Dallas Symphony Orchestra announces 2022/23 concert season

  • MUSIC DIRECTOR FABIO LUISI EMBARKS ON THE THIRD SEASON OF HIS TENURE IN THE TEXAS INSTRUMENTS CLASSICAL SERIES
  • TWO WORLD PREMIERES – ONE NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE; PROGRAMMING REPRESENTATIVE OF MODERN AMERICA – FROM LATINO/A VOICES TO REFLECTIONS ON THE BLACK EXPERIENCE IN AMERICA
  • PRINCIPAL GUEST CONDUCTOR GEMMA NEW RETURNS TO CONDUCT THREE PERFORMANCES
  • PINCHAS ZUKERMAN RETURNS FOR SECOND SEASON AS ARTISTIC & PRINCIPAL EDUCATION PARTNER
  • COMPOSER-IN-RESIDENCE ANGÉLICA NEGRÓN’S THIRD SEASON INCLUDES WORLD PREMIERE OF ARQUITECTA
  • EIGHTEEN TOP ARTISTS MAKE THEIR DSO DEBUT INCLUDING JAMES CONLON, RANDALL GOOSBY, LIDO PIMIENTA AND JUKKA-PEKKA SARASTE
  • FOURTH WOMEN IN CLASSICAL MUSIC SYMPOSIUM CONVENES NOVEMBER 6-9, 2022, HONORING SOPRANO JULIA BULLOCK
  • PRINCIPAL POPS CONDUCTOR JEFF TYZIK LEADS THE POPS SERIES, PRESENTED BY CAPITAL ONE
  • JAZZ SERIES IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE BLACK ACADEMY OF ARTS & LETTERS PRESENTS ITS THIRD YEAR
  • PERFORMANCES FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY FROM MOVIES-IN-CONCERT TO A CELEBRATION OF DĺA DE LOS MUERTOS TO THE ACROBATIC TROUPE VERTIGO
  • HOLIDAYS AT THE DSO RINGS IN THE SEASON WITH SELECTIONS FROM THE NUTCRACKER, DALLAS SYMPHONY CHRISTMAS POPS AND HOME ALONE MOVIE-IN-CONCERT
  • VIEW FULL SEASON

Dallas, Texas (March 4, 2022) – The Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Music Director Fabio Luisi (Louise W. & Edmund J. Kahn Music Directorship) and Ross Perot President & CEO Kim Noltemy today announce programming and initiatives for the 2022/23 concert season.

The Texas Instruments Classical Series, Pops Series Presented by Capital One, Dallas Symphony Presents and Family Concert Series, Presented by the Men and Women of Hunt Consolidated, Inc. will showcase a remarkable range of repertoire that represents the past, present and future of classical and orchestral music. Programming for the Texas Instruments Classical Series will include composers heard for the first time at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center as well as lesser-known pieces by iconic composers. Pops and family programming will celebrate many genres of music from jazz and blues to radio hits and film music. Select concerts will also be offered as part of the DSO’s Next Stage Digital Concert Series Presented by PNC Bank.

“We are thrilled to present a diverse range of music and to explore classical music in new ways and from new perspectives,” said Kim Noltemy. “The DSO welcomes everyone to its performances, and we hope that audiences will discover something new or rediscover some favorites.”

“As I look into the audiences at the Meyerson, I see patrons of all ages, nationalities, genders and experiences,” said Katie McGuinness, Wildenthal Families Vice President of Artistic Operations. “With our programming this season, we hope to reflect that diversity and share voices from around the world.”

TEXAS INSTRUMENTS CLASSICAL SERIES

FABIO LUISI EMBARKS ON THIRD SEASON AS MUSIC DIRECTOR, LEADING NINE PROGRAMS, INCLUDING WORLD PREMIERE OF ANGÉLICA NEGRÓN’S ARQUITECTA AND CONTINUATION OF RECORDED CYCLE OF BRAHMS’S SYMPHONIES

“I am always curious about new music. That can be music that is truly new and contemporary as well as music that is new to us, forgotten works or forgotten artists who deserve to be performed. Throughout this season we will share a number of overlooked masterpieces, and we will introduce new voices to Dallas audiences,” said Luisi.

