Welcome to our 2025 Schools Program Season
JUST RELEASED
With new content and new ways for your students to connect to the music, we can’t wait to share an electrifying year of music with you – all at the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall. Together we can inspire the next generation of orchestral musicians and music lovers.
JUST RELEASED
With new content and new ways for your students to connect to the music, we can’t wait to share an electrifying year of music with you – all at the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall. Together we can inspire the next generation of orchestral musicians and music lovers.
Final Date Added
HOME ALONE IN CONCERT
Due to popular demand, we've added a fifth and final performance of Home Alone in Concert. Join us on Thursday 5 December at 7pm to experience this beloved classic with the power of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
HOME ALONE IN CONCERT
Due to popular demand, we've added a fifth and final performance of Home Alone in Concert. Join us on Thursday 5 December at 7pm to experience this beloved classic with the power of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
Disco Wonderland: A Night at Studio 54
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You are invited behind the velvet ropes of New York’s Studio 54, as the boundless hedonism and pulsating music of the glory days of disco is brought to life by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in this unique experience.
TICKETS ON SALE NOW
You are invited behind the velvet ropes of New York’s Studio 54, as the boundless hedonism and pulsating music of the glory days of disco is brought to life by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in this unique experience.
Disney in Concert
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Join us as Disney in Concert returns to the Sydney Opera House in this new, spectacular concert experience. With captivating clips from your favourite Disney animated films projected live on the big screen, this world premiere concert promises to mesmerise and delight.
TICKETS ON SALE NOW
Join us as Disney in Concert returns to the Sydney Opera House in this new, spectacular concert experience. With captivating clips from your favourite Disney animated films projected live on the big screen, this world premiere concert promises to mesmerise and delight.
Upcoming Performances
2025 Season
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Discover a season full of extraordinary music, from the grand and exhilarating and tender and intimate. From timeless favourites to tomorrow’s classics, there’s something for everyone to enjoy.
Schools Program
We’re delighted to welcome you to the Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s 2025 Schools Program. With bespoke new content and new ways for your students to connect to the music – and all taking place in the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall – we can’t wait to share an electrifying year of music with you.
What’s New on Backstage News
Interviews with the world’s biggest soloists, dissecting the greatest music, and sneak peeks behind the scenes – find out everything happening at the Sydney Symphony right now.
‘A Lifetime Is Not Enough to Discover This Music’: Ingrid Fliter on Chopin
22 October 2024
Ingrid Fliter is one of the great interpreters of Frederic Chopin’s music, and her connection to his music has been a lifelong relationship – and perhaps even longer. Here she speaks of her love of Chopin and her fond memories of Sydney ahead of her long-awaited return.
Hearing Is Believing: Nobuyuki Tsujii Returns
14 October 2024
Blind since birth, Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii is a phenomenon, learning scores by ear and giving performances praised for their virtuosity and profound artistry. Ahead of his long-awaited return to Sydney, he shares his memories of his first visit and the challenge of Rachmaninov’s Third Piano Concerto.
Introducing Ying Fang
23 September 2024
The superstar soprano and star of New York’s Metropolitan Opera makes her Australian debut in September. Here she discusses studying at Juilliard, working with Sir Donald Runnicles, and her excitement at the thought of meeting a wombat!
Musical Storytelling: Karen Gomyo on Dvořák’s Violin Concerto
19 August 2024
Canadian violinist Karen Gomyo fell in love with Dvořák’s Violin Concerto at an early age – and now she’s on a mission to restore it to its rightful place in the pantheon of violin repertoire.
A Musical Feast Cooked Up by Sir Donald Runnicles
9 August 2024
Sir Donald Runnicles is renowned for the way he designs his concerts, something he describes as like balancing a beautiful meal. Here he explores the musical feasts he has prepared for Sydney in September – one French, and one German…
Farewell Diana Doherty
24 July 2024
After 27 years, Diana Doherty is stepping down as Principal Oboe of the Sydney Symphony, bringing to an end an incredible period in the Orchestra’s history. But as Diana explains, she’s not retiring – rather this is just another evolution in a career full of them.
Augustin Hadelich Returns
16 July 2024
Violinist Augustin Hadelich took Sydney by storm when he debuted with the Orchestra in 2022, performing Brahms’ Violin Concerto. This August he is back by popular demand to perform another of the great concertos, as well as a rare and thrilling chamber orchestra concert that will showcase his dazzling virtuosity in a different light.
Two Cultures, One World: Deborah Cheetham Fraillon on Eumeralla
4 July 2024
Deborah Cheetham Fraillon AO is many things: Yorta Yorta/Yuin woman, trained soprano and award-winning composer. As she explains, she had to call on all those parts of her identity when writing Eumeralla: A War Requiem for Peace – an ambitious, large-scale choral work that receives its Sydney premiere in September.
Plan Your Visit
We can listen to music anywhere. But a live performance needs a space that vibrates with every note. A place that gives it room to move and expand. A stage that takes the experience to another level without taking over.
Sydney Opera House, Concert Hall
Feel the power of music in an enhanced acoustic that has transformed the experience of live symphonic music. From moments of peacefulness and quiet to thunderous finales, the renewed Concert Hall experience is a revelation.
Sydney Symphony on Demand
Catch up on our digital series. Featuring Sydney Symphony musicians performing Australian works, audience favourites and other great gems.
