Concerts
2025-2026 Season Concerts
We are thrilled to announce our new Music Director/Conductor Daniel Wiley's premiere season for our 2025–26 season!​​
"As we count down the weeks to opening night, I invite you to join us for a season filled with color, energy, and imagination; from Fire & Fjord to the magic of Harry Potter, join us for a host of unique and memorable concert experiences.
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The music is ready, all it needs is you!"
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November 16, 2025
Fire and Fjord
Guest Soloist: Cathal Breslin, piano
Music Director, Daniel Wiley marks his debut and ignites the season with Fire & Fjord, a vivid Nordic-inspired program that bursts with bold contrasts and energy. The program opens with Carl Nielsen’s Symphonic Rhapsody, an embodiment of sweeping Nordic color.
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Pianist Cathal Breslin, Professor of Piano at ASU performs Grieg’s Piano Concerto, a romantic masterpiece. The journey concludes with Sibelius’ Symphony No. 2, hailed as his most uplifting work.
Concert Sponsor: Dr. Anne Levig
Guest Artist Sponsor: Jan Truelsen
December 14, 2025
Home for the Holidays
Celebrate the joy of the season with a beloved concert conducted by Associate Conductor, Nicholas Ross, featuring a side-by-side with the West Valley Youth Symphony, Claire Gordon, Conductor.
Enjoy cherished carols and orchestral showpieces including White Christmas, Tyzik’s Behold the Lights, Sleigh Ride and other favorite sing-alongs.
Bring your friends and family to experience the beauty of live music and the spirit of the season – a perfect way to welcome the holidays.
Concert and Guest Artist Sponsors: Carter & Kay Marsden
January 11, 2026
Legacy of A Titan
Guest Soloist: Robert Spring, clarinet
The West Valley Symphony explores the enduring impact of Beethoven in Legacy of a Titan – a program that traces the imprint of his genius across generations of composers.
The concert opens with a World Premiere performance of Orpheus: Symphonic Variations on Themes by Beethoven by Iranian composer Farhad Poupel, a work that re-imagines Beethoven’s motifs through a modern lens, blending reverence with originality. Then, clarinetist Robert Spring, Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University and one of the instrument's most celebrated performers, joins the orchestra for
Weber’s Clarinet Concerto No. 1 – a virtuosic showcase that helped define the clarinet’s Romantic voice and owes much to the expressive freedoms Beethoven helped usher in. The program culminates in Brahms’s Symphony No. 4, a monumental achievement born under the long shadow of Beethoven’s legacy – a work that Brahms labored over for years, ultimately emerging with a symphony that honors the past while forging its own bold path.
Legacy of a Titan offers a powerful reflection on how one composer’s influence shaped the course of Western music – and continues to inspire artists today.
Concert Sponsor: Sandra J. Staehle
Guest Artist Sponsor: Kenneth Martin
February 15, 2026
Witches, Wizards and the Music of Harry Potter
John Williams’ iconic themes for the first three Harry Potter films became the magical heart of the series, echoing through every chapter.
This concert features highlights from across the saga, plus selections from The Wizard of Oz and The Sorcerer’s Apprentice – a spellbinding afternoon for kids of all ages.
Concert Sponsor: John E. Hall
March 1, 2026
Seascapes
Guest Soloist: Luke Hill, violin
This nautical program explores the deep connection between water and orchestral color, as composers evoke crashing waves, shifting tides, and misty shores through sound. Concertmaster Luke Hill takes center stage in Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy, a sweeping work of folk-inspired lyricism.
After intermission, the journey continues with Bloch’s Poems of the Sea and Mendelssohn’s The Hebrides, concluding with Frank Bridge’s The Sea – a lush, cinematic portrait of the ocean’s every-changing moods.
Concert Sponsor: Kenneth Martin
Guest Artist Sponsor: Jan Truelsen
March 22, 2026
Fate and Defiance
Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 5
Georges Bizet/arr. Serebrier, Carmen Symphony
​Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 opens with one of the most famous musical statements of all time – a defiant gesture in the face of fate.
Paired with Bizet’s Carmen Symphony, this program explores resistance in many forms: Beethoven’s heroic struggle through adversity, and Bizet’s bold portrayal of passion, class and freedom in a world that expected convention.
Concert Sponsors: Eugene & Judy Neigoff
Watch & Listen
to your favorite WVS performances from past seasons on our YouTube channel.
Special thanks to 9th Symphony Productions for the great recordings!