Members of the Symphony Orchestra with instruments looking into camera

Symphony Orchestra

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.

Farkhad Khudyev

Music Director, Symphony Orchestra

Assistant Professor of Music in Orchestral Studies

 

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Gabriela Mora-Fallas

Teaching Assistant in Orchestral Conducting

Co-conductor, University Orchestra

Read More about Gabriela Mora-Fallas

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

 

Audition Info

 


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

Headshots of Recent Visiting Musicians

Upcoming Performances

Portraits of conductors J.D. Burnett, Ke Yuan Hsin, and Gabriela Mora Falla.
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J.D. Burnett, Ke Yuan Hsin, & Gabriela Mora Fallas, guest conductors
UT Combined Choirs 

Ester Mägi
Symphony No.1  

Leonard Bernstein
Chichester Psalms  

+ more...

Tamara Dworetz conducts an orchestra.
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Tamara Dworetz, guest conductor
Diana Loomer, steel drum
Austin Youth Orchestra 

Russell Podgorsek
Steel Drum Concerto (world premiere) 

Edward Elgar
Enigma Variations

+ more...

Members of the Symphony Orchestra with instruments looking into camera
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Farkhad Khudyev, conductor

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 4 

Side by side gallery of violinists Sandy Yamamoto, Brian Lewis, Daniel Ching, and William Fedkenheuer.
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Sandy Yamamoto, Brian Lewis, Daniel Ching, & William Fedkenheuer, violins 

Yevgeniy Sharlat
Cappriccio for Four Violins (Texas premiere) 

Omar Thomas
Come Sunday (premiere of orchestral version) 

+ more...

Violinists playing in the UT Symphony Orchestra.

Concerto Competition Concert 1

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Farkhad Khudyev, conductor

Featuring student winners of the Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition. Full repertoire will be publicized after the competitions take place in fall 2023.

Violinists playing in the UT Symphony Orchestra.

Concerto Competition Concert 2

Event Status
Scheduled
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Farkhad Khudyev, conductor

Featuring student winners of the Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition. Full repertoire will be publicized after the competitions take place in fall 2023.

WATCH

Scene and Duet from Ballet Suite No. 2,
"The Path of  Thunder"

Gara Garayev
Farkhad Khudyev, conductor
excerpt

Bates Recital Hall 
Austin, TX

Past Seasons

21/22

Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 9
Leonore Overture, No. 3, Op. 72b

Max Bruch
Marimba Concerto

Antonín Dvořák 
Symphony No. 8

W.A. Mozart
Concerto for Piano No. 23 in A Major, K.488
Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550

Florence Price
Dances in the Canebrakes

Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30

Camille Saint-Saëns
Romance for horn & Orchestra, Op. 36

Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasie

 

 

 

 

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

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