2023-24 Season Highlights

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Season Highlights
2023-24

Welcome to 2023-24

Below, you'll find our ticketed performances for the coming academic year. This is just a fraction of the concerts we hold each year. Check our calendar on a regular basis to view a full list of free and ticketed events.

 

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What to expect

All seating will be General Admission so you can choose your seats comfortably. The Butler School may reduce capacity for public performances if Austin has a high rate of COVID-19 cases.

With the new Moody Center presenting regular events, parking on our side of campus is challenging. We encourage you to consider public transportation or ride sharing to avoid hunting for parking or sitting in long lines. If you are driving to campus, we recommend arriving early to find parking.

Season Highlights

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Symphony Orchestra

Farkhad Khudyev, artistic director

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) 

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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

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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.

a black and white horn, particles float away from the instrument revealing a color horn beneath.
Wind Ensemble

Jerry Junkin, conductor

Portrait of clarinetist Jonathan Gunn
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Jerry Junkin, conductor
Marc Sosnowchick, guest conductor
Jonathan Gunn, clarinet

John Mackey
Divine Mischief (Concerto for Clarinet)
Wine-Dark Sea (10th anniversary performance) 

Henry Tomasi
Fanfares Liturguiques

A headshot of composer Viet Cuong
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Jerry Junkin, conductor

Viet Cuong
Saxophone Quartet Concerto (consortium premiere) 

Zhou Tian
Sinfonia 

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Portrait of trombonist Joseph Alessi
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Jerry Junkin, conductor
T.J. Anderson, guest conductor
Joseph Alessi, trombone

Chick Corea
Concerto for Trombone 

David Maslanka
Symphony No. 4 

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and opera singer
Butler Opera Center

Tamar Sanikidze, director & principal coach
Garnett Bruce, resident stage director
Douglas Kinney Frost, principal conductor



 

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Butler Opera Center

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Music by Tan Dun 
Libretto by Tan Dun & Xu Ying  

Minjeong Kim, director
Douglas Kinney Frost, conductor
New Music Ensemble

Sung in English.

An red-headed Queen of Spades emerging from clouds.

Butler Opera Center

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Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 
Libretto by Modest Tchaikovsky after Alexander Pushkin 
 

Garnett Bruce, director
Douglas Kinney Frost, conductor

Sung in Russian.

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Jazz Orchestra

Diego Rivera, director

Jazz drummer Carl Allen wearing a scarf and talking to the camera.

with Carl Allen, drums

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Diego Rivera, director

 

A jazz saxophone student playing with UT Jazz Orchestra.
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Diego Rivera, director

Featuring the winning ensemble of the Jazz Festival, UT jazz ensembles, and special guests

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Concert Chorale

J.D. Burnett, conductor

J.D. Burnett conducting the UT Concert Chorale in concert.
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J.D. Burnett, conductor

Saunder Choi
Leron, Leron Sinta

Jake Runestad
Come to the Woods

Elaine Hagenberg
Alleluia

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New Music Ensemble

Marc Sosnowchik, director

A round image of a Chinese tea house.

Butler Opera Center

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Music by Tan Dun 
Libretto by Tan Dun & Xu Ying  

Minjeong Kim, director
Douglas Kinney Frost, conductor
New Music Ensemble

Sung in English.

A violinist in the UT New Music Ensemble playing on a dark stage.
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Marc Sosnowchik, director
Experimental & Electronic Music Studio

James Diaz
About Mirrors 

Mary Kouyoumdjian
Paper Pianos: “You are Not a Kid” 

Tania León
Indígena 

Mezzo soprano Page Stephens in a pink dress in front of a neon pink and blue background.
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Marc Sosnowchik, director
Page Stephens, mezzo soprano

Donald Grantham
Love Songs Sweet and Sour 
Music for the Blanton 

Anna Thorvaldsdottir
aequilibria 

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Faculty Artists
A portrait of Rick Rowley
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J.S. Bach
French Suite No. 2 in C minor, BWV 813 

Franz Liszt
Piano Sonata in B minor, S.178 

Francis Poulenc
Mélancolie 

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Four men wearing jeans smile and lean against decorative white railing on a porch.
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Tamar Sanikidze, piano
Joseph Oparamanuike, tenor
Ebonee Thomas, flute
Johnathan Gunn, clarinet
Joel Braun, bass
Mallory McHenry, harp

Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in G Major, Op. 77, No. 1

Maurice Ravel
Introduction and Allegro

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Side by side portraits of bassist Joel Braun and pianist Patti Wolf.

Small Batch Series

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Els Aarne
Sonata for Double Bass and Piano, Op. 63 

Erzsébet Szönyi
Sonata for Double Bass and Piano

Patti Wolf and Andrew Brownell sit together on at a piano

two piano

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Camille Saint-Saëns
Variations on a Theme of Beethoven, Op. 35 

George Gershwin
An American in Paris 

Horn player Patrick Hughes leaping.

"Annual" Leap Day Concert

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Side by side portraits of soprano Leah Crocetto and pianist Tamar Sanikidze.

Women Speak

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Side by side portraits of violinist Sandy Yamamoto, cellist Matthew Zalkind, and pianist Anton Nel.

Anton Nel, piano

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Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Trio in E-flat major, Op. 70 No. 2 

Felix Mendelssohn
Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor, Op. 66