Shelley, artistic and music director
Clara-Jumi Kang, violin
Women of the Naples Philharmonic Chorus
Jeremy T. Warner, director
Nokuthula Ngwenyama — Primal Message
Britten — Violin Concerto
Holst — The Planets
Alexander Shelley and the Naples Philharmonic close out the Masterworks series with Britten’s brilliant Spanish-influenced violin concerto, framed by two works inspired by deep space: Holst’s innovative orchestral suite, The Planets, and Nokuthula Ngwenyama’s Primal Message, which imagines how a musical missive to distant life might sound.
Music and Museum All Masterworks tickets include same-day admission to The Baker Museum. Museum hours on day of performance: 10am-7:30pm. In addition, the doors to Hayes Hall open 90 minutes prior to these performances. Arrive early to enjoy the exhibitions and light fare available at Heidi's Place.
Masterworks Preludes Join the conductor before the performance for an insightful 30-minute prelude discussion about the program. Masterworks preludes begin at 6:30pm.
The Artistic and Music Director position is generously endowed by Sharon and Timothy Ubben.
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