Celebrate our nation’s founding with the Utah Symphony and your red, white, and blue favorites at our annual Patriotic Pops concert. This summer’s concert features special guest vocalist Capathia Jenkins who will perform “America the Beautiful,” “Summertime” from Porgy & Bess, and more.

Be there as Kool & The Gang showcase their high energy blend of R&B/funk and perform their iconic hits, such as “Celebration,” “Cherish,” and “Jungle Boogie,” live with the Utah Symphony. These two-time Grammy Award-winning musicians have performed together continuously longer than any other group in R&B history, and their bulletproof funk and jazzy arrangements have also made them the most sampled R&B band of all time. Get ready to dance and sing along to some of the most iconic dance hits of all time!

Utah Symphony | Utah Opera is committed to the health and safety of our patrons, staff, musicians, and guest artists, and we are working hard to create clarity for each of you during this difficult period. The decision to cancel performances is never an easy one, and we are sorry to pass along this message from the Ben Folds management team:

“The coronavirus threat is forcing us to make some changes in some of Ben Folds’ upcoming tour dates. To that end, we have decided to err on the side of safety and health when it comes to large public gatherings. And we have made our decision now, rather than to wait until the last minute for likely cancelations that would further disrupt everyone’s life. So as a precautionary step, Ben’s show with the Utah Symphony in Park City on Friday, July 11, 2020 is being cancelled until further notice. It’s our sincere desire that the show can be rescheduled later.”

We realize that the specific impact of the current situation is different for everyone, but we’re all affected in some way. Please visit us online to review all available options for tickets you’ve purchased to a cancelled Utah Symphony | Utah Opera performance. We look forward with great anticipation to welcoming you all back when we reopen our doors in the (hopefully!) not so distant future.

Join the Utah Symphony on a musical journey from the European music of Mozart and Haydn to the tango of South America.

The two Suites for Small Orchestra, orchestrated in 1921 and 1925, are based on themes from two sets of piano duets Stravinsky wrote as teaching pieces for young musicians.

Utah Symphony Principal Flute, Mercedes Smith, performs Mozart’s Flute Concerto No. 2. This piece is a reworked version of the composer’s earlier Oboe concerto, commissioned by a local doctor, who likely had his hands full with this virtuosic work.

Argentinian composer Astor Piazzolla took the tango of his youth to new places, infusing it with elements of classical music and jazz and creating his own distinctive style. Classical music plus the Tango equals Piazzola’s Tangazo!

Haydn’s Symphony No. 88, written two years before the outbreak of the French Revolution, foreshadows the music to come from Europe in the coming decades.

Love the classic sounds of Frankie Valli, The Drifters, The Del Vikings? Ever wonder what Maroon 5 would sound like if they had lived in the Doo Wop era? The Doo Wop Project brings unparalleled authenticity of sound and vocal excellence to recreate—and in some cases entirely reimagine—some of the greatest music in American pop and rock history!

Join the Utah Symphony and acclaimed performer Jim Curry for this tribute to the music of John Denver, one of the most beloved singer/songwriters ever to grace the stage. Jim Curry emerged as the top performer of John Denver’s music after singing for the 2000 TV movie “Take Me Home, the John Denver Story.” In this concert, Curry and the Utah Symphony perform John Denver’s music under the baton of Grammy Award-winning composer Lee Holdridge, whose original symphonic arrangements were created in collaboration with John Denver himself when Denver wanted to add a full orchestra to his live shows and recordings.

• Hear the sixth suite of Brazilian composer Heitor Villa Lobos’ Bachianas Brasileiras series, which link Baroque with Brazilian music.
• American Composer Alyssa Morris’ Brush Strokes features four movements which depict the stories and techniques of four painters: Monet, Seurat, Van Gogh, and Pollock.

Experience the magic of the Harry Potter films through the music that brought them to life! Deer Valley Resort’s Snow Park Amphitheatre will fill with the sounds of the wizarding world as the Utah Symphony performs iconic scores, from John Williams’s music for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone through all eight films in the beloved series.

