Presented by Carnegie Hall

Wednesday, December 3, 2025, 8:00 PM

Venue: Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall
(881 7th Ave, New York, NY 10019)

Tickets: Tickets starts at $65 ($54 + $11 fee)

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▲ Performers

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Manfred Honeck, Music Director and Conductor
Seong-Jin Cho, Piano

▲ Program

LERA AUERBACH | Frozen Dreams (NY Premiere)
RACHMANINOFF | Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
SHOSTAKOVICH | Symphony No.5

When pianist Seong-Jin Cho last performed one of Rachmaninoff’s orchestral works at Carnegie Hall, a modern-day legend was born. The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO) now invites Cho to perform another of the composer’s pulse-quickening piano-and-orchestra showpieces: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. This exciting program also features Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony, for which the PSO earned a Best Orchestral Performance Grammy Award in 2018—the same year that conductor Manfred Honeck was named Artist of the Year by the International Classical Music Awards jury. A New York premiere by internationally renowned composer Lera Auerbach, commissioned by the PSO, rounds out the performance.

For more information, visit www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2025/12/03/Pittsburgh-Symphony-Orchestra-0800PM