Meet the Symphony Musicians!
February 2
The Symphony is excited to partner with the Virginia Discovery Museum for "Meet the Symphony Musician" at 10:30am on Saturday, February 2. Attendees will listen to an interactive musical storytelling featuring Principal Percussion I-Jen Fang, and get to make their own music on a variety of percussion instruments. These programs are free with the purchase of a Virginia Discovery Museum admission ticket.
Ravel & Kodaly
February 16 & 17
This vibrant program pairs two pieces by Ravel: the haunting "Pavane pour une infante défunte" and the Piano Concerto in G Major (with Andrew Le, piano), with Kodaly’s Variations on a Hungarian Folksong, a tour-de-force for the entire orchestra. A work by young Venezuelan composer Reinaldo Moya rounds out the program.
Mendelssohn's Italy
March 23 & 24
Mendelssohn’s "Italian" Symphony is one of the best-known and most-performed symphonies in the orchestral literature. Sunny and endlessly tuneful, it was inspired by the composer’s travels throughout Italy in the 1830’s. Joseph Lin, former First Violin in the renowned Julliard String Quartet, joins the orchestra for Bartok’s folk-inflected Second Violin Concerto, a work of intense virtuosity, colorful orchestral flourishes and impish humor.
Pines of Rome
April 27 & 28
The Symphony closes its 2018-19 season with two towering works: Respighi’s glittering orchestral tone poem, Pines of Rome, which travels from the depths of the catacombs to glorious villa gardens, and Schumann’s Piano Concerto (with soloist Jonathan Yates), which served as an inspiration for the piano concertos of Grieg and Rachmaninoff. The otherworldly Prelude to Wagner’s last completed opera, Parsifal, and a work by UVA Emeritus Professor Judith Shatin complete the program.
UVA Bicentennial Launch Celebration
Photos and Video Highlights
On Friday, October 6, 2017, the Charlottesville Symphony performed three times (including with the Martha Graham Dance Company) before a crowd of 20,000 people during UVA's Bicentennial Launch Celebration on the Lawn. Click the link below to see photo and video highlights!
The Lodge at Old Trail
2018-19 Website Sponsors
Thank you to The Lodge at Old Trail, our 2018-19 "Symphony Notes" e-newsletter and website sponsors.