MSYO Season Finale Concert

by Caroline Johnston | Apr 24, 2024

The Mobile Symphony Youth Orchestra’s (MSYO) season finale will showcase the Gulf Coast’s most talented student musicians, under the direction of acclaimed international conductor Dr. Iván del Prado. The concert includes works by Mussorgsky, Carl Maria von Weber,...

Artist Spotlight – 2024-2025 Season

by Tamara | Dec 13, 2023 | News

Our soloist for September and November include one familiar face and three new ones. Violinist Randall Goosby appeared during our socially distanced COVID season. Violinist Benjamin Baker, cellist James Baik and pianist Chaeyoung Park appear with the MSO for the first...

Speck Speaks

by Tamara | Dec 13, 2023 | News

A message from Music Director Scott Speck about our 2024-2025 Season: “Every time I hear the musicians of the Mobile Symphony play, I’m awestruck by the sound they create — totally committed, passionate, swift, thrilling, lyrical, singing, virtuosic....

Holiday Classics

by Tamara | Jun 29, 2023

Sponsored by: Ernestine L. Lenoir Charitable Trust Anne Low   Robert J. Seebacher – guest conductor Kevin Thompson, bass Mobile’s Singing Children Susan Hoitt, director   Fanfare for Christmas    –    Mark Petty Ding Dong! Merrily on High    –  ...

A Latin Rhapsody

by Tamara | Jun 29, 2023

Sponsored by: Karen & Jim Atchison Robert & Joanna Cunningham Laura Lee Pattillo Norquist Foundation   Scott Speck, conductor Aldo López-Gavilán, pianist Leonard Bernstein    –    West Side Story: Symphonic Dances (1918-1990) Arturo Márquez  ...

Mozart’s Requiem

by Tamara | Jun 29, 2023

Sponsored by: Performed in Memory of Mary Gorton McBride by Elaine Gorton Kaifes   Scott Speck, conductor Martha Guth, soprano Susan Platts, mezzo-soprano Dann Coakwell, tenor Kevin Deas, bass University of South Alabama Concert Choir and Mobile Opera Chorus...

Strings Attached

by Tamara | Jun 29, 2023

Sponsored by: Dick & Betsy Otts   Scott Speck, conductor Simone Porter, violin Arvo Pärt    –     If Bach Had Raised Bees* b. 1935 Felix Mendelssohn    –    Violin Concerto, e minor, op. 64 (1809-1847)                                    Simone...

Firebird

by Tamara | Jun 29, 2023

Sponsored by: The Shirk Family Foundation Lowell & Bobette Friedman Ann McLaurin in Memory of Dr. Mary McBride From Stravinsky’s magical Firebird Suite to Duke Ellington’s jazz-infused The River Suite, this concert moves with music created for ballet. We end with...

SOLD OUT – Gala Concert featuring Yo-Yo Ma

by Tamara | Jun 23, 2023

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Amazing Talent!

by jrobinson | Jun 2, 2023 | News

Meet four of our guest artists for the 2023-2024 Season.   Anthony Trionfo, flute. Known for his “soaring flute … where dance and song become possible again” (The Boston Musical Intelligencer), Anthony Trionfo is a “breezily virtuosic” (The New York Times)...