Miguel Harth-Bedoya
Miguel Harth-Bedoya will make his conducting debut with the Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra on April 25, 2025 in Stude Concert Hall.
The Shepherd School of Music has hosted numerous internationally recognized guest conductors over the past two seasons, offering both our students and audience members unique opportunities to learn from and engage with new voices. This preview is just one piece of the full 2024–25 season, which will be announced later this summer.
2023-2024 Season
Robert Spano
Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra
Friday, September 29, 2023 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 7:30 pm
- Barber: Symphony No. 1 in One Movement
- Knoxville Summer of 1915 (Michelle Bradley, soprano)
- Jennifer Higdon: Concerto for Orchestra
Hans Graf
Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra
Friday, October 27, 2023 at 7:30 pm
- Scriabin: Poème de l'extase (Poem of Ecstasy)
- Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D Minor (Angela Ryu, violin)
- Stravinsky: The Firebird (1910)
William Eddins
Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra
Friday, December 1, 2023 at 7:30 p.m.
- Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5, "Emperor" (Isaac Foreman, piano)
- Brahms: Symphony No. 2
Lidiya Yankovskaya
Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra
Friday, February 2, 2024 at 7:30 p.m.
- Jessie Montgomery: Hymn for Everyone
- Elgar: Cello Concerto (Maximus Gurath, cello)
- Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5
Miguel Harth-Bedoya
Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra
Saturday, March 2, 2024 at 7:30 p.m.
- Jimmy López Bellido: Fiesta!
- Daniel Leibovic: The Tones of Bangle
- Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet
Giancarlo Guerrero
Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra
Friday, April 19, 2024 at 7:30 p.m.
- Caroline Shaw: The Observatory
- Copland: Clarinet Concerto (Najee Greenlee, clarinet)
- Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
2022-2023 Season
Andrew Grams
Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra
Saturday, February 4, 2023 at 7:30 p.m.
- Bartók: The Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin
- Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 55, “Eroica"
Joshua Gersen
Preparing the Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra for performances in spring 2023.
Cristian Măcelaru
Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra
Saturday, March 4, 2023 at 7:30 p.m.
- Gabriela Frank: Concertino Cusqueño (2012)
- Debussy: Jeux
- Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances, Op. 45
Patrick Summers
Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra
Friday, April 21, 2023 at 7:30 pm.
- Strauss: Salome’s Dance
- Brahms: Variations on a Theme of Joseph Haydn
- Strauss: Ein Heldenleben