Phoenix Symphony Tickets On Sale August 1 

2010/11 Season brings festivals to the Valley and launches Rediscovered Masters series 

      PHOENIX – Individual tickets for The Phoenix Symphony’s 2010/11 Season will go on sale Sunday, August 1 and can be purchased through the Phoenix Symphony Box Office by phone at 602-495-1999 from 10 am to 2 pm or online at www.phoenixsymphony.org beginning at midnight. This exciting season includes the US Airways Classics, APS Pops and Target Family Series with more than 200 concerts and presentations in downtown Phoenix and throughout the Valley.

      The season will feature collaborations such as the semi-staged co-production “The Music Man” (September 10 - 12) with Phoenix Theatre and “Elijah” (February 3 - 5) with the Phoenix Art Museum. Other season highlights include “Boléro” (September 23 - 25), “Handel’s Messiah” (December 9 – 19), “Brandenburg Festival” (January 14 – 17), “Cirque de la Symphonie” (February 25 - 27), the two-week “World’s Greatest Piano Concerto Festival” (May 5 - 14) and “The Red Violin” (May 19 and 21) featuring Concertmaster Steven Moeckel.

      Guest artists include pianist Benedetto Lupo, violinists Augustin Hadelich and Jennifer Frautschi and organist Paul Jacobs. Guest conductors include Mei-Ann Chen, Christian Lindberg, Joel Revzen, Jack Everly, Michael Krajewski, Robert Moody, and James Sedares.

      During the Holocaust, the works of numerous composers were banned and entire schools of composition were eradicated while small pockets of music thrived in concentration camps across Eastern Europe. Throughout the 2010/11 Season, The Phoenix Symphony will explore and perform many of these works for the first time in its series “Rediscovered Masters.” These composers include such masters as Pavel Haas, Mieczyslaw Weinberg, Hans Krása, Erwin Schuloff, Marcel Tyberg and Kurt Weill. Throughout the season, The Phoenix Symphony and the Arizona State University Center for Jewish Studies, in conjunction with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, will present a series of lectures, films and discussions around the Valley, linking the musical presentations to the cultural and historical themes of assimilation, modernization, destruction and remembrance.

      More information about the upcoming 2010/11 Season can be found at www.phoenixsymphony.org and a free concert guide detailing the 2010/11 Season is available by calling the Box Office at 602-495-1999. 

      About The Phoenix Symphony: The Phoenix Symphony has been proudly serving the citizens of the Phoenix metropolitan area and Arizona since 1947. What began as an occasional group of musicians performing a handful of concerts each year (in a city of fewer than 100,000 people) today serves more than 300,000 people annually, with almost 200 concerts and presentations throughout the greater Phoenix area and beyond. 

      Under the artistic leadership of Michael Christie as the Virginia G. Piper Music Director and administrative leadership of President Maryellen H. Gleason, the orchestra is overseen by the non-profit Phoenix Symphony Association under Board Chairman C.A. Howlett.

      The Phoenix Symphony presents an annual season from September through the beginning of June, featuring full-length classical and pops concerts at Symphony Hall in downtown Phoenix, as well as concerts in Scottsdale, Mesa, Prescott and throughout central Arizona. The Symphony performs for more than 80,000 students and children, helping to introduce music to new generations through a variety of education and youth-engagement programs.