SINGAPORE – Incoming music director Hannu Lintu’s highly anticipated inaugural season with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra (SSO) balances familiar favourites with a spirit of the new. More than half of guest artists are performing with the SSO for the first time and a quarter of the programme will be an SSO or Singapore premiere.

From internet sensation TwoSet Violin’s Sacrilegious Games Tour (July 2 and 3) to Singaporean West End actress Nathania Ong’s night of Broadway and Disney hits (Dec 17 and 18) to a marathon weekend featuring all 10 of Beethoven’s violin sonatas in celebration of the composer’s 200th death anniversary, the 2026/2027 season will find broad appeal with aficionados and the classical curious.

The Finnish maestro’s inaugural season with the SSO, launched at Raffles Hotel on April 8, comes as SSO chief executive Kenneth Kwok announced that the orchestra hit a record $3.8 million in ticketed income from a record sale of nearly 85,000 tickets in the past year till March 31. The SSO had added 12,000 tickets to its 2025/2026 season.