LOGAN CITY ORCHESTRAS

Presented by Logan City Orchestras Inc., the Logan City Symphony Orchestra 2026 season invites you, your family and friends to share four concerts shaped by time, place and space—music that tells familiar stories, reflects the landscapes we call home, and moves the heart while widening our sense of who we are and who we might become.

Concert 1. Heroes, Villains and Dreamers: A cinematic season opener inspired by iconic characters, epic stories, and the music that brings them to life.

Concert 2. From Darkness to Light: A journey of contrast and transformation, moving from tension into hope.

Concert 3. Rapid, Raves and Rhythm: Fast, energetic, and rhythm-driven music that crackles with momentum.

Concert 4: Celestation: Music inspired by space, stars, and the wonder of looking beyond.

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Saturday 28 February, 2026. 7:30 PM, Logan Entertainment Centre. Tickets and more: Click here

Program

John Williams: A Tribute to John Williams (from Kennedy Centre Honors)

John Powell: How to Train Your Dragon – Test Drive

Joe Hisaishi: Howl’s Moving Castle – Merry-Go-Round of Life

Michael Giacchino: Jurassic World – Concert Suite

Justin Hurwitz: La La Land – Concert Suite

Hans Zimmer: Pirates of the Caribbean – At World’s End

Interval

Paul Dukas: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

Rachel Portman: Chocolat: Suite (2000)

John Williams: The Complete Harry Potter

Howard Shore: Symphonic Suite from The Fellowship of the Ring

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About: The opening event for 2026 is Heroes, Villains and Dreamers – a concert that immerses you in the magical worlds of cinema, celebrating the music that has brought some of our most beloved stories to life. The programme opens with a special tribute to the enduring legacy of John Williams and his unparalleled contribution to cinematic storytelling, followed by iconic scores from composers including John Powell, Michael Giacchino, Hans Zimmer, Howard Shore, and Paul Dukas.

You’ll be transported through the enchanting wizarding realm of Harry Potter in Jerry Brubaker’s sweeping arrangement of The Complete Harry Potter; soar through the skies with the exhilarating Test Drive from How to Train Your Dragon; thrill to the prehistoric drama of the Jurassic World Concert Suite; ride the high seas in Hans Zimmer’s epic Medley from Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End; journey across Middle-earth with Howard Shore’s majestic Symphonic Suite from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; and delight in the mischievous magic of Paul Dukas’s timeless The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, forever immortalised in Disney’s Fantasia.

For this performance, the Logan Entertainment Centre will be transformed into an orchestral performance space, with specially designed sound towers created specifically for the Logan City Symphony Orchestra. Alongside live orchestral sound, lighting and projected images support the music, shaping an atmosphere that deepens the sense of journey while keeping the orchestra at its centre.

Whether you’re attending your first orchestral concert or returning to music you already love, join us for this first concert of the year as Logan’s own symphony orchestra brings heroes, villains and dreamers to life on stage. It is an experience for people of all ages — from young listeners discovering orchestral music for the first time to those with a child still alive in their heart — shared through storytelling, sound and live performance.

Sunday 31 May 2026, 3:00PM. Logan Entertainment Centre. Tickets and more: Click here

Program

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Overture to Don Giovanni, K. 527

Alexander Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia

Hector Berlioz: Hungarian March from La damnation de Faust, Op. 24

Interval

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64

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About: This is the second of four concerts presented by the Logan City Symphony Orchestra that explore space, place and time. Here we immerse you in the profound emotional journey from darkness to light through the lens of Tchaikovsky’s monumental Fifth Symphony — a work that reveals how no music is ever created in isolation, but is profoundly shaped by the voices of predecessors, cultural currents, historical moments, and distant landscapes.

The program begins with Mozart’s electrifying Overture to Don Giovanni: a masterpiece of dramatic clarity and power that Tchaikovsky revered, conducted often, and studied deeply, finding in its architecture echoes of the structural mastery he sought in his own symphonies.

Alexander Borodin’s evocative In the Steppes of Central Asia follows, painting shimmering sonic pictures of vast horizons and intertwining melodies drawn from far-off places — colours and atmospheres that broadened Tchaikovsky’s own orchestral imagination.

Hector Berlioz’s brilliant Hungarian March from The Damnation of Faust surges next with explosive energy and daring orchestration — innovations in sound and drama that Tchaikovsky greatly admired and absorbed into his richly scored works.

