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Knoxville Symphony Orchestra
Verdi Requiem at 150 Years
May 16 & 17, 2024 at 7:30 pm
Aram Demirjian, conductor
Knoxville Choral Society
Knoxville Opera Chorus
GIUSEPPE VERDI: Messa da Requiem
Deer Valley Music Festival
Mendelssohn’s “Scottish” Symphony
July 17, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Aram Demirjian, conductor (Utah Symphony debut)
David Yavornitzky, double bass
Utah Symphony
ANNA CLYNE: PIVOT
KOUSSEVITZKY: Concerto for Double Bass
MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No. 3 “Scottish”
Knoxville Symphony Orchestra
Beethoven & Gershwin
September 19 & 20, 2024 at 7:30 pm
Aram Demirjian, conductor
Natasha Paremski, piano
GABRIELA ORTIZ: Kauyumari
GEORGE GERSHWIN: Concerto in F
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 5
Knoxville Symphony Orchestra
Beethoven Symphony No. 4
September 29, 2024 at 2:30 pm
Aram Demirjian, conductor
Emi Kagawa, piano
DOSIA McKAY: The Lure of the Flowering Fern (KSO commission & world premiere)
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 17
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 4
Knoxville Symphony Orchestra
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
October 17 & 18, 2024 at 7:30 pm
Aram Demirjian, conductor
Paul Huang, violin
SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR: Ballade for Orchestra
JOHANNES BRAHMS: Symphony No. 3
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY: Violin Concerto
Billings Symphony
Beethoven 5
October 26, 2024 at 7:30 pm
Aram Demirjian, conductor
Tyler Menzales, Flute
JENNIFER HIGDON: blue cathedral
JACQUES IBERT: Flute Concerto
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 5
Knoxville Symphony Orchestra
The Firebird
November 14 & 15, 2024 at 7:30 pm
Aram Demirjian, conductor
William Shaub, violin
CLAUDE DEBUSSY: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
JEAN SIBELIUS: Violin Concerto
LERA AUERBACH: Icarus
JOHN WILLIAMS: “Hedwig’s Theme” from Harry Potter
IGOR STRAVINSKY: Firebird Suite
Knoxville Symphony Orchestra
Classical Christmas: Messiah
December 1, 2024 at 2:30 pm
Aram Demirjian, conductor
GEORGE HANDEL: Messiah
Seattle Symphony
Handel Messiah
December 19, 2024 at 7:30 pm
December 20, 2024 at 8:00 pm
December 21, 2024 at 8:00 pm
December 22, 2024 at 2:00 pm
Aram Demirjian, conductor (Seattle Symphony debut)
Seattle Symphony Chorale
Seattle Symphony
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL: Messiah
Knoxville Symphony Orchestra
Mahler Symphony No. 5
January 16 & 17, 2025 at 7:30 pm
Aram Demirjian, conductor
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (arr. STOKOWSKI): Toccata and Fugue in D minor
GUSTAV MAHLER: Symphony No. 5
Knoxville Symphony Orchestra
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
February 20 & 21, 2025 at 7:30 pm
Aram Demirjian, conductor
Laura Beth Wells, narrator
Appalachian Ballet Company
Women of the Webb School & Pellissippi State Community College choirs
RUTH CRAWFORD-SEEGER: Rissolty, Rossolty
EINOJUHANI RAUTAVAARA: Cantus arcticus: Concerto for Birds & Orchestra
BEDRICH SMETANA: “The Moldau” from My Fatherland
FELIX MENDELSSOHN: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra
Rhapsody in Blue
March 14, 2025 at 7:30 pm
Aram Demirjian, conductor (Subscription Series debut)
Jeffrey Biegel, piano
CHARLES IVES: Fugue (from Symphony No.4)
