Bloomington Symphony Orchestra - Indiana

Celebrate the Season with the BSO - 5pm show
2025-11-28 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Buskirk-Chumley Theater, 114 E. Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington, IN, 47408, United States
CLICK HERE for tickets
available through the Buskirk-Chumley Box Office.
Children $9, Students $16, Adults $29.
General Admission Seating
Rock in the holidays with the BSO’s much-loved Celebrate the Season, this year featuring our friends from the rock band Don’t Call Me Betty.

Friday, November 28, 2025: 2 shows at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater
– Our early show (5:00 pm) gets out in time for you to watch the Canopy of Lights
– Our later show (8:00 pm) sends you off home in a rockin’ holiday mood!
Tuesday, December 9, 2025: 7pm at Spencer’s Tivoli Theater

Celebrate the Season with the BSO – 8pm show
2025-11-28 20:00 - 21:30 | Buskirk-Chumley Theater, 114 E. Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington, IN, 47408, United States
CLICK HERE for tickets
available through the Buskirk-Chumley Box Office.
Children $9, Students $16, Adults $29.
General Admission Seating

Rock in the holidays with the BSO’s much-loved Celebrate the Season, this year featuring our friends from the rock band Don’t Call Me Betty.

Friday, November 28, 2025: 2 shows at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater
– Our early show (5:00 pm) gets out in time for you to watch the Canopy of Lights
– Our later show (8:00 pm) sends you off home in a rockin’ holiday mood!
Tuesday, December 9, 2025: 7pm at Spencer’s Tivoli Theatre

Celebrate the Season at the Tivoli Theatre!
2025-12-09 19:00 - 20:00 | Tivoli Theatre, 24 N Washington St, Spencer, IN, 47460
Tickets available now at spencertivoli.org
Children $5, Adults $11
Rock in the holidays with the BSO’s much-loved Celebrate the Season, this year featuring our friends from the rock band Don’t Call Me Betty.
Tuesday, December 9, 2025: 7pm at Spencer’s Tivoli Theater

Old Friends - A Chamber Orchestra Concert
2026-01-17 19:00 - 20:30 | Switchyard Park Pavilion, 1601 S Rogers St, Bloomington, IN, 47403, United States
A unique concert experience surrounding the orchestra.
Saturday, January 17, 2026Switchyard Park Pavilion6:15pm Refreshments – provided by Oliver Winery and Cabin Restaurant7:00pm ConcertAdults $15, Students $10, Children under 18 FREE.

One of the best things in life is friendship. That’s especially true when a friendship stands the test of time. You may not live near each other anymore. You may have different hobbies, careers, and schedules. But when you DO get to spend time together again, none of that matters.
Help us welcome back our much-loved former principal bassoonist Catherine Marchese this coming January for a special concert. On the program:
Selections from David Baker’s Hommage à l’Histoire, presented as part of our ongoing collaboration with IU Archives of African American Music and Culture.
Strauss’s Duet-Concertino for Clarinet and Bassoon featuring Catherine Marchese on bassoon and our own Carl Weinberg on clarinet.
Haydn’s Symphony No. 104 “London”

Between Silence and Strauss - Concert at Buskirk-Chumley Theater
2026-03-08 17:00 - 18:30 | Buskirk-Chumley Theater, 114 E. Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington, IN, 47408, United States
CLICK HERE for tickets
available through the Buskirk-Chumley Box Office.
Children FREE, Students $16, Adults $29.
General Admission Seating
Soloist Shawn Tairyu Head joins the orchestra for Hosokawa’s Autumn Wind for Shakuhachi and Orchestra as a collaboration with IU Asian Culture Center. Also on the program is songs from the Strauss’s Rosenkavalier Suite, and 2026 Youth Concerto Competition winner Ella Hightower performing Dvorak’s Concerto for Violin, Allegro ma non troppo.
4:15pm pre-concert talk
5:00pm concert – Repertoire:
Songs from Richard Strauss
Feierlicher Einzug
“Morgen!” Op. 27, No. 4, with vocalist Siyi Yan
“Allerseelen”, with vocalist Danielle Long
from Der Rosenkavalier:
“Presentation of the Rose”, with vocalists Siyi Yan and Danielle Long
Final trio, with vocalists Siyi Yan, Danielle Long, and Rachel Spodek
Antonín Dvořák, Concerto for Violin, Allegro ma non troppo, with Ella Hightower – 2026 BSO Youth Concerto Competition Winner
Kosaku Yamada, Flower of Mandala
Toshio Hosokawa, Autumn Wind for Shakuhachi and Orchestra, with Shawn Tairyu Head – shakuhachi soloist

Resounding Joy: Beethoven 9 at the MAC
2026-05-16 19:00 - 20:30 | IU Musical Arts Center, 105 N Eagleson Ave, Bloomington, IN, 47406, United States
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Adults: $25, Students: $12, Children under 18: Free
Saturday May 16, 2026, 7pm at the IU Musical Arts Center

What is it about Beethoven’s 9th Symphony that sets it apart? Maybe it’s the innovative musical structure. Maybe it’s the way Beethoven blends themes of chaos, redemption, grace, and struggle so effortlessly. Or it could be that this piece culminates, as John Henken of the LA Philharmonic writes, “expressing our highest aspirations with music of life-affirming exaltation.”
For the first time in our history the BSO will perform Beethoven’s iconic 9th Symphony. Joined by a 100-member community chorus on the stage of Indiana University’s Musical Arts Center (MAC), this is shaping up to be an unforgettable concert experience.

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