Upcoming Concerts and Events

Sponsored by Indiana Grand Racing & Casino. Whether you like yours on the rocks, neat, with a splash or shaken and strained, bourbon is the event’s featured beverage served by the top bourbon distilleries in the country large and small.

Featuring Ronan Tynan, tenor. You’ll be enchanted by the beautiful ballads and toe-tapping jigs of the Emerald Isle. Sing along to When Irish Eyes Are Smiling with the orchestra.

Experience an evening of great choral music performed by the Philharmonic Festival Chorus and the Columbus Indiana Children’s Concert Choir. Music includes a variety of styles and composers including Handel, Moses Hogan, Brahms, Dan Forrest, Rutter and Lauridsen. Plus some spectacula

Featuring Susie Park, violin. Young Australian-born violinist Susie Park – known worldwide for her “searing emotive range” and dynamic stage presence - joins the Phil for Tchaikovsky’s spirited Violin Concerto.

Sponsored by Joe & Sher Cunningham. Known across the world for her powerful voice and perfect pitch, Lea Salonga is a singer and actress best known for her Tony Award winning role in Miss Saigon. She was also the first Asian to play Eponine in the Broadway musical Les Misérables. 

Join us as we celebrate the 5th Annual Lobsterfest in 2018, an authentic New England Clambake and Lobster Boil fundraiser recreated Midwest-style in Columbus, Indiana! This succulent feast of flavorful Maine lobsters and clams + traditional fixin’s await you.

This free, outdoor pops concert is performed on the grounds of the Bartholomew County Veterans Memorial. Join the Philharmonic for a patriotic salute to honor those who have served and are serving in the United States Armed Forces.

Featuring Tony DeSare, piano. Tony DeSare Returns - back by popular demand following his stunning performance in 2017. If you missed him then, now’s your chance to catch this outstanding entertainer.

Featuring SeungAh Hong, cello. Playing with a palpable sense of emotion and joy through the years, SeungAh Hong, has captured the hearts of Philharmonic audiences.

Featuring the Philharmonic Chorus. No other choral work has enjoyed such enduring popularity. The Philharmonic is proud to present our own extraordinary Philharmonic Chorus, joined by regional high school choirs, for a performance of Handel’s Messiah.

Featuring Madelyn Claire Lego + CICC. Columbus’s own Madelyn Lego joins the Philharmonic for popsy holiday vocals in her return from New York City. This year, back by popular demand, the Philharmonic’s own Columbus Indiana Children’s Choir (CICC) will thrill with their superb expressi

Featuring Norman Krieger, piano. Norman Krieger, internationally-celebrated American pianist, performs the most poetic of Beethoven’s piano concertos.

Featuring Soh-Hyun, violin +Leo Altino, cello. Our combined forces present Jubilate Deo, a stirring new work written by brilliant composer Dan Forrest about “all lands” in a wide variety of exciting international styles.

Featuring Drew Petersen, piano. Celebrate the most melodious of composers with the sublime musicianship of Drew Petersen who wowed us this past season with his effortless virtuosity.