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| | Grand Rapids String Quartet (Elise Smith, violin; Ashley Grace Davies, violin; Darren Chan, viola; McCormack Wyn, cello)
Borodin, String Quartet No. 2 in D Major
Boccherini, String Quartet No. 4 in G Major, “La Tiranna”
Beethoven, String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, mvmt. II: Allegro ma non Troppo
HSO members McCormack Wyn and Darren Chan are joined by violinists Elise Smith and Ashley Grace Davies as the Grand Rapids String Quartet performs a concert of string quartet masterpieces. Headlined by Alexander Borodin’s famous romantic String Quartet No. 2 in D major, a monumental work that has inspired musicals and movie soundtracks, the concert also includes Luigi Boccherini’s fiery Quartet No. 4 in G (“La Tiranna”), and the second movement of Beethoven’s Quartet No. 15 in A minor.
Attendance is FREE. Please consider using the following links to donate to the Second Reformed Church and the Holland Symphony Orchestra. | Buy Tickets |
| | HSO Wind Quintet (Rebecca VanDeWalker, Flute; Caitlin Kramer, Oboe; Gary June, Clarinet; Kerrissa Silverthorne, Bassoon; Greg Bassett, Horn)
The HSO Wind Quintet presents a program of American Landscapes: music of composers Amy Beach, Eric Ewazen, and Valerie Coleman evokes the calm of a New Hampshire forest, the grandeur of the Roaring Fork river in Colorado, and the bluesy southern charm along the Mississippi River. The program concludes in Michigan, with a piece commissioned and premiered in the state: Samuel Barber’s famous Summer Music.
Attendance is FREE. Please consider using the following links to give a donation to the Harderwyk Church and the Holland Symphony Orchestra. | Buy Tickets |
| | 2025 Donor Brunch: A FREE Donor Appreciation Event!
Saturday, November 22, 2025
Doors open at 10:30 AM, Music starts at 11 AM
Macatawa Bay Yacht Club (2157 S Shore Dr, Macatawa, MI 49434)
Enjoy an HSO chamber music performance and indulge yourself at the Mimosa bar with sparkling wine mixed with your choice of orange, pineapple, cranberry or grapefruit juices. Snack on a continental brunch, including coffee, muffins, donuts, sweetbreads, and a variety of bagels while you catch up with all your favorite HSO family members. Call 616-796-6780 or email Ticketing@HollandSymphony.org by November 8.
Made possible through a generous gift from Jeff & Peg Padnos | Buy Tickets |
| | Sun, Nov 23, 2025, 3 PM
West Ottawa Performing Arts Center
Our youth orchestra students are busy preparing music for their fall concert. Enjoy their artistry and support their dedication by coming to their fall concert at WOPAC. Enjoy music by Haydn, Vaughan Williams, and Tchaikovsky--including selections from The Nutcracker. | Buy Tickets |
| | Holland Symphony Orchestra
Johannes Müller Stosch, Music Director & Conductor
Steve & Allison Martin, vocalists
Local favorites Steve and Allison Martin join HSO for festive selections from The Nutcracker, Leroy Anderson’s classic Sleigh Ride, “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” and some of the Martins’ favorite songs, including “The Prayer,” “O Holy Night,” and “Ave Maria.” Rounding out the family-friendly concert will be the audience favorite “Christmas Singalong,” full of well-known holiday carols!
Steve and Allison are well known in West Michigan, having sung on opera stages and musical productions locally and around the country. Allison received her Masters of Music from Michigan State University. Steve holds a doctorate and master’s in music from Michigan State University. He has taught at the college level and is now Director of Music and Fine Arts at Memorial Drive United Methodist Church in Houston, Texas. | Buy Tickets |
| | Johannes Müller Stosch, conductor
Michelle Areyzaga, soprano
West Ottawa Performing Arts Center
STILL Summerland
DEBUSSY Petite Suite
MAHLER Symphony No. 4 (chamber version)
William Grant Still wrote more than 150 compositions, merging musical aspects of his African American heritage with traditional European classical forms. Originally composed for solo piano, Summerland (1937) is a short, intensely expressive elegy — dreamy and atmospheric, suggesting the summer of its title, with hints of the blues and a nod to his fellow composer Debussy. Motivated by the poems of Paul Verlaine (1844-1896), Debussy’s 1889 Petite Suite (Small Suite) was originally composed for piano duet and later orchestrated by his colleague Henri Büsser. The four movements of this whimsical tone poem paint musical pictures of 18th-century aristocrats on country outings, a romantic boat ride at dusk on a dark lake, a playful menuetto, and a sparkling ballet. Mahler’s fourth symphony is a contrapuntal, folk-tune inspired musical journey from experience to innocence, from complexity to simplicity, and from earthly life to heaven, complete with tender string passages, brass chorales, and lilting soprano lines. Klaus Simon’s 2007 chamber arrangement retains Mahler’s unmistakable orchestral sound in a way that enables chamber orchestras to perform this intimate and tender symphony. HSO audiences first met Chicago-based soprano Michelle Areyzaga at the 2022 holiday concert. Back by popular demand, Michelle Areyzaga makes her second appearance with HSO. “Soprano Michelle Areyzaga sang with a round, clear tone throughout her register. Areyzaga’s luminous soprano plumbed the depths of the text, alternating between plaintive folkishness … to soaring, operatic grandeur.” – Chicago Classical Review | Buy Tickets |
| | Johannes Müller Stosch, conductor
Mikhail Korzhev, piano
West Ottawa Performing Arts Center
AUDIENCE CHOICE 2026
BONDS Montgomery Variations
MARX Romantic Piano Concerto
Audience Choice: Help us choose the opening piece for this concert! Look for details in fall, 2025.
After studying piano and composition with Florence Price in Chicago, Margaret Bonds composed her variations in the wake of the 1963 firebombing of Birmingham, Alabama’s 16th Street Baptist Church. She describes them as “a group of freestyle variations based on the Negro Spiritual theme; I want Jesus to Walk with Me. The treatment suggests the manner in which Bach constructed his partitas – a bold statement of the theme, followed by variations of the theme.” A profound lyricist and yearning optimist, Austrian composer Joseph Marx considered himself a musical poet of happiness. HSO Music Director Johannes Müller Stosch describes his 1919 Romantic Piano Concerto as “the Austrian counterpart of Rachmaninoff’s second piano concerto, with lush romantic melodies, harmonies, and plenty of technical fireworks for the soloist.” The piece was resurrected and made popular by famed pianist Jorge Bolet, is a rarely performed gem melding orchestra with piano in a duet of energy and radiant lyricism.
Mikhail Korzzev is one of the few pianists of this generation who has the boldness, technique, and strength to take on Marx’s Romantic Piano Concerto. He “projects strength, atmosphere and the ability to tangle even the knottiest passages…” (International Record Review) | Buy Tickets |
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