Welcome to your Season 2025
14 February 2025.
Join us for the official opening of our Season 2025 on 1 March with Brahms's Violin Concerto performed by one of the greatest violinists in the world, Canadian virtuoso James Ehnes.
In this epic season opener, Ehnes reunites with TSO Chief Conductor and Artistic Director Eivind Aadland, who will direct the soloist and orchestra in this brilliant and monumental concerto.
Rare chance to see our Chief Conductor outside the concert hall
After this first concert of our Federation Concert Hall series, Eivind will hit the road with TSO Strings, performing in Sorell and Kingston. He returns to Hobart on 13 March for our first 6pm concert for the year, followed by Brass in St David's on 21 March.
'I am so looking forward to bringing the orchestra to the communities of Kingston and Sorell,' Eivind says. 'We have an incredible orchestra in Tasmania and I hope that this year more people than ever get to experience it, whether that is in the concert hall or one of the many fantastic venues we have around the state.'
Eivind will also conduct our second Federation Concert Hall event for the year, Four Last Songs on 29 March. Experience Richard Strauss’s poignant and profound final songs performed by the TSO with members of the Australian National Academy of Music and Australian soprano Siobhan Stagg.
Our musicians have already been busy throughout February, performing two sold-out shows - Symphony on the Waterfront in Devonport and our first Obscura concert for the year, starring ARIA award winning oud performer Joseph Tawadros.
TSO Chief Conductor and Artistic Director Eivind Aadland directs the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra in the Federation Concert Hall.
Multi-Grammy award winning opera star Joyce DiDonato will make her Australian debut in a gala concert with the TSO in Hobart on 15 November.
A series of showstoppers
It's clear that it's going to be a huge year for the orchestra, with an exciting program featuring internationally acclaimed guest stars, surprising collaborations and three world premieres.
In a coup for Tasmania, multi-Grammy award winning opera star Joyce DiDonato will make her Australian debut with the TSO in Hobart on 15 November. Eivind, who lives in Norway, again returns to Tasmania to conduct this gala concert.
Also in November, Eivind will direct The Creation on 7 November and Elgar’s Cello Concerto on 22 November.
Other season highlights include Beethoven’s Triple Concerto on 4 April, starring TSO Concertmaster Emma McGrath, TSO Principal Cello Jonathan Békés and pianist Konstantin Shamray, performing Beethoven’s masterwork.
Experimental and approachable
Obscura at the Odeon in 2025 is proving a hit with concert goers, with our first concert of the 2025 series selling out.
The TSO will be back at the Odeon in August for Obscura 2 | Electronica featuring violinist and electronica artist Hannah Solveij and in October for Obscura 3 | Sequenza curated by Australian master choreographer Graeme Murphy AO.
Our 6pm Series includes the world premiere of a double bass concerto by Richard Mills AO, as well as a concert featuring music from Alfred Hitchcock’s film Psycho.
The first 6pm concert for the year, Dance Macabre, opens with Saint-Saëns's pop culture favourite, Danse macabre, the concert also includes the world premiere of a saxophone concerto by Tasmanian composer and musician Jabra Latham.
The TSO's Obscura at the Odeon series returns in 2025.
Plan your Season 2025 by visiting our Concerts page.
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