Enjoy a high-octane concert featuring Neil Diamond's power ballads and up-tempo hits live with the Utah Symphony. The show is pure entertainment—classic music combined with fun, energy, and passion—creating nostalgia for the good old days and excitement for today's generation.

Join us for a performance featuring two of history’s most performed and well-loved composers.

Russian virtuoso violinist and conductor Dmitry Sinkovsky performs Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, a Baroque work that conveys the feelings and images from the passage of time and weather over the course of a year.

Shortly after the premier of The Marriage of Figaro in Vienna, Mozart visited Prague for performances of the new opera and his Symphony 38. Both works showing Mozart’s most sophisticated style.

Hear “the keepers of [New Orleans] jazz tradition” (Rolling Stones) in this live performance with the Utah Symphony. At a moment when musical streams are crossing with unprecedented frequency, it’s crucial to remember that throughout its history, New Orleans has been the point at which sounds and cultures from around the world converge, mingle, and resurface, transformed by the Crescent City’s inimitable spirit and joie de vivre. Nowhere is that idea more vividly embodied than in the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, which has held the torch of New Orleans music aloft for more than 50 years, all the while carrying it enthusiastically forward as a reminder that the history they were founded to preserve is a vibrantly living history.

PHJB marches that tradition forward once again on So It Is, the septet’s second release featuring all-new original music. The album redefines what New Orleans music means today by tapping into a sonic continuum that stretches back to the city’s Afro-Cuban roots, through its common ancestry with the Afrobeat of Fela Kuti and the Fire Music of Pharoah Sanders and John Coltrane, and forward to cutting-edge artists with whom the PHJB have shared festival stages from Coachella to Newport, including legends like Stevie Wonder, Elvis Costello and the Grateful Dead and modern giants like My Morning Jacket, Arcade Fire and the Black Keys.

Dubbed “the best singing band in the world” by Eagles founding member Glenn Frey, the Little River Band enjoyed huge chart success throughout the ‘70s and ‘80s with multi-platinum albums and chart-topping hits including “Reminiscing,” “Lonesome Loser,” “The Night Owls,” “Take It Easy on Me,” “The Other Guy,” and “It’s A Long Way There.” Hear their greatest hits accompanied by the Utah Symphony.

The 2020 Deer Valley®? Music Festival’s Chamber Orchestra Series continues with Utah Symphony’s Acting Principal Cellist Matthew Johnson performing Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 1, composed between 1761 and 1765 and lost during his lifetime, only to be rediscovered in 1961.

Schubert’s Symphony No. 6, “Little C Major,” is a tribute to the lyricism of Rossini in the inner movements and the heroic sound of Beethoven in the outer movements.

A work from Czeck composer Leoš Janácek's early period, the Suite for Strings stands out as a reflection of Victorian musical taste: genteel, lightweight, and sensibly balanced.

Demonstrating the many facets of the solo cello, from growling low chords to soaring scale patterns in the instrument's high register, Haydn redefined orchestral playing with his fantastic concerto for cello.

Experience Rachmaninoff’s breathtaking Piano Concerto No. 2 performed by Gina Bachauer Competition Gold Medalist Changyong Shin, followed by Tchaikovsky’s explosive 1812 Overture, an annual tradition and festival favorite. This exhilarating score is accompanied by live cannon blasts.

As The Beach Boys mark more than half a century of making music, the group continues to ride the crest of a wave unequaled in America’s musical history. Dozens of the band’s chart-toppers have become eternal anthems of American youth; “Surfin’ U.S.A.,” “I Get Around,” “California Girls,” “Good Vibrations,” “Kokomo,” and many more have propelled them to over 100 million albums sold – and made them icons around the world. Do not miss them when they perform live with the Utah Symphony!

Mendelssohn evokes the brilliance of Italy’s sunshine and the vibrancy of its wine as the 2020 Deer Valley®? Music Festival closes with the Utah Symphony performing his “Italian” Symphony.