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
Farkhad Khudyev, artistic director
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, guest conductor
Diana Loomer, steel drum
Austin Youth Orchestra
Russell Podgorsek
Steel Drum Concerto (world premiere)
Edward Elgar
Enigma Variations
+ more...
Farkhad Khudyev, conductor
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 4
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...
Concerto Competition Concert 1
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.
Concerto Competition Concert 2
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.
Jerry Junkin, conductor
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...
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...
Jerry Junkin, conductor
Jonathan Gunn, clarinet
Dmitri Shostakovich
Festive Overture
John Mackey
Divine Mischief (Concerto for Clarinet)
Wine-Dark Sea (10th anniversary performance)
Jerry Junkin, conductor
Marc Sosnowchik, guest conductor
Viet Cuong
Saxophone Quartet Concerto (consortium premiere)
Zhou Tian
Sinfonia
+ more...
Jerry Junkin, conductor
T.J. Anderson, guest conductor
Joseph Alessi, trombone
Chick Corea
Concerto for Trombone
David Maslanka
Symphony No. 4
+ more...
Tamar Sanikidze, director & principal coach
Garnett Bruce, resident stage director
Douglas Kinney Frost, principal conductor
Butler Opera Center
Music by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto by Luigi Illica & Giuseppe Giacosa
Elio Bucky, director
Douglas Kinney Frost, conductor
Sung in Italian.
Butler Opera Center
Tamar Sanikidze, piano
Elio Bucky, director
Butler Opera Center students
Sergei Rachmaninov
Six romances, Op. 38
Manuel de Falla
Siete canciones populares Españolas
+ more...
Butler Opera Center
Josíah Garza, composer
The world premiere of Garza's Maria will be performed alongside other opera scenes.
Butler Opera Center
Music by Tan Dun
Libretto by Tan Dun & Xu Ying
Minjeong Kim, director
Douglas Kinney Frost, conductor
New Music Ensemble
Sung in English.
Butler Opera Center
Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Libretto by Modest Tchaikovsky after Alexander Pushkin
Garnett Bruce, director
Douglas Kinney Frost, conductor
Sung in Russian.
Diego Rivera, director
The Music of Dizzy Gillespie
Diego Rivera, director
with Terence Blanchard, trumpet
Diego Rivera, director
Terence Blanchard is a composer, trumpet player, and winner of the 2023 Eddie Medora King Prize.
with Carl Allen, drums
Diego Rivera, director
Diego Rivera, director
Featuring the winning ensemble of the Jazz Festival, UT jazz ensembles, and special guests
J.D. Burnett, conductor
J.D. Burnett, Ke Yuan Hsin, & Gabriela Mora Fallas, guest conductors
UT Combined Choirs
Ester Mägi
Symphony No.1
Leonard Bernstein
Chichester Psalms
+ more...
J.D. Burnett, conductor
Einojuhani Rautavaara
Suite de Lorca
Anton Bruckner
Os Justi
Reena Esmail
Tuttarana
+ more...
J.D. Burnett, conductor
Saunder Choi
Leron, Leron Sinta
Jake Runestad
Come to the Woods
Elaine Hagenberg
Alleluia
Marc Sosnowchik, director
Marc Sosnowchik, director
Ania Vu
feathered beings
Jennifer Higdon
Zaka
Reena Esmail
Testament from Vishwas
Butler Opera Center
Music by Tan Dun
Libretto by Tan Dun & Xu Ying
Minjeong Kim, director
Douglas Kinney Frost, conductor
New Music Ensemble
Sung in English.
Marc Sosnowchik, director
Experimental & Electronic Music Studio
James Diaz
About Mirrors
Mary Kouyoumdjian
Paper Pianos: “You are Not a Kid”
Tania León
Indígena
Marc Sosnowchik, director
Page Stephens, mezzo soprano
Donald Grantham
Love Songs Sweet and Sour
Music for the Blanton
Anna Thorvaldsdottir
aequilibria
+ more...
George Enescu
Octet for Strings in C major, Op. 7
Felix Mendelssohn
Octet for Strings in E-flat major, Op. 20
Caleb Hudson, trumpet
Patrick Hughes, horn
Charles Villarrubia, tuba
Patti Wolf and Colette Valentine, piano
Anton Nel, piano
Ludwig van Beethoven
Trio in E-flat major, Op.38
Gerald Finzi
Five Bagatelles, op. 23
Francis Poulenc
Sonata for Clarinet and Piano
Lara Downes, piano
Jake Heggie
Earthrise
Darius Milhaud
La création du monde
+ works by Billy Childs, Margaret Bonds, Harry Thacker Burleigh, and Clarice Assad
Ernest Chausson
Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 3
Antonín Dvorák
Piano Trio No. 3 in F minor, Op. 65
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...
Jake Heggie
The Last Day (commissioned by Miró Quartet)
+ more...
two piano
Camille Saint-Saëns
Variations on a Theme of Beethoven, Op. 35
George Gershwin
An American in Paris
Tamar Sanikidze, piano
In honor of Women’s Month, this program will celebrate compositions by women.
Anton Nel, piano
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Trio in E-flat major, Op. 70 No. 2
Felix Mendelssohn
Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor, Op. 66