Assistant Principal and Section Viola
Monday, Aug 19, 20204 in Winston-Salem. Applications must be received by Saturday, Aug 10, 2024.
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Section Violin
Saturday, Aug 24, 20204 in Winston-Salem. Applications must be received by Saturday, Aug 17, 2024.
Staff Accountant
Staff Accountant (part-time) is responsible for managing detail-oriented daily, weekly, and monthly accounting tasks, ensuring accurate and timely financial records, and providing essential support to the Chief Operating Officer (COO). A member of the finance and administration team, the Staff Accountant acts as a fiduciary and maintains the highest level of confidentiality as it relates to the organization’s financial and operating matters.
Director of Marketing
The Director of Marketing leads WSS marketing and public relations functions as part of the Strategic Operations Team, and is responsible for crafting strategic marketing plans and executing innovative campaigns to achieve earned revenue goals, build and retain audiences, and increase awareness of the organization’s brand, performances, and programs.
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The Winston-Salem Symphony Presents Edgar Meyer & The New World
The Winston-Salem Symphony Presents Edgar Meyer & The New World WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (February 1, 2024) – Winston-Salem Symphony Music Director Michelle Merrill leads the orchestra in a Program entitled “Edgar Meyer & The New World” on Saturday, March 2, at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, March 3, at 3:00 p.m. Merrill is joined by genre-defying bassist Edgar Meyer. Merrill
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Kathryn Mueller, Soprano
She has sung with the LA Chamber Orchestra, American Bach Soloists, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Santa Fe Pro Musica, Charlotte Symphony, Memphis Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, Winston-Salem Symphony, and Tucson Symphony Orchestra. Favorite concert works include Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Glière’s Concerto for Coloratura Soprano, Haydn’s Creation, Bach’s St. John Passion, and anything by Mozart or Handel. She collaborates
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Scott Ramsay, Tenor
Following his portrayal of Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor, under the baton of Jesús López-Cobos at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Chicago Sun-Times proclaimed “Ramsay brought a passionate intensity to the role that matched the fire of Dessay’s riveting Lucia.” Of his Canadian debut in Verdi’s Requiem with Sir Andrew Davis and the Toronto
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Laurel Semerdjian, Mezzo Soprano
In 2023-2024, Ms. Semerdjian returns to Tacoma Opera to make her role debut as the title role in Carmen. On the concert stage, she appears in Verdi’s Requiem with Symphony Tacoma and for the Masterworks Concert Series with Symphoria. In 2022-2023, Ms. Semerdjian sang Ambassador to Space in Derrick Skye’s Song of the Ambassadors at
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Home Alone: John Williams’s Crowning Achievement
The name John Williams evokes the thundering brass of Star Wars, the haunting melodies of Schindler’s List, the magic of the first three Harry Potter films, the ominous ostinato of Jaws, and so much more. Williams has an unmatched catalog, but when I think about everything he’s done, it becomes clear that his greatest accomplishment came in 1990.
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The Winston-Salem Symphony Presents Handel’s Messiah
The Winston-Salem Symphony Presents Handel’s Messiah WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (November 16, 2023) – Winston-Salem Symphony Music Director Michelle Merrill will conduct the seventeenth annual performance of Handel’s Messiah on Tuesday, December 12, at Wait Chapel. This musical work is one of the most celebrated oratorios of all time, beloved for its beauty, drama, and famous “Hallelujah” chorus. This Christmastime tradition
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The Winston-Salem Symphony Presents Home Alone In Concert
The Winston-Salem Symphony Presents Home Alone In Concert WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (November 1, 2023) – A Carolina Christmas, the Winston-Salem Symphony tradition, returns to the R.J. Reynolds Auditorium for its eleventh year in a new form with Home Alone In Concert. The event will feature the full-length film with John Williams’ original score performed live. The modern holiday classic stars Macaulay
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Michael Hix, Baritone
Hix is a sought-after performer of concert and orchestral works with over 75 oratorio, cantata, and concert roles in his repertoire. In 2019 he was awarded 3rd Place in the American Prize Competition for Oratorio and Art Song Performance. Past concert and oratorio solo engagements have included Mendelssohn’s Elijah, J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, St. John Passion, B
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Gene Stenger, Tenor
In the 2023-2024 season, Gene is invited to return to the Bach Society of St. Louis and Washington Bach Consort to sing the Evangelist in Bach’s St. John’s Passion. He also joins Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra to perform Handel’s Messiah, which he will perform again in Birmingham at Cathedral Church of the Advent in 2024. Gene’s 2022-2023 season
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Leah Wool, Mezzo Soprano
In the 2023-2024 season, Ms. Wool makes a return to the Defiant Requiem Foundation in recital, singing a world premiere of Jewish-American composer Gerald Cohen’s new song cycle. Last season featured an appearance with OnSite Opera and the Defiant Requiem Foundation as the Trommler in Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis at Zankel Hall, the proceeds of which benefitted Holocaust Survivors. The mezzo was also
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Ashley Fabian, Soprano
Ms. Fabian begins the 2023/2024 season with a return to the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl in a concert with Chris Thile (Punch Brothers, Nickel Creek), then appears as Gilda in Rigoletto with Holy City Arts & Lyric Opera, the Soprano Soloist in Händel’s Messiah with the Winston-Salem Symphony, Zerlina in Don Giovanni
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Considering Matthew Shepard: An Oratorio for All of Us
By including so many genres and texts, Craig Hella Johnson’s oratorio Considering Matthew Shepard has the greatest chance of creating as many safe spaces for as many different people as possible.
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The Winston-Salem Symphony and the Symphony Chorus Presents Considering Matthew Shepard
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (October 4, 2023) – The Winston-Salem Symphony and the Symphony Chorus will present the area premiere of Craig Hella Johnson’s Considering Matthew Shepard, a powerful three-part oratorio on Sunday, October 29, 2023, at 3:00 p.m. The concert takes place in Brendle Recital Hall, located inside the Scales Fine Arts Center on the campus of Wake Forest University.
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The Winston-Salem Symphony Starts the 2023-2024 Season with Bernstein & Brahms
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (October 4, 2023) – The Winston-Salem Symphony and the Symphony Chorus will present the area premiere of Craig Hella Johnson’s Considering Matthew Shepard, a powerful three-part oratorio on Sunday, October 29, 2023, at 3:00 p.m. The concert takes place in Brendle Recital Hall, located inside the Scales Fine Arts Center on the campus of Wake Forest University.
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Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
Leonard Bernstein’s enduring musical, West Side Story, opened at New York’s Winter Garden Theater on September 26, 1957. The text by Stephen Sondheim (after A. Laurents) is based on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, with the feuding Capulets and Montagues now represented by two rival gangs, the Sharks and the Jets, and the scenario removed from Verona to the streets of Manhattan.
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Brahms: Violin Concerto
Few would deny that the violin concertos of Beethoven and Brahms stand at the pinnacle of the genre. It is also true that Beethoven’s work served as a model for Brahms, resulting in many clear points of contact between the works.
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Dvorak: Carnival Overture
Dvořák’s symphonies, particularly nos. Seven, Eight, and Nine (“From the New World”), the Cello Concerto, and the orchestrated version of his Slavonic Dances are his most frequently performed symphonic works. To this list may be added the one exception among his five symphonic poems, the Carnival Overture.
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