Join Music Director George Jackson along with Harrington String Quartet members and other performing artists, on Friday, April 19 for Lunch and Listening! Hosted by Dr. Kimberly Hieb, Music History Professor at WTAMU, you’ll enjoy an engaging presentation about the music from our upcoming concert, Beethoven’s Ninth and HSQ.

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Lunch & Listening – April

Globe-News Center for the Performing Arts

This 100th Anniversary Season finale includes Beethoven’s most beloved work with the Amarillo Master Chorale and special guest vocalists, plus new music written for the Harrington String Quartet by Grammy Award-winning composer Christopher Theofanidis.

Beethoven’s Ninth & HSQ

A season finale, with a return engagement of pianist Diego Caetano, joined by the renowned Carpe Diem String Quartet performing works by Korine Fujiwara (violist in the quartet) and the stunning Schumann Piano Quintet at the AmTech Career Academy.

Diego Caetano & Carpe Diem String Quartet

AmTech Career Academy

The Amarillo Symphony is honored to be one of two recipients of a Midori residency facilitated by the Orchestra Residencies Program (ORP). Midori, a visionary artist with a commitment to education, will be in Amarillo for 4 days in March of 2024, where she will engage with and teach the students of the Amarillo Symphony Youth Orchestra. While Midori is in residence with the Amarillo Symphony Youth Orchestra, she plans to coach small ensembles, perform for students in various neighborhoods of Amarillo, and perform alongside the Youth Orchestra musicians in a culminating concert at the Globe-News Center for the Performing Arts.

Midori Residency for the ASYO

Welcome to the Spring season with Schuman’s glorious “Spring” Symphony and Dvořák’s Violin Concerto performed by virtuoso violinist Aubree Oliverson.

A Spring Symphony

Join Music Director George Jackson along with guest artist, Aubree Oliverson, on Friday, March 8 for Lunch and Listening! Hosted by Dr. Kimberly Hieb, Music History Professor at WTAMU, you’ll enjoy an engaging presentation about the music from our upcoming concert, A Spring Symphony.

Lunch & Listening – March

Experience an evening of brilliance and admiration as we feature the music of Mozart and Tchaikovsky performed by soloists Guglielmo Manfredi on horn and Evgeny Zvonnikov on violin with conductor Mark Bartley and the Amarillo Virtuosi at AmTech Career Academy.

The Mozart – Tchaikovsky Connection

The Symphony will perform Mahler’s masterwork plus an exciting new composition by Amarillo College professor Dr. Nathan Fryml for the Amarillo Master Chorale.

Mahler’s Fifth Symphony

Featuring a return to Sharpened Iron Studios soundstage for local trio Triosarachops including Sarah Beckham-Turner, soprano, Guglielmo Manfredi, horn and Sarah Rushing, piano.

Triosarachops Devours!

Sharpened Iron Studios

The Amarillo Symphony Guild hosts the 69th Annual Symphony Ball “A Night in Monte Carlo“. This year’s thrilling Ball will be held at the Rex Baxter Building and will include cocktails, a seated dinner, and dancing to Dallas’ premier party band, Party Machine. This year we are excited to announce a 5:00 pm Pre-Party/Casino de Monte-Carlo, to jump-start the night for certain levels of underwriting.

Symphony Ball – A Night in Monte Carlo

Amarillo Tri-State Exposition & Tri-State Fair & Rodeo

Presenting international artist Mahan Esfahani performing Bach’s Concerto in d minor on harpsichord, and the outstanding musicians of the Amarillo Symphony performing Bartok’s stunning Concerto for Orchestra.

Bach to Bartók

Our Amarillo Symphony Music Director George Jackson will lead the Amarillo Virtuosi chamber orchestra at the Amarillo Botanical Gardens, featuring solo violinist Rossitza Goza of the Harrington String Quartet and West Texas A&M University School of Music faculty flutist Helen Blackburn.

