Events

Join the Asheville Symphony for a spectacular night of music under the stars at the beloved Symphony in the Park! This family-friendly event is free and open to the public.

Darko Butorac, conductorJakob Aumiller, piano What does genius look like? Often it looks like community. Brahms crafted his exuberant First Piano Concerto through years of collaboration with close friends and mentors, including Clara Schumann who inspired the concerto’s dreamy second movement. Beethoven’s relentless Seventh Symphony — a personal favorite of his with its unyielding rhythmic drive — […]

Darko Butorac, conductorJakob Aumiller, piano What does genius look like? Often it looks like community. Brahms crafted his exuberant First Piano Concerto through years of collaboration with close friends and mentors, including Clara Schumann who inspired the concerto’s dreamy second movement. Beethoven’s relentless Seventh Symphony — a personal favorite of his with its unyielding rhythmic drive — […]

ALT ASO is where the Asheville Symphony gets weird in the best way: genre chaos, guaranteed. These on-the-road concerts blend classical music with diverse genres, collaborators, and settings, creating unique concert experiences that are fresh, bold, and built for curious listeners.

Darko Butorac, conductorJoseph Conyers, double bass There is a serene kind of beauty found only at twilight, when the landscape cedes to legend; this program lingers in these wild places at their most untamed and fragile. Anna Clyne’s stormy nocturne gathers “every shred of the luminous past” like “a naked woman running mad through the pure night.” […]

Darko Butorac, conductorJoseph Conyers, double bass There is a serene kind of beauty found only at twilight, when the landscape cedes to legend; this program lingers in these wild places at their most untamed and fragile. Anna Clyne’s stormy nocturne gathers “every shred of the luminous past” like “a naked woman running mad through the pure night.” […]

ALT ASO is where the Asheville Symphony gets weird in the best way: genre chaos, guaranteed. These on-the-road concerts blend classical music with diverse genres, collaborators, and settings, creating unique concert experiences that are fresh, bold, and built for curious listeners.

Darko Butorac, conductorInna Faliks, minimoog  Some moments demand a double take: Romeo catching sight of Juliet across a crowded ballroom, a synthesizer taking the stage where the piano should be. This program explores impossible and intoxicating pairings. Sergei Prokofiev conjures Shakespeare’s star-crossed tragedy in all its beauty and brutality — forbidden love, violent delights, and violent ends. […]

Darko Butorac, conductorInna Faliks, minimoog  Some moments demand a double take: Romeo catching sight of Juliet across a crowded ballroom, a synthesizer taking the stage where the piano should be. This program explores impossible and intoxicating pairings. Sergei Prokofiev conjures Shakespeare’s star-crossed tragedy in all its beauty and brutality — forbidden love, violent delights, and violent ends. […]

Inna Faliks, piano Described by The New Yorker as “adventurous and passionate,” our Masterworks 3 guest artist presents a program featuring works by Schumann, Beethoven, and Chopin, all showcasing her poetic and communicative style.

ALT ASO is where the Asheville Symphony gets weird in the best way: genre chaos, guaranteed. These on-the-road concerts blend classical music with diverse genres, collaborators, and settings, creating unique concert experiences that are fresh, bold, and built for curious listeners.

Darko Butorac, conductorJessica Beebe, sopranoKristen Dubenion-Smith, altoBen Gulley, tenorSam Dhobhany, bassThe Asheville Symphony Chorus Celebrate the holiday season with the might and emotional weight of Handel’s iconic Messiah, featuring the Asheville Symphony Chorus, four incredible soloists, and your Asheville Symphony.

Darko Butorac, conductorJessica Beebe, sopranoKristen Dubenion-Smith, altoBen Gulley, tenorSam Dhobhany, bassThe Asheville Symphony Chorus Celebrate the holiday season with the might and emotional weight of Handel’s iconic Messiah, featuring the Asheville Symphony Chorus, four incredible soloists, and your Asheville Symphony.

ALT ASO is where the Asheville Symphony gets weird in the best way: genre chaos, guaranteed. These on-the-road concerts blend classical music with diverse genres, collaborators, and settings, creating unique concert experiences that are fresh, bold, and built for curious listeners.

