2026-2027
Welcome to 2026-27
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.
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.
EVENTS
Symphony Orchestra
Declaration Project
Lara Downes, piano
Donnie Ray Albert, baritone
Farkhad Khudyev, conductor
KMFA 89.5
Aaron Copland
Lincoln Portrait
Valerie Coleman
Life
Arturo O’Farrill
Liberty
Christopher Tin
The Pursuit of Happiness
Farkhad Khudyev, conductor
Bion Tsang, cello
Adam Schoenberg
Go
Gara Garayev
Layla and Majnun
Antonín Dvořák
Cello Concerto, op. 104
Farkhad Khudyev, conductor
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 6 , Pathétique
Farkhad Khudyev, conductor
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Symphonic Dances, op. 45
Farkhad Khudyev, conductor
Leah Crocetto, soprano
Emil Khudyev, clarinet
George Gershwin
Blues from An American in Paris
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Lensky's aria “Kuda, kuda, vi udalilis” from Eugene Onegin
John Williams
Flying Theme from E.T.
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Symphony Orchestra
Concerto Competition Winners
Farkhad Khudyev, conductor
Winners of the Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competitions perform.
Hila Plitmann, soprano
Jerry Junkin, conductor
Stephen Montague
Introit St John’s
Morton Lauridsen
O Magnum Mysterium
Donald Grantham
All You Who Sleep Tonight
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Jerry Junkin, conductor
The Mariachi Paredes de Tejastitlán
Jimmy Santos-Rivera, guest conductor
Arturo Márquez
Danzon No. 2
H. Owen Reed
La Fiesta Mexicana
Arturo Márquez
Symphony no. 5, Sinfonía Nómada
Jerry Junkin, conductor
Michael Lebrias & Alec Rodriguez, guest conductors
John Williams
Liberty Fanfare
Lucio San Pedro
Lahing Kayumanggi (U.S. premiere)
Zhou Tian
Petals of Fire
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Jerry Junkin, conductor
Blake Hordé & Cody Ray, guest conductors
Ralph Vaughan Williams
English Folk Song Suite
Derrick Skye
Prisms, Cycles, Leaps
David Maslanka
Symphony No. 2
Jerry Junkin, conductor
Emily Warren, guest conductor
Epoch Percussion Quartet
Maurice Ravel
Le tombeau de Couperin
Christopher Cerrone
Meander, Spiral, Explode
Viet Cuong
Deep Down: Symphony No. 1
Jerry Junkin, conductor
Michael Sachs, trumpet
James Stephenson
You have reached the city limits
Wynton Marsalis
Concerto for Trumpet
Modest Mussorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibition
I Capuleti e I Montecchi
Butler Opera Center
Music by
Vincenzo Bellini
Libretto by
Felice Romani
Conductor
Douglas Kinney Frost
Stage Director
Yingmeige Xiong
Scenic Designer
Juno Adair
Lighting Designer
Brittney Barton
Media Designer
Eric L. Ramirez
Costume Designer
Aaron Kubacak
Mozart Everlasting
Opera Scenes
Beatrice Haung & Madison Jackson, stage directors
Song Reimagined Series
Echoes of the Masters: Iconic Art Songs
Presented by Butler Opera Center
Selections by Grieg, Rachmaninoff, Poulenc & Dvořák
Ainadamar
Butler Opera Center
Music by
Osvaldo Golijov
Libretto by
David Henry Hwang
Conductor
Douglas Kinney Frost
Stage Director
Garnett Bruce
Scenic Designer
Gustavo Adolfo Hernandez Pinzon
Lighting Designer
Patrick Schoen
Media Designer
Desne Wharton
Costume Designer
Aaron Kubacak
Falstaff
Butler Opera Center
Music by
Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto by
Arrigo Boito*
Conductor
Douglas Kinney Frost
Stage Director
Madison Jackson
Jazz Band, Ensemble & Orchestra
Miles Ahead: Celebrating 100 Years of Miles Davis
Diego Rivera & Mike Sailors, directors
Jazz Band, Ensemble & Orchestra
with Ulysses Owens, Jr., jazz drums
Diego Rivera & Mike Sailors, directors
Jazz Band, Ensemble & Orchestra
with Wycliffe Gordon, jazz trombone
Diego Rivera & Mike Sailors, directors
Longhorn Jazz Festival
with Anat Cohen, jazz clarinet
Diego Rivera & Mike Sailors, directors
J.D. Burnett, conductor
Page Stephens, mezzo soprano
John Corigliano
Fern Hill
Omar Thomas
Shenandoah
Johannes Brahms
An die Heimat, op. 64
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FEATURING
Chamber Orchestra
Concert Chorale
University Chorus
Longhorn Singers
Bereket Middle Eastern Ensemble
Soha Quartet
Horn Choir
Bassoon Ensemble
Musical Theatre Workshop
Jazz Combos
Gregory Eaton, organ
Concert Chorale
with guest conductor María Guinand
J.D. Burnett, director
María Guinand, guest conductor
J.D. Burnett, conductor
Giovanni Palestrina
Super flumina Babylonis
Moses Hogan
Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel
Adolphus Hailstork
Go Down, Moses
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New Music Ensemble
Halloween “Pops” Concert
