The Estate of Whitney E. Houston Commemorates The Iconic Superstar’s 40th Anniversary and Announces the 2025 ‘The Voice of Whitney: A Symphonic Celebration’ Fall North America Tour
(Atlanta, GA – May 19, 2025) – This year, February 14, 2025, marked the 40th Anniversary of the iconic superstar Whitney Houston’s career in music and entertainment. The Estate of Whitney E. Houston and its partner, Primary Wave Music are planning a series of year-long events including the upcoming The Voice of Whitney: A Symphonic Celebration North America Fall tour. The Voice of Whitney concert event features the original master and remastered recordings of Whitney’s vocals set to new arrangements in a unique and one-ofa-kind reinterpretation of her classic hits and landmark songs, accompanied by neverbefore-seen video footage and interviews, along with some of her historic performances.
The first series of the 2025 North America concert tour, The Voice of Whitney: A Symphonic Celebration kicks off with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra (Daniel Wiley, conductor) at Cincinnati Music Hall in Cincinnati, OH (Saturday, September 20 and Sunday, 21); and the tour will continue at performing arts centers around the country (see venue and dates below). Additional tour dates will be added throughout 2025 and 2026.
Ahead of the upcoming and highly anticipated North America Fall tour, Whitney Houston’s fans have traveled across the country and around the world to attend various dates of The Voice of Whitney concert. On August 30, 2024, The Voice of Whitney premiered at The Ravinia Festival with the Chicago Philharmonic and was conducted by Sean Mayes; the Kennedy Center followed with the National Symphony Orchestra with conductor Steven Reineke (November 8, 2024).
On February 15, 2025, during Whitney Houston’s 40th anniversary week, The Voice of Whitney made its New York City’s Town Hall premiere, which also commemorated her 47th anniversary of her debut performance at the historic concert hall on February 15, 1978. The then 14-year-old, joined her mother, the legendary and late Cissy Houston and her brother Gary, where she performed the popular show tune, “Tomorrow” from the Broadway musical, Annie. Sean Mayes conducted the evening’s premiere of the Pops of Color Orchestra during The Voice of Whitney performance. The 35-piece orchestra was comprised exclusively of musicians of color with an expansive and diverse background in multiple genres of music and included an exclusive special performance of “Tomorrow.” To date, all of the previous concert premiere performances have sold-out.
Next month during Black Music Month, Sean Mayes will lead the Nashville Symphony, at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Music City on Wednesday, June 25, 2025.
“We are excited about the ‘The Voice of Whitney: A Symphonic Celebration’ tour and Whitney’s 40th Anniversary says Pat Houston, executor of The Estate of Whitney E. Houston and President of The Whitney E. Houston Legacy Foundation. “There’s so much excitement happening around this tour, even the discussions and plans to take the tour internationally, where there’s a great amount of interest, which is where Whitney did a majority of her concert tours throughout her career. ‘The Voice of Whitney’ is a unique concert experience and she narrates the entire concert.”
The Voice of Whitney: A Symphonic Celebration North American Concert Tour
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Schermerhorn Symphony Center
Nashville Symphony (Sean Mayes, conductor)
Nashville, TN
Saturday, September 20, and Sunday, September 21, 2025
Cincinnati Music Hall
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra (Daniel Wiley, conductor)
Cincinnati, OH
Saturday, October 11, 2025
Wilson Center at Cape Fear Community College
Wilmington, NC
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Saturday, October 25, 2025
Bank of America Performing Arts Center (Sean Mayes, conductor)
Thousand Oaks, CA
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Saturday, November 8, 2025
The Palladium at Allied Solutions Center (Sean Mayes, conductor)
Carmel, IN
Friday, November 15, 2025
The Genesee Theatre (Sean Mayes, conductor)
Waukegan, IL
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Friday, November 21, 2025
McCallum Theatre (Sean Mayes, conductor)
Palm Desert, CA
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Saturday, November 22, 2025
Mesa Arts Center, (Sean Mayes, conductor)
Mesa, AZ
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