Seen through Tchaikovsky’s eyes, these pieces are not merely predecessors but vital influences that helped shape his musical language. They flow directly into the emotional heart of the program: his Symphony No. 5 in E minor. Here everything converges — Mozart’s clarity, Borodin’s atmospheric depth, Berlioz’s vivid colour — in Tchaikovsky’s own profound confrontation with fate. Across four gripping movements, bound together by the famous cyclic “fate” motif (arguably influenced by Beethoven’s own celebrated treatment of destiny in his Fifth Symphony), the music journeys from brooding darkness and fierce struggle toward hard-won affirmation and radiant triumph.

Whether you’re discovering these masterworks for the first time or returning to music that has shaped your life, join us as Logan’s own symphony orchestra brings the timeless power of influence, emotion, and human journey vividly to life on stage—an experience for all ages.

Saturday 18 July 2026, 7.30 pm. Logan Entertainment Centre. Tickets and more: Click here

Program

Bedřich Smetana: Vltava (The Moldau) from Má vlast

Matthew Hindson: Speed

Interval

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92

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About: This is the third of four concerts presented by the Logan City Symphony Orchestra that explore space, place and time. Here we celebrate the exhilarating power of movement and energy — tracing journeys across vast spaces, shifting places, and the unstoppable flow of time itself through music that surges, dances, and drives relentlessly forward.

The journey begins with Bedřich Smetana’s beloved Vltava (The Moldau) from Má vlast: a vivid tone poem that follows the river’s course through the Czech landscape — from gentle springs and moonlit waters to peasant dances, ancient castles, and roaring rapids — a timeless portrait of nature’s ceaseless motion through space and time.

Matthew Hindson’s electrifying Speed follows — a blazing orchestral ride that channels the raw, pulsating energy of techno and club rhythms into the symphony hall. With relentless driving beats and explosive dynamics, it delivers the adrenaline rush of modern velocity like nothing else in the repertoire.

These dynamic works build irresistible momentum toward the heart of the program: Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 in A major. Often hailed as the “apotheosis of the dance,” this masterpiece is pure kinetic joy — every movement alive with rhythm, pulse, and an unstoppable sense of motion. From the vivid Poco sostenuto introduction to the legendary Allegretto and the whirlwind finale, it is music you feel in your body as much as hear — as thrilling and vital today as it was at its triumphant 1813 premiere.

Whether you’re discovering these masterworks for the first time or returning to music that sets your pulse racing, join us as Logan’s own symphony orchestra brings the sheer exhilaration of movement vividly to life on stage.

Sunday 4 October, 2026, 6:00 pm. Logan Entertainment Centre. Tickets and more: Click here

Program

Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30 — Einleitung (Sonnenaufgang)

Hans Zimmer: Interstellar

Logan City Orchestras Young Composer Project: World Premiere!

Peter Sculthorpe: Earth Cry (with didgeridoo)

Interval

Gustav Holst: The Planets, Op. 32

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About. The Logan City Symphony Orchestra concludes its four-concert journey through space, place, and time with a celebration of celestial bodies — a Celestation!

The program opens with the blazing trumpet call and rising crescendo of Richard Strauss’s iconic Also sprach Zarathustra: Sunrise, immortalised in Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Without pause, the music moves into Hans Zimmer’s sweeping score from Interstellar, enveloping the hall in vast, atmospheric soundscapes that evoke infinite space and the quiet awe of the universe beyond.

We then celebrate a young Logan composer from the Logan City Orchestra’s Young Composer Project, presenting the World Premiere of a work for orchestra that offers a bold and imaginative response to Celestation!

Peter Sculthorpe’s powerful Earth Cry follows, featuring didgeridoo: a profound lament and celebration of Country that grounds us in place and timeless spirit.
Finally, as full darkness falls, Gustav Holst’s monumental The Planets carries us outward through the solar system — from the quicksilver mischief of Mercury and the ferocious drive of Mars to the mystic stillness of Neptune. This epic voyage aligns perfectly with the arrival of night itself.

At the concert’s close, you’ll be invited to step outside the Logan Entertainment Centre and look upward — connecting the music just heard with the real stars now visible above—a breathtaking reminder of the space, place, and time we all share.