Extraordinary AND Free
Curtis presents more than 100 free public performances each season, making available more than 24,000 free seats to Philadelphians every year. Please join us during the 2011-12 Appassionato season and experience the extraordinary.
:: Free concert at the Mann Center
Free Concert at the Mann Center
Curtis Symphony Orchestra
Friday, May 11, 2012 at 8 p.m.
Rossen Milanov, conductor (’94)
Mann Center for the Performing Arts
Tickets: FREE; ticket required [reserve today!]
| BRAHMS | Academic Festival Overture |
| BERNSTEIN | Symphonic Dances from West Side Story |
| BRAHMS | Symphony No. 2 |
Join Curtis for a triple celebration at the Mann Center on May 11, 2012. At this concert Curtis presents its final performance of the 2011-12 Appassionato season, opens the 2012 summer season of the Mann Center for the Performing Arts, and previews the program the orchestra presents at the Dresden Festival in Germany, four days later. Co-presented by the Mann Center for the Performing Arts.
RESERVE YOUR TICKETS
:: General Public [reserve today!]
:: Leopold Stokowski Society members [reserve today!]
:: Curtis Students, Faculty, Staff, Alumni, and Parents [reserve today!]
Tickets will be mailed in April 2012.
Student Recital Series
Experience the Spirit of Excitement onstage, and live, at Curtis. Students perform solo and chamber works throughout the week.
Who's Playing What? When?
(215) 893-5261, view online calendar
Seen and Heard: TV and Radio
Recital hightlights are featured regularly on Y Arts, WHYY's digital cable channel, and on radio stations WHYY in Philadellphia and WITF in Harrisburgh. more multimedia...
Community Collaborations
This season Curtis is proud to collaborate with numerous Philadelphia organizations. These engagements offer a wealth of experience to Curtis students and connects Curtis to new audiences.
Music in the Galleries plus other performances
Saturdays, October 8, 15, 29;
November 19; and December 3 - 1:30, 2:15, and 3 p.m.
Visitors to the Philadelphia Museum of Art hear performances by Curtis students as part of the Music in the Galleries program and the Rembrandt exhibit. Small chamber ensembles and soloists give informal concerts in a designated gallery each month. Springtime concerts to be announced.
Free with museum admission
Brown Bag Lunch Series
Wednesdays, October 19;
November 16; and December 7 - 12:30 p.m.
Nourish your ears along with your bellies during this weekly lunchtime program at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Rittenhouse. Springtime concerts to be announced.
Free; no tickets required.
Curtis at Longwood Gardens
Sundays, February 26; March 4; and April 1 - 1 p.m.
The Curtis Institute of Music brings its remarkeable young talents to Longwood Gardens for pre-graduation recitals - the perfect complement to a weekend trip through this premier horticultural showplace.
Tickets; free with Longwood Gardens admission