Chamber Classics: the Balourdet Quartet

Drendel Auditorium, SALT Block 243 3rd Ave NE, Hickory, NC, United States

The Chamber Classics Series closes with the award-winning, acclaimed Balourdet String Quartet. Works by Douglas Cuomo, Mendelssohn, and Beethoven.

$25

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

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

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

WPS Musician Auditions 23-24 Season

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

Western Piedmont Symphony will hold musician auditions on Sunday, April 30, 2023, for the following vacancies: Section Violin, Section Viola, Section Cello, Section Double Bass, Horn II/IV, and Trumpet III. See announcement for complete details.

Spring Piano Recital with Dorothy Lewis-Griffith

Keiser Community Room, SALT Block 231 3rd Ave NE, Hickory, NC, United States

Western Piedmont Symphony presents pianist Dorothy-Lewis Griffith in a Spring Piano Recital. A special fundraiser to benefit the Western Piedmont Symphony. **Tickets Available at Door Only**

$50

Foothills Pops: DISNEY IN CONCERT-A Dream is a Wish

J.E. Broyhill Civic Center 1913 Hickory Blvd, Lenoir, NC, United States

DISNEY IN CONCERT-A Dream is a Wish transports audiences into the musical world of classic and contemporary Disney Animated Feature films.

$30 – $50

Side/Show 2023

Side/Show is back! Join the Western Piedmont Symphony small ensembles for free, unique, live music experiences. Happening in downtown Hickory in partnership with the Downtown Hickory Fall Art Crawl.

Free

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

Discovery Family Concerts: Magical Spooktacular

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

Discover musical adventures of live symphonic music and explore the magic of Halloween and music.

$5 – $14

Crossroads: Low and Lower

Drendel Auditorium, SALT Block 243 3rd Ave NE, Hickory, NC, United States

If you like stringed instruments and comedy, you cannot miss this performance.

$28