Birds call, flowers bloom, and warm air is here to stay in both Dvorak's Symphony no 8. Spring will be called in by the magic of Weber's Oberon Overture, his musical setting of a famous medieval tale. Also joining this concert will be the winner of HSO's Young Artist's Competition.

Schumann's famous piano concerto is filled with hope, joy, and optimism for the future. It's a perfect way to start the spring season. Starting the program is Chevalier de St. Georges exuberant and virtuosic 2nd Symphony, which will be followed by Schubert's enigmatic Unfinished Symphony. 

Join us for the traditional holiday concert, this year featuring music from all your favorite holiday movies. As always, we'll round out the program with carols, songs, and laughter.

For over two decades, Thomas Joiner led the Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra. We'll celebrate his legacy, welcome old friends, and highlight the next chapter of HSO. Concert will feature Douglas Weeks, piano; Dianna Joiner, violin; and Ron Whittemore, narrator. Selections include Beethoven Piano Concerto no 3 in c minor, Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet, and John Williams, Schindler's List.

After today’s concert, everyone is welcome to join the Orchestra, Conductor Concklin and our Special Guests for a Post Concert Reception, honoring Thomas Joiner at Marked Tree Vineyard, 623 Deep Gap Rd, Flat Rock.  Thanks to the generous support of Matt and Rebecca Aldrich.

Join the HSO as we take you on a road trip through the United States. The excursion will start and end in New York with music from Bernstein’s West Side Story, make a quick trip to second-city Chicago, and then jaunt into the American West featuring music by Aaron Copland. As a bonus, we’ll even make a quick getaway to the city of love for Gershwin’s classic, American in Paris.

All Tickets purchase for this concert will be held at Will-Call

This concert celebrates friendship - old and new, local and long distance, and everything in between. For his debut with the HSO, David Southorn, Concertmaster of the Delaware and New Haven Symphonies, and Associate Concertmaster of the New Jersey Symphony, will perform Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in e minor. The concert also features Elgar’s Enigma Variations, a piece he wrote for closest friends in which he set each person to music.

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HSO will celebrate the holidays in traditional style - this year with two performances! Featuring music from the Nutcracker and Fledermaus, traditional carols, Sleigh Ride, and a few surprises along the way, join us as we mark the season!

Showtimes 3 PM and 7:30 PM

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The HSO begins a new era with its new Music Director, John Young Shik Concklin. For the inaugural concert, the program features two of John’s favorite pieces: Symphony no. 39 in E flat Major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Symphony no. 2 in D Major by Johannes Brahms. Both symphonies are joyous and celebratory in nature, a perfect pairing to kick off the next 50 years at HSO.

John Young Shik Concklin conducts our final program of the year and celebrates joy, wisdom, and hope. As the HSO looks to a new era, tonight’s program offers familiar and comforting works.  We begin the evening with Mozart’s beautiful and at times gleeful, Overture to the Magic Flute. The amazing talent of cellist Miriam K Smith is featured on Elgar’s Cello Concerto in e minor. This special evening will come to a close with Dvořák’s Symphony no. 9 in e minor, “New World”.  As our community emerges from the pandemic, the hope is that tonight offers a long-awaited visit from old friends, so to speak.

Guest Artist Miriam K Smith sponsored by Southern Alarm

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Under Timothy Verville’s baton, three brilliantly orchestrated works showcase the HSO in an evening of overcoming overwhelming odds. Daugherty's Red Cape Tango pits Superman against his most powerful adversary ever, Doomsday, in a battle to the end. Canadian pianist Carter Johnson joins the orchestra performing Ravel's Concerto for the Left Hand, a work composed for a WWI veteran who lost an arm in battle. Love triumphs evil as the evening concludes with Rimsky-Korsakov's dazzling Scheherazade.

Guest Artist Carter Johnson, sponsored by Marked Tree Vineyard

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Join Music Director candidate, Yuriy Bekker, in an all-Russian program.  The program opens with the exhilarating Polovtsian Dances by Borodin. Virtuoso trumpet soloist, Francis LaPorte, will then be featured in Arutunian’s flashy Trumpet Concerto. The concert culminates with Tchaikovsky’s beloved Symphony no 5 in E minor, filled with emotional and glorious melodies and topped off with a most triumphant ending. Come and be swept away by the beauty of these iconic Russian masterpieces. 

Guest Artist Francis LaPorte, sponsored by Marked Tree Vineyard

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Featuring Julian Pinelli, fiddle, Graham Sharp, banjo and Soprano Amanda Horton

Join us at Blue Ridge Community College for the first program of our symphony season as we perform holiday favorites old and new, this time with a mountain flair.  Welcome to our stage Nashville-based, WNC-raised, 2017 RockGrass competition-winning fiddler Julian Pinelli and Grammy-winning, Steep Canyon Rangers front man Graham Sharp on banjo to add some toe tapping to the usual caroling and merriment of this annual Hendersonville Symphony tradition. 

Strings on Fire

Featuring Julian Schwarz, cellist

Beethoven – Symphony No. 1

Tchaikovsky – Variations on a Rocco Theme

Popper – Hungarian Rhapsody, Op 68

Stravinsky – Firebord Suite (1919)

Heralded form a young age as a cellist destined to rank among the greatest of the 21st century, Julian Schwarz’s powerful tone, effortless virtuosity, and extraordinarily large color palate are on full display with elegant and riveting solo works by Tchaikovsky and Popper. The Hendersonville Symphony completes the season with Stravinsky’s colorful, powerful Firebird Suite.

A Special Benefit Concert in support of the Hendersonville Symphony

This benefit concert is free and open to the public. Join us in support of the Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra and feel the beauty and passion of this rich musical fantasy for clarinet, double bass & piano.

Repertoire will be performed by composers including Giovanni Bottesini, Ariel Ramirez, Frederic Chopin, Claude Debussy, André Messager, Francis Poulenc, Sergei Prokofiev, Maurice Jeanjean, and Alexander Scriabin.

The Mountain Chamber Trio members include Christopher Tavernier (piano), Matthew Hanna (clarinet) and Keith Freeburg (double bass). Freeburg learned to play piano, guitar and string bass as a child. He pursued the bass and graduated from the University of Minnesota as a string major with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Music Education. After teaching orchestra for several years, Keith studied piano technology at McPhail School of the Arts in Minneapolis and began a full-time career in piano tuning, repair and rebuilding. Keith is a member of the Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra and the Brevard Philharmonic.  

The Music Foundation of Western North Carolina is a non-profit organization with a passion to unite the arts community by creating extraordinary educational and performance opportunities for all ages.

On Monday, two distinguished faculty members from Brevard Music Center will take center stage in an afternoon chamber concert featuring Beethoven's Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor and Franck's Violin Sonata in A major featuring violinist Jason Posnock and pianist Michael Chertock. 

Mr. Posnock is also Brevard Music Center's Director of Artistic Planning and Educational Programs. Chamber Music Tuesdays in Hendersonville is made possible, in part, through a grant from the Perry N. Rudnick Endowment Fund of the Community Foundation of Henderson County.