Hiss Golden Messenger
Hiss Golden Messenger of Durham, North Carolina, a vehicle for singer-songwriter M.C. Taylor, calls up a wide spectrum of American vernacular music.
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Winston-Salem Symphony Youth Orchestras to Perform Free Spring Finale Concert
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (MAY 7, 2019) – The Winston-Salem Symphony Youth Orchestras Program will hold its final concert of the 2018–2019 Season on Monday, May 20 at 7 p.m. The Premiere Strings, led by Dr. Ryane Dunnagan and Rachel Watson; the Youth Philharmonic, led by Margaret Rehder; and the Youth Symphony, under the baton of Dr. Jessica Morel, will perform at the Stevens Center of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts at 405 West Fourth Street in downtown Winston-Salem. The concert is free and open to the public.
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The Winston-Salem Symphony’s P.L.A.Y. Music Program Presents A Violin Jamboree at Easton Elementary School
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (May 6, 2019) – The Winston-Salem Symphony’s Piedmont Learning Academy for Youth Music (P.L.A.Y. Music) program will be hosting “A Violin Jamboree” on Tuesday, May 14 at 5:30 p.m. in the gym at Easton Elementary School, 734 East Clemmonsville Road in Winston-Salem. The jamboree will feature the Easton Elementary kindergarteners, who will demonstrate what they have learned and accomplished over the past school year in the P.L.A.Y. program.
Barber Violin Concerto
The story of the origin and compositional history of Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto reads like a soap opera—literally. Its commission came from the laundry soap manufacturer, Samuel Fels. What happened next is shrouded in some mystery and controversy.
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April 28 & 30, 2019
What is it about clowns? Why, on the one hand, do they bring laughter and delight to many, while at the same time seem frightening and repulsive to others? What, indeed, lies behind that painted smile? Ever since the rise of the Commedia dell’ Arte in the sixteenth century we know the archetypical clown by many names.
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The Winston-Salem Symphony Presents Pops Concert: A Night at Woodstock
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (APRIL 4, 2019) – The Winston-Salem Symphony, joined by the Jeans ‘n Classics Band, is presenting a concert celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Woodstock on Saturday, May 11, 2019 at 7:30 p.m.
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Winston-Salem Symphony Presents The Fifth and Final Music Director Candidate Concerts: Redmond conducts Sibelius
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (April 2, 2019) – The Winston-Salem Symphony’s 2018–2019 season continues to be thrilling as five brilliant conductors vie for the role of Music Director. On Sunday, April 28 and Tuesday, April 30, 2019, the final candidate, London-based Timothy Redmond, heralded throughout Europe for his thrilling orchestral and operatic interpretations, will lead the symphony…
The Winston-Salem Symphony Presents Pops Concert: Ella and Louis
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (MARCH 13, 2019) – The Winston-Salem Symphony is presenting versatile jazz vocalist Carmen Bradford and powerhouse trumpeter Byron Stripling for a concert celebrating the famous duets and solos of two of jazz’s greatest legends, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, on Saturday, April 13, 2019 at 7:30 p.m.
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Winston-Salem Symphony Announces 2019–2020 Season
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (MARCH 11, 2019) – The Winston-Salem Symphony announced its 2019–2020 season on Saturday, March 2. The upcoming season includes Classics and Pops concerts celebrating everything from Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, an all-Beethoven concert, and selections form Wagner’s Ring Cycle to Americana music, Tom Petty, and the great film scores of John Williams. Internationally renowned guest artists performing next season include Béla Fleck, the Indigo Girls, Rachel Barton Pine, and Kenny Broberg.
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Winston-Salem Symphony Presents Discovery Concert for Kids Peter and the Wolf
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (MARCH 7, 2019) – The Winston-Salem Symphony will present Discovery Concerts for Kids performances of Peter and the Wolf, by Sergei Prokofiev. Under the baton of Jessica Morel, the Winston-Salem Symphony’s Assistant Conductor, two performances will take place Sunday, April 7, 2019 at 2 and 4 p.m. at Brendle Recital Hall in the Scales Fine Arts Center on the campus of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem. Fun concert-related, hands-on activities for the whole family will be available between the shows from 3 to 4 p.m. in the lobby.
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Winston-Salem Symphony Youth Philharmonic and Premiere Strings Present Mid-Season Concert
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (MARCH 5, 2019) –The Winston-Salem Youth Philharmonic and Premiere Strings will present a mid-season concert on Sunday, March 24 at 7 p.m. The concert is free and open to the public and will take place in the Brendle Recital Hall on the campus of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem.
