Message From The Director - Maestro Darryl One

To my fellow supporters of the Victoria Symphony:

This year we will be presenting our first full season of concerts at the new Victoria Fine Arts Center, after the exciting all-orchestral concert in March and the memorable performance of the Verdi Requiem. We are looking forward to our new home with all the exciting performance possibilities! With that in mind, we will begin this season with an exploration of those possibilities in a joint performance with Cirque de la Symphonie. You will be thrilled with flying acrobats, dancers, jugglers, and contortionists, all accompanied by some of the greatest music ever written. For our annual pops performance, we are bringing back by popular demand, the country singer and audience favorite, Michael Martin Murphy, who has previously entertained Victoria with his hit songs and personal audience interaction. An array of dazzling guest artists will bring their skills to the stage including the winner of the Indianapolis International Violin Competition Clara Jumi Kang playing the Mendelssohn, Young Concert Artist winner pianist Daria Rabotkina playing the Grieg, and Houston Symphony Principal Trumpet Mark Hughes playing Arutunian's trumpet concerto. Of course, the orchestra will also be taking up the challenge with some of the most popular and most difficult works in the repertoire such as Barber's Adagio for Strings and Stravinsky's Firebird Suite. However, the piece de la resistance closing our season will be a presentation of one of the most challenging pieces in the orchestral repertoire and written at the close of one of the most horrific chapters in history, Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony. This work is a testimony to one man's survival during Joseph Stalin's reign of terror in communist Russia.

With an excellent performing venue, thrilling acrobatics, amazing guest artists, and some of the greatest music ever written, can it get any better than this? And all right here in Victoria. We look forward to bringing the magic of music to you this season!

Come join us!

Sincerely,

Darryl One, Music Director