The Garland Symphony Orchestra (GSO) continues its 2021-2022 season with Chloé Trevor, violinist and Marcus Pyle, violist. The season theme is Mozart con Amore! The Jan. 14 performance will include:
MOZART Overture to Don Giovanni
MOZART Sinfonia Concertante
SCHUBERT Symphony No. 6
The performance is Friday, Jan. 14, 2022, at 7:30 p.m. Performances are at the Granville Arts Center at 300 North Fifth Street in downtown Garland.
Tickets available:
- garlandartsboxoffice.com
- 972-205-2790
- at the door.
About GSO: Since March 1978, the Garland Symphony Orchestra has been dedicated to providing performances of great orchestral music to Garland and its surrounding communities. Over the years, the GSO has presented over 180 concerts featuring the music of more than 200 composers, including the premieres of new works by Texas composers. The orchestra attracts an audience from Garland, Dallas, Richardson, Rowlett, Rockwall and Sachse.
The orchestra’s first season was led by violinist James Gambino. For the following two seasons, the late Howard Dunn, former conductor of the regarded Dallas Wind Symphony, took the podium. Mischa Semanitzky took up the GSO’s baton for the 1981-82 season, and was succeeded by Daniel Hornstein.
In 1986, the artistic reins of the Garland Symphony Orchestra were passed to the current music director, Robert Carter Austin. Under his leadership, the orchestra made the transition from a group of highly dedicated volunteer musicians to a virtuoso ensemble of the finest professional instrumentalists in the DFW Metroplex. The growth to a prestigious, professional ensemble has created a solid orchestra, with many members who have been meeting new challenges and successes with the GSO for more than 10 years.
GSO Maestro
Robert Carter Austin is in his 29th season as music director of the Garland Symphony Orchestra. Maestro Austin has a diverse educational background for a classical musician. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Diploma (with Distinction) in Computer Science from Cambridge University and a Master of Musical Arts degree from Stanford University.
GSO 2021-2022 schedule:
Feb. 18, 2022 – Raúl Canosa, pianist
MOZART Overture to Idomeneo
SAINT-SAËNS Piano Concerto No. 2
MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 3 “Scottish”
March 18, 2022 – Madeline Adkins, violinist – Juan Carlos Lomónaco, guest conductor
BEETHOVEN Coriolan Overture
MOZART Violin Concerto No. 5
SCHUMANN Overture, Scherzo, and Finale
PROKOFIEV Classical Symphony
April 15, 2022 – Ryan Estes, oboist – Pascual Osa, guest conductor
MOZART Overture to Cosi fan tutte
ALBINONI Oboe Concerto in D Minor
BIZET Symphony No. 1
May 13, 2022 – Eldred Marshall, pianist
MOZART Overture to La Clemenza di Tito
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 24
MOZART Symphony No. 40