Marc Sosnowchik, conductor
Hila Plitmann, soprano
Clarice Assad
The Book of Spells
Bernard Herrmann
The Day the Earth Stood Still Suite
David del Tredici
Dracula
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Marc Sosnowchik, conductor
Mary Kouyoumdjian
The Vanishing Dark
Sarah Kirkland Snider
If you bring forth what is within you: Suite from Blue Hour
Yevgeniy Sharlat
As the diva laments
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Marc Sosnowchik, conductor
Anna Clyne
Fractured Time
Daniel Wohl
Artificial
Hannah Kendall
building a burning house
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Marc Sosnowchik, conductor
Ebonee Thomas, flute
Andrew Norman
Music in Circles
Alyssa Weinberg
If I were, when I was
Frank Ticheli
Silver Lining
John Adams
Son of a Chamber Symphony
Franz Schubert
Quartettsatz, D. 703
Caroline Shaw
Entr'acte
Anton Webern
Langsamer Satz
Antonín Dvořák
String Quartet No. 12 in F Major, op. 96, American
Ebonee Thomas, flute & Colette Valentine, piano
Faculty Recital Series
Amanda Harberg
Sonata for Piccolo and Piano
Claude Debussy
Syrinx, pour flûte seule
César Franck
Sonata in A Major
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The Great American Songbook, Classically Speaking
Faculty Recital Series
Leah Crocetto, soprano
Donnie Ray Albert, baritone
James Maverick, piano
Samuel Barber
Nocturne, Op. 33
Carlisle Floyd
Ain’t it a Pretty Night? from Susannah
Stephen Sondheim
Selections from Sweeney Todd
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Patrick Hughes, horn & Colette Valentine, piano
Faculty Recital Series
Henri Büsser
Cantecor for Horn and Piano, op. 77
Edith Borroff
Sonata for Horn and Piano
Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel
Like a Bridge Over Troubled Water
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Steven Brennfleck, tenor & Rick Rowley, piano
Die schöne Müllerin
Franz Schubert
Die schöne Müllerin, D.795
Anton Nel & Friends
Faculty Recital Series
Anton Nel, piano
Sandy Yamamoto, violin
Wilhelm Magner, viola
Bion Tsang, cello
Jonathan Gunn, clarinet
Colette Valentine, piano
Thomas Burritt, percussion
Arlo Shultis, percussion
works by Mozart, Debussy, Poulenc & Bartók
Gregory Eaton
Music for One & Two Organs
David Hurd, Organ
J.S. Bach
Toccata and Fugue in F Major, BWV 540
Antonio Soler
6 Concertos for Two Organs, No. 6
César Franck
Choral No. 3 in A Minor, FWV 40
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Ross Margitza, piano
Steinway Artist Presentation
John Fremgen, bass
Daniel Dufour, drums
Soha Quartet
Ross Margitza
Huckleberry
June 3rd
For Amelie
For Graham
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Franz Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in D Major, op. 71, no. 2
Kevin Puts
Home
Giacomo Puccini
Crisantemi
Alberto Ginastera
String Quartet No. 2, op. 26
Ebonee Thomas, flute | Wilhelm Magner, viola | Emily Levin, harp
Faculty Recital Series
William Mathias
Zodiac Trio, op. 70
Kaija Saariaho
New Gates
Maurice Ravel
Sonatine en trio
Kareen Roustom
Trio: “…and every hour will tell its own tale”
Mallory McHenry, harp
Joel Braun, double bass
Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet No. 16 in F Major, op. 135
Marcel Tournier
Trio for Violin, Cello, and Harp
Franz Schubert
Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667, Trout
Russia Fading Away: Neo-Romanticism of Georgy Sviridov
Faculty Recital series
Margarita Denenburg, piano
Mikhail Smigelski, bass-baritone
Rick Rowley, piano
Soha Quartet
Georgy Sviridov
Piano Sonata, op. 4
Piano Quintet in B Minor
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Sandy Yamamoto, violin & Anton Nel, piano
Faculty Recital Series
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 5 in F Major, op. 24, Spring
Sergei Prokofiev
Suite from Romeo and Juliet, op. 64a
César Franck
Sonata in A Major for Violin and Piano
Bion Tsang, cello & Anton Nel, piano
Celebrating 200th anniversary of Beethoven, Concert 1
Ludwig van Beethoven
Cello sonata No. 1 in F Major
Cellos Sonata No. 2 in G minor
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Bion Tsang, cello & Anton Nel, piano
Celebrating 200th anniversary of Beethoven, Concert 2
Ludwig van Beethoven
Cello Sonata No. 3 in A Major
Cello Sonata No. 4 in C Major
Cello Sonata No. 5 in D Major
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Sandy Yamamoto, violin
Butler School string students
Jean Sibelius
Duo in C Major
Friedrich Hermann
Capriccio No. 1 in D Minor for 3 Violins
Osvaldo Golijov
Last Round
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Serenade for Strings in C Major