CCS Creates
• March 14, 2024

Join musicians of Capital City Symphony for an evening of extraordinary chamber music. This special program celebrates the rich talent in our very own orchestra, and features original musical compositions […]

Spring Performing Arts  Preview
• February 14, 2024

Duke Ellington 125   Born and raised in Washington, D.C., orchestra leader and composer Edward Kennedy Ellington was nicknamed “Duke” early on for his sense of style. These events celebrate the […]

Fall Performing Arts Preview
• September 13, 2023

DANCE   Partnering with Dupont Underground, The Washington Ballet will pop down for four pop-up performances (Sept. 28, 29 and 30). TWB’s main fall event, “Such Sweet Thunder: An Evening Inspired […]

Capital City Symphony Presents: Our Journey Begins
• August 30, 2023

Our season begins with the powerful and emotional Concert Overture No. 1 in E minor by groundbreaking 19th-century composer, Louise Farrenc, launching our adventures into places known and unknown. Next, […]

Capital City Symphony Presents: One Week – Family Concert
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Bring the whole family! It’s time for CCS’s annual interactive family concert. The performance begins with local composer Charlie Barnett’s energetic and participatory Give Me the Orchestra, which introduces the […]

Capital City Symphony Presents: Let Inspiration Be Your Guide
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Journey from sorrow to triumph in mere moments with Brahms’ vivid Tragic Overture as CCS opens its penultimate concert of the season. The concert’s emotional adventure continues as Coleridge-Taylor’s Ballade […]

Sleigh Ride! CCS’s Annual Holiday Concert
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Celebrate the joy and magic of the season with Capital City Symphony and our special guest, renowned soprano Amber Monroe. Together, CCS and Monroe, with a voice rich and clear, […]

Capital City Symphony Presents: Take me to The River
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Our season closer kicks off with award-winning, young French-Canadian American cellist, Romain-Olivier Gray’s performance of Schumann’s Cello Concerto in A minor. We’ll then embark on a musical voyage through iconic […]

Mother’s Day Weekend Roundup, May 11 – 14 
• May 11, 2023

It’s spring in Georgetown and if you want flowers and gardens, we’ve got flowers and gardens! Plus, so many primo weekend events all over town. However you chose to spend your […]

Which Came First?
• February 9, 2023

Capital City Symphony and Assistant Conductor Ingrid Lestrud explore musical confluence where art imitates life, and sometimes life imitates art. From Beethoven’s sounds of a summer storm, to Hovhannes imitating […]