Ryo Hasegawa conducts the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra for the program that includes Strauss Rosenkavalier Suite, Berlioz Roman Carnival Overture, and Hosokawa’s Autumn Wind for Shakuhachi and Orchestra featuring Shakuhachi soloist Shawn Tairyu Head.

Ryo Hasegawa conducts the Charleston Symphony Youth Orchestra at Jordan Hall for their Boston tour.

Ryo Hasegawa conducts the Dayton Philharmonic for A Night of Symphonic Rock performance.

Ryo Hasegawa conducts the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra for the new chamber orchestra concert series in a collaboration with the IU Archives of African American Music and Culture. The program includes Hyden’s Symphony No. 104 “London”, and a piece by David Baker, and Strauss’s Duet-Concertino for Clarinet and Bassoon featuring Catherine Marchese and Carl Weinberg.

Ryo Hasegawa conducts the Bloomington Symphony for its tradition, Celebrate the Season, in a collaboration with the rock band, Don’t Call Me Betty.

Ryo Hasegawa conducts the Charleston Symphony Youth Orchestra in side-by-side with the Charleston Symphony. The program includes Brahms Symphony No. 2, Shostakovich Festival Overture, and Bruch Kol Nidrei with Zuill Bailey.

Ryo Hasegawa conducts the Charleston Symphony for the Charleston Gaillard Center’s 10th Anniversary Concert featuring Grammy Award-winning jazz vocalist Gregory Porter. For more info: https://gaillardcenter.org/events/gregory-porter/

Ryo Hasegawa conducts the Charleston Symphony for a free outdoor concert on Seabrook Island.

Ryo Hasegawa conducts the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra in a partnership with My Sister’s Closet Bloomington. The program includes Amy Beach’s Gaelic Symphony, Gabriela Ortiz’s Antrópolis, and Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with Youth Concerto Winner Solar Manley.

Ryo Hasegawa conducts the Mudita Collective Orchestra for Songwriter/Orchestra in the Round featuring Hannah Stokes, Hannah Harber Wynn, and Patrick Hagerman.

Ryo Hasegawa conducts the Charleston Symphony for the Family Concert, featuring Dvorak 9th Symphony “From the New World”

Ryo Hasegawa conducts the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra in a collaboration with the Bloomington Jazz Orchestra and the Swing Dance Club at IU. The program includes works by Sofia Gubaidulina and others.

Ryo Hasegawa conducts the Chamber Orchestra of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Academy in the program featuring Respighi Trittico Botticelliano and assist/cover for Nick Hersh during the entire Academy week

The capstone of our 55th anniversary season begins with a trip down memory lane, as we recreate the opening of the BSO’s very first concert with Nicolai’s Merry Wives of Windsor Overture. Our Youth Concerto Competition Winner, Catelijne Hunt, shows us the talent of future musical generations with Saint-Saëns’s Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, and we will revel in the artistry of our musicians of today with Sibelius’s Symphony No. 2. We’ve been making music with our community for 55 seasons; we hope that our audience at this concert will continue to celebrate with us the many reasons we love calling Bloomington our home.

Ryo Hasegawa conducts the Charleston Symphony and Charleston Symphony Youth Orchestra Side-by-Side concert featuring the Concerto Competition Winner Madison Fletcher and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Capriccio Espangol.

Ryo Hasegawa will lead the members of the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra in a collaboration with Reimagining Opera for Kids for the  Nicholas Hersh's adaptation of Hansel and Gretel

Take a tour of the American musical landscape with the BSO and our partners from the Bridges Youth Orchestra and the IU Archives of African-American Music and Culture (AAAMC). Gershwin’s An American in Paris, Price’s Ethiopia’s Shadow in America, and Banfield’s Symphony No. 6: “Four Songs for Five American Voices” showcase the rich variety of American musical traditions, from jazz to spirituals.

Ryo Hasegawa conducts the Charleston Symphony for Masterwork 6 Family Concert featuring Beethoven Symphony No. 5.

Ryo Hasegawa makes his Carnegie Hall debut with the Charleston Symphony Youth Orchestra featuring the works of Thomas Cabaniss, Edmund Thornton Jenkins, Sibelius.

Ryo Hasegawa conducts Mudita Collective Orchestra featuring local songwriters round at Timucua Arts Foundation.

Join us in Spencer as we take our treasured holiday tradition on the road! This festive program will feature a mix of holiday music from around the world.  With a new “elf” leading us as Music Director, you can expect a fresh treat or two!

Join the BSO for a treasured tradition as we celebrate the holiday season with two concerts. Our 5pm early show is perfect for families with small children, and finishes just in time for you to watch the City’s Canopy of Lights. The second, slightly longer 8pm program will top off your evening with a festive mix of holiday music from around the world.  With a new “elf” leading us as Music Director, you can expect a fresh treat or two!

Ryo Hasegawa conducts the Charleston Symphony Youth Orchestra for the first concert of the season.

What are nightmares made of? Dancing skeletons, ghoulish visions, witches soaring through the night sky – face your fears with the Bloomington Symphony at this Halloween-themed concert. Featuring Bernofsky’s Wild Ride on a Broomstick, Saint-Saëns’s Danse Macabre, Slatkin’s The Raven, and Grieg’s In the Hall of the Mountain King, this concert of the musical macabre will have you whispering “Nevermore!” 

Repertoire:
The Raven by Leonard Slatkin
Danse Macabre by Camille Saint-Saens
“Wild Ride on a Broomstick” from Three Portraits of a Witch by Lauren Bernofsky
“In the Hall of the Mountain King” from Peer Gynt by Edvard Grieg
This Midnight Hour by Anna Clyne
Phantom Chapel by William Grant Still
Night on Bald Mountain by Modest Mussorgsky