Krannert Center Events: 2025-2026 Season

Stephen Alltop, music director and conductor
Timothy Ehlen, piano

The 66th Season of the Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra opens with three blockbuster works. The festivities commence with Brahms' ebullient Academic Festival Overture. University of Illinois faculty member Timothy Ehlen brings his virtuosity to Ravel's splashy Piano Concerto. Rachmaninoff's final composition for orchestra, the Symphony Dances, is a brilliant work that also held great personal meaning for the composer. Hearing this masterpiece live is a thrill that audiences remember for a lifetime.

Program

Brahms, Johannes: Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80
Ravel, Maurice: Piano Concerto in G Major
Rachmaninoff, Sergei: Symphonic Dances, Op. 45

Saturday October 4th, 2025 at 7:30pm in the Foellinger Great Hall

See the Krannert Center website for more details and to purchase tickets.