Atlanta Community Symphony Orchestra

Upcoming Concerts

This year, you have more options to watch the orchestra in live performance! Working alongside our guest conductors, we are presenting full ensemble concerts as well as bringing their visions to chamber music ensembles in our In Your Neighborhood Engagement Series!

November 5, 2023 @4pm – “An Evening of French Fantaisie”
Church at Wieuca 3626 Peachtree Rd NE Atlanta GA 30326
Phillip E. Allen, Guest Conductor

  • Hector Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture
  • Jules Massenet: Meditation from Thais arr. Phillip E. Allen with Andrzej Zabinski solo violin
  • Charles Gounod: Marche Funèbre d’une Marionnette
  • Georges Bizet: Selections from L’Arlesienne Suite no.1 and no. 2
  • Claude Debussy: Clair de Lune
  • Claude-Michel Schoenberg: Selections from “Les Misérables”

December 10, 2023 @2:30pm – “A Celebration of the Holidays”
Saint Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church 1790 Lavista Rd. Atlanta GA 30329
Pablo Zamora, Guest Conductor

  • Leroy Anderson: Christmas Festival
  • Vinicio Meza: Imágenes
  • Vinicio Meza: Escenas Tica
  • Arr. by Barry Hilbert: Havah Nagila – Traditional Hebraic Folk Tune
  • Vinicio Meza: Aires Navideños
  • Vinicio Meza: Infantilismos
  • Leroy Anderson: Sleigh Ride – Leroy Anderson (1908 – 1975)
  • William Grant Still: Mother and Child
  • Sergio Delgado: Sinfonietta Decembrina

March 17, 2024 @5pm – “Tales of Fantasy and Imagination” – A Young Person’s Concert” featuring winners of the ‘Arts in Music’ contest
Temple Emanu-El 1580 Spalding Dr. Sandy Springs GA 30350
Robert Trocina, Guest Conductor

  • Abe Gerson: Rhapsody
  • Max Bruch: Scottish Fantasy for violin and orchestra, Op. 46: Introduction- Grave, Adagio cantabile, Nancy Schechter solo violin
  • Engelbert Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel, Overture
  • Bedřich Smetena: Má Vlast: Moldau (Vltava)
    • In loving memory of Helen Emerson
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy Overture (With winners of the ACSO Art in Music contest)

May 19, 2024 @4pm – “Winners Concert” featuring winners of the 48th Annual Ruth Kern Young Artists Concerto Competition
ChristChurch Presbyterian 1740 Peachtree Rd. NW Atlanta GA 30309
Pablo Zamora, Guest Conductor

  • Featuring winners of the 48th Annual Ruth Kern Young Artists Concerto Competition
  • Tchaikovsky – Hough (Arr) String Quartet No. 1 in D – Mvmt.2 Andante Cantabile for Harp and Strings
    • In honnor of Don Hough, long-time librarian of the ACSO

IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD: Engagement Series

November 9, 2023 @7pm – “La Musique est La Vie”
Saint Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church 1790 Lavista Rd. Atlanta GA 30329
Phillip E. Allen, Guest Conductor

  • Wolfgang Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
  • Leroy Anderson: The Waltzing Cat
  • Arthur Pryor: The Whistler and his Dog
  • Dario Marianelli: Pride and Prejudice with solo piano
  • Peter Schikele: “Olé!” Concerto in F for brass vs. piano
  • Charles Gounod: Marche Funèbre d’une Marionnette
  • Jules Massenet: Meditation from Thais arr. Phillip E. Allen with solo flutes
  • J.S. Bach: Fugue in G Minor

December 14, 2023 @7pm – “Latin-American Sounds of the Season”
Sarah Smith Intermediate School 4141 Wieuca Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30342
Pablo Zamora, Guest Conductor

  • Fonseca: Gran Fantasia sinfonica: Arr. Delgado
  • Meza: Aries Navideños
  • Nagle: Christmas Carol Festival
  • Meza: Escenas Ticas
  • William Grant Still: Mother and Child
  • Meza: Infantilismos

March 12, 2024 @7pm – “An Irish Heritage ” St. Patrick’s Day Concert
First Christian Church of Decatur 601 W Ponce de Leon Ave, Decatur, GA 30030
Robert Trocina, Guest Conductor

  • Holst: St. Paul’s Suite for String Orchestra
  • Granger/Siu: Molly On The Shore for Woodwind Quintet
  • Granger/Siu: Shepherd’s Hey for Woodwind Quintet
  • Gibson: The Jigs are Up – Celtic Music for Woodwind Quintet 
  • Somerset folk song (arr. Kingston): The Turtle Dove for Brass Quintet
  • Scottish folk song (arr. Kingston): Ca’ the Yowes for Brass Quintet
  • British Isl folk song (arr. Kingston): Shetland Reel for Brass Quintet
  • Irish Folk song (arr. Kingston): Be Thou My Vision
  • Scottish folk song (arr. Kingston): Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron for Brass Quintet
  • Traditional hymn (arr. Gale): When the Saints go Marching In for Brass Quintet

May 14, 2024 @7pm – “La Música es Pura Vida”
Pleasant Hill Church 725 Pleasant Hill St, Roswell, GA 30075
Stephanie Morera Córdoba, Guest Conductor & Jackson Allred, Guest Conductor

  • Portuguez: Yaguarete
  • Camacho: Ritual y Celebración.
  • Garrigues: Triptico
  • Cano – Flores del Alma, world premiere

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