
Founded in 1924 | Francisco Noya, Music Director & Conductor
Upcoming Concerts

Sunday, November 9, 2025
Boston Civic Symphony’s season opener will consist of
Amanda Harberg – Solis for Orchestra
Brahms double concerto violin and cello with Sophie Wang, Violin and Mickey Katz, Cello.
We will conclude with Tchaikovsky- Symphony Nº 6

Sunday, December 14, 2025
Family Holiday concert featuring the winner of our Young Artists Concerto Competition!

Sunday, March 28, 2026
Aaron Copland – Lincoln Portrait
Mahler – Symphony No. 5.

Sunday April 26, 2026
Britten Double Concerto for Violin and Viola
Ariana Kim on violin and Daniel Kim on viola
Edward Elgar’s Enigma Variations
Past Concerts

Sunday, April 27, 2025
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
with the Chorus Pro Musica
Soprano: Patrice Tiedemann
Alto: Emily Harmon
Tenor: Neal Ferreira
Bass: Paul LaRosa


Sunday, March 9, 2025
Wagner: Overture to Meistersinger
George Walker: Trombone Concerto
Sibelius: Music from “The Tempest”
Sibelius : Symphony N° 7

Sunday, December 15, 2024
Holiday concert with Boston Latin School Chorus

Sunday, November 10, 2024
Schubert: Rosamunde Overture
Strauss: Four Last Songs. Featuring Diana McVey, Soprano Soloist.
Schubert: Unfinished Symphony
Strauss: Rosenkavalier Suite. Featuring Diana McVey, Vera Savage, and Maggie Kinabrew

Sunday, May 12, 2024
Florence Price – String Quartet No. 1 in G Major
Movement II – Andante Moderato (arr. by Peter Stanley Martin 2020)
Golijov – Azul
Allison Eldredge, Cello Soloist
Respighi – Pines of Rome

Sunday, March 3, 2024
Featuring soloist Dana Chang 2023-24 winner of the Boston Civic Symphony Young Artist Concerto Competition
Claude Debussy – Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
Henryk Wieniawski – Violin Concerto Nº2, 3rd movement
Carl Nielsen – Symphony Nº4 Op. 29 “The Inextin

Sunday, October 29, 2023
Chevalier de Saint-Georges – Symphony Op 11 N°2
Tchaikovsky – Violin Concerto in D Op. 35
Alexander Velinzon, soloist
Brahms – Symphony Nº 4 Op. 98

Sunday, April 30, 2023
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Dance from Otello Op79
Arvo Pärt: “Lamentate” – Bruce Brubaker, Piano soloist
Beethoven- Symphony N° 6 “Pastoral”

Sunday, March 12, 2023
Sibelius : Finlandia
Kodaly: Hary Janos Suite
William Dawson: Symphony on Negro Themes

Sunday, November 13, 2022
Apostolos Paraskevas: “Santiago in the Stream”
Narrator Joe Wilson Jr.
Narration written by Ryan Edwards
S. Barber: Symphony Nº 1
R. Schumann: Symphony Nº 4 Op 120

Sunday, May 1, 2022
John Carter – Cantata Prelude – #3 Sometimes I Feel
Gustav Mahler – Knaben Wunderhor – Tamboursg’sell
John Carter – Cantata #4 Air
Gustav Mahler – Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen – Ging Heut’ Morgen
John Carter – Cantata – #5 Toccata
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Sunday, March 6, 2022
Jonathan Bailey Holland – Colors
Mozart Piano Concerto in D minor K466
Yutong Sun, piano soloist
Beethoven – Symphony No 4 in Bb major, op. 60

Sunday, October 31 , 2021
Music of Mozart, Grant Still, and Haydn.
Francisco Noya – Conductor
Charles Overton, Harp soloist

Sunday, June 13 , 2021
Walker: Lyric for Strings
Respighi: Gli Uccelli (“The Birds”)
Beethoven: Violin Concerto
Yevgeny Kutik – Solo Violin

Sunday, October 25, 2020
William Grant Still – Out of the Silence
Elgar – Chanson de Nuit
Sibelius – Rakastava
Wagner – Siegfried Idyll
Ravel – Ma Mere L’Oye Suite
Purchase Tickets
Sunday, November 9, 2025

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Sunday, December 14, 2025

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Sunday, March 28, 2026

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Sunday April 26, 2026

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Our Conductors

Francisco Noya
Conductor
Francisco Noya is a prominent figure in the Boston and New England music scene, where he has earned a reputation as a versatile interpreter of symphonic and operatic literature. He served as music director of the Longwood Symphony Orchestra in Boston and Symphony by the Sea in Manchester. Mr. Noya currently serves as resident conductor of the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra, where he represents the Philharmonic artistically and educationally throughout the Rhode Island community. He is also the music director of the New Philharmonia Orchestra in Newton, MA.Noya is also a respected member of the conducting faculty of the Berklee College of Music in Boston. In the fall of 2008, he began his tenure as music director of the Berklee Contemporary Symphony Orchestra, where he is actively engaged in the exploration of cutting-edge orchestral repertoire.
Noya began his professional career in his native Venezuela, as conductor of the Youth Orchestra of Valencia, one of the original ensembles of “El Sistema.” After earning advanced degrees in composition and conducting from Boston University, Noya was appointed to serve as assistant conductor of the Caracas Philharmonic and assistant to the music director of the Teatro Teresa Carreño, one of the most prestigious theaters in Latin America. Noya continued his conducting career in the United States by serving as music director of the Empire State Youth Orchestra in Albany, New York for ten seasons. During his tenure, he led the group on two European tours as well as in concerts at both Carnegie Hall in New York City and in Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood.
In the U.S., Noya has appeared as guest conductor of the Boston Pops, Baltimore, Nashville, San Antonio, and Omaha Symphony Orchestras, and the Cape Cod Symphony, among others. In addition, he has performed internationally with orchestras in Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Spain, Italy and Russia. In Venezuela, Noya has collaborated with “El Sistema,” teaching Master Classes and conducting orchestral performances throughout the country. For the past three seasons, Noya has been a guest conductor with the Orquesta Académica of Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires.

Ken Yanagisawa
Associate Conductor
Japanese-American conductor Ken Yanagisawa is the Music Director of the Boston Opera Collaborative and the Boston Annex Players, the Associate Conductor of the Boston Civic Symphony, the Assistant Conductor of the New Philharmonia Orchestra, and an Assistant Professor at Berklee College of Music. He made his Japanese debut conducting Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte with Kansai Nikikai and the Japan Century Symphony Orchestra in February 2023 and will return in Fall 2026 to conduct Mozart’s Clemenza di Tito. A 2024 Aspen Conducting Academy Fellow and James Conlon Conductor Prize recipient, Ken has previously served as a Conducting Apprentice with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and has assisted/covered the National Symphony Orchestra, Rhode Island Philharmonic, Berlin Academy of American Music, and Berlin Opernfest, among others.
Ken recently completed a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Orchestral Conducting at Boston University under the guidance of James Burton and also holds graduate degrees in conducting from the Manhattan School of Music and a B.A. in music from Yale University. Prior to Yale he attended the New England Conservatory as an Undergraduate Diploma candidate for Oboe Performance under the tutelage of John Ferrillo. His other teachers include George Manahan, William Lumpkin, Bernard Labadie, and Tatsuya Shimono. In masterclasses and festivals, he has been taught by renowned artists and pedagogues such as Robert Spano, Leonard Slatkin, Mark Stringer, Dame Jane Glover, Gerard Schwarz, and Jorma Panula. He is deeply grateful for all the excellent guidance and mentorship he has received thus far in his life as a musician.