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• Arkansas Symphony Orchestra "Christmas in the Village"

  • When
    Sunday, December 03, 2023
  •  
    3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    Woodlands Auditorium, Hot Springs Village

  
  

  The HS/HSV Symphony Guild presents the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra in its annual Christmas Concert in the Village.  This festive event will feature this outstanding orchestra along with guest soloists and our own Village Chorale back on stage with the orchestra. This concert always gets the Christmas Season started with a bang. Join us on Sunday, December 3, 2023 at the Woodlands Auditorium for an outstanding afternoon of glorious music.  The cost of this concert is only $40.00 for reserved seating. 

  Reserved seat tickets are available online by clicking here.  You may also purchase tickets in person at the POA ticket office in the Ouachita Building at Ponce de Leon Center.  

  The Guild is also sponsoring a food drive benefiting local students in Fountain Lake, Jessieville, and Mountain Pine school districts.  If you would like to participate, we will be collecting non-perishable food items in the lobby before the concert. If you prefer to make a monetary donation, please write checks payable to the school districts that you would like to help. We will have a volunteer collecting the checks and food to deliver to each school district.

  ASO photo by Kelly Hicks. 
  

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• Scott Carrell In Concert

  • When
    Sunday, January 21, 2024
  •  
    3:00 PM
  • Location
    Presbyterian Kirk in the Pines, 275 Asturias Dr, HSV
  • Spaces left
    238

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  The HS/HSV Symphony Guild is delighted to present "Scott Carrell in Concert" as part of our new Classic Series. The concert will be on Sunday, January 21, 2024 at 3 pm at Presbyterian Kirk in the PInes and will be followed by a meet and greet reception. General admission tickets are $10 and can be purchased in advance on the Guild website by registering for the event. Tickets will also be available at the door.

  Pianist SCOTT CARRELL enjoys a multi-faceted career as a pianist, collaborator and composer, having performed in the U.S.A., France, Germany, Italy and China.  His virtuosic flair, expressive playing, informative comments, and innovative programming have garnered enthusiastic responses from audiences and presenters alike.  His varied interests have resulted in several programs of French music, ragtime, and lesser-known works of the repertoire, resulting in residencies at Texarkana College, Northwest Missouri State University, and Guongdong University of Foreign Studies in Guangzhou, China.

  Mr. Carrell received degrees from Southwestern University, the University of Illinois, and a D.M.A from the University of North Texas.

  Mr. Carrell is an active member of the Arkansas State Music Teachers, he has presented sessions at both regional and state conferences, serves as President of the Music Teachers Association of Central Arkansas, and was recently named the ASMTA 2022 Teacher of the Year.  He currently teaches piano, piano related courses, and music theory at Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas. 

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• Cello and Piano Magic

  • When
    Sunday, March 17, 2024
  •  
    3:00 PM
  • Location
    Presbyterian Kirk in the Pines, 275 Asturias Dr, HSV
  • Spaces left
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  The HS/HSV Symphony Guild is delighted to present Haeshin Shin (piano) and Jacob Wunsch (cello) in concert as part of our new Classic Series. The concert will be on Sunday, March 17, 2024 at 3 pm at Presbyterian Kirk in the PInes and will be followed by a meet and greet reception. General admission tickets are $10 and can be purchased in advance on the Guild website by registering for the event. Tickets will also be available at the door.

  Pianist Haeshin Shin has appeared in solo recitals, competitions, chamber concerts, and festivals throughout the United States, Russia, UK, Luxembourg, Belgium, Spain, Ireland, Puerto Rico, China, and Korea. She has won prizes at American Protégé Concerto Competition, Bradshaw & Buono International Competition, Richmond Piano Competition, Samick Piano Competition, and International Competition for Pianists in Memory of Shande Ding. In recent seasons she has performed at Seoul Arts Center, Carnegie Hall, Harvard Musical Association, and Garth Newel Music Center. Her performance in the 75th anniversary of Leonard Bernstein Piano Recital at Tanglewood Lecture Series was broadcast on CTSB, the public channel in the Berkshires, MA. Ms. Shin holds a BM degree from Seoul National University (Cum Laude), and MM and DMA degrees from Boston University. During her study at Boston University, she received the Piano Department Award and College of Fine Arts Scholarship, and has been elected as a member of Pi Kappa Lambda, the national music honor society. She co-founded the Medtner Society of Korea in 2016, initially to introduce the music of Nikolai Medtner to audiences in South Korea, and currently serves as its Artistic Director. She joined the piano faculty at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music in 2019, and continues to give online lessons to students from the Midwest to the East Coast after her move to Little Rock in 2021. In 2022, she joined Arkansas State University as a collaborative pianist.

  Cellist Jacob Wunsch joined the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra and its Rockefeller String Quartet in the fall of 2019. Actively involved in orchestral performance, chamber music, and music education, he has made concert appearances across the United States, France, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Italy, Austria, and South Korea. His accomplishments include 1st prize in the inaugural Briggs Chamber Music Competition at the University of Michigan, and the ASTA Competition. He has served as section cellist with the Ann Arbor Symphony, the Evansville Philharmonic, and the Owensboro Symphony. A native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Wunsch began cello studies at age four. His teachers at university have included Eric Kim, Richard Aaron, Michel Strauss, Jan Ype Nota, and Roger Regter. He received his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from Indiana University and the University of Michigan respectively. Through fellowship grants he has attended the Aspen Music Festival and School, the Colorado College Summer Music Festival, and the Garth Newel Music Center. He attended the Royal Conservatory in the Hague, The Netherlands for 3 years of additional graduate studies and cello studio leadership.

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• ASO Youth Orchestras in Concert and Guild Annual Meeting

  • When
    Sunday, April 28, 2024
  •  
    3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Woodlands Auditorium, Hot Springs Village

  After a short Guild annual meeting enjoy music brought to us by the best of our state’s talented youth. The concert is free to attend. If you are coming from outside of Hot Springs Village, please click here for a letter allowing entry through either the East or West Gates.

  Both the Academy and Youth Orchestras will be performing.  Tom McDonald is a violinist with the ASO and conducts the Academy Orchestra. The Academy Orchestra is the intermediate level ensemble with a full complement of strings, woodwinds, brass and percussion. Entrance is by audition only. String players must demonstrate facility above 1st position and in keys up to 4 sharps and 4 flats. Woodwind and Brass players must be at the level to make All-Region Band and Orchestra.

  The Youth Orchestra is conducted by Gabriel Bruce. Mr Bruce currently serves as orchestra director at Mills University Studies High School and Mills Middle School in Pulaski County, and has previously taught orchestra in the Pine Bluff schools in Arkansas, where he also served as music director of the Pine Bluff Symphony Youth Orchestra.

   The Youth Orchestra consists of the most advanced string, woodwind, brass and percussion players from around the state. Entrance is by audition only and for those whose audition demonstrates familiarity with advanced techniques, in order to perform the standard orchestra repertoire.  Musicians in this group consistently place at the top of the All-State Band and Orchestra Competition and are leaders in their schools and communities.

  Please join us for this delightful afternoon of beautiful music at the Woodlands Auditorium.     

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