Hickory NC Archives - Western Piedmont Symphony

Sight + Sound Film Series with Hickory Museum of Art

By Kelly Swindell | November 8, 2024 |

Western Piedmont Symphony + Hickory Museum of Art present Sight + Sound Film Series, featuring a great collaboration of symphony and metal rock captured on film.

WPS Auditions: Section Violin, Section Cello

By Kelly Swindell | August 4, 2024 |

group of orchestra violin musicians playing together wearing all back clothes and holding violins

Western Piedmont Symphony announces auditions on Sunday, September 8, 2024, for the following vacancies: SECTION VIOLIN and SECTION CELLO. Audition date: Sunday, September 8, 2024 Application deadline: Friday, August 30, 2024

WPS Youth Orchestras Fall Concert

By Kelly Swindell | July 6, 2024 |

group of young musicians playing orchestra music wearing black clothes

Hear our young artists in performance! Both Debut Strings and the Youth Symphony will perform works from the classical repertoire.

Side/Show

By Kelly Swindell | July 6, 2024 |

string quartet performing in a store front with candles

Join the Western Piedmont Symphony chamber ensembles and friends for FREE live music experiences. Happening in downtown Hickory in partnership with the Downtown Hickory Art Crawl. Sponsored by the City of Hickory.

Foothills Pops: The Music of John Williams

By Kelly Swindell | July 6, 2024 |

Get your light sabers ready for a night of the most famous and beloved film scores of John Williams, including Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones, Superman, Harry Potter, and more!

Crossroads: Hank, Pattie and The Current with WPS Maestro’s Quartet

By Kelly Swindell | June 20, 2023 |

four musicians sitting on a stair way, a white femal with red hair smiling, a mixed race man in a suite and tie smiling, a white male looking to the left in a suit and white shirt, a white female in red dress and brown hair

NEW LOCATION! North Carolina’s Bluegrass-American juggernaut Hank, Pattie, and The Current. Hard-hitting bluegrass pickers who moonlight as symphonic classical musicians. Special guests the WPS Maestro’s Quartet.