MOBILE, AL – The Mobile Symphony Youth Orchestra will be joined by Japanese marimbist Naoko Takada for the Orchestra’s season finale on Thursday, May 9, at the Saenger Theatre. “This concert marks a great number of ‘firsts’ for the MSYO,” MSYO conductor and music director Robert Seebacher said. “In addition to the first performance of…
MOBILE, ALA – The Mobile Symphony Orchestra will welcome Preservation Hall Jazz Band on Saturday, May 11, at 8 p.m. and Sunday, May 12, at 2:30 p.m. in the Saenger Theatre. The Preservation Hall Jazz Band derives its name from Preservation Hall, the respected music venue located in the heart of New Orleans’ French Quarter….
MOBILE, AL – The Mobile Symphony and the Mobile Public Library Lecture@Noon series continues with a Wednesday, Apr. 10 lecture at noon with Rob Seebacher, conductor of the Mobile Symphony Youth Orchestra, University of South Alabama Symphony Orchestra, and the Johnson City Symphony Orchestra In anticipation of the MSO’s Russian Revolutionaries concert Apr. 13 and…
MOBILE, ALA – The Mobile Symphony Orchestra recently awarded scholarships to two of its musicians – Richard Jernigan and Kim Woolly. MSO clarinetist Richard Jernigan received the Klopfenstein Scholarship to attend the Claremont Clarinet Festival in Claremont, Calif., from June 16-22, 2013. The weeklong festival will bring together a group of clarinetists to study and…
MOBILE, ALA – The Mobile Symphony Orchestra will present Russian Revolutionaries, featuring the University of South Alabama Choir, on Saturday, April 13, at 8 p.m. and Sunday, April 14, at 2:30 p.m. in the Saenger Theatre. The concert begins with Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky, named after the real-life Russian hero of the Middle Ages. Nevsky earned…
CHICAGO (March 18, 2013) The Chicago Philharmonic Society (CPS) announced today the appointment of Scott Speck as its new Artistic Director. Speck is currently Music Director of the Joffrey Ballet, the Mobile Symphony and the West Michigan Symphony. His tenure will begin June 1. “We couldn’t be more delighted that Scott will become our Artistic…
Diana Brewer named Mobile Symphony’s Acting CEO MOBILE, AL — The Board of Directors of the Mobile Symphony Orchestra is pleased to announce the appointment of Diana Brewer to Acting Chief Executive Officer of the Mobile Symphony, effective immediately. Brewer joined the staff of the Mobile Symphony in February 2012 as director of marketing. Her…
MOBILE, AL – The Mobile Symphony Youth Orchestra will present its third concert of the season—Musical Journeys—on Sunday, March 3 at 2 p.m. in the Saenger Theatre. The Youth Orchestra, led by music director Robert J. Seebacher, will perform works by Wagner, Nielsen and Tchaikovsky. Nicole Carrion, a senior at Baker High School and winner…
MOBILE, ALA—The Mobile Symphony Orchestra will present Trumpet Spectacular, featuring famed trumpet soloist Jens Lindemann and Mahler’s emotionally-extreme Symphony No. 5 on Saturday, March 9 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, March 10, at 2:30 p.m. in the Saenger Theatre. Lindemann, hailed as one of the most celebrated soloists in his instrument’s history and recently named…
MOBILE, AL – Mobile Symphony members Annette and Bret Heim—the Heim Duo—will play a recital of works for flute and classical guitar at St. James Episcopal Church in Fairhope on Friday, February 22 at 7 p.m. The program includes sonatas by G. P. Telemann and Jean-Michel Damase, as well as a tango suite by…