Programs and artists are subject to change without notice. The El Paso Symphony is made possible with the support of the City of El Paso Museums and Cultural Affairs Department and the Texas Commission on the Arts.
EPSO News
| Run For A Margarita Benefits EPSO |
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| EPSO Holds Auditions |
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| EPSO Ends Season On A Romantic Note |
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| 13th Annual March Madness Fundraiser |
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| 3rd Annual Downtown KidsPalooza Family Art & Music Festival |
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| El Paso Electric Young People's Concerts Composition Competition Winners |
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| ZUILL BAILEY TO PERFORM WITH EPSO |
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| EPSYOs Finalist in Clorox "Power a Bright Future" |
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| Ignite the Holiday Spirit with Music |
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| A SYMPHONY OF CHRISTMAS HOMES A Holiday Tour of Five of the Upper Valley’s Finest! |
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| Van Cliburn Gold Medal Wiinner Haochen Zhang Performs with EPSO |
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| EL PASO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA DEBUTS US PREMIERE OF DARIO MARIANELLI’S ATONEMENT CONCERT SUITE |
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| The Red Violin: Music and Art |
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Tito Muñoz, Assistant Conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra, will step in for Sarah Ioannides in its final concerts of the 2009-2010 Season, April 16 and 17, 7:30pm at the Plaza Theatre. Muñoz, taking Ioannides program and tuning it a bit to make it his own, will lead the El Paso Symphony Orchestra in a romantic program featuring Mexican native and Curtis Institute tenor Diego Silva. The program will include classical favorites and tenor arias from operas by Verdi, Puccini, Tchaikovsky and Wagner. It will also include zarzuelas (Zarzuela is a Spanish lyric-dramatic genre that alternates between spoken and sung scenes, the latter incorporating operatic and popular song, as well as dance) by Spanish composers Serrano and Sorozábal. In the second half of the program, Silva will accompany EPSO in the popular song “Granada” by Mexican composer Agustín Lara.
The 3rd Annual Downtown KidsPalooza is scheduled Saturday, March 27, 2010 from 10:30am to 5:00pm. Downtown KidsPalooza is an all-day family cultural event organized by the El Paso Symphony Orchestra. Downtown area arts organizations will present “Make & Take” craft workshops, tours, performances and exhibits to educate and expose young participants to the many activities available in the El Paso area. The all-day event features free transportation to a variety of educational stops throughout the downtown area.
Conductor Alexander Platt will step in for Maestra Sarah Ioannides to conduct the El Paso Symphony Orchestra January 22 and 23, 2010, 7:30pm at the Plaza Theatre. Platt will lead the El Paso Symphony in Goldmark’s Rustic Wedding Symphony and Dvořák’s Cello Concerto, B minor, op. 104 with cellist Zuill Bailey. Sponsored by Western Refining, the El Paso Symphony Orchestra is pleased to present these performances in collaboration with El Paso Pro-Musica Chamber Music Festival.
The El Paso Symphony Youth Orchestras (EPSYOs) has been named a finalist in the Clorox “Power a Bright Future” Contest through Facebook. Over 5,000 organizations applied for the grant and only 30 were chosen to be finalists.
Enjoy the favorite sounds of the season at the Holiday Afternoon with the El Paso Symphony Orchestra Concert on Sunday December 13, 2009, 2pm at the Plaza Theatre.
The El Paso Symphony Orchestra presents the 1st annual “A Symphony of Christmas Homes” tour of homes. This spectacular event will be held December 5 and 6 in El Paso’s Upper Valley.
Van Cliburn Gold Medal Winner
For the fourth consecutive season, the El Paso Symphony will collaborate with El Paso Pro-Musica Chamber Music Festival. This exciting program, January 23 & 24, 2009, 7:30pm at the Plaza Theater, will feature pianist Awadagin Pratt and cellist Ben Hong in the US Premiere of Academy Award-winning composer Dario Marianelli’s Atonement Concert Suite for Cello, Piano and Orchestra. The world premiere debuted on October 18, 2008 in Ghent, Belgium for the Flanders International Film Festival by the Brussels Philharmonic, conductor Dirk Brosse. Born in 1963 in Pisa, Italy, Dario Marianelli won the Best Original Score for the score of Atonement at the 80th Academy Awards and Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and has recently collaborated with Joe Wright for the upcoming film The Soloist.
El Paso Symphony and El Paso Musuem of Art collaborate to bring The Red Violin to life through Music and Art.