Subscriptions and Single Tickets
The 2025-2026 NBSO Concert Series takes place at three different venues. Kilburn Event Center (October 19), Bronspiegel Auditorium at New Bedford High School (December 14), and The Zeiterion Performing Arts Center (February through May).
Click HERE for venue information and directions.
2025-2026 Subscription Savings
Subscriptions are available NOW by clicking HERE or by calling the NBSO office at 508-999-6276, ext. 222.
The NBSO Complete Series is your best bet for priority seating, a 10% discount and presale ticket access for a very special concert on January 17. This option is available before the season begins and includes 6 NBSO concerts (5 classical and 1 pops). Choose your price level and your Holiday Pops performance time.
Create your own series of 3 – 5 NBSO concerts and save 10% on all levels. This option is available until noon on March 13, 2026.
Subscriber Benefits!
- Secure your seat at The New Z – and keep it year after year!
- Discounted ticket price with no fees
- Payment plans available
- Add concerts at any time
- Ticket presale rights to a very special concert on January 17! (Details coming soon)
Plus, if you cannot make a concert for which you have subscription tickets, call the NBSO office up to 3 days before the concert, and you may exchange them for tickets to another concert, receive a refund of the ticket price, or donate them back to the Symphony and receive a receipt for your tax-deductible donation. Donated tickets will be given to local music students so that they may attend the concert for free!
2025-2026 Single Concert Tickets
Single concert tickets are available through the Zeiterion Box Office in person, by phone at 508-994-2900, or online. Single concert tickets are subject to additional fees. Please go to zeiterion.org for details.
The Z Box Office is currently located in the lobby of the DeMello International Center at 128 Union Street, New Bedford, MA 02740, due to the Zeiterion Performing Arts Center renovations. They will relocate to The Z by early 2026. Click here for hours.
For information about group sale discounts, call the NBSO at 508-999-6276.
Accessibility: All venues are fully accessible. Please call 508-994-2900 to arrange for wheelchair seating.
Seating at Kilburn Event Center will be concert-style with chairs arranged around the orchestra. Seating is first-come, first-served.
View the Bronspiegel Auditorium seat map here.
View the Zeiterion Performing Arts Center seat map here.
The SCCMS 2025-2026 Season
South Coast Chamber Music Series subscriptions and tickets are on sale now. Click here for details. Saturday concerts take place at St. Gabriel’s Episcopal Church in Marion and Sunday concerts take place at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Dartmouth. All concerts begin at 3 PM.
If you would like to purchase a gift certificate for NBSO or Chamber concert subscriptions or single concert tickets, please call Abigail at 508-999-6276 ext. 222. Thank you!
SING TO ME
October 12 &13, 2024, 3 PM
Special Additional Performance: Friday, October 11, 7 PM, New Bedford Whaling Museum
On October 11, join us in the Harbor View Gallery and stay for an after-concert reception to mingle with guests and musicians while enjoying hors D'oeuvres and spirits.
A dazzling vocal journey
Featuring Philip Lima, baritone
Many thanks to Patty Plum Wylde, whose generous Gift of Music has made this concert possible. She dedicates her gift to all teachers of music for their devotion to the art of making music eternal.
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Selections from Songs of Travel (arr. John Greer)
The Vagabond
Youth and Love
Whither Must I Wander?
Bright is the Ring of Words
I have Trod the Upward and the Downward Slope
Samuel Barber: Dover Beach, Op. 3
Charles Ives: Songs
The Children's Hour
Tom Sails Away
The Circus Band
Three Spirituals
Wade in the Water (arr. Anthony Green)
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (arr. H. T. Burleigh/Green)
Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho (arr. Cynthia Jackson/Green)
Joly Braga Santos: Piano Quartet in D Major, Op. 26
Joaquín Turina: The Toreador's Prayer, Op. 34
Jesse Holstein, violin
EmmaLee Holmes-Hicks, violin
Anna Griffis, viola
Leo Eguchi, cello
Janice Weber, piano
Lustrous baritone Philip Lima joins NBSO core musicians in an eclectic potpourri ranging from Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Songs of Travel and Samuel Barber’s Dover Beach to the earthy songs of Charles Ives and three spirituals. A piano quartet by Portuguese master Joly Braga Santos and The Toreador’s Prayer by Joaquín Turina offer interludes of instrumental poetry and brilliance.
Tickets are not available at the door.
If you click on the purchase tickets link and it states that tickets are not available and you do not see a blue "BUY" box, that means the concert is sold out.
If concerts sell out, you may request to be added to a waitlist by emailing asmith@nbsymphony.org by noon on the Friday prior to the concert.
Please note that our office hours are Monday - Friday, 9 am - 5 pm.