Concerts & Events

Join us to watch a new documentary created by Becky Billock that chronicles the global travels of WSO Principal Cellist Elisa Kohanski. In the documentary, you’ll see footage of Elisa performing on all seven continents.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, WSO! Our 95th Birthday Bash will celebrate our rich history while eagerly looking towards the future, with performances from WSO Principal Cellist Elisa Kohanski, WSO Conductor Laureate André Raphel, and the new WSO community choir.

Cold beer, BBQ, and good times–don’t miss Pig & Swig, the Wheeling Symphony Auxiliary’s summer fundraiser!

Join us in Clarksburg, WV for our annual July 4 tour!

Wheeling’s biggest July 4 celebration takes place on Heritage Port, starting at 8 pm.

Join us for an evening of patriotic favorites as we head to Weirton for our annual Celebrate America tour.

For the final stop on our July 4 tour, we head south for the beautiful Canaan Valley Resort.

The WSO pays tribute to music from the silver screen with this free community concert.

Dig out your flapper dress and practice the Charleston: the 2025-2026 season begins with Prohibition, featuring music from the roarin’ 20s!

Legendary director Doug Fitch brings lighting and visual design to the stage for Benjamin Britten’s suite from Peter Grimes, plus a performance from the WSO horn quartet, Oglebay Institute’s School of Dance, and closing it out with one of the seminal classical American compositions: Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring. 

Join the WSO alongside Ohio Valley high school and middle school choirs, champion professional figure skaters, and Pittsburgh and Wheeling figure skating clubs for the return of our beloved holiday tradition, Symphony on Ice!

Pianist Maxim Lando returns for Prokoliev’s Piano Concert no. 2, and the WSO performs a piece they were initially scheduled to play in March of 2020 before the COVID-19 pandemic shut the world down: Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony.

Celebrate Valentine’s Day with an evening of the best love songs of all time, performed live by the WSO.

See guest artist Shara Nova perform Penelope, a musical retelling of the Odyssey from Penelope’s perspective, in a new, intimate setting at Towngate Theatre. Seating is limited.

Vocalist Shara Nova joins the WSO for The Blue Hour, a collaborative song cycle created by composers Rachel Grimes, Angélica Negrón, Shara Nova, Caroline Shaw, and Sarah Kirkland Snider,

Experience the original Star Wars film like never before: projected on the big screen as the WSO performs John Williams’s score LIVE alongside the movie.

We close the 2025-2026 season with guest artist Tracy Silverman performing a WSO-commissioned concerto by composer DBR, as well as Antonín Dvořák’s New World Symphony.