Now in the third year of his tenure, Luisi will lead nine concert programs including the 2022 Dallas Symphony Orchestra Gala on October 1, 2022. A world-renowned interpreter of the music of Richard Strauss, he conducts the composer’s tone poem Don Quixote for his first concert weekend, with cellist Jan Vogler making his DSO debut as soloist in the work. Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 rounds out the program. (September 29 and October 2, 2022)

Hélène Grimaud will return to the DSO for Luisi’s second series of concerts, joining him in Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1. Luisi will continue the program with César Franck’s Symphony in D minor, the composer’s best-known orchestral work. (October 7, 8 and 9, 2022)

As a prelude to the fourth annual Women in Classical Music Symposium, Luisi will present music by three female composers, two from the 19th century and one from the mid-20th century. The program will open with Study for Orchestra by American composer Julia Perry, who was born in Akron, Ohio, and attended Westminster Choir College. She studied composition with both Luigi Dallapiccola and Nadia Boulanger, and received two Guggenheim Fellowships to further her studies. Luisi’s frequent collaborator Lise de la Salle will perform the piano concerto of Clara Schumann, a virtuoso pianist in her own right, but perhaps overshadowed by the fame of her husband Robert Schumann. The final work on the program will be the Third Symphony of Louise Farrenc. A slightly older French contemporary of the Schumanns, Farrenc was known mostly for her piano music, but she also wrote chamber music and three large works for orchestra. (November 4, 5 and 6, 2022)

“Our program at the beginning of November, leading into the Women in Classical Music Symposium, was a pleasure to discover,” said Luisi. “Lise is well known for her interpretation of Clara Schumann’s concerto, but the works by Perry and Farrenc were new to me. In planning a concert to precede the Symposium, three female voices from an earlier time fit perfectly. These women may have been overlooked in their own era, but in our time, we are able to share their works in performance and gather together at the Symposium to discuss how all voices may have a chance to be heard.”

The full Dallas Symphony Chorus will make its season debut in Verdi’s monumental Requiem. Luisi, the DSO and soloists Adriana González (soprano), Tamara Mumford (mezzo-soprano), Piero Pretti (tenor) and Wenwei Zhang (bass) will fill the Meyerson with Verdi’s rafter-shaking work. Luisi is known worldwide for his interpretation of opera, especially Verdi. In a review of a November 2020 Verdi concert at the DSO, the Dallas Morning News praised Luisi’s “operatic credentials,” continuing “High drama! Vocal thrills!…With an Italian conductor who clearly has Verdi in his veins, there wasn’t a dull moment.” (November 10, 12 and 13, 2022)

Acclaimed violinist Nicola Benedetti will return to the DSO to join Luisi for the U.S. premiere of James MacMillan’s Violin Concerto No. 2. MacMillan and Benedetti share Scottish roots, and the composer wrote his From Ayrshire for the violinist. Also on the program, Luisi will conduct Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4, the cinematic “Romantic,” the first time during his tenure that Luisi has presented Bruckner.  London’s Guardian called a Luisi recording of Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9 “essential listening… a fiery performance …majestic yet sensual. Form and structure are laid bare with blazing clarity.” (November 17, 18 and 19 2022)

In his two final concerts of the season, Luisi mixes the familiar with the unique. The DSO will present Brahms’s Fourth Symphony, continuing its recording project of the complete Brahms Symphonies. Luisi also welcomes composer-in-residence Angélica Negrón for the world premiere of her work Arquitecta. Colombian singer Lido Pimienta, a collaborator of Negrón’s and winner of Canada’s Polaris Music Prize in 2017, will join the DSO for this work. (May 4, 5, 6 and 7, 2023)

“Arquitecta is based on a poem of the same name by Puerto Rican poet Amanda Hernández,” said Negrón. “In Arquitecta Hernández captures the maternal spirit and its connection to tangible spaces often burdened by a lifetime of memories and labor, both visible and invisible. The physical and emotional weight of caring for family and home transcends the passage of time and endures beyond loss; it ultimately becomes inextricable from the conception of self and, paradoxically, a solace.”

