The great rhythm of our city is change, propelling us ever forward with energy and purpose. And so, with an enthusiastic embrace of the future, we welcome Thomas Dausgaard as our new music director. Thomas’ first season reflects his passion and joy for making music and his profound sense of humanity — nourishing qualities that and bring us back again and again to the concert hall.
Explore the music Thomas has planned for the 2019–2020 with this exclusive Apple Music playlist highlighting the albums and themes coming to the Seattle Symphony.
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Thomas Dausgaard Events
Shostakovich & Nielsen
Thursday, 30 January, 2020 7:30PM
Shostakovich’s First Violin Concerto offers an unguarded view into a tormented composer’s private, deeply felt reserves of emotion. The symphonic masterstrokes of Denmark’s greatest musical hero, Carl Nielsen, take on extra significance in the hands of his compatriot Thomas Dausgaard.
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Buy TicketsShostakovich & Nielsen
Saturday, 1 February, 2020 8:00PM
Shostakovich’s First Violin Concerto offers an unguarded view into a tormented composer’s private, deeply felt reserves of emotion. The symphonic masterstrokes of Denmark’s greatest musical hero, Carl Nielsen, take on extra significance in the hands of his compatriot Thomas Dausgaard.
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Buy TicketsDvořák Symphony No. 8
Thursday, 6 February, 2020 7:30PM
Violinist Gidon Kremer finds “a source of an unlimited inspiration” in Mieczysław Weinberg, a Polish-born, Soviet composer who followed in the shadow of his mentor and friend, Dmitri Shostakovich. The progress of an outsider working a century earlier is echoed in Antonín Dvořák, who indulged in glorious sounds of nature and Czech country life in his Eighth Symphony.
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Buy TicketsDvořák Untuxed
Friday, 7 February, 2020 7:00PM
Antonín Dvořák indulged in glorious sounds of nature and Czech country life in his Eighth Symphony.
