      Funding for this program is provided by the Fulton County Board of Commissioners under the guidance of the Fulton County Arts Council |
2011-12 Concerts October 8, 2011 7:00 p.m. Foreign Shores Roswell Cultural Arts Center January 28, 2012 7:00 p.m. Young Artists Concerto Competition Roswell Cultural Arts Center March 17, 2012 7:00 p.m. Mahler 1 Roswell Cultural Arts Center April 28, 2012 7:00 p.m. Pictures at an Exhibition Oglethorpe University This season, please join us in welcoming John Morrison to the podium of Metro Atlanta's premiere for-love-of-art symphony orchestra as Artistic Director.  Want to do more without doing anything at all? Download Facebook's Causes Toolbar to track your online shopping and automatically donate a percentage to the Georgia Philharmonic or your favorite cause! Follow us on  For videos of recent performances and other great moments in music making! Samuel Fordis Young Artists Concerto Competition Applications are now available for our 2011-2012 Concerto Competition. Application Deadline: October 31, 2011 Auditions Available The Georgia Philharmonic is now accepting applications on all instruments. There are openings for string and percussion players to join the orchestra as full-time members, and sub opportunities available for wind and brass. To request an audition, please complete our online application. |
Young Artists Concerto CompetitionJanuary 28, 2012, 7 p.m. Roswell Cultural Arts Center Come watch the next generation of great musicians establish their place in musical history! You won't want to miss our annual Samuel Fordis Young Artists Concerto Competition Showcase, featuring concert laureates Melodie Spencer, Christopher Leitten, Olivia Holladay, and Arlene Chung. Join us to hear these wonderful musicians perform the Vieuxtemps Violin Concerto No. 4; Mozart's Horn Concerto No. 3; Bruch's Violin Concerto; and Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 2. To round out the program, we present 2 overtures from Wagner. 
2011-2012 Subscription Series  Join us in 2011-2012 for another exciting season! After a successful interim season, John Morrison joins the Georgia Philharmonic as Artistic Director. Travel with us in October as we visit Foreign Shores, featuring works inspired by Mendelssohn's Scottish tour and the mythical journeys of Nordic folklore. In January, watch the next generation of musicians battle for a their place in musical history, with the Georgia Philharmonic's second annual Samuel Fordis Young Artists Concerto Competition. In March, we present Mahler's "Titan" (Symphony No. 1), and in April, the orchestra invites you on a tour of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. We look forward to seeing you there! Reserve your tickets today. Listen Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring is an exceptional work of 
American music which paints a picture of the expansive West.
Listen to a portion of our performance of Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring from our January concert.Having visited Paris in the 1920s, George Gershwin decided to capture the bustle of
the city in his 1928 piece, An American in Paris.
Listen to the Georgia Philharmonic's February '06 rendition of this classic work, complete with tuned taxi horns.
Read Pierre Ruhe of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution 
newspaper recently reviewed the orchestra. Read what the AJC had to say about the Georgia Philharmonic. |
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