Join us for a holiday classic presented in partnership with the Rockford Dance Company and featuring professional lead dancers from the region's top ballet companies.

Join us for a holiday classic presented in partnership with the Rockford Dance Company and featuring professional lead dancers from the region's top ballet companies.

This annual Holiday Tradition will feature The Nielsen Chorale and the RSO performing old and new holiday favorites at the Coronado.

Matinee added! This annual Holiday Tradition will feature The Nielsen Chorale and the RSO performing old and new holiday favorites at the Coronado.

Mozart meets Mahler in this concert featuring RSO’s own Concertmaster Michèle Lekas and Principal Viola Rebecca Swan.

Chamber Concerts offer audiences the opportunity to hear from RSO musicians about the music on the program and how it inspires them.

This concert celebrates Rockford’s long history of welcoming immigrants, and the heritage shared by these newcomers that has created Rockford’s own unique culture.

Chamber Concerts offer audiences the opportunity to hear from RSO musicians about the music on the program and how it inspires them. Brilliant Brass will feature modern music for brass quintet by a variety of composers, centered around Michael Tilson Thomas’s Street Song. 

Contemporary video games are accompanied by the cinematic soundtracks we traditionally associate with movies, adding to the symphonic canon of our time. Joining the RSO with Big Band interpretations of “vintage” video games is Rockfordian Joel Baer’s Blueshift Big Band.

Chamber Concerts offer audiences the opportunity to hear from RSO musicians about the music on the program and how it inspires them.

The season comes to a triumphant close with Beethoven’s joyous immortal classic, Symphony No. 9, performed by the Nielsen Chorale, world-class soloists, and your Rockford Symphony Orchestra.