The Portland Symphony Orchestra

Audition registration for the PSO's Children's Chorus is now open for the 2026-27 season! 🗣

Composed of treble voices age 9-16, this is a no-cost opportunity for young singers to showcase their choral skills as they perform in professional musical settings, alongside professional orchestral musicians, professional choirs, internationally renowned vocal soloists, under the baton of PSO conductor and Music Director, Eckart Preu.

Audition sign-ups close on Monday, July 20th at noon. Learn more and sign up to audition: https://portsym.org/childrens-chorus

In the opening concert of our 102nd season, we're celebrating our home of Portland, Maine, and music that expresses our identity.

ChoralArt Masterworks will lend their powerful vocals to Travis Ramsey’s “FIRE!” a musical retelling of Portland's Great Fire of 1866, and Portland’s rise from the ashes. Telling the story of the immense fire and the aftermath of rebuilding, it captures the resiliency of the spirit of Portland—Resurgam (“I shall rise again.”).

Bringing the focus outward is Copland’s iconic work, Appalachian Spring, while the journey into our state’s past is rounded out by works from Maine composers John Knowles Paine, the first professor of music at Harvard University and student of Hermann Kotzschmar, and Supply Belcher, also known as “the Handel of Maine.”

RESURGAM: AMERICAN FOLKTALES & HYMNS
🗓️ Sunday, September 27 & Tuesday, September 29
📍 Merrill Auditorium, Portland, Maine
Tickets and more info: https://portsym.org/resurgam

🎶This Juneteenth: Tune in all day to hear selections by Black composers and Black artists, including by a few who are coming to Maine soon!🎶

During The Midday Mix on Friday, hear from cellist Seth Parker Woods, who will be performing at Hannaford Hall with Portland Ovations in February, pianist Michelle Cann, who will be soloing with the The Portland Symphony Orchestra in their upcoming season, and saxophonist Steven Banks, who will be a part of the Portland Chamber Music Festival later this summer.

Due to the forecasted inclement weather, Thursday evening's outdoor performance of the PSO Brass Quintet at the Brunswick Gazebo on June 18 at 6 PM has been cancelled. 🌧

Live music takes you on a journey, and in the PSO's 2026-27 season, we're spanning continents, centuries, and fantastical worlds.

Come hear Midori perform Shostakovich's first violin concerto, or get swept away into the world of Miyazaki. Fight to defeat the Empire, and let the beauty of Rachmaninoff's second symphony wash over you. Whichever journey you choose to go on, we can't wait to take it with you.

Tickets to the 102nd season are on sale now at https://portsym.org/pso

Come join us at the Maine Academy of Modern Music's Resurgam Festival on Sunday! You have two chances to see us:

🎺 Hear the PSO Brass Quintet perform at 12:00 PM on the WMPG Stage.

🎻 Find our Instrument Petting Zoo in the Visitor's Center from 12:00-5:00 PM to learn about and try different instruments.

Plus, enjoy everything else Resurgam has to offer, from music, artisanal foods, craft beer, local vendors, and a wide range of activities. View the map and schedule: https://www.resurgamfestival.com/map-schedule

Please join us in welcoming Gregory Tompkins to the PSO as section violin!

Violinist Gregory Tompkins regularly performs in solo, chamber and orchestral settings throughout the United States. In addition to the Portland Symphony Orchestra, Gregory is a member of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, the Cape Symphony Orchestra, and serves as principal second violin for Orchestra New England.

Let your PSO serenade you into summer with a series of pop-up performances across Maine. Our brass quintet will take four different stages over four different nights, bringing big sound, quick wit, and plenty of musical surprises along the way. It’s chamber music that’s vibrant, fun, and anything but stuffy.

Monday, June 15th: Greene Block + Studios, Waterville
Tuesday, June 16th: Wells Harbor Park, Wells
Wednesday, June 17th: 317 Main Community Music School, Yarmouth
Thursday, June 18th: Maine Street Mall & Gazebo, Brunswick

View the program: https://portsym.org/summer-brass