Skip to main content
Public recordCompiled from 10 credited sources · Updated Sep 24, 2026

National Symphony Orchestra

Classical band from Washington, DC · formed 1931

Listen on SpotifyFollow on Facebook
National Symphony Orchestra photo
Photo from the public record
Shows on record
12
Rooms played
3
Cities
2
Releases
35
Last show
Aug 26, 2026Wolf Trap

About

National Symphony Orchestra is a band from Washington, DC, formed in 1931, tagged Classical, contemporary classical, modern classical by its sources. Shows on record run from 2011 to 2026, across 3 rooms in 2 cities.

The summary is assembled from the record fields and shows on this page; each fact listed names its source. See Sources & corrections for what each source supplied.

Shows

12 on record · Songkick
No upcoming shows on record.Know of one? Tell us

Shows per year

  1. 20111 show
  2. 20182 shows
  3. 20191 show
  4. 20231 show
  5. 20244 shows
  6. 20252 shows
  7. 20261 show
Show history
DateVenue
Aug 26, 2026Wolf Trap · ViennaSupportwith Gregory Alan Isakov
Feb 12, 2025Concert Hall, Kennedy Center · WashingtonHeadlinerwith Cody Fry, LANY
Feb 11, 2025Concert Hall, Kennedy Center · WashingtonHeadlinerwith Cody Fry, LANY, Sleeping At Last
Oct 26, 2024Concert Hall, Kennedy Center · WashingtonSupportwith Ben Folds
Oct 25, 2024Concert Hall, Kennedy Center · WashingtonHeadlinerwith Ben Folds
Jun 28, 2024John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts · WashingtonSupportwith David Poe, Donny McCaslin, John Cameron Mitchell, +5
Apr 23, 2024Concert Hall, Kennedy Center · WashingtonSupportwith Chris Thile
Sep 21, 2023Concert Hall, Kennedy Center · WashingtonSupportwith Ben Folds
Aug 3, 2019Wolf Trap · ViennaSupportwith Sarah McLachlan
Nov 2, 2018John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts · WashingtonSupportwith Regina Spektor, Ben Folds
Jan 12, 2018Concert Hall, Kennedy Center · WashingtonSupportwith Ben Folds, Sara Bareilles, Caroline Shaw
Nov 26, 2011Concert Hall, Kennedy Center · WashingtonSupportwith George Benson

Where they play

3 rooms in 2 cities

Rooms played most

Cities played

  • Washington10 shows
  • Vienna2 shows

Releases

35 releases, 1983–2025

  • Mahler: Symphony No. 7 In E Minor

    2025

  • Live With The National Symphony Orchestra

    2025

  • Symphony No. 9

    2024

  • Carlos Simon : Four Symphonic Works

    2024

  • The Complete Symphonies

    2024

  • So Fragile, So Blue

    2024

  • George Walker - Five Sinfonias

    2023

  • Symphonies 2 And 7

    2023

  • Symphonies 6 And 8

    2023

  • Symphonies 4 And 5

    2023

  • Dvořák: Symphony no. 9 / Copland: Billy the Kid

    2020 · Album

  • Klavierkonzert = Piano Concerto / Klavierkonzert = Piano Concerto No.2

    2019 · Album

  • Il Prigioniero

    2014 · Album

  • The Plague

    2006 · Album

  • The New Moon in the Old Moon's Arms

    2001 · Album

  • 6th Symphony / Suite from "The Love for Three Oranges"

    1998 · Album

  • Symphony No. 6, Suite from Love for Three Oranges

    1998 · Album

  • The Music of Joseph Schwantner

    1997 · Album

  • Of Rage and Remembrance / Symphony no. 1

    1996 · Album

  • Shostakovich: Symphony no. 5 / Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet Suite no. 1

    1996 · Album

  • Symphony no. 5

    1995 · Album

  • Symphonies nos. 1 & 9

    1994 · Album

  • Symphony no. 11

    1993 · Album

  • Boris Godounov

    1992 · Album

  • Symphony no. 4

    1992 · Album

  • Symphony no. 8

    1992 · Album

  • Symphonie no. 5 / Overture 1812

    1991 · Album

  • Piano Concertos 1 & 3

    1990 · Album

  • Symphonie Nº 7 “Leningrad”

    1990 · Album

  • Der Ring des Nibelungen (Orchestral Music)

    1989 · Album

  • Symphonie N° 13 "Babi Yar"

    1989 · Album

  • Violin Concertos

    1989 · Album

  • 1812 Overture / Cappriccio Italien / Romeo & Juliet / Marche Slave

    1987 · Album

  • Romeo and Juliet Suites 1 & 2

    1983 · Album

  • Symphony no. 5

    1983 · Album

Lineup

  • George Marsh · violin
  • Pavel Pekarsky · violin
  • Tsuna Sakamoto · viola
  • Susan Heineman · bassoon
  • Charles Brady · trumpet
  • Glenn Donnellan · violin
  • Steven Honigberg · cello
  • Lloyd Geisler
  • Robert Marsteller · trombone
  • David Murray · trombone

Former

  • Millard Taylor · violin
  • Marc Lifschey · oboe
  • Louis Lanza · violin
  • Ann Hobson Pilot · harp
  • Nam-Yun Kim · violin
  • Steven Gross · French horn
  • David Hardy · cello
  • Harold Robinson · double bass
  • Laurent Weibel · violin
  • Benjamin Ramirez · principal, timpani
  • Alexandra Osborne · violin
  • Timothy Higgins · trombone
  • Raymond Kobler · violin
  • L. William Kuyper · horn
  • Andreas Makris · violin

Airplay

No airplay on record.

Photos, art and posters

National Symphony Orchestra — Photo
Photo — TheAudioDB
National Symphony Orchestra — Photo
Photo — TheAudioDB
National Symphony Orchestra — Concert Hall, Kennedy Center, 2025-02-12
Poster · Concert Hall, Kennedy Center, 2025-02-12 — Songkick
National Symphony Orchestra — John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 2018-11-02
Poster · John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 2018-11-02 — Songkick
National Symphony Orchestra — Concert Hall, Kennedy Center, 2018-01-12
Poster · Concert Hall, Kennedy Center, 2018-01-12 — Songkick

Sources & corrections

Report a correctionRequest removal
What each source supplied
SourceUsed for
MusicBrainzArtist facts
WikipediaArtist facts
National Symphony Orchestra on Last.fmArtist facts
National Symphony Orchestra on DiscogsArtist facts
National Symphony Orchestra on TheAudioDBArtist facts
SongkickShow history, Show posters
TheAudioDBPhotos
DiscogsCredited on the record; no item on this page cites it
Last.fmCredited on the record; no item on this page cites it
WikidataCredited on the record; no item on this page cites it

This is a partial record of publicly documented activity. Missing shows, releases or members do not mean there are none. It does not confirm availability for booking.