Luisi closes his season with the orchestra with two works by Carl Orff, the iconic Carmina Burana and the unusual Catulli Carmina. Dallas audiences are familiar with the dramatic “O Fortuna” of Carmina Burana, but Catulli Carmina has never been performed at the DSO. It is scored for a full orchestra of percussion instruments, full chorus and soloists. These works are two-thirds of Orff’s Trionfi musical trilogy.  (May 11, 12, 13 and 14 2023)

Despite the challenges presented by the pandemic, Luisi’s tenure to date has been marked by remarkable artistic growth for the orchestra, visibility in the national media and a host of innovative initiatives. His performances with the orchestra are available for streaming worldwide through the orchestra’s Next Stage Digital Concert Series Presented by PNC Bank. This past fall saw two television broadcasts featuring Luisi and the DSO. The first, seen on PBS stations, documented an event in spring of 2021 in which members of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra travelled to Dallas for a week to combine forces with the DSO under Luisi’s direction and perform Mahler’s Symphony No. 1. This unprecedented collaboration benefitted the MET Orchestra Musicians Fund and the Dallas-Fort Worth Musicians COVID-19 Relief Fund and marked the first time many of the non-DSO musicians had the opportunity to perform for a live audience since the COVID-19 shutdown in March 2020. The Dallas Morning News hailed the performance as a “sonic extravaganza” and full of “dazzling excitement.” Also broadcast last fall, on Bloomberg TV and Presented by Toyota, was the “Concert of Remembrance,” a performance by Luisi and the DSO of Mozart’s Requiem, dedicated to the memory of all the lives lost in the COVID-19 pandemic. 

2022 DALLAS SYMPHONY GALA – OCTOBER 1, 2022

The Meyerson will glitter and glow with the festivities of the Dallas Symphony Gala on October 1, 2022. Fabio Luisi will lead an evening of selections from Lehár’s treasured operetta The Merry Widow starring mezzo-soprano Susan Graham–“an artist to treasure” (The New York Times)–and baritone Thomas Hampson–“one of the world’s greatest opera singers (Good Morning America). This once-a-season benefit event raises funds for the DSO’s education and outreach programs.

Donna and Herb Weitzmanwill chair the event and will lead the planning and fundraising for the DSO’s signature benefit event. To reserve a table early, contact Tab Boyles, Director of Event Planning at t.boyles@dalsym.com.

GEMMA NEW LEADS THREE PROGRAMS AS PRINCIPAL GUEST CONDUCTOR

Gemma New will begin her third season as Principal Guest Conductor (Dolores G. & Lawrence S. Barzune, M.D. Chair) with a program co-curated with Composer-in-Residence Angélica Negrón, leading the DSO premiere of Negrón’s What Keeps Me Awake. The women of the Dallas Symphony Chorus will join New for Holst’s The Planets (September 15, 16 and 17, 2022). She will also lead her third New Year’s Eve concert featuring festive waltzes and light classics to ring in 2023.

New’s final program of the season will feature the DSO-commissioned world premiere of Katherine Balch’s Cello Concerto, performed by Zlatomir Fung. American composer Balch was honored at the 2020 DSO Women in Classical Music Symposium, when she was chosen by Hilary Hahn to receive the Career Advancement Award. The program will also include Borodin’s Polovtsian Dances and Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. (April 20, 21 and 22, 2023)

ADDITIONAL HIGHLIGHTS OF THE TEXAS INSTRUMENTS CLASSICAL SERIES

The season features a diverse lineup of programs that reflect unique voices and classical music’s whole range of expressive possibilities. Guest artists, many of whom are visiting the DSO for the first time, will bring their personal perspectives to well-known works and new additions to the repertoire.

Highlights include:

In her DSO debut, Jeanine De Bique will solo in Samuel Barber’s nostalgic and wistful Knoxville: Summer of 1915. The Trinidadian soprano will join conductor Stéphane Denève in a program that features the Barber as well as non-American representations of American culture and life. French composer Guillaume Connesson uses American writer H.P. Lovecraft’s “Dreamlands” as the setting for his Cities of Lovecraft. The DSO will perform “Celephais” from that work. Rachmaninoff, a composer synonymous with romantic Russian music, wrote his Symphonic Dances after emigrating to America. His last major work is a reflection – and in some cases an inclusion – of earlier themes and thoughts, resulting in a grand, beloved composition that had its premiere in his new homeland. (September 22-24, 2022)

