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The Utah Symphony is an American orchestra based in Salt Lake City, Utah. The orchestra's principal venue is Abravanel Hall . In addition to its Salt Lake City subscription concerts, the orchestra travels around the Intermountain West serving communities throughout Utah.
Students perform masterworks of the repertory alongside sacred music. The Philharmonic was named the "Best Youth Performing Ensemble" by Best of State Utah in 2009 to 2015. Lyceum Philharmonic is one of the nation's premier youth orchestras. Located in American Fork, Utah, the group is led by conductor Kayson Brown.
Abravanel Hall first opened in September 1979, and was originally known as Symphony Hall, but was renamed in May 1993 for Maurice Abravanel, conductor of the Utah Symphony. The grand opening featured Stanisław Skrowaczewski guest conducting Béla Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra and Johannes Brahms' Symphony No. 4 on September 14-15, 1979.
The Deer Valley Music Festival is the summer home of the Utah Symphony and Utah Opera. [1] It occurs each summer in July and August in Park City, Utah at the Deer Valley Resort, St. Mary's Church, Temple Har Shalom, and salon performances in local homes. The festival features the Utah Symphony and its guests performing chamber music, symphonic ...
Bird Symphony is an orchestral work written by the American composer Arlene Sierra. The work was commissioned by the Utah Symphony , Thierry Fischer , music director. It was first performed at Abravanel Hall on April 16, 2022.
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They included the president of the Utah Symphony, Wendell Ashton, and the president of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Oakley Evans in these efforts. Their intent was to create a series of free concerts funded by an endowment from Obert and his wife Grace. These concerts would feature the combined talents of the world-famous Choir and the Symphony.
He became a U.S. citizen in 1943. In 1947 he was hired as music director of the Utah Symphony, and over the next 30 years raised the ensemble to international prominence, leading the symphony in live radio broadcasts and releasing more than 100 commercial recordings. [3] Abravanel was known as Maurice de Abravanel until 1938.