UWM Symphony 2008-2009 Season

This year Margery Deutsch celebrates her twenty-fifth season as Director of Orchestral Activities at UWM.  Join her, these highly acclaimed student musicians, and exciting guest artists as they perform some of the great orchestral masterworks of the past three centuries.

Friday, October 10, 2008 - 7:30 p.m.
with Tanya Kruse-Ruck, soprano

Kabalevsky – Colas Breugnon Overture
Strauss – Four Last Songs
Dvorak – Symphony No. 8

Friday & Saturday, November  7 & 8, 2008 - 7:30 p.m.
with UWM Choirs, Sharon Hansen, Guest Conductor

Rimsky-Korsakov – Scheherazade
Thompson - Frostiana

Wednesday, December 10, 2008 – 7:30 p.m.
with Rene Izquierdo, guitar

Mendelssohn – The Hebrides Overture
Rodrigo – Concierto de Aranjuez
Beethoven – Symphony No. 4

Sunday, February 15, 2009 - 3:00 p.m.
23rd Annual High School Honors Orchestra Festival
Shelby Dixon, Guest Conductor
also featuring the winner of the 19th Annual UWM Young Artist Competition

Suppé – Poet and Peasant Overture
Berlioz – Sinfonie Fantastique, mvts. IV & V

This concert will feature over 150 of Wisconsin’s finest young musicians playing works by Parry, Mendelssohn and Stella Sung.

Friday, April 17, 2009 - 7:30 p.m.
Margery Deutsch, Conductor
with the winner of the UWM Concerto & Aria Competition

Program to be announced

All Programs Subject To Change

All concerts are held in the Helen Bader Concert Hall,
Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts,
2419 East Kenwood Boulevard

Reduced single performance admission for UWM faculty, staff and students with valid ID. To purchase tickets or subscriptions, contact the Peck School of the Arts Box Office at 414-229-4308.

For further information
UWM Orchestra Office
414-229-4609
symphony@uwm.edu