Weekend or Evening Event | Grade 6 – 12
Goizueta Stage for Youth & Families
Before experiencing a full orchestra concert, teens engage in an interactive session led by music professionals that sheds light on the evening’s program. Great for local groups or those traveling to Atlanta!
Voices Behind the Music
UpTempo events spotlight composers, performers, and educators offering unique perspectives on music today. Each session features a guest speaker alongside a teen musician.
Audience: Up to 250 students
Schedule: Doors open at 6:30pm | Program 6:45pm | ASO Concert 8:00pm
Fee: $15 per person, chaperones are free for school groups of 10+ students (includes UpTempo Event and Concert)
Payment by check or PO is available upon request. Please email asoeducation@atlantasymphony.org for questions or alternative payment options.
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UpTempo – America @ 250: Rhapsody in Blue
It's known as "the great American opera." Since 1935, Porgy and Bess has rippled through American culture in the hands of artists such as Maya Angelou, Miles Davis, Janis Joplin, and Sublime. And it's no surprise — no one could write a tune like George Gershwin.
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UpTempo – Fauré's Requiem
Music Director Nathalie Stutzmann presents two of the most potent voices in 19th-century French music: Hector Berlioz and Gabriel Fauré. Feast your ears on a little Faust, once described as a "sort of opera," but filled with dazzling, Berlioz-style ear candy.
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UpTempo – French Opera Night
Enjoy an evening at the Paris Opera as the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra welcomes the French singer-turned-conductor Victor Jacob for a fête of operatic delights. Savor delectable melodies from Bizet’s unforgettable opera Carmen, along with Offenbach’s magical Tales of Hoffmann and Gounod’s rapturous Romeo and Juliet.
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UpTempo – Concerto For Orchestra
Rising-star conductor Ben Glassberg joins the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra for mid-century delights. During World War II, Jewish exile Erich Korngold created sweeping melodies for Hollywood, only to repurpose them for his 1946 Violin Concerto, which will be performed by the captivating Dutch violinist Simone Lamsma. Glassburg concludes the concert with an irresistible orchestral delight written by yet another refugee, Béla Bartók, his Concerto for Orchestra, composed in Upstate New York in 1943. American composer Morton Gould fused jazz, folk, and show tunes to create a classic sound in his settings of spirituals during the Great Migration.
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UpTempo – Elliott Plays Tchaikovsky
This week, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra welcomes the stellar young cellist Sterling Elliott for the elegant and playfully charming Variations on a Rococo Theme. The concert gets underway with kaleidoscopic dreamscapes à la Debussy and ends with a vivid rendering of medieval altarpieces by Hindemith.
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UpTempo – Sibelius + Prokofiev
The young Israeli firebrand Tom Borrow tackles Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2, a witty and dramatic odyssey for piano and orchestra, widely regarded as one of the most difficult piano concertos in the repertoire. Conductor Hannu Lintu opens the concert with a musical mosaic spotlighting the orchestra's exceptional wind and brass choirs, and then leans into the ASO's extraordinary capacity for nuance and subtlety in a spooky work by Kaija Saariaho. The evening comes to a close with a stunning work by Jean Sibelius, the wonderfully atmospheric Symphony No. 7.
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UpTempo – Brahms + Shostakovich
Witness a musical meeting of minds when two supreme soloists share the stage with a world-class orchestra. With every appearance, the shattering virtuosity of violinist Veronika Eberle wows Atlantans. This time she teams up with the charismatic cellist Johannes Moser for Brahms' soulfully melodic Double Concerto.
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UpTempo – Spano Conducts Romeo and Juliet
Over the summer of 1935, Sergei Prokofiev sketched an astonishing array of dances to capture the yearning, vigor, passion, violence, hope, and searing desperation of a Shakespeare tragedy. In the end, he produced one of the greatest ballets of the 20th century.
Music Director Laureate Robert Spano leads the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in a suite from Prokofiev’s tour de force Romeo and Juliet. Spano opens with a suite from a 21st-century ballet, Thomas Adès' rich and vivid soundscape Dante. The ASO's season-long Brahms Festival continues with a winning concerto featuring piano powerhouse Dejan Lazić and his new transcription of Brahms’s captivating Double Concerto.
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UpTempo – Mendelssohn's Double Concerto
This week, Music Director Laureate Robert Spano spotlights astonishing musical families with a Double Concerto written by a 14-year-old. Both Felix and sister Fanny Mendelssohn were prodigies who gave fabulous recitals in the family home. Standing in for the Mendelssohn sibs, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra presents the acclaimed brother-sister duo Julie and David Coucheron, the Orchestra's concertmaster.
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UpTempo – A Tribute to Coretta Scott King
The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra pays tribute to one of Atlanta's own, the global human rights leader Coretta Scott King, who will be honored for her centenary birthday in 2027. Conductor Kedrick Armstrong makes his ASO debut with two new works commissioned for the occasion — one by composer Carlos Simon and a piece by Jasmine Barnes, who won a 2023 Capital Emmy Award for the PBS documentary, "Dreamer," about her song cycle, "Portraits: Douglass and Tubman."
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UpTempo – Prokofiev's Fourth Symphony
The acclaimed tenor Ian Bostridge makes his long-awaited Atlanta Symphony Orchestra debut. With famously abundant musical intelligence, Bostridge turns imaginative vocalism to a deep and probing connection with Benjamin Britten's music, which also features ASO Principal Horn, Ryan Little. ASO Resident Conductor William Langley also leads charming music from Walter Piston's ballet The Incredible Flutist and brings out the gusto for Sergei Prokofiev's fierce and boisterous Symphony No. 4.
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Student Group Tickets
If you are not able to join us for an UpTempo Teen Night but have a student group interested in attending another concert in the ASO's Delta Classical Series, we offer $18 student group tickets. For more information, contact ASO Group Sales via asogroups@atlantasymphony.org or by calling 404.733.4848.
