The UNCSA Symphony Orchestra, under the leadership of alumnus and newly appointed music director Robert Franz, opens the season with composition faculty Jared Miller’s thundering and ethereal ode to planet Earth, “Under Sea, Above Sky,” composed for the National Youth Orchestra of Canada. 

Roni Shitrit, 2023 Concerto Competition winner and student of Professor Ida Bieler, will be the featured soloist on the program, performing the incredibly virtuosic and deeply expressive Sibelius Violin Concerto. 

Brahms’ gripping First Symphony was decades in the making, and once facetiously referred to as “Beethoven’s Tenth.” You’ll feel the titanic struggle and final triumph of the composer’s journey to this mighty achievement. From the dramatic C-minor opening to the final Allegro, with noble horn calls and a brass chorale, there’s no doubt that this impassioned masterpiece was worth waiting for.

Program to Include:

• Jared Miller “Under Sea, Above Sky”
• Sibelius Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 (featuring UNCSA Concerto Competition winner Roni Shitrit)
• Brahms Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68