Department of Music

The Charlottesville Symphony at the University of Virginia continues its 50^th Anniversary Season on Saturday, November 16, 7:30pm, at Old Cabell Hall on the Grounds of the University of Virginia and Sunday, November 17, 3:30pm, at Charlottesville High School’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Performing Arts Center.  

Kate Tamarkin guest conducts both concerts at the invitation of Music Director Benjamin Rous.

Tamarkin was the Charlottesville Symphony’s Music Director and a Professor of Music at the University of Virginia from 2006-2017.  Upon her retirement from UVA in 2017, she was named Music Director Laureate.  Previously, she held directorships at the Monterey Symphony (CA), Vermont Symphony, East Texas Symphony and the Fox Valley Symphony Orchestra (WI).  She was also the Associate Conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra under the late Eduardo Mata.

Still active in the local music community, she is a Certified Music Practitioner on the harp, a Musician in Residence at the UVA Medical Center and Program Coordinator for Hospice of the Piedmont’s “Music by the Bedside.”

Ms. Tamarkin has selected some of her favorite symphonic works for the November 16-17 concerts.  The program opens with a ballet suite from Manuel de Falla’s The Three-Cornered Hat, a work infused with the colors and rhythms of Spanish music, dancing and folk traditions.

One of Maurice Ravel’s “greatest hits”, his Mother Goose Suite is a collection of short pieces inspired by the world of children’s fairy tales from seventeenth and eighteenth-century France.

Czech composer Antonín Dvořák is featured in two works.  His extroverted interpretation of Serbian folk music is heard in the Slavonic Dance No. 7.  The well-known Symphony No. 8 in G major evokes a summer’s day replete with birdsongs and hunting horn calls.

The orchestra’s November concerts are underwritten in part by the Vesta Lee Gordon Fund at the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation.  Kate Tamarkin’s appearance is made possible by the Angus Macaulay Visiting Artist Fund and gifts made in her honor by anonymous friends.  Major support has also been provided by the Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation.

In-depth program notes by Program Annotator Laurie Shulman are posted on the orchestra’s website, www.cvillesymphony.org, two weeks prior to each Masterworks concert.

Free parking is available in the UVA Central Grounds Parking Garage, located on Emmet Street South on Saturday nights and at Charlottesville High School’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Performing Arts Center on Sunday afternoons.  The Charlottesville Free Trolley stops at McCormick Road near the UVA Amphitheater, in close proximity to Old Cabell Hall.  Both venues are wheelchair accessible.                                              

Single tickets are $10-$53 for adults and $10 for students.  UVA students may request one complimentary ticket in advance.  Tickets may be purchased at the University of Virginia Arts Box Office, (434) 924-3376, 12:00-5:00pm, Tuesday through Friday in the lobby of the UVA Drama Building at 109 Culbreth Road, or online at www.artsboxoffice.virginia.edu.

All University of Virginia employees (faculty and staff of all UVA departments and professional schools) are entitled to a 20% discount on tickets to individual performances.  This offer does not apply to subscriptions, the December Family Holiday Concerts, Pops at the Paramount or previously purchased tickets.

"Know before you go" Answers to frequently asked questions about Charlottesville Symphony Concerts.

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REMAINING 2024-25 CONCERTS INFORMATION
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ROMEO AND JULIET
Saturday, February 8, 2025, 7:30pm, Old Cabell Hall, UVA Grounds (Tickets)
Sunday, February 9, 2025, 3:30pm, Martin Luther King Performing Arts Center (Tickets)
KRISTIN HAUGE – Morning Overture
UVA Concerto Competition Winner - TBA
SERGEI PROKOFIEV – Excerpts from Romeo and Juliet
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MOZART REQUIEM
Saturday, March 22, 2025, 7:30pm, Old Cabell Hall, UVA Grounds (Tickets)
Sunday, March 23, 2025, 3:30pm, Martin Luther King Performing Arts Center (Tickets)
SAMUEL BARBER – Adagio for String
A.D. CARSON - & metaphors
with:
A.D. Carson, Rapper
Patrick Dailey, Countertenor

WOLFGANG AMADÈ MOZART – Requiem
with:
Clara Rottsolk, Soprano
Patrick Dailey, Countertenor
Gene Stenger, Tenor
Andrew Garland, Baritone
UVA University Singers

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RACHMANINOFF PIANO CONCERTO NO. 3
Saturday, April 26, 2025, 7:30pm, Old Cabell Hall, UVA Grounds (Tickets)
Sunday, April 27, 2025, 3:30pm, Martin Luther King Performing Arts Center (Tickets)

CLAUDE DEBUSSY – Claire de lune
KAIJA SAARIAHO – Asteroid 4179 - Toutatis
ALEXANDER BORODIN – Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor
SERGEI RACHMANINOFF – Piano Concerto No. 3 with Anna Han, Piano

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FAMILY HOLIDAY CONCERTS
Saturday, December 7, 7:30pm, Old Cabell Hall, UVA Grounds (Tickets)
Sunday, December 8, 3:30pm, Old Cabell Hall, UVA Grounds (Tickets)
Holiday favorites with the UVA University Singers and local jazz legend John D’earth
Conducted by Michael Slon
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