Get tickets for the October 26th performance at https://www.arkansassymphony.org/events/2025-fall-concert/
The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra Youth Ensembles (ASOYE) presents the first concert of its season at 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025, at Bryant High School. This concert will feature all three youth ensembles: Prelude Orchestra, Academy Orchestra and Youth Orchestra.
Read more and see pictures below.
The ASOYE has offered unique performance experiences to Arkansas’ leading student musicians for more than 50 years. With three ensembles and nearly 200 members, the ASOYE serves those ages 9-19 from more than 37 communities throughout Arkansas.
General admission tickets are $10, and kids under 18 are free. Tickets can be purchased online at ArkansasSymphony.org; at the concert venue beginning one hour before a concert; or by phone at 501-666-1761, ext. 1.
ARTISTS
Andrew Irvin, Prelude Orchestra Conductor
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Kiril Laskarov, Prelude Orchestra Conductor
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Tom McDonald, Academy Orchestra Conductor
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Gabriel Bruce, Youth Orchestra Conductor
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PROGRAM
Prelude Orchestra:
Antonio Vivaldi (arr. Tom Fritz) — “Ocean Storm”
Robert Schumann — “Soldier’s March”
John Caponegro — “British Grenadiers”
Academy Orchestra:
Carl Strommen — “Cross Creek”
John Williams — “Flying Theme from E.T.”
Ralph Ford (arr. Tom McDonald) — “A Halloween Thriller”
Youth Orchestra:
Camille Saint-Saëns — “Marche du couronnement, Op. 117”
John Corigliano — “Elegy”
Ludwig Van Beethoven — “Romance in F major, Op. 50”
Antonín Dvořák — “Symphony No.9, Op.95, mvt. I”
The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra is the leading employer of professional performing artists in Arkansas and is celebrating its 60th season in 2025-2026.
The ASO recently opened its first permanent home, the ASO Stella Boyle Smith Music Center, in the East Village between Heifer International and the Clinton Presidential Library.
The state’s first music center is a radically welcoming hub of musical activity for all Arkansans, housing programs of the E. Lee Ronnel Music Academy, a broadcast studio, and the River Rhapsodies Chamber Music Series.
ASO is the resident orchestra at Robinson Center and performs over 60 concerts yearly for more than 165,000 people through its Stella Boyle Smith Masterworks Series, First Orion Pops Series, River Rhapsodies Chamber Music Series, and numerous concerts throughout Arkansas.
The E. Lee Ronnel Music Academy reaches over 30,000 Arkansans in over 200 schools from ages 4 to 104 through the string academy, youth ensembles, bucket band, community orchestra, the annual Children’s Concert, and more.
In 2020, over 1 million people in over 30 countries viewed the ASO musician-led Bedtime with Bach series. The ASO employs 14 full-time musicians, over 70 part-time musicians, and 16 administrative staff members with an annual operating budget of $4.5 million.
The ASO is a member of the League of American Orchestras and a partner orchestra of the National Alliance for Audition Support, an unprecedented national initiative to increase diversity in American orchestras. For more information about the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra call 501-666-1761 or visit www.arkansassymphony.org.
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