PETER BOYER: Rhapsody in Red, White & Blue
GEORGE GERSHWIN: Rhapsody in Blue
WILLIAM L. DAWSON: Negro Folk Symphony
Knoxville Symphony Orchestra
Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
April 6, 2025 at 2:30 pm
Aram Demirjian, conductor
Sean Claire, violin
Zofia Glashauser, violin
I-Pei Lin, violin
Kyle Venlet, violin
STACY GARROP: Spectacle of Light
CLARICE ASSAD: Suite for Lower Strings
MOLLY HERRON: Spin, Span, Spun
ANTONIO VIVALDI: Four Seasons
Knoxville Symphony Orchestra
Carmina Burana
April 24 & 25, 2025 at 7:30 pm
Aram Demirjian, conductor
Knoxville Choral Society
Knoxville Symphony Youth Choir
CARLOS SIMON: Fate Now Conquers
SAMUEL BARBER: Symphony No. 1 in One Movement
CARL ORFF: Carmina Burana
Knoxville Symphony Orchestra
New World Symphonies
May 15 & 16, 2025 at 7:30 pm
Aram Demirjian, conductor
Indigenous Vibes, drums
FLORENCE PRICE: Colonial Dance
DERRICK SKYE: New African Drum Concerto (KSO commission & world premiere)
ANTONIN DVORAK: Symphony No. 9 (“From the New World”)
PREVIOUS
— Knoxville Symphony Orchestra: Cosmos Festival: The Planets —
April 18 & 19, 2024 at 7:30 pm
— Knoxville Symphony Orchestra: Cosmos Festival: Mozart’s Jupiter & The Golden Record —
April 14, 2024 at 2:30 pm
— Knoxville Symphony Orchestra: Beethoven Violin Concerto —
February 22 & 23, 2024 at 7:30 pm
— Tuscon Symphony Orchestra: Rachmaninoff’s Second —
February 16, 2024 at 7:30 pm
February 18, 2024 at 2:00 pm
— Knoxville Symphony Orchestra: The Heavenly Life: Mahler Symphony No. 4 —
January 25 & 26, 2024 at 7:30 pm
— Kansas City Symphony: Handel’s Messiah —
December 1 & 2, 2023 at 7:00 pm
December 3, 2023 at 2:00 pm
— Knoxville Symphony Orchestra: Classical Christmas: Messiah —
November 26, 2023 at 2:30 pm
— Knoxville Symphony Orchestra: Beethoven’s “Pastoral” —
October 19 & 20, 2023 at 7:30 pm
— Knoxville Symphony Orchestra: Pictures at an Exhibition —
September 21 & 22, 2023 at 7:30 pm
— Knoxville Symphony Orchestra: William Shaub Plays Mozart —
September 17, 2023 at 2:30 pm
— Mostly Modern Festival: Mostly Modern Orchestra with Aram Demirjian, conductor —
June 11, 2023 at 3:00 pm
— Knoxville Symphony Orchestra: Beethoven and The Rite of Spring —
May 18 & 19, 2023 at 7:30 pm
— Knoxville Symphony Orchestra: Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8 —
May 7, 2023 at 2:30 pm
— Knoxville Symphony Orchestra: Mozart Requiem —
April 20 & 21, 2023
— Big Ears Festival: Shara Nova and the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra: The Blue Hour —
April 2, 2023
— Big Ears Festival: Tessa Lark and the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra: Cycle of Life —
April 2, 2023
— Big Ears Festival: Bill Frisell Trio with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra —
March 30, 2023
— Knoxville Symphony Orchestra: Appalachian Journeys —
March 23 & 24, 2023
— Symphony San Jose: Nakamatsu Plays Grieg —
March 18 & 19, 2023
— Knoxville Symphony Orchestra: Mozart Piano Concerto No. 27 —
March 5, 2023
— Knoxville Symphony Orchestra: Mendelssohn Violin Concerto —
February 23 & 24, 2023
— Knoxville Symphony Orchestra: Jeff Midkiff’s Mandolin —
January 29, 2023
— Nashville Symphony: Handel’s Messiah —
December 8, 9 & 11, 2022
— Knoxville Symphony Orchestra: Classical Christmas: Messiah —
November 27, 2022
— Knoxville Symphony Orchestra: Service and Spirit: A Salute to Veterans —
