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

a black and white violin, black and white particles are floating from the violin reveal a color violin below.
Symphony Orchestra

Farkhad Khudyev, artistic director

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

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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.

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Wind Ensemble

Jerry Junkin, conductor

Caleb Hudson holding a golden trumpet.
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Jerry Junkin, conductor
Doug Henderson, Drew Eary, & Michael Lebrias, guest conductors
Caleb Hudson, trumpet 

María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir
Oceans 

Leonard Bernstein
Symphony No. 1, Jeremiah 

+ more...

Portrait of Eighth Blackbird
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Jerry Junkin, conductor
Tyler Ehrlich and Weston Lewis, guest conductors 
Eighth Blackbird

Joseph Schwantner
…and the mountains rising nowhere 

Viet Cuong
Vital Sines (consortium premiere)

+ more...

Portrait of clarinetist Jonathan Gunn
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Jerry Junkin, conductor
Jonathan Gunn, clarinet

Dmitri Shostakovich
Festive Overture 

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

Portrait of conductor Marc Sosnowchik
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Jerry Junkin, conductor
Marc Sosnowchik, guest conductor

Viet Cuong
Saxophone Quartet Concerto (consortium premiere) 

Zhou Tian
Sinfonia 

+ more...

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 

+ more...

and opera singer
Butler Opera Center

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



 

A neon cityscape with La Boheme written in cursive.

Butler Opera Center

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Music by Giacomo Puccini 
Libretto by Luigi Illica & Giuseppe Giacosa 

Elio Bucky, director
Douglas Kinney Frost, conductor

Sung in Italian. 

Mezzo soprano Talin Nalbandian singing in front of a watercolor background.

Butler Opera Center

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Tamar Sanikidze, piano
Elio Bucky, director
Butler Opera Center students

Sergei Rachmaninov
Six romances, Op. 38

Manuel de Falla
Siete canciones populares Españolas 

+ more...

A red dove in front of a colorful fractal background.

Butler Opera Center

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Josíah Garza, composer

The world premiere of Garza's Maria will be performed alongside other opera scenes.

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.

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

Black and white photo of Dizzy Gillespie in front of an orange background.

The Music of Dizzy Gillespie

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Diego Rivera, director

Terence Blanchard leaning on a bridge outside holding his trumpet.

with Terence Blanchard, trumpet

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Diego Rivera, director

Terence Blanchard is a composer, trumpet player, and winner of the 2023 Eddie Medora King Prize.

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

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...

The soprano section of UT Concert Chorale singing in concert.
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J.D. Burnett, conductor

Einojuhani Rautavaara
Suite de Lorca

Anton Bruckner
Os Justi

Reena Esmail
Tuttarana

+ more...

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

Neon purple photo of the UT New Music Ensemble in concert.
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Marc Sosnowchik, director

Ania Vu
feathered beings 

Jennifer Higdon
Zaka 

Reena Esmail
Testament from Vishwas 

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 

+ more...

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Faculty Artists
An Asian woman wearing a white shirt and jean jacket smiles and holds her violin.
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George Enescu
Octet for Strings in C major, Op. 7 

Felix Mendelssohn
Octet for Strings in E-flat major, Op. 20 

A black and white photo of pianist Steven Mayer with his arms crossed against a blue background.

The Black Virtuoso Tradition

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A collage of headshots of the Brass faculty with their instruments.
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Caleb Hudson, trumpet 
Patrick Hughes, horn 
Charles Villarrubia, tuba 
Patti Wolf and Colette Valentine, piano 

Side by side portraits of Jonathan Gunn, Bion Tsang, and Anton Nel.

Anton Nel, piano

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Ludwig van Beethoven
Trio in E-flat major, Op.38 

Gerald Finzi
Five Bagatelles, op. 23 

Francis Poulenc
Sonata for Clarinet and Piano

a photo of the Miró quartet holding their instruments next to a photo of Lara Downs, standing against an orange wall and smiling.

Lara Downes, piano

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Jake Heggie
Earthrise 

Darius Milhaud
La création du monde 

+ works by Billy Childs, Margaret Bonds, Harry Thacker Burleigh, and Clarice Assad 

Joshua Gindele, Sandy Yamamoto and Colette Valentine wearing concert black next to an open grand piano.
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Ernest Chausson
Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 3 

Antonín Dvorák
Piano Trio No. 3 in F minor, Op. 65 

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 

+ more...

Four men wearing jeans smile and lean against decorative white railing on a porch.
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Jake Heggie
The Last Day (commissioned by Miró Quartet) 

+ more...

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.

Tamar Sanikidze, piano

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In honor of Women’s Month, this program will celebrate compositions by women. 

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