Symphonic Mastery Closes The Season

Beethoven's masterpiece brings to a close the Seattle Symphony Orchestra's 2025/26 season in magnificent style! Joined by the voices of the Seattle Symphony Chorale and soloists Toni Marie Palmertree, Jennifer Johnson Cano, Baek Seokjong and Robert Pomakov, music director Xian Zhang leads the orchestra through the glory of Beethoven's final work.

Beethoven's Masterpiece

Often hailed as the most central work of Western classical music as well as 'the symphony to end all symphonies', Beethoven's Ninth is the apex of technical and compositional mastery as well as imagination. Composed and first performed in 1824, the Ninth would be Beethoven's final complete symphony, so it's fitting that it would contain his most well-known melody. Pushing the symphonic structure to its absolute limits, the epic journey immortalizes the unity of mankind and its place in the universe, culminating in the ever-popular and ebullient Ode To Joy finale.