November 10 & 11, 2022
— Colorado Symphony: Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons —
October 14, 15 & 16, 2022
— Knoxville Symphony Orchestra: Mozart and Ginastera —
September 25, 2022
— Knoxville Symphony Orchestra: Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 —
September 15 & 16, 2022
— Oregon Bach Festival: Variations on a Dream —
June 22, 2022
— Knoxville Symphony Orchestra: Beats & Bolero —
May 19 & 20, 2022
— Knoxville Symphony Orchestra: The Cycle of Life: World Premiere —
April 21 & 22, 2022
— Knoxville Symphony Orchestra: Blackberry Winter —
April 3, 2022
— Big Ears Festival: Knoxville Symphony Orchestra and Shabaka Hutchings —
March 24, 2022
— Knoxville Symphony Orchestra: Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 & Brahms Symphony No. 2 —
March 17 & 18, 2022
— Knoxville Symphony Orchestra: Bach Concerto for Two Violins —
February 27, 2022
— Santa Rosa Symphony: American Rhapsody (debut) —
February 12, 13 & 14, 2022
— Knoxville Symphony Orchestra: Mozart Violin Concerto No. 2 —
January 30, 2022
— Knoxville Symphony Orchestra: William Shaub and the Pines of Rome —
January 20 & 21, 2022
— Knoxville Symphony Orchestra: Night with the Arts: A Concert in Celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. —
January 16, 2022
— Knoxville Symphony Orchestra: Symphonie Fantastique —
October 21 & 22, 2021
— Knoxville Symphony Orchestra: The Four Seasons —
September 23 & 24, 2021
— San Diego Symphony: Beethoven by the Bay —
August 20, 2021
— Knoxville Symphony Orchestra: 37th Annual Free Pilot/Flying J Independence Day Concert —
July 3, 2021
— Knoxville Symphony Orchestra: Violin Virtuoso Tessa Lark —
May 20, 2021
— North Carolina Symphony: Beethoven Violin Concerto (debut) —
May 8, 2021
— Knoxville Symphony Orchestra: Mendelssohn’s “Italian” Symphony —
April 22, 2021
— Knoxville Symphony Orchestra —
March 25, 2021
— Knoxville Symphony Orchestra —
Marchy 7, 2021
— Knoxville Symphony Orchestra —
February 18, 2021
— Knoxville Symphony Orchestra: Ragtime Kings —
February 13, 2021
— Knoxville Symphony Orchestra: Stravinsky, L’histoire du soldat (A Soldier’s Tale) —
February 7, 2021
— Knoxville Symphony Orchestra —
January 21 & 22, 2021 - Cancelled due to Pandemic
— Knoxville Symphony Orchestra —
January 10, 2021 - Cancelled due to Pandemic
— Knoxville Symphony Orchestra —
November 29, 2020 - Cancelled due to Pandemic
— Knoxville Symphony Orchestra: Composers Who Served —
November 12 & 13, 2020 - Cancelled due to Pandemic
— Knoxville Symphony Orchestra —
September 27, 2020 - Cancelled due to Pandemic
— Knoxville Symphony Orchestra —
September 17 & 18, 2020 - Cancelled due to Pandemic
— San Diego Symphony: Beethoven by the Bay —
August 16, 2020 - Postponed due to Pandemic
— North Carolina Symphony: Summerfest (debut) —
June 6, 2020 - Cancelled due to Pandemic
— Knoxville Symphony Orchestra —
May 14 & 15, 2020 - Cancelled due to Pandemic
— Knoxville Symphony Orchestra —
May 9, 2020 - Cancelled due to Pandemic
— SHIFT: A Festival of American Orchestras —
Marc 27, 2020 - Cancelled due to Pandemic
— Knoxville Symphony Orchestra: A SHIFT Festival Send-Off —
March 19 & 20, 2020 - Cancelled due to Pandemic
— Orlando Philharmonic —
March 7 & 9, 2020
— Knoxville Symphony Orchestra: Very Young People’s Concert: Drumming and Dancing —
February 26 & 27, 2020
— Knoxville Symphony Orchestra —
February 21, 2020