Welcome Back Sale: Save 20% on Select Concerts by NJSO 

Limited-time offer! Welcome Back Sale: Save 20% on select concerts. We cannot wait to be back in the concert hall with you and to share the experience of live music together again! To celebrate, we’re offering a special ticket deal to welcome you back. Use promo code WELCOME20 to get 20% off of select concerts throughout the 2021–22 season. This sale ends Sunday, October 10, at 3 pm. BUY TICKETS How to Order Click here to have the discount automatically applied, or enter promo code WELCOME20 prior to selecting seats to receive the special pricing. COVID-19 Safety For more information on patron safety protocols when visiting our venues, click here. Be Part of Our Return — Save on Amazing Concerts Oct 8–10, 2021 Opening Weekend: New Jersey Symphony Returns We are beyond thrilled to welcome you back. Beethoven’s Seventh mourns and dances and gives voice to everything humanity has lived through this past year and a half. We’ve got brand new music to mark the new season, too: Michael Abels, who wrote the score for the Oscar-winning film Get Out, launches us with his riveting new orchestral work. And our new Resident Artistic Catalyst, Daniel Bernard Roumain, taps his Haitian roots as he solos in his own Voodoo Violin Concerto. Presented in Newark BUY TICKETS Oct 14–17, 2021 Beethoven & Saint-Georges Nicholas McGegan makes music written over 200 years ago sound as if the ink is still wet. He, the NJSO and audience favorite Augustin Hadelich bring to life the rambunctious genius of a young Beethoven and the virtuosic elegance of the first known classical composer of African ancestry, Chevalier de Saint-Georges. Presented in Newark and Morristown BUY TICKETS Nov 4-7, 2021 Daniil Trifonov Plays Brahms Fresh off of a riveting NJSO Concert Film performance, Artist-in-Residence Daniil Trifonov returns for Brahms’ First. Only a powerhouse pianist and conductor in perfect sync can make this thrilling climb. Jessie Montgomery’s sizzling Starburst leads things off before Xian Zhang brings a fresh take to a beloved Czech masterwork, Smetana’s Má vlast, tapping the warm strings and beautifully rounded brass threaded into the Symphony’s DNA by former music director Zdenek Macal. Presented in Newark and Red Bank BUY TICKETS Jan 14–16, 2022 Grieg’s Piano Concerto Picture a silver waterfall plunging from a towering mountain into a fjord below—and you have the opening of Grieg’s Piano Concerto. An exquisite painter at the piano, Vladimir Feltsman brings the concerto’s hold-your-breath moments to vivid life. Andrey Boreyko’s NJSO debut also features a pathbreaking ballet by his countryman Igor Stravinsky and a new work by living legend Thomas Adès. Presented in Princeton, Red Bank and Newark BUY TICKETS Jan 22–23, 2022 Xian Zhang Conducts Marsalis & Dvořák NJSO brass and woodwinds shine in works showcasing their special sound and virtuosity. We kick off with a brand new fanfare from jazz master Wynton Marsalis, Joan Tower’s take on Copland’s vision and Dvořák’s beguiling serenade. The full orchestra sparkles in Copland’s homage to Abraham Lincoln. Presented in Newark and New Brunswick BUY TICKETS Jan 29, 2022 2022 Lunar New Year Celebration Celebrate the Year of the Tiger as the NJSO continues a tradition that welcomes all audiences for a festive evening of community and cultural exchange. Presented in Newark BUY TICKETS Feb 18–20, 2022 Karen Gomyo Plays Mozart A journey from darkness to light. Samy Moussa’s Nocturne evokes the sea at night under a moody half-moon. Mozart’s Third Violin Concerto is a musical sunrise, and we’re delighted to welcome back Karen Gomyo and her unequaled ability to spin out Mozart’s radiant lyricism. Finally, the organ’s entrance in the finale of Saint-Saëns’ Symphony No. 3 is like throwing curtains open to noontime sun. Presented in Newark and New Brunswick BUY TICKETS Feb 26–27, 2022 Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique Tchaikovsky’s touching final music, his Sixth Symphony, is on the short list of so many music lovers, and we are so excited to perform it for you. We lead into it with a gorgeous overture by Louise Farrenc, who with one beautiful score after another, broke all sorts of glass ceilings in 19th-century France. And Concertmaster Eric Wyrick and Juan Pablo Jofre team up for Jofre’s Concerto for violin and bandoneon—a popular tango-loving cousin of the accordion from Jofre’s native Argentina. Presented in Red Bank and Newark BUY TICKETS Mar 4–6, 2022 Ravel’s Boléro Superb NJSO principals step into the