UpTempo Teen Night + ASO Concert

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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This event will be hosted by Jeffrey Rowser, Director of Bands at Woodward Academy, with guest speaker Chris McMichen, former Director of Choral Activities & Fine Arts Department Chair, Union Grove High School.

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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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This event will be hosted by Dr. Brittan Braddock, Director of Bands at Mercer University, with guest speaker Dr. Gary Gerber, Dean of the Townsend School of Music at Mercer University.

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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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This event will be hosted by Monique Osorio, Atlanta-based vocalist, composer, teaching artist, and community organizer, with guest speaker Dr. Andrea Pérez Mukdsi, Professor of Latin American Music at Georgia State University.

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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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This event will be hosted by Monique Osorio, Atlanta-based vocalist, composer, teaching artist, and community organizer, with guest speaker Dr. Bryan Wysocki, Atlanta-based Percussionist, Composer, Conductor & Educator.

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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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This event will be hosted by Dr. Brittan Braddock, Director of Bands at Mercer University, with guest speaker Dr. Christopher Alan Schmitz, Professor of Music Theory and Composition at Mercer University.

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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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This event will be hosted by Jeffrey Rowser, Director of Bands at Woodward Academy, with guest speaker Jon Carmack, Orchestra Director at the Dekalb School of the Arts.

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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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This event will be hosted by Monique Osorio, Atlanta-based vocalist, composer, teaching artist, and community organizer, with guest speaker Dr. Marie Sumner Lott, Musicologist at Georgia State University.

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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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This event will be hosted by Jeffrey Rowser, Director of Bands at Woodward Academy, with guest speaker Dr. Andrew F. Poor, Director of Bands at South Forsyth Middle School.

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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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This event will be hosted by Jeffrey Rowser, Director of Bands at Woodward Academy, with guest speaker Dr. Chantae D. Pittman, Director of Choral Activities at Campbell High School.

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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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This event will be hosted by Monique Osorio, Atlanta-based vocalist, composer, teaching artist, and community organizer, with guest speaker Dr. Paula Grissom-Broughton, Pianist and Music Scholar at Spelman College.

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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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This event will be hosted by Dr. Brittan Braddock, Director of Bands at Mercer University, with guest speaker Dr. Richard Kosowski, Professor of Music and Vocal Studies at Mercer University.

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