Masterworks
FREE EVENT: SOUNDSCAPES with BRITTON-RENE COLLINS
Join award-winning percussionist Britton-René Collins on a sound exploration through contemporary and multidimensional percussion works. This program embraces contrast, variety, and the magical sound possibilities of percussion.
CANCELED: Soundbites: Britton-Rene Collins, vibraphone
Keiser Community Room, SALT Block 231 3rd Ave NE, Hickory, NC, United StatesSoundbites has been canceled this season. (February 10, 2023)
Masterworks: Poetry in Motion
P.E. Monroe Auditorium, LRU 775 6th St NE, Hickory, NC, United StatesAward-winning vibraphonist Britton-René Collins joins the Western Piedmont Symphony for Masterworks: Poetry in Motion. Collins will perform the Concerto for Vibraphone (2010) by North Carolina-based composer Nathan Daughtry. Program also includes works by Marquez, de Falla, and Debussy.
Masterworks: Mighty Mahler
P.E. Monroe Auditorium, LRU 775 6th St NE, Hickory, NC, United StatesTickets on sale August 15, 2022. Western Piedmont Symphony principal flute Laura Dangerfield Stevens performs Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 2. Then, the orchestra dives into the masterful Fifth Symphony by Mahler, featuring the adored Adagietto, Mahler's declaration of love to his wife, Alma.
Community Conversation – Welcoming the Stranger
Belk Centrum at Lenoir-Rhyne University 625 7th Ave NE, Hickory, NC, United StatesWestern Piedmont Symphony and Catawba Valley Interfaith Council invite the community for a conversation about music, storytelling, and the immigrant experience.
Masterworks: The New Colossus
P.E. Monroe Auditorium, LRU 775 6th St NE, Hickory, NC, United StatesTickets 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.
Masterworks: Other Worlds
P.E. Monroe Auditorium, LRU 775 6th St NE, Hickory, NC, United StatesExperience 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.
Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts Presents: Western Piedmont Symphony – Carmina Burana
Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts 733 Rivers St., Boone, NC, United StatesSchaefer Center for the Performing Arts at Appalachian State University presents the Western Piedmont Symphony: Carmina Burana. The professional orchestra of the western foothills of North Carolina led by Maestro Matthew Troy presents the epic choral masterpiece.
Community Conversation: Pioneering Women Composers – Dame Ethel Smyth, Women’s Suffrage, and Musical Identity
Ridgeview Branch Library 706 1st St SW, Hickory, NC, United StatesCommunity Conversation: Pioneering Women Composers - Dame Ethel Smyth, Women's Suffrage, and Musical Identity
Masterworks: Symphonie Fantastique
P.E. Monroe Auditorium, LRU 775 6th St NE, Hickory, NC, United StatesAcclaimed violinist Kelly Hall-Tompkins returns to perform Bruch’s Concerto No. 1 for Violin in G minor.