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The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra will perform in front of a live, in-person audience on Sunday, March 7, for the first time since the pandemic began a year ago. The Chamber Classics ensemble performances will take place at the Tennessee Theatre

The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra has announced the return of music with its first performance since the beginning of the pandemic last March. The concert on Sunday, Feb. 7, which will be livestreamed, will kick off the Chamber Classics Series. The

Covenant Health will provide COVID-19 testing for Knoxville Symphony Orchestra musicians and personnel, so that the symphony’s 2020-21 season can safely resume in February. The testing, which will be done throughout the season at the Physician’s Plaza on the Parkwest

Symphony performances expected to resume in February 2021 The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra (KSO) and the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) Local 546 have reached an agreement that will bring the musicians of the KSO back to the stage from a

We regret the union has turned down our most recent offer to keep the musicians on payroll and continue to bring music to Knoxville. We have made several offers and concessions that would have kept the orchestra afloat during this

The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra has announced that the 2020-21 season start will be postponed until 2021 due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Concerts previously scheduled for the remainder of 2020 have been canceled out of concern for the health and

The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra (KSO) has created a digital performance of Edward Elgar’s “Pomp and Circumstance” to share with East Tennessee school systems. The digital performance will be used by 34 schools in the East Tennessee area, for both digital

The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra will broadcast a Merchant & Gould Concertmaster Series performance Friday, June 26, at 9 p.m. on East Tennessee PBS. The performance is available now digitally on the ETPBS streaming service. The concert features KSO Concertmaster William

Season subscriptions are on sale now for the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra’s 2020-2021 News Sentinel Pops Series, which includes Bernadette Peters and “Revolution: Music of the Beatles. A Symphonic Experience.” “We have a dynamic lineup of Pops concerts for next season,”

Knoxville Symphony Orchestra Music Director Aram Demirjian is the 2020 recipient of The Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award. This prestigious award of $30,000 is the largest grant currently given to American conductors in the formative years of their careers. The