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Fisher | Shafer Holiday Pops Concert

Join the Muncie Symphony Orchestra for festive holiday favorites at the annual Fisher|Shafer Holiday Pops family concert. The concert features holiday favorites from the Nutcracker, A Christmas Festival, a collection of Carols, and Sleigh Ride!

Baroque Holiday Concert

Join the Muncie Symphony Orchestra for a festive evening of Baroque Holiday music. This free concert features Concertmaster, Noelle Tretick -Gosling, performing the violin solo from Vivaldi’s “Winter” from The Four Seasons. Enjoy European holiday favorites from Italy, Germany, France, and Austria.

Maya Kilburn, Violin – Young Artist Winner Performance

Maya Kilburn, the 2019 MSO Young Artist Competition Steve Dingledine Senior Division Winner, performs the 2nd and 3rd movements of Jean Sibelius’s Violin Concerto in D Minor with the MSO at Emens Auditorium on October 12, 2019. A 17-year-old Muncie native, Maya has also soloed with the Indianapolis, Carmel, Louisville, and Southeast Missouri symphonies, the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, the New World Youth Symphony, and the Orchestra Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica. She studied violin for seven years with Mimi Zweig at the Indiana University Jacobs School String Academy, and currently studies at The Juilliard School.

Sage Hamm, Piano – Young Artist Winner Performance

Sage Hamm, the 2018 MSO Young Artist Competition Steve Dingledine Senior Division Winner and Indiana University student, performs the Andante sostenuto movement of Piano Concerto No. 2 by Camille Saint – Saёns at Emens Auditorium on October 27, 2018.

Guilmant Organ Symphony

Raul Prieto Ramirez was the guest artist for the September 10, 2016 concert, Organ Celebration – a concert dedicated to Mary Jane and David Sursa, in Sursa Hall. Ramirez and the Muncie Symphony Orchestra performed Guilmant’s Symphony No. 1 for Organ and Orchestra, Op. 42; Movements I. Introduction and Allegro: Largo e maestoso, II. Pastorale: Andante quasi allegretto, and III. Finale: Allegro assai. Video courtesy of Steve Perry Enterprises.

Bach Concerto for Violin and Oboe

Noelle Tretick Gosling, violin, Lisa Kozenko, oboe, and the Muncie Symphony Orchestra perform J.S. Bach’s Concerto for Violin and Oboe, BWV 1060 in Sursa Performance Hall on the Ball State University campus for the opening concert of the 2017/2018 season.

MAYA KILBURN, VIOLIN – Young Artist Competition Performance 

Enjoy this performance of the third movement of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D Major by Maya Kilburn, violin, accompanied on piano by her father, Dr. Ray Kilburn. This performance was from the MSO Young Artist Competition on January 20, 2019 at Sursa Performance Hall. Maya was the Senior Division Winner in the competition. A 17-year-old Muncie native, Maya recently began her studies at The Juilliard School in Violin Performance.

SAGE HAMM, PIANO

Sage Hamm, the 2018 MSO Young Artist Competition Senior Division Winner, performs Chopin’s Étude Op. 25, No. 5 in E minor from his home.

LIBERTANGO – MSO Friends of the Orchestra

Please enjoy this performance by MSO musicians of Libertango by Astor Piazzolla (Arr. by Martin Wray). This piece was performed live on May 19, 2019 as part of the “Friends of the Orchestra” chamber concert series at Westminster Village.

A BEETHOVEN LULLABY – MSO Friends of the Orchestra

Please enjoy this performance by MSO musicians of “A Beethoven Lullaby” by Brian Balmages. This piece was performed live on May 19, 2019 as part of the “Friends of the Orchestra” chamber concert series at Westminster Village.

BRANDENBURG CONCERTO, NO. 3 – MSO Friends of the Orchestra

Please enjoy this performance of Brandenburg Concerto, No. 3 by J.S. Bach (Arr. & Adapted by Merle J. Isaac) by MSO musicians. This piece was performed live on May 19, 2019 as part of the “Friends of the Orchestra” chamber concert series at Westminster Village.

Music on the Move String Quartet

“Music on the Move” string quartet musicians Ivan Kokotov, Dulale, Jian Shang, and Po-Chen Chang perform “Neapolitan Song” from the Children’s Album by Tchaikovsky, and Johann Strauss’s “Radetzky March” as part of their educational program. The performance was held at the Charles W. Brown Planetarium on February 21, 2020.