2024-25 Season Highlights

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Welcome to 2024-25

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.

 

Buy Tickets

To purchase subscriptions packages or tickets to individual events, visit our Tickets & Subscriptions page. 

 

What to expect

All seating will be General Admission so you can choose your seats comfortably.

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.

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Combined Choirs
Wind Ensemble

+ more ensembles and soloists to be announced soon!

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Farkhad Khudyev, conductor

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Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Titan

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Farkhad Khudyev, conductor
Ebonee Thomas, flute 

John Corigliano
Voyage (for flute and orchestra) 

Sergei Rachmaninoff
Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27

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Farkhad Khudyev, conductor
Donnie Ray Albert, baritone 
Combined Choirs

Aaron Copland
Old American Songs 

Johannes Brahms
Nänie, Op. 82 

Alexander Borodin
Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor

+ more...

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Concerto Competition Winners Concert 1

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Farkhad Khudyev, conductor

Repertoire will be announced after competition finals in December.

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Concerto Competition Winners Concert 2

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Farkhad Khudyev, conductor

Repertoire will be announced after competition finals in December.

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Combined Choirs
Wind Ensemble

+ more ensembles and soloists to be announced soon!

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Jerry Junkin, conductor
Stephen Page, saxophones

John Corigliano 
Triathlon
Symphony No. 3, Circus Maximus (20th anniversary of the world premiere)

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Celebrating the centennial of Gunther Schuller’s birth

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Jerry F. Junkin, conductor
Emily Warren, guest conductor 

Hector Berlioz, arr. Schuller
Overture to Le Corsaire 

Scott Joplin, ed. Schuller
Combination March 

Gunther Schuller
Meditation 
Symphony No. 3, In Praise of Winds

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Jerry F. Junkin, conductor
Cody Ray, guest conductor 
Caleb Hudson, trumpet 

Warren Benson
Wings 

Caroline Shaw
and the swallow 

George Gershwin, arr. Hunsberger
Carmen Fantasia

+ more...

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Butler Opera Center

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Audition Fever 

Music by 
Tzu-Chin Hsu 

Libretto by 
Camden Boyle 

Conductor
Tzu Kuang Tan

Director
Yingmeige Xiong

 

L’enfant et les sortilèges 

Music by 
Maurice Ravel 

Libretto by 
Colette

Conductor
Douglas Kinney Frost

Directors 
Beatrice Huang
Garnett Bruce 
 

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Butler Opera Center

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Music by 
John Corigliano 

Libretto by 
William M. Hoffman 

Director
Madison Jackson

Conductor 
Douglas Kinney Frost

Director, Butler Opera Center
Tamar Sanikidze

Orchestra
New Music Ensemble 

Scenic Design
Zach Young

Light Design
Gavin Strawnato

Costume Design
Aaron Kubacak

Integrated Media Design
Nitsan Scharf

Intimacy Director
Andy Grapko

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Butler Opera Center

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Music by 
W.A. Mozart 

Libretto by 
Lorenzo Da Ponte 
after Beaumarchais 

Director
Garnett Bruce 

Conductor
Douglas Kinney Frost

Director, Butler Opera Center
Tamar Sanikdize

Scenic Design
Daniel Ruiz Bustos

Light Design
KP Pierce

Costume Design
Aaron Kubacak

Intimacy Director
Andy Grapko

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Diego Rivera, director of Jazz Orchestra
Michael Sailors, director of Jazz Ensemble

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Diego Rivera, director of Jazz Orchestra
Michael Sailors, director of Jazz Ensemble

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Combined Choirs
Wind Ensemble

+ more ensembles and soloists to be announced soon!

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Farkhad Khudyev, conductor
Donnie Ray Albert, baritone 
Combined Choirs

Aaron Copland
Old American Songs 

Johannes Brahms
Nänie, Op. 82 

Alexander Borodin
Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor

+ more...

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J.D. Burnett, conductor

J.S. Bach
Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf 

Trond Kverno
Ave Maris Stella 

Stacey Gibbs
Ezekiel 

+ more...

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Marc Sosnowchik, conductor
Hila Plitmann, soprano 
Drew Dickey, guest conductor 

This event will be streamed

Yaz Lancaster
Gender Envy 

Hila Plitmann, arr. Dickey
In This Circle (premiere of chamber arr.) 

Jiaxin Zhang
As if Waking From a Dream (world premiere)
 

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Butler Opera Center

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Music by 
John Corigliano 

Libretto by 
William M. Hoffman 

Director
Madison Jackson

Conductor 
Douglas Kinney Frost

Director, Butler Opera Center
Tamar Sanikidze

Orchestra
New Music Ensemble 

Scenic Design
Zach Young

Light Design
Gavin Strawnato

Costume Design
Aaron Kubacak

Integrated Media Design
Nitsan Scharf

Intimacy Director
Andy Grapko

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Marc Sosnowchik, conductor
Alyssa Weinberg, visiting composer

Tyshawn Sorey
For Olly Woodrow Wilson, Jr. 

Olly Woodrow Wilson, Jr.
A City Called Heaven 

Alyssa Weinberg
...enfumée (premiere of new arr.)

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Marc Sosnowchik, conductor
Steven Bryant, visiting composer

Mark-Anthony Turnage
A Jolly Good Knees-Up 

Christopher Cerrone
Why Was I Born Between Mirrors? 

Steven Bryant
The Treachery of Sounds (premiere of new arr.)

+ more...

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J.S. Bach
Chaconne, Partita No. 2 in D Minor 

Sigfrid Karg-Elert
Sinfonische Kanzone, Op. 114 

Tania León
Alma

+ more...

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Celebrating 50 Years of Performing

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Patti Wolf, James Maverick, & Tamar Sanikidze, piano 
Liliana Guerrero & Leah Crocetto, sopranos 
Mikhail Smigelski, bass 

Songs by: Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Hall Johnson, Hale Smith, Robert Owens, Leslie Adams, Florence Price 
Arias from: Rigoletto, Susannah, Luisa Miller, & Don Pasquale

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 Schubertiade

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Anton Nel, piano 
Rick Rowley, piano 
Irida Herri, soprano 
Jonathan Gunn, clarinet 
Sandy Yamamoto, violin
Wilhelm Magner, viola 
Bion Tsang, cello 
Joel Braun, double bass 

Piano and chamber works by Franz Schubert

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Women's Voices

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Robert Schumann
Frauenliebe und Leben, Op. 42 

Amy Beach
Three Browning Songs, Op. 44 

Clara Schumann
3 Gedichte aus Rückerts “Liebesfrühling," Op.12

+ more...

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Anton Nel, piano 

Antonín Dvořák 
Piano Quintet No 2 in A Major, Op. 81