2025-26 Concert Season
Saturday August 30th, 2025 Fleisher Art Memorial, 719 Catherine Street, Philadelphia. Performance of Gamelan Gita Santi with Modero Dance as part of “The Island Nation” Indonesian Festival, sponsored by Gapura Philly. The festival begins at 11 am with Indonesian food and performances by a diverse group of Indonesian and Indonesian-American artists. The Gamelan will play at about 12 noon. Admission: free; families with small children are welcome.
Sunday September 7th 2025, 5:30pm, Trinity at 22nd (Spruce and 22nd Streets, Philadelphia). The Dolce Suono Ensemble performs trios by Fang Man, Zhou Tian, and Thomas Whitman. Mimi Stillman, flute; Che-Hung Chen; and Subin Lee, harp. Co-presented by Trinity Music Sessions. Admission: free.
Saturday November 15th 2025, 8 PM: Lang Concert Hall, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA 19081.
Fall Concert by the Swarthmore College Wind Ensemble, directed by Andrew Hauze. Program to include the premiere of Fanny Hensel’s December, arranged by Thomas Whitman. This concert will be live-streamed through this link. Admission: free.
Saturday November 22nd, 2025, 2 pm: Temple Performing Arts Center, 1837 N Broad St, Philadelphia, PA 19122 Winter concert of Gamelan Gita Santi of South Philadelphia, in collaboration with Modero Dance and Gapura Philadelphia. Co-directed by I Nyoman Suadin and Thomas Whitman.
Sunday November 23rd 2025, 3 PM: Lang Concert Hall, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA 19081.
Fall Concert by Gamelan Semara Santi of Swarthmore College, in collaboration with the Indonesian Cultural Club of Delaware. Traditional music and dance from Bali, Indonesia. Co-directed by Ni Luh Kadek Kusuma Dewi, Lidya Darmawan, I Nyoman Suadin, and Thomas Whitman. This concert will be live-streamed through this link. Admission: free.
Friday December 5th 2025 (4:30 pm) and Saturday December 6th 2025 (7 pm): Pearson-Hall Theater, Lang Performing Arts Center, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA 19081. Premiere performances of My Heart Leaps Up, a collaborative composition by choreographer Olivia Sabee and composer Thomas Whitman. Performers: Paul LoPresti, piano; Spencer Kennedy, percussion; and 24 dancers from Swarthmore’s Dance Department. Admission: free.
Sunday April 12th 2026, 3 PM: Lang Concert Hall, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA 19081.
Spring Concert by Gamelan Semara Santi of Swarthmore College, in collaboration with the Indonesian Cultural Club of Delaware. Traditional music and dance from Bali, Indonesia. Co-directed by Ni Luh Kadek Kusuma Dewi, Lidya Darmawan, I Nyoman Suadin, and Thomas Whitman. With guest dance soloists Anik Yetter, Ni Made Yoni, and Ni Ketut Yuli Kartika Inggas. This concert will be live-streamed through this link. Admission: free; families with children welcome.
Friday April 24th 2026, 8 PM: Lang Concert Hall, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA 19081. Spring Concert by Swarthmore College Chorus and Garnet Singers, directed by Nathan Reiff. The program will include the premiere of two new works by Whitman: The Night is Darkening Round Me (text: Emily Brontë) and Those are the Same Stars (text: Sojourner Truth) for a cappella choir. This concert will be live-streamed through this link. Admission: free.
Sunday May 10th 2026, 3 PM, Main Line Unitarian Church, 816 S Valley Forge Rd
Devon, PA 19333. The Sylvan Consort presents a program, “Antiqua Nova,” with Clara Rottsolk, soprano. The concert will include the premiere of Two Consort Songs for 6 viols and voice by Thomas Whitman. Text: Mary Sidney Wroth. Click here for tickets.
Sunday May 16th 2026, 3 pm, in FDR Park, near the Southeast Asian market: Spring Concert of Gamelan Gita Santi and Modero Dance of South Philadelphia. Co-directed by Sinta Penyami Storms, I Nyoman Suadin, and Thomas Whitman.
Friday June 5th 2026, 7:00 pm at Fort Mifflin on the Delaware River (6400 Hog Island Road, Philadelphia 19153): premiere of Whitman’s Say it Loud! (2025) by Orchestra 2001 as part of its “A More Perfect Union: Musical Reflections on Six Amendments to the Constitution.”
Saturday June 13th 2026, 7:30 pm at theRay Charles Performing Arts Center, Morehouse College, Atlanta Georgia: 96-Hour Opera Project competition showcase of Atlanta Opera. Program will include a new operatic scene created collaboratively by librettist Gabriel Jenkinson and composer Thomas Whitman.
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Monday June 15th 2026, 7:30 pm at Yards Brewery, 500 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia 19123: premiere of Whitman’s A Hummingbird Flies to Mars (2026) by Orchestra 2001 as part of its “A More Perfect Union: Musical Reflections on Six Amendments to the Constitution.”
Dates and venues TBD:
Premiere of Let Us Build a Tower to the Sky for soprano and piano
Premiere of The Canonization for mezzo-soprano and piano, to be given by Lara Nie.
Additional performances of Say it Loud! and A Hummingbird Flies to Mars by Orchestra 2001.