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2025–26 Season

Beethoven and Marsalis

May 28 - May 31, 2026

Beethoven and Marsalis

May 28 - May 31, 2026

Featured Artists

Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Conductor

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra

Composer, trumpeter, and standard-bearer for the art form, jazz legend Wynton Marsalis has earned scores of awards including the Pulitzer Prize for Music. In 1983, he became the first and only artist ever to win both a Classical and Jazz Grammy in the same year; in 1984 he did it again. Joined by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra performs Marsalis’s newest work on a program with Beethoven’s lively, melodic Seventh Symphony. 

Wynton Marsalis is a frequent welcome presence at the Kimmel Center; he has performed with The Philadelphia Orchestra many times, and brings the Jazz at Lincoln Center to Ensemble Arts Philly every year. His Blues Symphony was recorded by The Philadelphia Orchestra in 2021. 

He returns this season for the world premiere of his newest classical work, this time to be performed with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra alongside The Philadelphia Orchestra. Artists at the top of their form, two great orchestras performing as one. This promises to be one of the most exciting musical events of the season.

Hear Marsalis’s new symphony alongside that of another genius: Beethoven’s sparkling Seventh, a joyous work that never fails to lift the listener’s spirits.  

Program

Wolfe

Liberty Bell Overture (Philadelphia Orchestra commission)

Beethoven

Symphony No. 7

Marsalis

Symphony No. 5 (“Liberty”) (world premiere, Philadelphia Orchestra commission)

Additional Performance Information