Spanish conductor Juanjo Mena will make his DSO debut with works by Haydn, Ginastera and Debussy. He will be joined by Spanish pianist Javier Perianes who will also make his DSO debut with Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G Major. (October 20, 21 and 23, 2022)

LA Opera Music Director James Conlon will make his postponed DSO debut with Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5. Concertmaster Alexander Kerr (Michael L. Rosenberg Chair) will solo on Korngold’s cinematic Violin Concerto. (January 5, 7 and 8, 2023)

Karina Canellakis, Chief Conductor of Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Principal Guest Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and former DSO Assistant Conductor will return to the Meyerson for a program including Dvořák’s The Wood Dove and Lutosławski’s Concerto for Orchestra. Violinist Randall Goosby will make his DSO debut with Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto. (January 27, 28 and 29, 2023)

Pianist Gabriela Montero will present the Dallas premiere of her First Piano Concerto, “Latin.” The work is a tribute to the spirit of the people of Latin America and, as Montero says, “shows the complexities of South American life.” Conductor Marin Alsop will lead the program, which also includes Gabriela Ortiz’s Antropolis and Rimsky-Korsakov’s lush, colorful Scheherazade. (February 23, 24 and 25, 2023)

Jukka-Pekka Saraste will make his DSO debut in a program of Russian music. The Finnish conductor will lead Mussorgsky’s Prelude to Khovanshchina and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 4. (April 27, 29 and 30, 2023)

The Texas Instruments Classical Series will conclude when Spanish conductor Jaime Martín, Chief Conductor of the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and Music Director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, makes his DSO debut. Martín will conduct works by Hungarian composers: Ligeti’s Concert Românesc für Orchestra and Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra. American pianist George Li, winner of the silver medal at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 2015, will solo in Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1. (May 26, 27 and 28, 2023)

WOMEN IN CLASSICAL MUSIC SYMPOSIUM – NOVEMBER 6-9, 2022; HONORING SOPRANO JULIA BULLOCK

The fourth annual Dallas Symphony Women in Classical Music Symposium will return November 6-9, 2022, at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center. This four-day event will gather classical music professionals from around the world for talks and panel discussions on topics relevant to women in the classical music industry. The Symposium will include networking events, performances and opportunities for peer engagement on the unique experiences of women in classical music.

The event will open with the Sunday, November 6 performance of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Music Director Fabio Luisi has selected a program highlighting women composers from the 19th– and early 20th-centuries, with piano soloist Lise de la Salle.

This year’s Award of Excellence will be presented to soprano Julia Bullock, who will deliver the keynote address. Honored as a 2021 Artist of the Year and “agent of change” by Musical America, Bullock is a highly sought-after soprano on the opera stage as well as an innovative curator in high demand from a diverse group of arts presenters, museums and schools. Her notable positions have included collaborative partner of Esa-Pekka Salonen at the San Francisco Symphony, 2020/22 Artist-in-Residence of London’s Guildhall School, 2019/20 Artist-in-Residence of the San Francisco Symphony and 2018/19 Artist-in-Residence at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Bullock is also a prominent voice of social consciousness and activism. As Vanity Fair notes, she is “young, highly successful, [and] politically engaged,” with the “ability to inject each note she sings with a sense of grace and urgency, lending her performances the feel of being both of the moment and incredibly timeless.”

As part of her collaboration with the Symposium, Bullock will appear on panels and present a recital. Information on the 2022 Symposium is available at womeninclassicalmusic.com.

PINCHAS ZUKERMAN’S SECOND SEASON AS ARTISTIC & PRINCIPAL EDUCATION PARTNER

Pinchas Zukerman will return for his second season as Artistic & Principal Education Partner. In this role, Zukerman will play-direct orchestra concerts with the DSO, appear as violin soloist with the orchestra and collaborate with DSO musicians in chamber music performances. He will also lead intensive chamber-music coaching and instrument tutoring sessions in partnership with Southern Methodist University’s Meadows School of the Arts.

In the 2022/23 season, Zukerman will lead a chamber music program with DSO and SMU musicians on November 22. He will return in January 2023 to lead a second chamber music program at SMU and play-conduct with the DSO. The orchestra program at the Meyerson will feature Beethoven’s Violin Concerto and Elgar’s Enigma Variations. (January 19, 20, 21 and 22, 2023)

Zukerman has a long association with the Dallas Symphony beginning with his first performance with the orchestra in 1977. He was DSO Principal Guest Conductor from 1993-1995 and led the DSO Summer Music Festival from 1991-1995. He recently appeared as conductor and soloist in February 2022.

