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2026-2027
Friday, September 18, 2026
ASU Symphony Orchestra featuring faculty artist Cathal Breslin
7:30 p.m. | Tempe Center for the Arts
Program:
Grażyna Bacewicz — Overture
Sergei Prokofiev — Piano Concerto No. 2 (Cathal Breslin, solo piano)
Jessie Montgomery — Strum
Johannes Brahms — Variations on St. Antoni Chorale
Tuesday, October 20, 2026
ASU Symphony Orchestra in concert featuring Jeff Anderle, and in collaboration with Music Theatre and Opera in Strauss's "Prologue to Ariadne auf Naxos"
7:30 p.m. | ASU Gammage
Program:
Richard Strauss — Prelude to Ariadne auf Naxos
Louise Farrenc — Overture No. 2, Op. 24
Michael Torke — October (Jeff Anderle, bass clarinet)
Manuel de Falla — El Sombrero de Tres Picos, Suite No. 2
Tuesday, November 17, 2026
ASU Symphony Orchestra: American Mosaic featuring Catalin Rotaru
Tempe Center for the Arts | 7:30 p.m.
Repertoire:
Alexander Skelton — Amber Alley (Student Composer-in-Residence)
Martin Wind — Concerto for Double Bass (Catalin Rotaru, bass)
Peter Boyer — American Mosaic
2025-2026
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
"Echoes and Transformations"
7:30 p.m. | Chandler Center for the Arts
Program:
Carl Reinecke — Flute Concert in D Major, Op. 283
Joseph Haydn — Symphony No. 104 in D Major, "London"
Sergey Akhunov — Prayer for Peace
Paul Hindemith — Symphonic Metamorphosis
Friday, November 21, 2025
"Shared Breadth"
5:00 p.m. | Paul V. Galvin Playhouse
Program:
Kurt Weill — Little Threepenny Music
Addison Hill — Prometheus's Negotiations
Edward Elgar — Serenade for Strings in E Minor, Op. 20
Fernanda Aoki Navarro — Sisyphus
Arnold Schoenberg — Chamber Symphony No. 1 in E Major, Op. 9
Friday, January 30, 2026
ASU Symphony Orchestra with the Harlem String Quartet
7:30 p.m. | Red Mountain High School
Program:
Carlos Simon — Amen!
Leonard Bernstein — Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra, "West Side Story" arr. Randall Craig Fleischer
Antonín Dvořák — Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95
Wednesday, March 4, 2026
"Passage and Pulse"
7:30 p.m. | ASU Gammage
Program:
Ottorino Respighi — Ancient Airs and Dances Suite No. 2
Camille Saint-Saëns — Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 22
Robert Schumann — Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 61
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
"Soundscapes in Motion"
7:30 p.m. | ASU Gammage
Program:
Paul Dukas — Fanfare pour précéder "La Péri," arr. Wayne Barrington
Nicole Piunno — Wilderness of Mirrors
David Maslanka — Symphony No. 7
Felix Mendelssohn — Ruy Blas Overture
Sergey Prokofiev — Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 2
About ASU Symphony Orchestra
The ASU Symphony Orchestra provides its members with intensive orchestral training and professional level artistic performance experience. The ASUSO performs challenging and diverse repertoire chosen to help emerging professional musicians develop a wide range of skills and aptitudes. Rich concert programming offers audiences and the greater arts community opportunities to engage with major works of the orchestral canon as well as cutting-edge works of our time. Exploring the full creative range of the contemporary symphony orchestra, the ASUSO seeks to perform canonical works with technical excellence and artistry while also pushing musical boundaries through innovative multi-disciplinary collaborations.
The ASU Symphony Orchestra aims to extend student learning through rich interactions with professional artists. ASU faculty are closely involved with their students’ orchestral experience and regularly lead orchestral sectionals. The ASU orchestras also maintain a vibrant relationship with the Phoenix Symphony with frequent guest artist visits in both sectional rehearsals and side-by-side rehearsal contexts.
Learn more about our program at musicdancetheatre.asu.edu/ensembles/orchestras.
Land Acknowledgement
The Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts acknowledges the twenty-two Native Nations that have inhabited this land for centuries. Arizona State University’s four campuses are located in the Salt River Valley on ancestral territories of Indigenous peoples, including the Akimel O’odham (Pima) and Pee Posh (Maricopa) Indian Communities, whose care and keeping of these lands allows us to be here today.
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