South Dakota Symphony Orchestra

HIGHLIGHTS

HANDEL'S MESSIAH

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2025 
7PM

The music continues tonight, December 6.  Doors to the sanctuary open at 6:30pm.

At First Lutheran Church, Sioux Falls.

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This season includes Falla's Three-Cornered Hat, An American in Paris, Beethoven's Piano Concert No. 3, classic horror film Psycho and more!

2025-2026 Concert Season

The New York Times

"An Operatic 'Diamond on the Side of the Road' Catches Light Again"

Giants in the Earth Opera Revival Review 

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The New York Times

"Lakota Music Project Merges Two Traditions for One Common Cause"

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Education | Community

Shostakovich Festival

Explore the tumultuous life and times of Dmitri Shostakovich with the SDSO and cultural historian Joseph Horowitz through multi-media presentations, live performances, and discussions. 

Shostakovich Festival

The New Yorker

From the world premiere by Composer John Luther Adams

An article and review of ‘An Atlas of Deep Time’
by music critic Alex Ross

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An Atlas Of Deep Time

Out on Cantaloupe Music, John Luther Adams maps our geological journey with An Atlas of Deep Time.  Commissioned and recorded with the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Music Director Delta David Gier.

Now available for purchase.

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A Giant Awakening

South Dakota Symphony Orchestra Revives Pulitzer Prize-Winning "Giants in the Earth" Opera

By Keeley Ehrmantraut

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The American Scholar Magazine

The South Dakota Symphony Orchestra is featured in The American Scholar Magazine!
Cultural historian Joseph Horowitz explores the SDSO's contextualized performance of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 ("Leningrad"), performed on February 25, 2023.

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UPCOMING CONCERTS

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December 5 & 6, 2025 | 7:00 PM

Handel’s MESSIAH

First Lutheran Church

December 13, 2025 | 7:30 PM - December 14, 2025 | 2:30 PM

Christmas with the Symphony: 'Tis the Season

Mary W. Sommervold Hall

January 24, 2026 | 7:30 PM

Mozart's A Little Night Music

Mary W. Sommervold Hall

February 2, 2025 | 1:00 PM

SDSO Winter Chamber Music Concert

Hamre Recital Hall, Augustana University

February 3 & 4, 2026 | 7:00 PM

Winter Camerata Recitals

Hamre Hall

February 7, 2026 | 7:30 PM

Beethoven & Brahms

Mary W. Sommervold Hall

March 7, 2026 | 7:30 PM

Shostakovich Symphony No. 8

Mary W. Sommervold Hall

March 8, 2026 | 4:00 PM

SDSYO Winter Concert

Mary W. Sommervold Hall

March 21, 2026 | 7:30 PM

Broadway to Hollywood

Mary W. Sommervold Hall

March 29, 2026 | 1:00 PM

SDSO Chamber Music Concert

Hamre Hall

April 11, 2026 | 7:30 PM

Haydn's Glorious "The Creation"

Mary W. Sommervold Hall

April 12, 2026 | 4:30 PM

Concert For Kids & Families

Mary W. Sommervold Hall

April 25, 2026 | 7:30 PM

Mozart & Bartok

Mary W. Sommervold Hall

May 10, 2026 | 6:00 PM

SDSYO Spring Concert

Tea Area High School Performing Arts Center

May 13 & 14, 2026 | 7:00 PM

Spring Camerata Recitals

Hamre Hall

LAKOTA MUSIC PROJECT

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