Sinfonia
Scott Glasser, conductor Program
Scott Glasser, conductor Program
Scott Glasser, conductor Program
The UNCG School of Music Student Artist Competition provides an annual forum for exceptional student performers to audition for the opportunity to appear in concert with the Symphony Orchestra or the Wind Ensemble. The competition final round is free and open to the public.
The Symphony Orchestra is joined by Mongolian horsehead fiddle player Suyahan for program of works by Weber, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, and a premiere from Chinese composer 温泽 (Wenze).
Scott Glasser, conductor Program
Scott Glasser, conductor Program
The Symphony Orchestra is joined by Prof. Marjorie Bagley and Dr. Scott Rawls for a program featuring a premiere by faculty composer Mark Engebretson, Mozart’s grand “Sinfonia Concertante,”and Tchaikovsky’s fearless Fourth Symphony.
The Symphony Orchestra and Student Artist Competition third prize winner Cro Trenczer present an evocative program featuring Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Capriccio espagnol,” the Haydn Cello Concerto, and Respighi’s stately tone poem, “Pines of Rome.”
The Casella Sinfonietta presents a faculty-student side-by-side concert of works by Steve Reich, Maria Schneider, and Aaron Copland, with video of Martha Graham’s original choreography for ‘Appalachian Spring.’
The Symphony Orchestra performs an exciting program bookended by Leonard Bernstein’s dazzling Overture to “Candide” and Stravinsky’s monumental suite from “The Firebird.” Dr. Steven Stusek joins the orchestra for a performance of Debussy’s evocative “Rhapsodie for saxophone and orchestra.”