Student Tickets

Student Tickets to Celebrity Series Performances

Celebrity Series offers special student pricing for selected performances throughout the season.

There are two types of student ticket specials.

Advance Student Tickets

For selected performances, Celebrity Series offers special student discounts that may be purchased online from Celebrity Series (when available) or from the venue box office ahead of a performance. You must pick up your ticket at will call with your valid student ID.

Student Rush

Student Rush tickets are also available for selected performances. These tickets can only be purchased from the venue box office on the day of a selected performance. Prices and ticket availability are subject to change and are first come, first served and also require a valid student ID. Sales are cash-only. Please see specific venue instructions for Student Rush tickets below.

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See Instructions On Student Rush Tickets Below

Current Offers:

Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano: SONGPLAY

For her much-anticipated Boston recital debut, she and her four-piece ensemble will perform a broad range of improvisation-forward musical styles – ranging from Italian old-style art songs to jazz – in a joyful program that will draw unexpected and serendipitous connections across centuries and genres.

Storm Large

Storm Large is a musician, actor, playwright, and author, who is known by many as a member of the eclectic pop band Pink Martini.

Hagen Quartet

Celebrity Series audiences will remember the Hagen Quartet’s thrilling Boston debut in 2012. The renowned Salzburgers, siblings Lukas (violin), Veronika (viola), and Clemens (cello), and violinist Rainer Schmidt make their much-anticipated return to the Celebrity Series.

San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor, & Christian Tetzlaff, violin

The acclaimed San Francisco Symphony return for their eighth Celebrity Series appearance, their final under the baton of visionary music director Michael Tilson Thomas, who has announced his retirement in 2020.

Sō Percussion

With innovative multi-genre original productions, sensational interpretations of modern classics, and an “exhilarating blend of precision and anarchy, rigor and bedlam” (The New Yorker), Sō Percussion has redefined the scope and vital role of the modern percussion ensemble.

Danilo Pérez's Global Messenger & Amir ElSaffar's Two Rivers Ensemble

Double-bill of two multi-cultural jazz ensembles.

Alfredo Rodríguez and Pedrito Martinez Duo & Arturo O’Farrill Quintet

Double-bill of two Afro-Latin jazz ensembles

Student Rush:

See instructions on purchasing student rush tickets by venue.

Two tickets per valid student I.D.
All sales are cash-only
All seat locations determined by availability.
Tickets are limited; there is no guarantee of availability day of performance.
Tickets for sale in-person at venue box offices only (locations listed below).
- At Symphony Hall, sales are 4-6 pm for 7pm performances, 5-7pm for 8pm performances and 1-2pm for 3pm performances. Tickets for Symphony Hall performances are $20 each.
  Symphony Hall: 301 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston.
- At the venues listed below, sales begin 1 hour before performance time.
  Tickets are $20 each.
  - NEC's Jordan Hall: 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston
  - NEC's Plimpton Shattuck Black Box Theatre: 255 St. Botolph Street, Boston (Note: NEC's box office is located on Gainsborough Street.)
  - Boch Center Wang Theatre: 270 Tremont Street, Boston
  - Boch Center Shubert Theatre: 265 Tremont Street, Boston
  - Berklee Performance Center: 136 Massachusetts Ave., Boston
  - Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, Harvard Univ.: 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge
  - Pickman Hall, Longy School of Music at Bard College: 27 Garden Street, Cambridge