Winston-Salem Symphony Presents Mozart’s Requiem Featuring the Winston-Salem Symphony Chorus
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (FEBRUARY 28, 2019) – The Winston-Salem Symphony will present Classics Series concerts on Sunday, March 31 and Tuesday, April 2, 2019 featuring Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 4 in C minor, D 417 (Tragic), conducted by Winston-Salem Symphony Assistant Conductor Jessica Morel, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Requiem in D minor, K. 626, conducted by Christopher Gilliam, Winston-Salem Symphony Chorus Director.
Andrew René, baritone
Andrew René, baritone, has participated in vocal competitions and professional engagements, including performances with the Virginia Opera Association, the Bay View Association, Opera Raw, Piedmont Opera, the A. J. Fletcher Opera Institute, the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra and the Princeton Festival.Read more.
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Ilana Lubitsch, soprano
Ilana Lubitsch’s brilliant, high soprano cuts the orchestra with ease carrying a sizable voice to match her feisty stage presence. Among Ilana’s operatic credits are appearances as Königin der Nacht in Die Zauberflöte, Mme Lidoine in Dialogues des Carmélites, Miss Wordsworth in Albert Herring, Adina in L’elisir d’amore and Zerlina in Don Giovanni.Read more.
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Winston-Salem Symphony Presents Symphony Unbound: Hank, Pattie & The Current
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (FEBRUARY 21, 2019) – The Winston-Salem Symphony presents North Carolina-based bluegrass phenoms Hank, Pattie & The Current performing with members of the Winston-Salem Symphony on Saturday, March 9 at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday, March 10 at 2:00 p.m. at Muddy Creek Music Hall at 5455 Bethania Road in Winston-Salem. This concert is the second concert in the Symphony Unbound series and follows on the heels of the sold-out Symphony Unbound: Mandolin Orange concert at The Ramkat in November 2018.
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March 31 & April 2, 2019
The history of symphonic music might have changed significantly had Franz Schubert’s contributions to the genre stood in the foreground of his Vienna. The dominant figure of his time, of course, was none other than Ludwig van Beethoven, who had already composed eight of his nine monumental symphonies. An air of mystery and no small amount of controversy has always surrounded Mozart’s Requiem. The fact that the composer in question died prematurely while still at work on the composition of a Mass for the Dead, only increases the sense of intrigue.
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March 3 & 5, 2019
Although audiences may not recognize the name György Ligeti, those who are fans of Stanley Kubrick’s films, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and Eyes Wide Shut (1999) have heard his music. His opera, Le Grand Macabre (1974-77, rev. 1996), has been performed in recent years with greater frequency. A composer whose music covers many different genres, Ligeti’s earlier works reflect, not unlike Bartók and Kodály, the folk-like elements indigenous to Eastern Europe.
Winston-Salem Symphony Presents The Fourth Music Director Candidate Concerts: George Jackson Conducts Dvořák
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (JANUARY 31, 2019) – The Winston-Salem Symphony’s 2018–2019 season promises to be thrilling as five brilliant conductors vie for the role of Music Director. On Sunday, March 3 and Tuesday, March 5, 2019, George Jackson, a dynamic, young conductor from London, will lead the symphony in György Ligeti’s jovial Concert Românesc (Romanian Concerto), Antonin Dvořák’s spectacular Symphony No. 8 in G Major, op. 88, B. 163, as well as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s majestic Piano Concerto No. 25 in C Major, K. 503 featuring exciting guest pianist Clara Yang. Jackson, whose conducting has been described as “enthralling from first bar to last,” rocked the international scene recently after stepping in on short notice with both the London Symphony and the Orchestre de Paris.
Winston-Salem Symphony Presents a Concert For Community February 2
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (JANUARY 16, 2019) – The Winston-Salem Symphony and Youth Symphony will present a Concert for Community on Saturday, February 2, 2019 at 3 p.m. The concert is free and open to the public and will take place at Wait Chapel on the Wake Forest University campus. Although the concert is free, please visit the Symphony website at WSsymphony.org to reserve your ticket.
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The Winston-Salem Symphony Presents and Evening with Ricky Skaggs
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (JANUARY 15, 2019) – Join the Winston-Salem Symphony for a special one-night only performance with 15-time GRAMMY® winner and music legend Ricky Skaggs on Saturday, February 16, 2019 at 7:30 p.m. Under the baton of Jessica Morel, Assistant Conductor of the Winston-Salem Symphony, the audience will enjoy an evening of bluegrass, gospel, Americana, and more.
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Hank, Pattie & The Current
Two of North Carolina’s veteran bluegrass musicians join forces with some of the Triangle area’s most versatile musicians to create modern, American, acoustic music featuring the full range of their talents as composers and arrangers. The band is on tour regionally and nationally in support of their recent album, Hold Your Head Up High on
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