The Phoenix Symphony is excited to announce we are upgrading to a new, easy-to-use ticketing system. During this transition, our TICKETING SYSTEM IS DOWN September 11, 12, 13, and 14. Our new ticketing system will be live on September 15. Sorry for any inconvenience. Feel free to browse our performances in the meantime.

Executive Profile: Finance Expert Plays to a Different Beat

Tim Schultz took an unconventional path to the boardroom. Growing up in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, he and his siblings played enough instruments to form a small orchestra. “It went from trumpet, to tuba, to sax, to piano,” he said. “My entire family was musical, and in particular my mother.” From kindergarten through high school, […]

Conductor Outwater likes ‘strange moments’

As the music director of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony in Ontario, Canada, Edwin Outwater has commissioned work by Richard Reed Parry of Grammy-winning indie-rockers Arcade Fire and conducted a composition by Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood. He’s also introduced the Intersections series, in which he’s linked classical music to a variety of other disciplines, from quantum physics […]

Phoenix Symphony Names 2 to Board

The Phoenix Symphony Association named Jaime Daddona Brennan and Tim K. Schultz to its Board of Directors. “Jaime and Tim bring invaluable experience to our Board of Directors,” said C.A. Howlett, Chairman of the Board for The Phoenix Symphony. “We are truly fortunate to welcome such high-caliber individuals to our team” he added. Jaime Daddona […]

Natalie Merchant talks album, Phoenix Symphony

It was four years ago, performing at the invitation of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, that Natalie Merchant first experienced the excitement of standing onstage with a 60-piece orchestra at her back as she shared her music with an audience. “It was astounding,” Merchant says. “A full-string section, woodwinds, brass. The texture is so different from […]

Daniel Meyer conducts Phoenix Symphony

The Phoenix Symphony has lined up Daniel Meyer of the Asheville (N.C.) Symphony and Erie (Pa.) Philharmonic to guest-conduct a program of Dvorak’s Symphony No. 6, Theofanidis’ “Rainbow Body” and Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concerto No. 2 with pianist Chu-Fang Huang. When we caught up with Meyer to talk about his first performances in metro Phoenix, he […]

Outgoing Christie named laureate of Phoenix Symphony

As a token of gratitude for his work as maestro of the Phoenix Symphony for the past eight years, the board of directors of the Phoenix Symphony is naming Michael Christie music director laureate. Christie, who is taking a job as music director of the Minnesota Opera, will finish out the 2012/2013 season in Phoenix. […]

London calls in dazzling fashion

London called, and about 700 concertgoers answered Friday night for the Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra concert at NAU’s Ardrey Memorial Auditorium. The audience was a mix of students and adults of all ages, including more than a sprinkling of seniors, whose enthusiasm for the music was unbridled and heartfelt, with standing ovations after each major portion […]

Phoenix Symphony names board of directors

The Phoenix Symphony Association announced that David E. Dodge and Ryan B. Opel have joined its board of directors. Dodge, a Taliesin architect since 1965, is presently an instructor of architectural concepts at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture. Opel is a shareholder at Gallagher & Kennedy, P.A. Prior to relocating to Phoenix from […]

George Benson’s Nat King Cole tribute in Mesa

George Benson is unabashed in his admiration for Nat King Cole. “Nat was my favorite artist, period,” Benson announces, on the phone before a gig in New York. “He was one of the greatest masters. When he sang a song, you never forgot it.” Benson’s adoration of the man has evolved into “An Unforgettable Tribute […]

BMO Private Bank Donation Is Sweet Music to Symphony

PHOENIX, AZ–(Marketwire – Jan 8, 2013) – BMO Private Bank recently announced their season sponsorship of the Phoenix Symphony’s “Parties of Note.” Launched in 2011 as an additional outreach effort to introduce a new audience to the Symphony, this year’s series features nine intimate recitals taking place from November 2012 through May 2013. “We give […]

The Phoenix Symphony Receives Getty Education and Community Investment Grant from League of American Orchestras to Expand its B-Sharp Music Wellness Program

Unique Re-Granting Program from Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Highlights Orchestras’ Response to Community Needs through Educational, Health and Wellness, Social Service, and Neighborhood Residency Programs Phoenix, AZ (November 27, 2012) – The Phoenix Symphony is one of just twenty-two American orchestras to receive a first-year Getty Education and Community Investment Grant.  The grant was […]

Christie: ‘Planets’ explores new frontiers

The Phoenix Symphony’s latest performance of Gustav Holst’s “The Planets” is a multimedia production complete with high-definition projections of those planets from the Mars Rovers and other NASA footage. We spoke to Michael Christie, the symphony’s music director, about the concert and the piece itself. Question: That’s cool that you’re using projections from NASA. Answer: […]

ASU to host Bosendorfer and Yamaha international piano competitions

Forty-two outstanding pianists from around the globe will make their way to Tempe, Ariz. in January as the ASU School of Music in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts hosts the 6th Bösendorfer and Yamaha USASU International Piano Competitions in collaboration with the Phoenix Symphony, the Arizona Young Artist Committee, and the Arizona […]

How Handel’s ‘Messiah’ became holiday tradition

Michael Christie, musical director of the Phoenix Symphony, is not what he would call a particularly religious person. But there’s something about experiencing Handel’s “ Messiah,” Christie says, that makes him understand how that might feel. “What really strikes me about a composer like Handel with ‘The Messiah,’ or Mozart with his ‘Requiem,’” he says, […]

Phoenix Symphony Holiday Pops

If it still doesn’t feel like the start of the holiday season, conductor Joseph Young is pretty sure he has the answer — the Phoenix Symphony’s Holiday Pops performance. We caught up with Young to talk about the annual tradition. Question: How do you go about putting a holiday program together? Answer: There are so […]

Phoenix Symphony musicians bring the healing power of music to patients

People drum by in scrubs of blue, jackets of white, shoes with thick soles. Coffee from the Baguettes Lobby Cafe sharpens the air. In the corner, dressed in formal black, a violinist and cellist from the Phoenix Symphony ready their bows. The rhythm of Scottsdale Healthcare Shea Medical Center beats steady until the first clear […]

Cum laude

PhoenixSymphony Hall11/23/2012 –  & November 24*, 25, 2012Marjan Mozetich: Procession of DuosCarl Orff: Carmina burana Celena Shafer (soprano), Javier Abreu (tenor), Craig Irvin (baritone)The Phoenix Symphony Chorus, Thomas Bookhout (chorus master), The Phoenix Boys’ Choir, Georg Stangelberger (artistic director), The Phoenix Symphony Orchestra, Michael Christie (conductor) The program opens with Canadian composer Marjan Mozetich’s (b. […]

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