F. Ludwig Diehn School of Music: Old Dominion University Symphony OrchestraSeason Calendar
ODU Symphony Orchestra
2023-2024 Season Calendar
Blue Connections
Sunday, October 1, 3:00
University Theatre
Tickets $6 Students / $11 Faculty / $17 General at ODUArtsTix
An ODU Annual Campus Theme Event celebrating coastal communities and promoting their long-term preservation
Featuring Judith Shatin, guest composer
Percy Grainger - Molly on the Shore
Neils Gade - Aquarelles
Judith Shatin - Ice Becomes Water
Duke Ellington - The River
Come celebrate our coastal community and learn about current research aiding its long-term preservation! This "Blue Connections" Annual Campus Theme presentation invites professors across ODU's campus to discuss local research activities related to flooding and sea levels and share how others can get involved. Featuring guest composer Judith Shatin's glacier-inspired electroacoustic work "Ice Becomes Water," Duke Ellington's jazzy "River Suite," and other works by Percy Grainger and Niels Gade.
Virginia’s Virtuosi
Presented in coordination with the Virginia Music Teachers Association
Friday, November 3, 7:30PM
University Theatre
Tickets $6 Students / $11 Faculty / $17 General at ODUArtsTix
Featuring ODU faculty piano soloist Zachary Deak
and winners of the VMTA Concerto Competition
Franz Liszt - Piano Concerto No. 2 in A Major
Édouard Lalo - Cello Concerto, 1st Movement
Béla Bartók - Viola Concerto, 1st Movement
Felix Mendelssohn - Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, 1st Movement
The Diehn School of Music is proud to feature new faculty pianist Dr. Zachary Deak, who will perform Franz Liszt's Romantic and transformational Piano Concerto No. 2. Also featured are winners of the Virginia Music Teachers Association's 2023 Concerto Competition, performing movements Lalo's Cello Concerto, Bartók's Viola Concerto, and Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No. 1. Presented as part of the 2023 Virginia Music Teachers Association Conference, hosted by ODU.
Alleluias for the Winter Solstice
ODU Symphony Orchestra and ODU Wind Ensemble
Thursday, December 7, 7:30PM
University Theatre
Tickets $6 Students / $11 Faculty / $17 General at ODUArtsTix
Paul Sanho Kim and Tyler Austin, music directors
Franz Schubert - Rosamunde Overture
Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 1
Celebrate fall's end with a joint wind ensemble and orchestra concert of uplifting works led by both faculty and student conductors. Featuring Beethoven's delightful First Symphony, as well as works by Schubert, Holst, Nelson, Fletcher, and others. Tyler Austin and Paul Sanho Kim, directors.
From Tragedy to Hope: Brahms & Sibelius
Sunday, February 25, 3:00PM
University Theatre
Tickets $6 Students / $11 Faculty / $17 General at ODUArtsTix
Featuring winners of the ODU Young Artists Competition.
Johannes Brahms - Tragic Overture
George Handel - "Piangerò la sorte mia" from Giulio Cesare with voice soloist Ava Stevenson
Jean Sibelius - Symphony No. 3
ODU Symphony Orchestra with Virginia Beach’s Visual and Performing Arts Academy
Wednesday, March 20, 7:00PM
Salem High School, Virginia Beach
Side-by-side collaboration with the Visual and Performing Arts Academy Orchestra. Paul Sanho Kim and David C. Boone, directors.
Mahler’s Fourth Symphony
Side by Side with Virginia Symphony Orchestra and Governor's School for the Arts
Tuesday, April 16, 7:30PM
Sandler Center for Performing Arts, Virginia Beach
Tickets: $11 Students / $17 General at virginiasymphony.org.
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 4
Kathryn Kelly, faculty soprano soloist
