GT Symphony Orchestra

Georgia Tech Symphony Orchestra proudly presents Russian Flames, our 2025 opener, at Ferst Center on Wednesday, Feb. 19, at 7:30pm.

We are joined by Jesús Castro-Balbi, KSU, on cello to perform Alice Hong’s Zhulong in its U.S. Premier. Noah Hur, 2024 GTSO Competition winner, will also perform Rachmaninoff’s Third Movement (Alla Breve) of Piano Concerto No. 3 with us. We also feature works by other prominent Russian composers: Stravinsky’s Pulcinella Suite (I. Sinfonia) and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 1 in f-minor.

We will be providing designated study areas in the back of the hall for anyone who wishes to do work while enjoying our music! We ask that you be respectful to the musicians, courteous to other audience members, and not make excessive noise or sounds.

Hope to see you there! If you’re not able to join us in person, visit our link in bio, where you can find our livestream on Georgia Tech School of Music YouTube, or find more information about GT Orchestras.

We are excited about this new season!! 😄

Very excited for all the premieres that I will be conducting this season!!

Pilar Miralles, Emily Koh, Juhi Bansal Composer, Peter Van Zandt Lane, Alice Hong are some of the featured composers this year 💛

Introducing our next senior who was also Orchestra club’s vice president is !! Thank you for everything that you’ve done for orchestra!!

Introducing our next graduating senior, Ray!!! Ray has done so much for the orchestra and they will be missed 🫶

Orchestra club is hosting an end of the year celebration tomorrow!! Would love to see people especially our seniors

The last concert of the season for the Georgia Tech orchestras takes place tomorrow! A not-to-be-missed performance, admission is as usual free and open to the public, with livestream link posted to our bio.
Following two student chamber performances, the GT Concert Orchestra will present Suppè’s Overture to Poet and Peasant, which chronicles the adventures of a poet vacationing in the mountainside. This lighthearted overture consists of several contrasting “episodes”, including a stately brass chorale, a lyrical cello solo, and a calm waltz that becomes progressively more fast-paced, leading up to an exciting finale. Next on the program is Lauren Spavelko’s Grit, a short piece for strings that is characterized by irregularities in rhythm, accents, and plenty of dissonance. The evening will close out with Liszt’s Totentanz (translating literally to “dance of death”), featuring soloist Rishi Raman on piano.

As the Spring 2023 Season wraps up, we have the GT Symphony Orchestra's second and final concert of the semester. Free and open to the public as always, this evening you will be treated to selected movements from Sarah Kirkland Snider’s hauntingly melancholy song cycle Penelope, a modern take on the classic story of Odysseus returning home after the Trojan War. The performance features vocals by soprano Amy Petrongelli and electronics, in addition to strings. The orchestra will then perform the entirety of Rachmaninoff’s Second Symphony, a triumph of a work filled with intense, brooding themes, lush, romantic melodies, and exuberant fanfares in turn, thoroughly showcasing the composer’s melodic genius and orchestration skills.

We are excited to announce our next concert tonight, March 2 at 7:30pm, at the Ferst Center for the Arts! Concert program and livestream link have been added to our bio.
•••
The Georgia Tech Concert Orchestra will be performing Jasmine Pigott’s arrangement of Nathaniel Dett’s suite In the Bottoms, and Pigott will then be featured as the soloist for Vaughan Williams’ Tuba Concerto. The orchestra will then present Stacy Garrop’s The Battle for the Ballot, where speeches and writings of women suffragists will be narrated by Monica Kaufman Pearson, a former news anchor at Atlanta’s WSB-TV and the first woman and minority to anchor the evening news at the station. The concert will be concluded with two movements from Borodin’s Symphony No. 2. Admission is free and open to the public as always, so don’t miss this unique opportunity!

Please join us for a musical evening with the Georgia Tech Symphony Orchestra! This will be the first concert of the semester. Featuring our previous year’s Concerto Competition winner Matthew Zhou, this must-see event is free and open to the public.
For more information about the composers, soloist and ensemble, be sure to check out the concert program at the following link, also located in our bio: https://music.gatech.edu/pivot-and-change-symphony-orchestra-92222

Come see the GT Symphony Orchestra’s second concert of the semester at Ferst Center for the Arts! This concert will feature performances of the Overture to Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck, followed by the Edward Elgar Cello Concerto with soloist Eric Chen, winner of the 2022 GTSO Concerto Competition, and finally Dvořák’s Seventh Symphony. Admission is free and open to the public, so don’t miss it!

Please join us this Thursday, September 29 at 7:30pm for an evening of jazz and orchestral music presented by the GT Concert Orchestra and the Hibbard and Crotts Jazz Ensembles. Admission is free and open to the public!

This will be GTCO’s first concert of the season, featuring Coleridge-Taylor’s Othello Suite, Mendelssohn’s Fifth Symphony, and selections from Star Trek over the years for a *Beyond* this world experience.

Please join us this Thursday from 7:30-9:30pm for GT Symphony Orchestra’s very first concert of the season, with soloist Laura Ballestrino! Admission is free and open to the public. The concert program can be found in our Linktree, as well as the link to the livestream should you be unable to attend in person.

This concert will feature Laura Ballestrino, a composer and pianist who has performed at illustrious concert halls such as Teatro Monumental and the Solitär concert hall at Universität Mozarteum, Salzburg. Laura is the composer and producer of Archaelund: The Orchestral Suite, the world premiere of which will be performed by GTSO on Thursday. Don’t miss it!

This Thursday!! Join us for the first concert this year!!

Can’t wait to welcome pianist and composer Laura Ballestrino to Georgia Tech School of Music as the GT Symphony Orchestra premieres her work, Archaelund Suite!!

Join us if you are in Atlanta 🍑

Thursday Sep. 22, 2022
Ferst Center for the Arts
Free admission

With the support of the Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain in Washington, DC.

Embassy of Spain-Culture

Last night, the GT Orchestra Club met up to hear the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra play some awesome music—a world premiere commissioned by A*O, a mandolin concerto, and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade!! Thank you to everyone that came out❤️🎶❤️ We are so fortunate to have such a wonderful, inspiring group of role models right here in our city 🤩

Please join us in congratulating the very special winners of our 2021-22 GTSO Concerto Competition!🎉
🏆Winners (in alphabetical order): Eric Chen (Cello), Matthew Zhou (Piano)
🎖Runner-Up: Jennifer Deng (Violin)

We were blown away by the talent showcased by ALL of our competitors today and we are SO excited to perform with Eric, Matthew, and Jennifer during our upcoming concerts!!

Special thank you’s go out to…
🎶Director of Orchestral Studies at Georgia Tech: Chaowen Ting
🎶Judges: Ling-Ju Lai, Juan Ramirez-Hernandez
🎶Accompanist: Eric Jenkins
🎶Student Helpers: Ivy Xue, Ray Jay

And thank you to everyone for tuning in and supporting these amazing musicians❤️

Good luck to all of our wonderful musicians competing in the GTSO Concerto Competition today!❤️🎶 Each and every one of these competitors are extremely talented musicians, on top of being busy, hardworking students here at Tech! We are so proud of them and can’t wait to announce the winner🏆
Competition stars at 1 PM in West Village Room 175!