NEXT STAGE DIGITAL CONCERT SERIES, PRESENTED BY PNC CONTINUES

The Dallas Symphony will continue its popular digital concert series in 2022/23. Next Stage, Presented by PNC Bank will offer select performances from the Texas Instruments Classical Series, the Pops Series, Presented by Capital One and Dallas Symphony Presents concerts on-demand at watch.dallassymphony.org, the DSO’s media portal.

Since its launch in the 2020/21 season, Next Stage has presented over 50 full orchestra concerts and chamber music performances available on demand. The New York Times has singled out performances in the series as “concerts to watch.”

Subscribers receive access to Next Stage as a benefit of their subscription and are able to view all available concerts for free. Individual concerts are available for $10 and a season pass is $125. More information is available at watch.dallassymphony.org.

POPS SERIES, PRESENTED BY CAPITAL ONE

PRINCIPAL POPS CONDUCTOR JEFF TYZIK LEADS THREE PERFORMANCES SPANNING DECADES OF MUSIC

Principal Pops Conductor Jeff Tyzik (Dot & Paul Mason Podium) will begin his tenth season with the DSO with music from blues and soul to hits of the ‘80s. Kings of Soul will showcase the music of legendary artists Marvin Gaye, Jackie Wilson, James Brown, Otis Redding, The Temptations, Al Green, Barry White, Smokey Robinson and Curtis Mayfield in an evening of soulful rhythms and melodies. Honoring the true “Kings” of classic soul, featured hits include “Soul Man,” “Shop Around,” “Get Ready,” “Try a Little Tenderness,” “Stand By Me,” “Move On Up” and “Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher.” (March 10, 11 and 12, 2023)

Tyzik will lead an evening of ‘80s hits in Decades: Back to the 80’s. It will be a power-packed evening of the decade’s #1 hit songs, including “The Power of Love,” “Time After Time,” “Material Girl,” “Another One Bites the Dust,” “Footloose,” “Addicted to Love” and many others.  Featuring the music of such 80’s iconic stars as Madonna, Debbie Gibson, Huey Lewis & The News, Phil Collins, Queen and Joe Cocker, Back to the 80’s contains all new arrangements by Tyzik with three incredible vocalists. (April 14, 15 and 16, 2023)

In his final show of the season, Tyzik and vocalist Shayna Steele will join together for Nothin’ But the Blues! The Blues is at the heart and soul of nearly every form of popular music of the past 100 years. Nothin’ But The Blues! explores the early music that started it all and pays tribute to the first musical legends who sang their way into history including Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Ma Rainey and Louis Armstrong. The evening will include “St. Louis Blues,” “House of the Rising Sun,” “Nobody Knows When You’re Down and Out” and “Baby Won’t You Please Come Home.” (June 23, 24 and 25, 2023).

QUEENS OF MUSIC, HOGWARTS AND AERIAL DELIGHTS

The balance of the Pops Series, Presented by Capital One spotlights the range of music performed by the DSO and the shared joy that all music brings to us.

Aida Cuevas will return to the Meyerson to share her talent with Dallas audiences when Enrico Lopez-Yañez will conduct the Queen of Mariachi (September 9, 10 and 11, 2022). The Queen of Soul will be celebrated when John McLaughlin Williams leads soloists Capathia Jenkins and Ryan Shaw in Aretha: A Tribute (October 14, 15 and 16, 2022). Jenkins and Shaw will bring to life iconic hits including “Respect,” “Think,” “A Natural Woman,” “Chain of Fools” and “Amazing Grace.”