Miracle Music

Amarillo Botanical Gardens

Come enjoy your favorite holiday music with family and friends. A sparkling celebration with carols, classics, and a sing-along – an Amarillo holiday tradition!

Happy Holiday Pops

Featuring Brahms’s magnificent Symphony No. 1 and celebrated soprano Sara Hershkowitz singing Samuel Barber’s poignant Knoxville Summer of 1915 and a Bluegrass surprise!

Brahms and Bluegrass

A Veterans Day celebration of patriotic music with a brass quintet performance in the beautiful St. Mary’s Cathedral.

Celebrating Our Veterans

Saint Mary Catholic Church

Our family performances are free of charge and are a great opportunity for families to experience music in a fun, casual setting! Families will participate in music-themed activities and have access to professional musicians who can answer questions and give a deeper insight into the arts. This Family Night will feature musicians from the November 11 CMA performance Celebrating Our Veterans.

CMA Family Night!

St. Mary's Catholic Cathedral

Vintage Amarillo is a biennial fundraising event hosted by the Amarillo Symphony Guild consisting of a multiple-course, wine-paired dinner followed by a wine auction. Join us this October at the beautiful Amarillo Club for a night of food and wine!

Vintage Amarillo

Amarillo Club

Celebrate our region’s rich Hispanic heritage with this festive, fun, and fiery program, including award-winning Mariachi singer Nayelli Peña, Trio Los Reyes, the Glenwood Elementary Folklórico Dancers and the Amarillo Symphony Youth Orchestra. This concert has NO intermission.

¡Celebraciones!

Former Commander and Conductor of the United States Air Force’s bands and Amarillo Symphony’s Executive Director Larry Lang will lead the Amarillo Virtuosi in a wind performance of Strauss and Dvořák at the impressive AmTech Career Academy.

Winds of Change

Showcasing sensational pianist Michelle Cann on George Gershwin’s classic work. The concert will also include Aaron Copland’s rousing audience favorite, Rodeo.

Rhapsody in Blue

Chamber Music Amarillo’s season opener feature’s the Amarillo Symphony’s concertmaster Espen Lilleslåtten alongside cellist Sally Guenther, pianist Elena Lacheva and Harrington String Quartet’s violist Vesselin Todorov performing at Sharpened Iron Studios.

Passionate Music

Kicking off our Centennial Season at HODGETOWN with a one-of-a-kind concert featuring country star Randall King! Join us as we perform a mix of patriotic and Western favorites with local stars Eric Barry and the Opera Cowgirls, finishing the night with Randall King’s biggest hits, and a fireworks finale!

100th Season Opener with RANDALL KING!

Hodgetown Stadium

Join us during the Greater Southwest Music Festival for the WTAMU Jazz Bands concert featuring special guest drummer Dion Parson! This FREE concert will be held in the Globe-News Center for the Performing Arts on Thursday, April 27 at 7:30pm. Thank you to our partners Conn Selmer and the WTAMU School of Music for making this concert possible!

WTAMU Jazz Bands with Dion Parson

Our final concert of the season presents Ravel’s Mother Goose Ballet featuring ballet dancers from Lone Star Ballet, as well as a work by a young composer from West Texas A&M University! The season will end with Rachmaninoff’s gorgeous Piano Concerto No. 2 performed by award-winning pianist Joyce Yang!

Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto

Presented by HPPR join Jenny Inzerillo for a compelling discussion of the music performed in our concert HSQ & String Principals.

Pre-Concert Talk: HSQ & String Principals

Celebrating CMA and 25 years of music making on the high plains, we welcome the Harrington String Quartet and the Amarillo Symphony Principal string players joining forces to perform the incredible Mendelssohn Octet.

HSQ & String Principals

After 25 years, it’s time for old home week with violinist Annie Chalex Boyle, violist Joanna Mendoza, cellist Jeffrey Lastrapes and CMA Artistic Director and founder, David Palmer – some of CMA’s original musicians presenting a fun filled evening including the famous Dvořák Piano Quintet.

