Program Notes
We are pleased to offer a digital version of Program Notes with special features, articles, concert information, and more.
Program notes for upcoming classical concerts are conveniently located with the concert information on our event pages. Specific concert Program Notes are typically posted three weeks prior to a performance.
Past issues of our digital Encore Atlanta Program Notes are also available online:
2022/23 Season Program Notes
Opening Weekend with Emanuel Ax (Sept 22-24, 2022)
Nathalie Stutzmann Conducts Beethoven Symphony No. 9 (Oct 6-9, 2022)
Nathalie Stutzmann Conducts Lush Romantics (Oct 14-15, 2022)
Violin Superstar Gil Shaham (Nov 10-12, 2022)
Inon Barnatan Plays Rachmaninov (Nov 17-19, 2022)
Pianist Awadagin Pratt Returns (Mar 2-4, 2023)
Sax + Sibelius (Mar 16-18, 2023)
Nathalie Stutzmann, Bach & Friends (Mar 23-25, 2023)
2021/22 Season Program Notes
Opening Weekend: Beethoven's Fifth (Sept 9-11, 2021)
Violinist Stefan Jackiw Returns (Sept 17-18, 2021)
Haydn, Brahms and Vanhal (Sept 23-25, 2021)
Stutzmann Conducts Tchaikovsky's Fifth (Oct 13-14, 2021)
Midori Plays Tchaikovsky (Oct 21-24, 2021)
Alisa Weilerstein Returns (Nov 4-6, 2021)
Spano Conducts Copland (Nov 18-20, 2021)
Everything Lasts Forever (Nov 19, 2021)
Donald Runnicles Conducts Brahms and Strauss (Dec 2-4, 2021)
Hansel And Gretel in Concert (Dec 5-8, 2021)
Christmas with the ASO (Dec 9-11, 2021)
Handel's Messiah (Dec 17-18, 2021)
Ksenija Sidorova Performs Piazzolla (Feb 3-5, 2022)
Triple Threat Dmitry Sinkovsky (Feb 10-13, 2022)
Zhenwei Shi: Walton's Viola Concerto (Feb 24-26, 2022)
Michelle Cann Plays Florence Price (Mar 3-5, 2022)
Stutzmann and the ASO Chorus (Mar 17-20, 2022)
Xavier Foley's Double Bass Concerto (Mar 24-26, 2022)
Scheherazade & Mandolinist Avi Avital Returns (Mar 31-Apr 2, 2022)
Yo-Yo Ma Plays Dvořák (Apr 13, 2022)
Bruch and Beethoven (Apr 21-23, 2022)
Debussy and Duruflé (Apr 28-30, 2022)
Rainer Eudeikis Plays Shostakovich (May 12-14, 2022)
Voices of Verdi (May 19-20, 2022)
Itzhak Perlman Returns (May 21, 2022)
Elizabeth Koch Tiscione: Marcello Concerto (May 26-28, 2022)
2020/21 Season Program Notes
Gil Shaham Plays Beethoven (Oct. 1, 2020)
Mozart and More (Oct. 15, 2020)
Principal Cello Rainer Eudeikis Performs Haydn (Oct. 22, 2020)
Principal Bassoon Andrew Brady Performs Hertel (Nov. 12, 2020)
Double-Bassist Xavier Foley Joins the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (Nov. 19, 2020)
Robert Spano Conducts Ravel (Dec. 3, 2020)
Wagner and Beethoven (Dec. 10, 2020)
Tyshawn Sorey's For Roscoe Mitchell (Jan. 14, 2021)
Bruch's Irresistible Violin Concerto (Jan 28, 2021)
Mozart and the Violin (Feb. 18, 2021)
Sir Donald Runnicles Conducts Wagner (Apr. 1, 2021)
Beethoven and Mozart (April 8, 2021)
Chopin and Shostakovich (April 22, 2021)
Mendelssohn and Schubert (May 13, 2021)
Violin Powerhouse Augustin Hadelich (May 20, 2021)
Gaffigan Conducts Dvořák (May 27, 2021)