Announcing the BRAVO! Series 2025-26 Season!

Song of the North is a large-scale, cinematic performance combining the manual art of shadow puppetry with projected animation to tell the courageous tale of Princess Manijeh, a heroine from ancient Persia. Our female hero uses her superpowers to rescue her beloved from a perilous predicament—and to prevent a war. Adapted from the Shahnameh: The Book of Persian Kings (written over 1,000 years ago), Song of the North is a family-friendly, 80-minute performance. Created by 2014 Guggenheim Fellow Hamid Rahmanian, this production features an original musical score by celebrated Iranian composers Ramin Torkian and Azam Ali.

September 19 Friday, 7:30 p.m.
September 20 Saturday, 11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.

Returning to BRAVO! after a sold-out solo recital, internationally renowned Spanish guitarist Pablo Sáinz-Villegas invites audiences on a musical journey through Spain to explore its incredibly rich and diverse culture. As Pablo & Friends, he and his trio of fellow musicians (percussion, bass, guitar II) will perform iconic, evocative, and romantic pieces from his homeland in a program of the fieriest pieces ever written for guitar, intertwined with stories and shared feelings inspired by Spain.

October 24 Friday, 7:30 p.m.

Joshua Henry is a Grammy-winning, Tony-nominated performer best known for roles in Broadway favorites such as Hamilton, Carousel, and Into the Woods. His show, Get Up Stand Up, is a soulful bop through the songs that have moved and grooved us through the decades.

January 23 Friday, 7:30 p.m.

Grammy-winning cellist Yo-Yo Ma performs in a special gala celebrating BYU's sesquicentennial and the College of Fine Arts and Communications’ centennial. With a discography of more than 120 albums that range from iconic renditions of the Western classical canon to recordings that defy categorization, Ma is a renowned performer and the recipient of numerous awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Birgit Nilsson Prize. His multifaceted career is a testament to his belief in culture’s power to generate trust and understanding. Whether performing new or familiar works for cello, bringing communities together to explore culture’s role in society, or engaging unexpected musical forms, Ma strives to foster connections that stimulate the imagination and reinforce our humanity.

February 24 Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.

The Utah Symphony is joined by Pablo Ferrández, hailed as a “new cello genius” (Le Figaro) and “the next Yo-Yo Ma” (Pittsburgh Symphony). Ferrández will take center stage in Korngold’s Cello Concerto, a cinematic love story originally written for film, followed by Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme, a graceful theme and variations to showcase the cellist’s virtuosity. Respighi’s The Pines of Rome and Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier Suite round out a concert of unforgettable music.

March 26 Thursday, 7:30 p.m.