Dvořák: Piano Quintet

Enjoy the sounds of a live orchestra performing Hollywood classics from Academy Award-winning composer John Williams, including Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Harry Potter, Superman, and more!

Star Wars and Beyond: An Evening of John Williams!

Amarillo Civic Center Complex

Enjoy an intimate evening of George Frideric Handel on stage with four fabulous keyboard players.

Handel: Great Keyboard Suites

Schubert’s fearless “Unfinished” symphony stands alongside Beethoven’s majestic “Emperor Concerto,” performed by dazzling pianist Rodolfo Leone.

Beethoven: “Emperor” Concerto

Join Music Director George Jackson along with guest artist, Rodolfo Leone, on Friday, January 20 for Lunch and Listening! Hosted by Dr. Kimberly Hieb, Music History Professor at WTAMU, you’ll enjoy an engaging presentation about the music from our upcoming concert, Beethoven: “Emperor” Concerto.

Lunch & Listening – January

Austin Symphony Conductor Peter Bay returns to Amarillo, performing with CMA Artistic Director David Palmer and the Amarillo Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra in a performance of Mozart’s brilliant, beautiful Piano Concerto No. 25, the gorgeous, romantic Brahms Serenade No. 1, and a new commission by internationally recognized composer Chris Lowry, celebrating CMA’s 25th Anniversary!

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 25

We are thrilled to present Metropolitan Opera soprano Susanna Phillips in Strauss’ Four Last Songs. This evening also features Mozart’s imaginative Overture to the “Magic Flute” and Tchaikovsky’s heartbreaking and poignant last symphony, “Pathetique.”

Strauss: Four Last Songs

Join Music Director George Jackson along with guest artist, Susanna Phillips, on Friday, November 18 for Lunch and Listening! Hosted by Dr. Kimberly Hieb, Music History Professor at WTAMU, you’ll enjoy an engaging presentation about the music from our upcoming concert, Strauss: Four Last Songs.

Lunch & Listening – November

Enjoy an extraordinary experience of wind music featuring repertoire of adventure and beauty performed by our community’s premiere wind players.

Five Winds

Summit one of the Swiss Alps as we experience Richard Strauss’ glorious tone poem, Alpine Symphony, arranged for brass chorale in the beautiful surroundings of St. Mary’s Cathedral.

Music of the Mountains

Join Guest Conductor Stephen Mulligan along with guest artist, Oliver Herbert, on Friday, October 14 for Lunch and Listening! Hosted by Dr. Kimberly Hieb, Music History Professor at WTAMU, you’ll enjoy an engaging presentation about the music from our upcoming concert, Dvořák’s Cello Concerto.

Lunch & Listening – October

The orchestra performs Dvořák’s lush cello concerto with superbly talented artist, Oliver Herbert, rising composer Jessie Montgomery’s joyous Strum, and Beethoven’s grand and uplifting Symphony No. 7.

Dvořák’s Cello Concerto

The Amarillo Symphony and HODGETOWN Events are excited to present “CELEBRATE AMERICA,” a community concert for the whole family on Saturday, October 1 at 7:30 p.m. with gates opening at 6:00 p.m.

Celebrate America at HODGETOWN

Join Music Director George Jackson along with composer Nathan Fryml, on Friday, February 23 for Lunch and Listening! Hosted by Dr. Kimberly Hieb, Music History Professor at WTAMU, you’ll enjoy an engaging presentation about the music from our upcoming concert, Mahler’s Fifth Symphony.

The Amarillo Symphony

Apr 19, 2024

Lunch & Listening – April

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Beethoven’s Ninth & HSQ

Apr 13, 2024

Diego Caetano & Carpe Diem String Quartet

Mar 24, 2024

Midori Residency for the ASYO

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A Spring Symphony

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