Mercury Orchestra

Summer heat's got nothing on us as we rehearse Beethoven in the BYSO's new space. Hope to see you Saturday night in (the also air-conditioned) Sanders Theatre--ticket/event info below.

Channing Yu and Mercury Orchestra rehearse Beethoven Mercury Orchestra in rehearsal Channing Yu, pianist and conductor Recorded live on 13 July 2025, Boston, Massachusetts Video: Mai Anh Huynh www.mercuryorchestra.org

Tonight (8PM) at Sanders Theatre at Harvard--
Brahms Schicksalslied and Bruckner 7
There will be singing. There will be Wagner tubas. There will be one very large cymbal crash....

Join us for our next concert led by Music Director Channing Yu, where we present masterworks by Estonian composer Ester Mägi, the second edition (an earlier version) of Tchaikovsky's first piano concerto, and Rachmaninoff's starkly beautiful Third Symphony. The concert features pianist Che Li, the recently declared winner of the 2023 Fou Ts'ong International Concerto Competition. Jordan Hall at New England Conservatory in Boston, on Saturday, August 26, at 7:30 pm. Admission is free--no tickets are required--suggested $10 donation at the door. http://mailchi.mp/39a68f92d336/mercury-orchestra-performs-magi-tchaikovsky-rachmaninoff-10666059

First rehearsal tonight in Jordan Hall. Concert this Saturday, 7:30 (free/unticketed) 🎶🎵🎹

Our intrepid leader conducting from the piano at this evening’s rehearsal. Concert (free!) is 8/26 at Jordan Hall at NEC. Piano competition winner TBD this weekend.

Mercury Orchestra is excited to announce an additional late-season date for 2023 ORCHESTRA AUDITIONS—July 31, 2023—for new STRINGS members and for rehearsal substitute members in all other instruments.

Mercury Orchestra | Auditions Auditions for new members are held in May-June. The orchestra, founded in 2008, performs great works of the symphony orchestra repertoire, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Tonight at 8PM!!

It's Mahler time!

Mercury Orchestra announces auditions for new members and substitute members for its 2023 season, which includes Mahler's Symphony No. 9, Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 3, and Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 (Second Edition). More information at http://www.mercuryorchestra.org/auditions

Here are all of the details for tomorrow's concert--not to be missed, if you are here:

Mercury Orchestra performs Beethoven The Mercury Orchestra, national winner of the 2010 American Prize in Orchestral Performance, presents an odyssey of the individual against the forces of fate, through the revolutionary music of Ludwig van Beethoven. Written for Heinrich Joseph von Collin's 1804 tragedy Coriolan, the Coriolan Over...