Guest Artists

Each year, The Phoenix Symphony features a wide variety of instrumental and vocal soloists and performing ensembles for its classical, pops, and family concerts. Artists include classical and popular music stars as well as up-and-coming young artists and distinguished members of the Symphony.

Opening Night

• Karin Wolverton, soprano
• Gigi Mitchell-Velasco, mezzo-soprano
• Sean Panikkar, tenor
• Steven Powell, baritone

Stravinsky-The Firebird Suite

• Orion Weiss, piano 

The Phoenix Symphony celebrates the CALA Festival

• Doc Severinsen & The San Miguel Five

Mozart and More

• Christian Knapp, conductor
• Viviana Cumplido, flute  

THE Concert & THE Encore 

• Kenny Rogers, vocalist 
  

Beethoven Symphony No. 3 "Eroica"

• Sean Newhouse, conductor
• Charlie Albright, piano

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 

• Andrew Grams, conductor
• Adam Golka, piano

Mendelssohn's "Italian" Symphony 

• Steven Moeckel, violin

Holiday Pops

• Lauren Natalie, soprano
• Laura Wilde, mezzo-soprano
• Valley Youth Theatre

Holiday Celebration

• Spencer Dooley, narrator
• Valley Youth Theatre

Handel's Messiah 

• Celena Shafer, soprano
• Jamie Van Eyck, mezzo-soprano
• David Portillo, tenor
• Levi Hernandez, baritone

New Year's Eve Celebration  

• Lindsey Geroux, mezzo-soprano

Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue 

• Gabriela Montero, piano

Beethoven Lives Upstairs

• Classical Kids Live!

Dvořák: Cello Concerto 

• Zuill Bailey, cello  

Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition

• Chloe Hanslip, violin 

Symphony Pops: Music of John Williams

• Magdalena Martinic-Jercic, violin 

Centennial Celebration! Grofé: Grand Canyon Suite

• Hugh Downs, narrator
• James Westwater, photo choreographer

Brian Mulligan performs Puccini & Mahler

• Brian Mulligan, baritone
• Eric Margiore, tenor

Broadway Rocks!

• Virginia Woodruff, vocalist
• Christiane Noll, vocalist
• Doug LaBrecque, vocalist

Motown Greatest Hits

• Tituss Burgess, vocalist 
• Joy Lynn Matthews, vocalist
• Ramona Keller, vocalist 

Dr. Seuss' Green Eggs & Ham 

• Allison Stanford, soprano
• Aaron Zweiback, boy soprano
• Bill Wanser, percussion
• Toby Yatso, narrator

Elgar: Enigma Variations

• Jean-Marie Zeitouni, conductor 
• Ray Chen, violin

An Evening with Rodgers and Hammerstein

• Walter Belcher, vocalist
• Kristin Drathman, vocalist
• Chris Ericksen, vocalist
• Jason Fleck, vocalist
• Kaitlynn Kleinmann, vocalist
• Molly Lajoie, vocalist
• Jeannie Shubitz, vocalist
• Cydney Trent, vocalist
• Toby Yatso, vocalist

Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

• Alasdair Neale, conductor

The Rat Pack!

• Sal Viviano, as Frank Sinatra
• Nat Chandler, as Dean Martin
• Eric Jordan Young, as Sammy Davis Jr.

Rachmaninoff Festival

• Olga Kern, piano

Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranuez

• Robert Belinic, guitar

Cirque de la Symphonie 

• Hector Guzman, conductor
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