2022-2023 Season
Real People. Real Music.
Our 75th Diamond Jubilee Anniversary Season
THANK YOU for celebrating our 75th Diamond Jubilee Anniversary with us this season!
Thank you musicians, Soo Han, audience members, donors, collaborators, board members, and Elkhart County, for your support.
It’s been an incredible year of remembering the past and celebrating the future. It is an honor to serve our community.
Music of our Home, Elkhart County
Sunday, May 14, 2023, 4 PM
Performed at The Lerner Theatre
Join us for our collaboration with Goshen-resident, singer-songwriter Abbie Thomas at The Lerner Theatre as we close our 75th-anniversary season as we perform Dvorak’s “Symphony No. 9” and more!
75th Diamond Jubilee Celebration
Sunday, March 26, 2023, 4 PM
Performed at The Lerner Theatre
Travel back in time with us as we perform two pieces from our first concert at a concert 75 years in the making! We will welcome back long-time conductor Brian Groner to conduct the symphony for a selection.
The symphony will perform “Diamond Jubilee” Karel Butz, “Petite Suite for Orchestra Op. 77” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, “Symphony No. 8” by Franz Schubert, and “Of Our New Day Begun” by Omar Thomas.
Please join us for our 75th Diamond Jubilee Celebration!
Elkhart County Symphony Legends
Sunday, February 5, 2023, 4 PM
Performed at The Lerner Theatre
This concert honors the life and legacy of former Executive Director, Susan Ellington. In addition to Susan’s leadership of the Symphony, she was a mainstay music educator in Elkhart County at Goshen High School. Because of Susan’s dedication to student musicians, the concert will feature the Concord High School Orchestra in a side-by-side performance of Gustav Holst’s “Jupiter” from the Planets together with the Symphony.
Compositions also featured include Sibelius – Finlandia, and Copland – “Hoe-Down” from Rodeo. A special performance of the Rossini Introduction, Theme and Variations for Clarinet and Orchestra will feature symphony musician, Betsy Jaffee, clarinet soloist.
The February 5 concert is the third concert of the 75th Anniversary season of the Symphony and will also feature a third installment of the history of the Elkhart County Symphony, written by Trevor Wendzonka.
Ode to Joy, Beethoven Symphony #9
Sunday, November 20, 2022, 7:30 PM
Performed at Sauder Concert Hall, Goshen College
We continue our “on-the-road” performances as we open our Goshen College concert with Magnificat by Vivaldi. We will perform “Ode to Joy” at Goshen College’s Sauder Concert Hall with the Goshen College Choirs and the professional Camerata Singers!
Soloists for Ode to Joy are soprano Jenny Ribeiro, alto H. Roz Woll, tenor Jon Lovegrove, and baritone Scott Hochstetler.
Broadway in the Gardens
Sunday, September 11, 2022, 4 PM
Performed at Wellfield Botanic Gardens
The Elkhart County Symphony kicks off our Diamond Jubilee season, celebrating 75 years of music, with a performance at the Wellfield Botanic Gardens with guest soloist Brian Major, baritone. See the awesome plant life, walk the garden paths, and enjoy light classical music and more as we perform Broadway in the Gardens.
Major will reprise his appearance from last year’s symphony season opener at the Wellfield by popular demand and perform “Make Them Hear You” from Ragtime, “The Impossible Dream” from Man of La Mancha, “E sogno, O realtà” from Falstaff by Verdi, and more!
