Resonate Festival returns to Dr Phillips Center with a weeklong celebration of the music of Beethoven!

Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra is celebrating Beethoven 200 years later and the music that outlived the man.

Resonate Festival returns to Orlando with a weeklong celebration featuring the music of Beethoven! Hear Beethoven’s works in a series of concerts featuring Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra.

Curated by Music Director Eric Jacobsen specifically for Orlando audiences in a fun and invigorating new way, the concerts take place on November 5, 7, and 8, inside Dr. Phillips Center’s Steinmetz Hall.

Beethoven Symphony No. 5

Nov. 5 at 7 p.m.

Featuring Cellist Mike Block and the UCF University Choir

Beethoven Chamber Works

Nov. 5 at 8:30 p.m.

Eric on Cello with Mike Block and Clarinetist John Bruce Yeh

(only available to those who purchase table seating for the 7 pm concert)

Resonate Festival Family Concert

Nov. 7 at 1 p.m.

Selections from Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw’s moving "The Mountain that Loved a Bird."

Beethoven Symphony No. 4

Nov. 7 at 7:30 p.m.

The program also includes Caroline Shaw's "The Mountain that Loved a Bird"

and selections from Vivaldi's Gloria in D Major, RV 589

Beethoven Symphony No. 6

Nov. 8 at 2:30 p.m.

The program also features guest artist John Bruce Yeh on the John William Clarinet Concerto.

Beethoven Symphony No. 5 - Nov. 5 at 7 pm

Thursday evening, join Jacobsen and musicians from your Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra in Steinmetz Hall at Dr. Phillips Center as they are joined by the University of Central Florida University Choir to perform “Hope on the Hill” by Mike Block, featuring him on cello. This performance will include a performance of Beethoven’s stirring Symphony No. 5, which is widely considered one of the greatest pieces in the classical music canon.

This concert will include table seating on the main floor (access to both 7 p.m. & 8:30 p.m. concerts), as well as seated chairs in the rear of the main floor (access to 7 p.m. concert only).

Resonate Festival Family Concert - Nov. 7 at 1 pm

The Resonate Festival Family Concert features musical selections from Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, widely considered one of the greatest pieces in the classical music canon. This program also features Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw’s moving The Mountain that Loved a Bird, a tender and imaginative work inspired by a children’s story.

Beethoven Symphony No. 4 - Nov. 7 at 7:30 pm

Hear the beauty and joyful energy of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4 – a work admired by composers from Schumann to Berlioz for its warmth, brilliance, and orchestration.

The program also features Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw’s moving The Mountain that Loved a Bird, a tender and imaginative work inspired by a children’s story, alongside selections from Vivaldi’s radiant Gloria, one of the Baroque era’s most uplifting choral masterpieces.

This Classics Series concert is also a part of this Season’s Resonate Festival, curated by Music Director Eric Jacobsen. Take part in a celebration of one of history’s greatest composers with concerts dedicated to Beethoven’s genius and influence on the classical canon.

Beethoven Symphony No. 6 - Nov. 8 at 2:30 pm

Become immersed in Beethoven’s beloved “Pastoral” Symphony No. 6, a groundbreaking work that paints vivid musical scenes of nature, countryside celebrations, flowing streams, and dramatic thunderstorms. Symphony No. 6 remains one of the most innovative and emotionally transporting symphonies ever composed.

The concert also features a Florida premiere of John Williams’ Clarinet Concerto performed by legendary Chicago Symphony Orchestra Assistant Principal Clarinetist John Bruce Yeh. Known for his iconic film scores, Williams brings his distinctive musical voice to the concert hall in a work that highlights the clarinet’s expressive range, from lyrical, singing melodies to virtuosic passages that showcase the instrument’s agility and brilliance.

Audience participation takes center stage as concertgoers vote live for the encore performance.

For more information and to buy tickets: https://orlandophil.org/resonate-festival/

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