The Nashville Symphony and Black Orchestra Network present the Kinsfolknem Quartet for masterclasses with student musicians from the Nashville Symphony's Accelerando program and Nashville-area collegiate programs. Please join us for the master class hour, followed by a panel discussion with the quartet.  

Kinsfolknem Quartet clinicians include:

Titus Underwood, Principal Oboe, Nashville Symphony
Demarre McGill, Principal Flute, Seattle Symphony
Anthony McGill, Principal Clarinet, New York Philharmonic
Andrew Brady, Principal Bassoon, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra

The Nashville Symphony's Accelerando initiative is an intensive music education program designed to prepare gifted young students of diverse ethnic backgrounds for pursuing music at the collegiate level and beyond. Accelerando seeks to create professional opportunities for musicians from ethnic communities underrepresented in today's orchestras by providing them with instruction, mentorship, performance experiences, and assistance with applying to music schools. With access to the resources of a major American orchestra, these students will be able to realize their full potential and will form the next generation of orchestra musicians.

Presented by with Tennessee State University and Nashville Black Music Association

Founded in the fall of 2015, the Big Blue Opera Initiatives (BBOI) is an outreach, performance training, and fundraising program serving the vocal music community of Tennessee State University, the boarder HBCU landscape, and underserved communities. The aim is to promote, expose, and support deserving students and communities too often left out of quality performing arts opportunities in Nashville and around the country. Nashville Opera, ALIAS Chamber Ensemble, 105 Voices of History National HBCU Choir, Opera America, the National Museum of African American Music, the Colour of Music Festival, the Harry T. Burleigh Society and the Narnia Festival are among BBOI’s national partners. Through programing such as vocal masterclasses, artists residencies, career workshops, BBOI works to end the stereotypes of what opera and classical music are and who they are for and fiercely advocates for the compositions and creations by African Americans and other communities of color. We are committed to reclaiming agency of culture for people of color through forms of musical expression not always associated with such groups.

Presented without the Nashville Symphony.

Join the Vanderbilt Youth Orchestras as they showcase the talent and dedication of pre-college students from across Middle TN. This event is produced in partnership between Vanderbilt Blair School of Music and the Nashville Symphony.

Philharmonia
Craig Madole, conductor

PROGRAM

J.S. Bach, arr. Eugene Ormandy
Choral Prelude: “Wachet Auf, Ruft Uns Die Stimme” 

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
March Slav

Curb Youth Symphony
Ernesto Estigarribia, conductor

PROGRAM

Wolfgang A. Mozart
Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K.622
Judy Hsu, clarinet

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Concerto for Violin
Kate Ask, violin

Modest Mussorgsky, arr. Maurice Ravel
Pictures at an Exhibition

Join the students of the Tennessee Youth Symphony and Prelude Strings as they present their Spring concert. Presented in partnership with the Nashville Symphony and Schermerhorn Symphony Center.

The Tennessee Youth Symphony provides high-quality musical training and educational opportunities for young musicians in middle Tennessee through its three performing ensembles, Youth Symphony, Prelude Strings, and Jazz/Rock Band. TYS aims to foster the growth and development of young musicians and promote the appreciation of music in the community. To learn more about the Tennessee Youth Symphony and upcoming events, please visit tnys.org.

Admission is FREE or Choose-What-You-Pay, but tickets must be reserved in advance. The general public will be able to reserve seats starting April 21. 

Presented without the Nashville Symphony.

Join the Nashville Philharmonic Orchestra as we close out our season with Gustav Mahler's monumental opus, Symphony No. 2 in C minor, "Resurrection". Under the baton of Music Director and Conductor Christopher Norton, Nashville's largest volunteer community orchestra will present its most ambitious performance yet, with over 100 instrumentalists on stage! The NPO will be joined by a volunteer chorus of nearly 100 singers from around the Nashville region, under the rehearsal guidance of Wesley King, Artistic Director of Nashville In Harmony.

Nashville Philharmonic Orchestra
Christopher Norton, Music Director and Conductor
Vaughn Richardson, Conducting Fellow

Alysha Nesbitt, Soprano
Nicole Simone, Alto

NPO Community Chorus
Wesley King, Conductor
Holling Smith-Borne, Rehearsal Accompanist 

The NPO Mahler Concert Series is co-presented by Steinway Piano Gallery Nashville and Anthony and K’leetha Thomas.

Admission is FREE or Choose-What-You-Pay, but tickets must be reserved in advance.
Presented without the Nashville Symphony

Enjoy this FREE opportunity to hear the next generation of classical musicians performing alongside the musicians of your Nashville Symphony!

This special program will feature high school students of the Curb Youth Symphony from Vanderbilt's Blair School of Music performing alongside musicians of the Nashville Symphony, as well as three finalists of the 2025 Nashville Symphony Curb Concerto Competition competing live with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra.

Admission is FREE or Choose-What-You-Pay, but tickets must be reserved in advance. 

The student artists of the Nashville Symphony's Accelerando program present their spring recital.

The Nashville Symphony's Accelerando initiative is an intensive music education program designed to prepare gifted young students of diverse ethnic backgrounds to pursue music at the collegiate level and beyond. Accelerando seeks to create professional opportunities for musicians from ethnic communities that are underrepresented in today's orchestras by providing them with instruction, mentorship, performance experiences, and assistance with applying to music schools. With access to the resources of a major American orchestra, these students will be able to realize their full potential and will form the next generation of orchestra musicians.

Admission is FREE or Choose-What-You-Pay.