October 2—SSQ season opener; music of Frederic Chopin, Grazyna Bacewicz and Juliusz Zarebski; guest pianist is Martin Labazevitch
October 9—BPO season opener, ”Carmina Burana,” La valse by Maurice Ravel and Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana
October 16—SSO Classics 2, “Beethoven and Dvorak,” SSO Classics 2, Morihiko Nakahara leads Dai Fujiura’s Banzita Groove , Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4, and Dvorak’s Symphony No. 6, soloist is pianist Ran Dank
October 23—SSO Soireé 1, music for small ensembles by Adolphe Blanc, Francis Poulenc, Sergei Prokofief
October 30— SSO Classics 3, “Tales of Tragedy,” with César Franck’s The Accursed Huntsman , Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concerto No. 2, and Richard Strauss’s Macbeth and Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, soloist is pianist Conrad Tao