Leslie Odom, Jr, Performs Alongside The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

The award-winning performer returns to the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall

on Saturday, April 1

BALTIMORE (March 9, 2023) – The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) is excited to present an evening with Leslie Odom, Jr. at the historic Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall on Saturday, April 1 at 8 pm. Music lovers are in for a treat as the Tony and Grammy-award winner performs an array of Broadway hits and fan favorites including highlights from Hamilton, Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come”, and Nat King Cole selections. Conducted by the BSO’s Associate Conductor, Jonathan Rush, Odom makes his return to the Meyerhoff to dazzle the audience for this one-night-only event.

“We are delighted to welcome Leslie Odom, Jr. back to the Meyerhoff this spring,” said Mark C. Hanson, the BSO’s President & CEO. “The collaboration between Mr. Odom and our talented orchestra members performing longtime popular music favorites is sure to bring music lovers of all kinds together for what will be a very memorable evening.”

Lesile Odom, Jr. Bio: Leslie Odom, Jr. is a multifaceted Tony and Grammy Award-winning, three-time Emmy and two-time Academy Award-nominated vocalist, songwriter, author, and actor. With a career that spans all performance genres, Odom has received recognition for his excellence and achievements in Broadway, television, film, and music. He can currently be seen in Rian Johnson’s critically acclaimed Knives Out sequel, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, streaming worldwide on Netflix. Odom is currently in production on the highly anticipated sequel to the original iconic film The Exorcist. The film is scheduled to be released in October 2023. In 2020, Odom starred as legendary singer Sam Cooke in the award-winning Amazon film adaptation of One Night in Miami, directed by Regina King. His portrayal of the soul icon and musical performance of original song “Speak Now” was met with widespread praise and critical acclaim, earning him multiple awards and nominations. He also starred in The Many Saints of Newark, a prequel to David Chase’s award-winning HBO series The Sopranos, released in October 2021. Well known for his breakout role as ‘Aaron Burr’ in the smash hit Broadway musical Hamilton, Odom hosted “The Tony Awards Present: Broadway’s Back!” on CBS in September 2021 (2022 Emmy nomination). Additional film and television credits include Apple TV+’s Central Park (2020 Emmy nomination), Hamilton on Disney+ (2021 Emmy nomination), Abbott Elementary, The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder, Love in the Time of Corona, Harriet, and many more. He is a BMG recording artist and has released four full-length albums. Co-written with Nicolette Robinson, Odom’s first children’s book, I Love You More Than You’ll Ever Know, will be published by Feiwel & Friends on March 28, 2023.

About the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

For over a century, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) has been recognized as one of America’s leading orchestras and one of Maryland’s most significant cultural institutions. The orchestra is internationally renowned and locally admired for its innovation, performances, recordings, and educational outreach initiatives including OrchKids.

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra performs annually for more than 275,000 people throughout the State of Maryland. Since 1982, the BSO has performed at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore, and since 2005, with the opening of The Music Center at Strathmore in North Bethesda, MD, the BSO became the nation’s first orchestra performing its full season of classical and pops concerts in two metropolitan areas. In July 2022, the BSO once again made musical history with its announcement that Jonathon Heyward would succeed Music Director Laureate and OrchKids Founder Marin Alsop as the Orchestra’s next Music Director. Maestro Heyward begins his five-year contract in the 2023-24 season.