Ben Folds to Perform One-Night-Only Concert with Houston Symphony Next Spring

Multiplatinum-selling singer, songwriter and producer Ben Folds will join the Houston Symphony in a one-night-only performance of his acclaimed Concerto for Piano and Orchestra and alternative-pop hits on March 16, 2017.

Throughout his career, Folds has created an enormous body of genre-bending musical art that includes pop albums as the front man for Ben Folds Five, multiple solo rock albums, as well as unique collaborative records with artists from Sara Bareilles and Regina Spektor, to Weird Al and William Shatner. His most recent album is a blend of pop and classical original works, in part recorded with the revered classical sextet yMusic that soared to #1 on both the Billboard classical and classical crossover charts.

Folds has also shared the stage with some of the world's greatest orchestras - from Sydney, Australia to the Kennedy Center - performing his pop hits and his critically-acclaimed Concerto for Piano and Orchestra which he premiered and recorded with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra in 2014.

The evening's program will feature selection of Folds' popular hits as well as his three-movement Concerto for Piano and Orchestra. The work draws on many recognizable classical influences such as Ravel and Gershwin while testing the boundaries of traditional orchestral music. Folds describes the piece as "proudly and overtly derivative."

7:30 p.m. March 16, 2017. Jones Hall for the Performing Arts, 615 Louisiana. For tickets and information, call 713-224-7575 or visit houstonsymphony.org. Tickets may also be purchased at the Houston Symphony Patron Services Center in Jones Hall Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

All programs and artists are subject to change.