The University of Tennessee Symphony Orchestra will be celebrating the 100th anniversary of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with its October concert featuring pianist Sean Chen. Chen was a Van Cliburn 2013 medalist and appeared with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra in…
Review Bits: UT Symphony Orchestra Opens the Season with “Italian” Flavor
There was a time in Knoxville’s music past when we treated the accomplishments of the University of Tennessee Symphony Orchestra under music director and conductor James Fellenbaum as news. Sunday’s season opening concert program of the UTSO, which had as…
On Sunday: UT Symphony Orchestra Begins 2024-25 Season with Italian Flavor
“Italian” is the key word for Sunday afternoon (September 15) as the University of Tennessee Symphony Orchestra begins its 2024-25 season. UTSO music director and conductor James Fellenbaum will lead the orchestra in a program of works that were written…
Review: KSO’s Present and Future Meet in a Celebration of Musicianship and the Mahler Fourth
The title given to this weekend’s Knoxville Symphony Orchestra concerts was “The Heavenly Life: Mahler Symphony No. 4.” A less poetic, but perhaps equally accurate title might have been “Musicianship: Now and in the Future.”
On Sunday: KSO’s Chamber Classics Features Flutist Devan Jaquez
The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra’s Chamber Classics Series concert on Sunday afternoon at the Bijou Theatre will feature KSO Principal Flute Devan Jaquez in Malcolm Arnold’s Flute Concerto No. 1. James Fellenbaum will conduct.
UT Symphony Orchestra Wins The American Prize in Orchestral Performance For 2023
The University of Tennessee Symphony Orchestra has been named the 2023 winner of The American Prize in Orchestral Performance for larger college/university programs. The UTSO, under music director and conductor James Fellenbaum, is a part of the UT College of…
Review: Pianist Alessio Bax, Conductor James Fellenbaum, KSO Thrill in ‘Rach Three’
BY ALAN SHERROD For a brief instant, the pose caught me by surprise but seemed unmistakable. Pianist Alessio Bax had just brought the house down in a performance of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra…
KSO Announces Conductor Change for November Masterworks Concert
KSO Music Director Aram Demirjian is handing the baton over to KSO Resident Conductor James Fellenbaum for this week’s Masterworks concerts. The reason? On Saturday, November 11, Maestro Demirjian and his wife Caraline welcomed a daughter into their family. Congratulations!…
On Sunday: UT Symphony Orchestra Takes On Sibelius, Schumann, and Brahms
BY ALAN SHERROD It is simply too easy, if not dangerous, to take the University of Tennessee Symphony Orchestra for granted. Year after year in the 20-year tenure of Conductor and Director of Orchestras James Fellenbaum—of the now UT…
NY Phil Concertmaster Huang to Perform in Knoxville With UT Symphony
BY DIANA SALESKY The New York Philharmonic is, inarguably, one of the finest orchestras in the world. Therefore, it stands to reason that its Concertmaster position would be occupied by one of the finest violinists in the world. And…