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23-24 Season Announcement

Western Piedmont Symphony 243 Third Ave NE, Hickory, NC, United States

Announcing our 2023-204 season of world-class performances!

Free
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Community Conversation – Welcoming the Stranger

Belk Centrum at Lenoir-Rhyne University 625 7th Ave NE, Hickory, NC, United States

Western Piedmont Symphony and Catawba Valley Interfaith Council invite the community for a conversation about music, storytelling, and the immigrant experience.

Free
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Masterworks: The New Colossus

P.E. Monroe Auditorium, LRU 775 6th St NE, Hickory, NC, United States

Tickets on sale August 15, 2022. The 22-23 Masterworks season closes with a multi-media storytelling concert experience. Nkeiru Okoye's personal response to 9/11, Voices Shouting Out, opens the concert. Acclaimed violinist Kinga Augustyn will perform the Korngold Concerto for Violin. The evening culminates with Peter Boyer's visual telling of the immigrant experience, Ellis Island: the Dream of America.

$25 – $45

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Masterworks: Other Worlds

P.E. Monroe Auditorium, LRU 775 6th St NE, Hickory, NC, United States

Experience music like no other with the Silk Road Ensemble’s Wu Man, the world’s foremost pipa artist, performing the cinematic Concerto No. 2 for Pipa and Orchestra by Jiping Zhao. Also featured on the opening Masterworks program: Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Suite and the triumphant Pines of Rome by Respighi.

$20 – $50

Pianist Dmitri Vorobriev wearing a black shirt with a slightly blurry piano in the background.

Masterworks: Romance and Realism

P.E. Monroe Auditorium, LRU 775 6th St NE, Hickory, NC, United States

Presenting Rachmaninoff’s beloved romantic Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor and more.

$20 – $50

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Masterworks: Carmina Burana

P.E. Monroe Auditorium, LRU 775 6th St NE, Hickory, NC, United States

One of classical music’s most spellbinding and immersive experiences, Carmina Burana is an epic, captivating choral masterpiece.

$20 – $50

Kelly Hall-Tompkins wearing a silver-gray tank top and black pants, holding her violin in front of a distant city skyline and trees.

Masterworks: Symphonie Fantastique

P.E. Monroe Auditorium, LRU 775 6th St NE, Hickory, NC, United States

Acclaimed violinist Kelly Hall-Tompkins returns to perform Bruch’s Concerto No. 1 for Violin in G minor.

$20 – $50

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Masterworks: Landscapes

P.E. Monroe Auditorium, LRU 775 6th St NE, Hickory, NC, United States

The symphony’s flagship classical series concludes with two WORLD PREMIERES: Kachina, by Amber Ferenz, and a commission for orchestra of music inspired by the foothills region by American composer Daniel Perttu. Grofé’s picturesque Grand Canyon Suite closes the series.

$20 – $50