spotlight: Bart Feller in a tour de force that lets the flute’s shining personalities sing out, and Jonathan Spitz in a piece many call the perfect cello concerto. Xian Zhang bookends this beauty with iconic pieces by the master orchestral colorist Maurice Ravel, ending with the slow-build hurricane of Boléro. Presented in Newark and Morristown BUY TICKETS Mar 10–13, 2022 Trifonov Is Back! Artist-in-Residence Daniil Trifonov—“the most astounding pianist of our age” (The Times)—returns for his second week this season with a brand new concerto written for him by a musical polymath—DJ and composer Mason Bates. Xian Zhang specializes in Tchaikovsky’s singing line, digging deep into the sorrow and joy that makes her favorite Russian composer’s music utterly unique. Presented in Newark, Princeton and New Brunswick BUY TICKETS Mar 31–Apr 1, 2022 Beethoven’s Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 5 French-Canadian wonder Louis Lortie teams up with the NJSO to perform Beethoven’s Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 5. This concert shows Beethoven at the starting line of his career, full of youthful fire, and at his glorious pinnacle. Presented in Newark and New Brunswick BUY TICKETS Apr 2–3, 2022 Beethoven’s Piano Concertos Nos. 2, 3 & 4 Louis Lortie’s exploration of Beethoven’s Piano Concertos with the NJSO continues with Nos. 2, 3 & 4. The “middle set” holds surprisingly tender music, and passages of jaw-dropping virtuosity, from the heaven-storming composer. Presented in Newark and Morristown BUY TICKETS Apr 8–10, 2022 Zhang Conducts Mozart’s ‘Jupiter’ The “Jupiter” Symphony offers inspiration for the sheer miracle and Swiss-watch perfection of its final movement—and heartache, because this was Mozart’s last symphony. Beloved Principal Bassoon Robert Wagner has served NJSO audiences for 42 years; he plays the East Coast premiere of Christopher Rouse’s lyrical concerto. And why not play with convention and end with a starter: the rousing “Hi-yo, Silver!” curtain-raiser to Rossini’s Guillaume Tell. Presented in Newark and Red Bank BUY TICKETS Apr 28–May 1, 2022 Conrad Tao Plays Tchaikovsky Since Conrad Tao’s NJSO appearance four seasons ago, his career has exploded: he’s written music for the New York Philharmonic, performed all over the world and earned a huge spread in The New York Times. He plays his own playful Spoonfuls and Tchaikovsky’s big-shouldered First, with Shostakovich’s lighthearted Ninth between. Presented in Newark, Princeton and Morristown BUY TICKETS June 2–5, 2022 Mozart & Mendelssohn The NJSO’s Brennan Sweet and Elzbieta Weyman play some of the loveliest music ever written for violin and viola, Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante. Kathleen Nester makes the orchestra’s tiniest instrument sing loud and proud in Vivaldi’s Piccolo Concerto. The sunshine of Mendelssohn’s “Italian” Symphony warms the entire program. Presented in Newark, Princeton and New Brunswick BUY TICKETS June 11–12, 2022 Season Finale: An American Rhapsody We end the season with fireworks made in the USA. DBR kicks off the festivities with his exciting new work. The sparkling talent of NJSO Principal Horn Chris Komer shines in a new concerto written for him by four leading jazz composers. Aaron Dworkin, the visionary founder of the Sphinx Organization which lifts up young Black and Latinx musicians, narrates Coleridge-Taylor’s moving Rhapsody with the words of our nation’s first president. And the City of Lights swirls around you in Gershwin’s beloved classic. Presented in Red Bank and Newark BUY TICKETS Please note: All artists, programs, dates & times are subject to change. All film concerts are excluded from this sale. Compose Your Own Series Compose your ideal concert series for the 2021–22 season! Select three or more of our upcoming performances, including Daniil Trifonov Plays Brahms, Beethoven’s Piano Concertos and Karen Gomyo Plays Mozart. Get the flexibility you need with the benefits that come from subscribing. COMPOSE YOUR OWN SERIES Bank of America is proud to sponsor the NJSO Resident Artistic Catalyst. DBR as Resident Artistic Catalyst is made possible in part by Judith Musser. Daniil Trifonov as Artist-in-Residence is made possible by Judy and Stewart Colton. information@njsymphony.org | 1.800.ALLEGRO (255.3476) © 2021 New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra is a registered 501(c)(3) organization. Tax ID#22-1559422.  New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, 60 Park Place, Suite 900, Newark, NJ 07102, United States