Seattle\u2019s Teen Summer Musical<\/a> and other programming.\u00a0<\/p>\nFor the last three seasons, Benaroya Hall has averaged 19 ticketed concerts or events between mid-July and the end of August, Ward said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The renovation is meant to make Benaroya Hall\u2019s public spaces, as well as its main lobby, more welcoming and modern and attract more people both to the building itself and to downtown more broadly.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The refresh, designed by local firm Mithun, includes a new cafe with expanded seating, a new welcome desk and \u201cticket concierge,\u201d a new upstairs lounge\u00a0and a community room designed to expand education and community events. Its main lobby will get a new central bar, new seating and updated carpet.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The $20 million capital campaign for the project was supported by major local philanthropists, including the Friday Foundation, Norcliffe Foundation, Leslie and Dale Chihuly, the Gates Foundation, Allen Family Philanthropies (formerly the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation) and Linda Nordstrom.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Last summer\u2019s phase one of construction focused on exterior work, including installing new digital marquees and replacing unused doors along Third Avenue with windows. The latter was to prepare for the fixed seating that will be installed along the windows in phase two.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That phase will start in April, but there will be no impact on performances, Ward said. All construction will occur behind construction walls, including demolition of existing spaces and framing of the new. (More information will be shared with patrons in the coming weeks, Ward said.)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Music director Xian Zhang directs six more evening programs this winter and spring, including compositions by Beethoven, Mozart, Gershwin and Mahler.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For the 2026-2027 season, Xian will take the podium with the Symphony for performances of works by Mozart, Haydn, Rimsky-Korsakov, Brahms, Berlioz and Tchaikovsky, among others. Also on the calendar are Beethoven\u2019s Symphony No. 6 and Tchaikovsky\u2019s Piano Concerto No. 1, and world premieres of Steven Mackey\u2019s \u201cConcerto for Orchestra\u201d and Joe Pereira\u2019s \u201cTimpani Concerto.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
In October, works by local composer Samuel Adams, “Etudes for Piano” and the U.S. Premiere of “Devotions for String Quartet and Percussion,” will open the Octave 9 Series. Another calendar highlight includes Berlioz\u2019s \u201cRomeo and Juliet,” wherein Tacoma-raised operatic superstar J\u2019Nai Bridges makes her long-overdue Seattle Symphony debut.<\/p>\n
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