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2025-2026 Chamber Classics Series
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When you renew your subscription, you receive all five Chamber Classics concerts for 20% off – that’s like buying all five concerts for the price of four! You also receive the following premium benefits as a KSO subscriber:
- Keep your seats from year-to-year or be first in line for changes
- Free flexible ticket exchanges
- Pre-sale access to Elf in Concert
- 20% off to the 39th Annual Clayton Holiday Concert
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2025-2026 Chamber Classics Series
Mozart & More
Sunday, September 28, 2025, 2:30pm | Bijou Theatre
Program:
The Knoxville Symphony opens the Roy Cockrum Chamber Series with Mozart’s dramatic Symphony No. 40 alongside Strauss’ dazzling Horn Concerto No. 1 featuring principal horn Jeffery Whaley.
Aram Demirjian, conductor
Jeffery Whaley, horn
FLORENCE PRICE: Octet for Brasses and Piano
RICHARD STRAUSS: Horn Concerto No. 1
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART: Symphony No. 40
Classical Christmas: Handel’s Messiah
Sunday, November 30, 2025, 2:30pm | Tennessee Theatre
Program:
The Knoxville Symphony’s annual holiday tradition continues with Handel’s glorious Messiah!
Aram Demirjian, conductor
Abigail Santos Villalobos, soprano
Jan Wilson, mezzo
Eric Ferring, tenor
Kevin Burdette, bass
GEORGE HANDEL: Messiah
Haydn “Oxford” Symphony
Sunday, January 25, 2026, 2:30pm | Bijou Theatre
Program:
In January, the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra shines in a delightful afternoon program, featuring Haydn’s Symphony No. 92, “Oxford” – performed as part of the ceremony in which the great composer was awarded a Doctor of Music – and principal flute Devan Jaquez is showcased in Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 2.
James Fellenbaum, conductor
Devan Jaquez, flute
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: Orchestral Suite No. 2
EDWARD ELGAR: Introduction and Allegro
JOSEPH HAYDN: Symphony No. 92 (“Oxford”)
A Cast of Characters: Peanuts, Mother Goose and More
Sunday, March 1, 2026, 2:30pm | Bijou Theatre
Program:
Guest conductor Chelsea Gallo makes her Knoxville debut with a delightful literary-themed program, featuring Beethoven’s Overture to “The Creatures of Prometheus” and Ravel’s “Mother Goose Suite.” Principal pianist Emi Kagawa graces the Roy Cockrum Chamber Series stage with a performance of Zwilich’s “Peanuts Gallery.”
Chelsea Gallo, conductor
Emi Kagawa, piano
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG: Transfigured Night
ELLEN ZWILICH: Peanuts Gallery
MAURICE RAVEL: Mother Goose Suite
Appalachian Spring
Sunday, May 3, 2026, 2:30pm | Bijou Theatre
Program:
The Knoxville Symphony presents a distinctly American program on the concluding Roy Cockrum Chamber Series performance of the season with works by W.C. Handy, Charles Ives, and dynamic young composer Nicky Sohn. Copland’s evocative Appalachian Spring closes out the program.
W.C. HANDY: St. Louis Blues March
CHARLES IVES: Three Places in New England
NICKY SOHN: New Work – KSO 9 for 90 commission & world premiere
AARON COPLAND: Appalachian Spring: Suite