Masterworks III - Beethoven to Brahms-Brilliant!

Featuring Brahms’ colorful and evocative Hungarian Dance #1, his Double Concerto, Op. 102, and Beethoven’s Symphony #3 (Eroica) which helped usher in the Romantic era.

Carolyn Plummer and Karen Buranskas are Associate Professors of Music at the University of Notre Dame and members of the celebrated Notre Dame String Trio. This will be a magical, musical evening.

POPS! II - Valentines From Hollywood and Broadway

Featuring famous love songs from Hollywood and Broadway. Come hear the world’s most wonderful love songs. And fall in love again. Anne Runolfsson’s and Gary Mauer’s Broadway credits include The Phantom of the Opera, Victor/Victoria and Les Miserables.

Masterworks IV - Tales of the Classical Guitar

Featuring Maurice Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite, Joaquín Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez and Zoltán Kodály’s Háry János Suite.

Classical guitarist Robert Belinic’ has performed throughout the U.S. and Europe and earned international recognition as the first guitarist to win Young Concert Artist auditions in New York. Mr. Belinic’ has been characterized as “a young genius, a poet, and a super-sensitive musician” and is known for his intense passion, charisma and breathtaking performances. Kodály’s Háry János Suite will captivate you with its intriguing Hungarian tall tale.

June H. Edwards Chamber II - Feel the Spirit!

Featuring Benjamin Britten’s Suite on English Folk Tunes, Op. 90, Corigliano’s Fern Hill and John Rutter’s Feel the Spirit — a new take on a uniquely American art form, the spiritual. Minnita Daniel-Cox, soprano, has won numerous singing competitions and appeared with many symphonies and operatic productions. She teaches voice at The University of Michigan. The South Bend Chamber Singers, celebrating 20 years of beautiful music, will also perform.

POPS! III - Photochoreography

James Westwater artfully fuses the music of Copland with giant-screen panoramic photographs to create a breath-takingly beautiful photographic concerto. Michiana students will showcase their own version of this wonderful medium with a special work they’ll help create for the Young People’s Discovery concerts.

Masterworks V - Sacred Spring: A Choral Festival

Featuring Respighi’s Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite #1, Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms and Faure’s Requiem.

Danielle Svonavec and Stephen Lancaster, voice faculty at the University of Notre Dame, join conductor Robert N. Ham and the Bethel College Concert Choir, plus conductor Alexander Blachly and the Notre Dame Chorale to perform traditional Judeo-Christian music for this beautiful holiday celebration. The American composer Leonard Bernstein, better known for his groundbreaking West Side Story, composed the featured Chichester Psalms.

June H. Edwards Chamber III - Schubert + Beethoven

Another “can’t miss” afternoon of beautiful melodies and pleasant harmonies, featuring Franz Schubert’s Die Freunde von Saramanka, D.326: Overture, Beethoven’s Piano Concerto #2 and Schubert’s Symphony No. 3, D.200, in D major.

Pianist, composer and educator Jeffrey Jacob has been hailed as “one of the greatest performers of 20th century music.” Currently Mr. Jacob is an artist-in-residence at Saint Mary’s College.

Spring Family Concert - A Celebration of Abraham Lincoln

Copland’s Lincoln Portrait, pieces by William Grant Still and one of Lincoln’s favorite works, Verdi’s La Forza del Destino. Also featured will be the Side-by-Side Orchestra and the Grand Prize Winner of our annual Young Artist Competition.

Masterworks VI - Magical Melodies

Featuring Russell Peck’s Peace Overture, Khachaturian’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra and Dvorak’s Symphony #8.Terrence Wilson is one of today’s most gifted pianists with numerous national awards and prizes to his credit. He has performed with many prestigious ensembles across the country and has played in Chicago’s Ravinia Festival, Tanglewood, Wolf Trap, New York and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. The highlight of this melodic concert will be the dazzling interplay of Wilson’s piano and the orchestra in Khachaturian’s piece.