The Winston-Salem Symphony Presents Edgar Meyer & The New World

The Winston-Salem Symphony Presents Edgar Meyer & The New World WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (February 1, 2024) –  Winston-Salem Symphony Music Director Michelle Merrill leads the orchestra in a Program entitled “Edgar Meyer & The New World” on Saturday, March 2, at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, March 3, at 3:00 p.m. Merrill is joined by genre-defying bassist Edgar Meyer. Merrill

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Jason McKinney, Bass

While in school, Mr. McKinney received the Helen Odom scholarship, the Music Dean’s Talent Scholarship, and the Chancellor’s Grant for Excellence. Jason was the winner of the 2001 and 2002 Civic Music Association of Milwaukee’s Harold Levin scholarship competition and was awarded the Judges Choice award at the 2001 Metropolitan Opera’s district competition. In 2004

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Jason McKinney

Kathryn Mueller, Soprano

She has sung with the LA Chamber Orchestra, American Bach Soloists, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Santa Fe Pro Musica, Charlotte Symphony, Memphis Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, Winston-Salem Symphony, and Tucson Symphony Orchestra. Favorite concert works include Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Glière’s Concerto for Coloratura Soprano, Haydn’s Creation, Bach’s St. John Passion, and anything by Mozart or Handel. She collaborates

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Kathryn Mueller

Scott Ramsay, Tenor

Following his portrayal of Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor, under the baton of Jesús López-Cobos at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Chicago Sun-Times  proclaimed “Ramsay brought a passionate intensity to the role that matched the fire of Dessay’s riveting Lucia.” Of his Canadian debut in Verdi’s Requiem with Sir Andrew Davis and the Toronto

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Scott Ramsay

The Winston-Salem Symphony Presents Handel’s Messiah

The Winston-Salem Symphony Presents Handel’s Messiah WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (November 16, 2023) –  Winston-Salem Symphony Music Director Michelle Merrill will conduct the seventeenth annual performance of Handel’s Messiah on Tuesday, December 12, at Wait Chapel. This musical work is one of the most celebrated oratorios of all time, beloved for its beauty, drama, and famous “Hallelujah” chorus. This Christmastime tradition

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The Winston-Salem Symphony Presents Home Alone In Concert

The Winston-Salem Symphony Presents Home Alone In Concert WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (November 1, 2023) –  A Carolina Christmas, the Winston-Salem Symphony tradition, returns to the R.J. Reynolds Auditorium for its eleventh year in a new form with Home Alone In Concert. The event will feature the full-length film with John Williams’ original score performed live. The modern holiday classic stars Macaulay

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Michael Hix, Baritone

Hix is a sought-after performer of concert and orchestral works with over 75 oratorio, cantata, and concert roles in his repertoire.  In 2019 he was awarded 3rd Place in the American Prize Competition for Oratorio and Art Song Performance.  Past concert and oratorio solo engagements have included Mendelssohn’s Elijah, J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, St. John Passion, B

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Gene Stenger, Tenor

In the 2023-2024 season, Gene is invited to return to the Bach Society of St. Louis and Washington Bach Consort to sing the Evangelist in Bach’s St. John’s Passion. He also joins Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra to perform Handel’s Messiah, which he will perform again in Birmingham at Cathedral Church of the Advent in 2024. Gene’s 2022-2023 season

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Leah Wool, Mezzo Soprano

In the 2023-2024 season, Ms. Wool makes a return to the Defiant Requiem Foundation in recital, singing a world premiere of Jewish-American composer Gerald Cohen’s new song cycle. Last season featured an appearance with OnSite Opera and the Defiant Requiem Foundation as the Trommler in Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis at Zankel Hall, the proceeds of which benefitted Holocaust Survivors. The mezzo was also

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Ashley Fabian, Soprano

Ms. Fabian begins the 2023/2024 season with a return to the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl in a concert with Chris Thile (Punch Brothers, Nickel Creek), then appears as Gilda in Rigoletto with Holy City Arts & Lyric Opera, the Soprano Soloist in Händel’s Messiah with the Winston-Salem Symphony, Zerlina in Don Giovanni

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The Winston-Salem Symphony and the Symphony Chorus Presents Considering Matthew Shepard

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (October 4, 2023) –  The Winston-Salem Symphony and the Symphony Chorus will present the area premiere of Craig Hella Johnson’s Considering Matthew Shepard, a powerful three-part oratorio on Sunday, October 29, 2023, at 3:00 p.m. The concert takes place in Brendle Recital Hall, located inside the Scales Fine Arts Center on the campus of Wake Forest University.

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P.L.A.Y. Music Administrator

The Winston-Salem Symphony is seeking temporary administrative support for its P.L.A.Y Music program. The P.L.A.Y. Music Administrator is responsible for providing temporary administrative support for the Winston-Salem Symphony’s P.L.A.Y. Music (Piedmont Learning Academy for Youth Music) program and will also provide temporary support to the P.L.A.Y. Music Site Coordinator, ensuring the successful daily coordination of activities and assisting with administrative tasks. They will collaborate with an exciting team of P.L.A.Y. Music teachers to facilitate the social-emotional, musical, and educational goals in alignment with El Sistema’s ideals of musical excellence and social inclusion. (Approximately 20-22 hours per week.)

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The Winston-Salem Symphony Starts the 2023-2024 Season with Bernstein & Brahms

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (October 4, 2023) –  The Winston-Salem Symphony and the Symphony Chorus will present the area premiere of Craig Hella Johnson’s Considering Matthew Shepard, a powerful three-part oratorio on Sunday, October 29, 2023, at 3:00 p.m. The concert takes place in Brendle Recital Hall, located inside the Scales Fine Arts Center on the campus of Wake Forest University.

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Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

Leonard Bernstein’s enduring musical, West Side Story, opened at New York’s Winter Garden Theater on September 26, 1957.  The text by Stephen Sondheim (after A. Laurents) is based on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, with the feuding Capulets and Montagues now represented by two rival gangs, the Sharks and the Jets, and the scenario removed from Verona to the streets of Manhattan.

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Leonard Bernstein

Dvorak: Carnival Overture

Dvořák’s symphonies, particularly nos. Seven, Eight, and Nine (“From the New World”), the Cello Concerto, and the orchestrated version of his Slavonic Dances are his most frequently performed symphonic works. To this list may be added the one exception among his five symphonic poems, the Carnival Overture.

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Lawrence Loh, Conductor

As Music Director of Symphoria, the successor to the Syracuse Symphony, Lawrence Loh has helped to build a 21st century model of a modern symphony orchestra. “The connection between the organization and its audience is one of the qualities that’s come to define Syracuse’s symphony as it wraps up its 10th season, a milestone that

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