The DSO will bring back the magic of Hogwarts with the second film from one of the most beloved series in history, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Dallas audiences will enjoy the full film projected in HD on the big screen while the DSO performs the unforgettable score live to picture. (October 28, 29 and 30, 2022)

Conductor Damon Gupton will join the DSO for an evening celebrating the music of John Williams. One of the nation’s most distinguished and contributive musical voices, Williams has received five Academy Awards and 50 Oscar nominations, making him the Academy’s most-nominated living person and the second-most nominated person in the history of the Oscars. He has received a variety of prestigious awards, including the National Medal of Arts, the Kennedy Center Honor, the Olympic Order, and numerous Grammy Awards, Emmy Awards and Golden Globe Awards. John Williams’s music can be heard throughout film history from Jaws and Star Wars to Schindler’s List and Munich. (February 17, 18 and 19, 2023)

Lopez-Yañez will return to the DSO at the end of the season to lead performances of Troupe Vertigo, the Los Angeles-based theatrical circus company that has been a popular event at the Meyerson in past seasons. Aerial silks, spinning rings and death-defying feats of strength will be showcased alongside popular classical music resulting in an evening to be enjoyed by the entire family. (May 19, 20 and 21, 2023)

DALLAS SYMPHONY PRESENTS

Movies-in-Concert

In addition to Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, the DSO has two additional movies that will fill your hearts with cinematic joy. Conductor Lawrence Loh will lead the DSO in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial on September 2-4, 2022. Director Steven Spielberg’s heartwarming masterpiece is one of the brightest stars in motion picture history. DSO audiences will experience all the mystery and fun of this beloved movie, complete with John Williams’s Academy Award-winning score performed live with the full film.

Kevin McAllister gets left Home Alone in a screening of the 1990 classic holiday film. The DSO, under the direction of Jayce Ogren, will perform John Williams’s score live to film. Audiences will enjoy the antics of Kevin as he defends his home against two bungling thieves (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern). (December 16, 17 and 18, 2022)

HOLIDAYS AT THE DSO

Assistant Conductor Maurice Cohn (Marena & Roger Gault Chair) will kick off the holiday season with performances of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker. Selections from the full ballet will ring through the Meyerson – from the opening Overture to the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy to the Waltz of the Snowflakes. Without dancers, the music will take center stage. (November 25, 26 and 27, 2022)

Conductor Lawrence Loh will lead the orchestra in Dallas’s beloved holiday tradition, Dallas Symphony Christmas Pops. Performances begin December 2 and run through December 11. The Dallas Symphony Chorus will join in the festivities, and the Children’s Chorus of Greater Dallas will return to the celebration after a two-year hiatus.

The DSO will present Holly Jolly Celebration: A C-Suite Christmas on Wednesday, December 7. In its third year, this program showcases the partnership of business and the arts while raising support for the DSO’s education and community outreach programs. Local business leaders will take starring roles – conductor, narrator, song-leader – from the stage at the Meyerson, and companies around Dallas will network and celebrate the holidays. A broadcast version of the performance will air on Bloomberg Media in December 2023, the third year the program will reach a global audience.

To learn more and purchase a sponsorship package, contact Sarah Whitling at s.whitling@dalsym.com or (214) 871-4062.

Subscriptions are now available for sale at dallassymphony.org, and packages begin at $176. Single tickets will go on sale on in June.

ABOUT THE DALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra, under the leadership of Music Director Fabio Luisi, presents world-class orchestral music at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, one of the world’s top-rated concert halls. As the largest performing arts organization in the Southwest, the DSO is committed to inspiring the broadest possible audience with distinctive classical programs, inventive pops concerts and innovative multi-media presentations. In fulfilling its commitment to the community, the orchestra reaches more than 243,000 adults and children annually through performances, educational programs and community outreach initiatives. During the pandemic, the Dallas Symphony was one of a few major U.S. orchestras to present socially distanced concerts with live audiences throughout the 2020/21 Season. Furthermore, the orchestra offered more than 200 outdoor chamber concerts in neighborhoods throughout the Metroplex during that time.

The DSO continued online music lessons to more than 300 students as part of its Young Strings and Kim Noltemy Young Musicians programs and increased its online dissemination of concerts through a newly designed website and on social media. The DSO has a tradition dating back to 1900 and is a cornerstone of the unique, 118-acre Arts District in Downtown Dallas that is home to multiple performing arts venues, museums and parks – the largest district of its kind in the nation. The DSO is supported, in part, by funds from the Office of Arts & Culture, City of Dallas.

MEDIA CONTACTS:

Denise McGovern | Vice President of Communications & Media | Dallas Symphony Orchestra
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Sidney Hopkins | Communications & Media Manager | Dallas Symphony Orchestra
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