The University of Texas Symphony Orchestra performs a diverse range of symphonic literature six times a year. The ensemble collaborates with prominent artists from around the globe, as well as with the distinguished faculty of the Butler School of Music. Recognized as one of the premier college orchestras in the nation, the UTSO is regularly featured on Austin’s classical music station, KMFA 89.5, and has performed in a number of prestigious local and national venues.

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Farkhad Khudyev

Music Director, The University of Texas Symphony Orchestra

Assistant Professor of Music in Orchestral Studies

 

 

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UTSO is open to all qualified students university-wide by audition.  

 

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Course

M-W-F, 12–2p  
MRH 2.118

UNDERGRADUATE ENS 102S 
GRADUATE ENS 182S

 

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Go inside rehearsal with the University of Texas Symphony Orchestra. Students discuss their love for the music, their shared experience and their beloved conductor, the orchestra's Director of Music Farkhad Khudyev, who brings passion and energy to every rehearsal and concert.

Symphony Orchestra violinists performing in Bates Recital Hall

 

 

Each season the Symphony Orchestra performs  major works with winners of the Butler School Concerto Competitions.

 

 

Recent Visiting Artists

John Adams
William Bolcom
Carl St. Clair
James Conlon
Milchael Gilbertson
Jennifer Higdon
Michelle Merrill
Christopher Roundtree

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Scene and Duet from Ballet Suite No. 2,
"The Path of  Thunder"
Gara Garayev
Farkhad Khudyev, conductor
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Bates Recital Hall 
Austin, TX

Past Seasons

19/20

Hector Berlioz
Symphonie Fantastique

Edvard Grieg
Lyric Suite

Jordan Kuspa
Lemondade Battery 

Sergei Rachmaninoff 
The Bells

Maurice Ravel
Suite from Ma Mére l'Oye

Dimitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 15

Jean Sibelius
Symphony No. 2

Richard Strauss
Ein Heidenieben, Op. 40

18/19

Béla Bartók 
Concerto for Orchestra

Ludwig Van Beethoven
Symphony No. 7

Ash Fure
Bound to the Bow

Michael Gilbertson
Fool's Gold

Jennifer Hidden
Oboe Concerto

Sergei Prokofiev
Romeo & Juliet Suite 1

Dimitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 5

17/18

Samuel Barber
Violin Concerto

Leonard Bernstein
Symphony No. 2

Johannes Brahms
Hungarian Dances

Antonín Dvořák 
New World Symphony

Zhan Hao He
Fantasy of Jasmine for GuZheng and Orchestra

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 2

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Serenade for Strings

Henri Tomasi
Concerto for Alto Saxophone

 

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