Darko Butorac, conductorJana McIntyre, soprano Andrew Morstein, tenorCrag Vern, baritoneAdam Larsen, projection art Join your Asheville Symphony and the Asheville Symphony Chorus for a truly unique and immersive way to experience Carl Orff’s epic masterpiece, one of the most popular and widely performed works of the 20th century. The Thomas Wolfe Auditorium will be bathed in projection art by Adam Larsen, […]

Darko Butorac, conductorZlatomir Fung, cello This program honors the British talent for holding gravity and levity in the same hand. Britten opens with melodies from his childhood, reimagined years later. Shostakovich’s cello concerto follows with biting intensity — lyrical, ruthless, and unapologetically demanding. Pärt offers an austere meditation on loss, inspired by the “unusual purity” of Britten’s […]

Darko Butorac, conductorZlatomir Fung, cello This program honors the British talent for holding gravity and levity in the same hand. Britten opens with melodies from his childhood, reimagined years later. Shostakovich’s cello concerto follows with biting intensity — lyrical, ruthless, and unapologetically demanding. Pärt offers an austere meditation on loss, inspired by the “unusual purity” of Britten’s […]

ALT ASO is where the Asheville Symphony gets weird in the best way: genre chaos, guaranteed. These on-the-road concerts blend classical music with diverse genres, collaborators, and settings, creating unique concert experiences that are fresh, bold, and built for curious listeners.

Darko Butorac, conductorJeffrey Whaley, hornTade Addis, organ  “What I have here accomplished, I will never achieve again.” Saint-Saëns knew his Organ Symphony was his pinnacle: a monumental work that gathers everything he had to give and the perfect centerpiece for a centennial milestone. As First Baptist Church of Asheville marks its 100th anniversary, we celebrate with a program […]

Darko Butorac, conductorJeffrey Whaley, hornTade Addis, organ  “What I have here accomplished, I will never achieve again.” Saint-Saëns knew his Organ Symphony was his pinnacle: a monumental work that gathers everything he had to give and the perfect centerpiece for a centennial milestone. As First Baptist Church of Asheville marks its 100th anniversary, we celebrate with a program […]

Known from their Jazz at Lincoln Center performances, Diehl’s trio builds a program for piano, bass, and drums and explores the creation of musically diverse environments. The ensemble unites jazz standards with classical music, bringing them into focus and infusing them with Diehl’s trademark brilliance.

Darko Butorac, conductorAaron Diehl, piano New York isn’t just the setting, it’s a main character. Experience 1930s and 40s Manhattan through music that moves like the city itself: brassy, fast-talking, tender when it counts, and always on the move. Gershwin’s concerto for piano swings between Charleston rhythm and back-alley blues, while On the Town embodies subway rush, park-bench hush, […]

Darko Butorac, conductorAaron Diehl, piano New York isn’t just the setting, it’s a main character. Experience 1930s and 40s Manhattan through music that moves like the city itself: brassy, fast-talking, tender when it counts, and always on the move. Gershwin’s concerto for piano swings between Charleston rhythm and back-alley blues, while On the Town embodies subway rush, park-bench hush, […]

Darko Butorac, conductorKelli O’Hara, vocalist  Tony Award Winner, Emmy- and GRAMMY-nominated Kelli O’Hara performs a program of American Songbook classics and modern Broadway favorites, all backed by your Asheville Symphony. Part of the 2027 Asheville Amadeus Festival.

Darko Butorac, Asheville Symphony ConductorAlexandra Dee, Asheville Symphony Youth Orchestra Conductor  Featuring the Asheville Symphony Youth Orchestra  Join the Asheville Symphony as we return to Brevard Music Center for a program that celebrates both emerging talent and orchestral grandeur. In the first half, members of the Asheville Symphony Youth Orchestra perform side-by-side with the Symphony in […]

Darko Butorac, conductorRobert Lakato, violin Tradition doesn’t survive by accident; it survives by making itself heard. Dvořák channels formidable Czech pride into one of his most passionate and uncompromising symphonies. Kodály preserves Hungarian dance traditions in blazing orchestral color. Young Wieniawski claims his place among the great virtuosos with his swaggering first concerto, featuring a fearless Polish […]

Darko Butorac, conductorRobert Lakato, violin Tradition doesn’t survive by accident; it survives by making itself heard. Dvořák channels formidable Czech pride into one of his most passionate and uncompromising symphonies. Kodály preserves Hungarian dance traditions in blazing orchestral color. Young Wieniawski claims his place among the great virtuosos with his swaggering first concerto, featuring a fearless Polish […]