Presenting 170 events across the year, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Season 2025 celebrates live orchestral music and its distinctive power to deeply immerse both musicians and audiences into the essence of a work.

　　The 2025 mainstage program features 35 Australian works, and the world premieres of 16 new commissions and co-commissions, including six works by female composers and six by First Nations artists. The stellar line up of international and Australian musicians joining the MSO marks six Australian debuts and 12 MSO debuts.

　　Visiting international superstars include the unbridled brilliance of Chinese pianist Lang Lang (with the MSO and, separately, in Recital), the highly anticipated Australian debut of multi–Grammy Award-winning American soprano Joyce DiDonato, and British pianist Nicholas McCarthy making his Australian debut playing Ravel’s unique Concerto for the Left Hand.

　　The internationally acclaimed Singapore Symphony Orchestra will tour Australia for the first time with a spectacular program conducted by artistic director Hans Graf featuring 17-year-old violin sensation Chloe Chua and Australian-born principal cellist Ng Pei-Sian.

　　In his fourth year leading the MSO, Chief Conductor and Artistic Advisor Jaime Martín conducts works from Brahms, Ravel, Mozart, the Mendelssohn siblings, Mahler, Rachmaninov.

　　Superstar pianist Lang Lang headlines the Winter Gala in June with Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concerto No.2, and sensational American soprano Joyce DiDonato makes her Australian debut at the Spring Gala in November.

　　The 150th anniversary of Maurice Ravel’s birth will be celebrated throughout the year with Jaime Martín conducting La Valse in the Joined with Gold concert in March, and a rare performance of the full ballet score for Daphnis et Chloé in April.

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