Every journey starts with a single step. Or in Doreen Carwithen’s case, One Damn Thing After Another. Her exhilarating concert overture ODTAA opens our season at full stride, all momentum and mischief. Then the spotlight turns to the newest voice on our stage: Caroline Su, the winner of CCS’s Novik Competition, performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto in Bb Major, No. 15, K450 with Capital City Symphony, under the baton of Maestra Gau.

What happens when an orchestra becomes a forest? Find out at The Mighty Pines, our family concert for every generation. But the adventure starts before the lights dim.

Capital City Symphony teams up with DC’s own swing-and-cocktail-jazz favorites Chaise Lounge for a holiday celebration like no other. Lush strings, velvet vocals, and your favorite songs of the season, served with a twist. Two performances only. It’s a perfect gift for the whole city.

No element shapes us like water, and no concert moves quite like this one. Anna Clyne’s Restless Oceans opens with a wave: the musicians of CCS don’t just play this music, they stomp and sing it, an orchestra becoming a force of nature in real time.

Force of Nature reaches its destination: each other. A German Requiem closes the season with music Brahms wrote not for the dead, but for those left living.