A Message from the President & CEO

Welcome!

Welcome, as we ring in the New Year with your Charlotte Symphony! It’s a time for new beginnings, and this month the Symphony will present established masterworks with fresh energy, reflecting and renewing our commitment to engage our communities through the transformative power of live music.

We are delighted to begin January with the conclusion of the “Mahler Journey,” a years-long voyage through Mahler’s most epic Symphonies, led by Music Director Christopher Warren-Green. Mahler’s Ninth Symphony is a journey in itself: a stunning meditation on the human condition — and in the hands of the maestro, it’s sure to be transcendent.

\The CSO will celebrate great film scores with Spaced Out: Sci-Fi Movie Music and John Williams’ brilliant Harry Potter Children’s Suite for Orchestra.

We’ll welcome a new guest conductor to the podium later this month, the Australian Jessica Cottis. Please help us give her a warm welcome to Charlotte, when she shares the immensely appealing program she has curated for her appearance here — including the Charlotte Symphony premiere of Kurt Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins.

As we carry out our work to pass on the love of music to the next generation, please “save the date” and plan to join us for upcoming performances that showcase some of our partnerships in higher education: Friday, March 4th at the Belk for our second collaboration with Morehouse College, and Sunday, April 3rd for our first concert in the beautiful new Sarah Belk Gambrell Center for the Arts and Civic Engagement at Queens. Next to be scheduled, our first concert in over a decade at Johnson C. Smith University. Wherever you look, you will find your CSO out in the community, making new connections through music!

Thank you for your support in 2021, as together we welcome the new in ‘22!

David Fisk, President & CEO