Concert Schedule
and Tickets
April 27, 2024
7:30pm • Link Centre Concert Hall
Musical Voices of Tomorrow
Saehyun Kim, Piano
Cleveland International Piano Competition for Young Artists – First Prize Winner, Senior Division
Members of the North Mississippi Youth Orchestra
The NMSO presents the First Place winner of the 2023 Cleveland International Piano Competition Youth Division. The competition hosts outstanding young talent from across the globe in one of the world’s most prestigious music competitions. The orchestra is joined by members of the North Mississippi Youth Orchestra in a side-by-side experience that celebrates the young musical talents of the North Mississippi region.
Sensory Friendly, Family Friendly Concert • 3:00pm
October 26, 2024
7:30pm • Link Centre Concert Hall
Celebrating Life
Featuring Yaron Kohlberg, Piano
The NMSO welcomes the return of international competition winner Yaron Kohlberg as he performs one of the most challenging and exciting piano concertos in the repertoire, the mighty Piano Concerto No. 3 of Sergei Prokofiev. The orchestra performs two works of Sir Edward Elgar: his orchestral masterpiece, the exquisite Enigma Variations — a personal musical expression describing 13 of Elgar’s closest friends, and the rousing Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1.
December 14, 2024
3:00PM/7:30PM • Tupelo High School Performing Arts Center OR Harrisburg Baptist Church
Christmas with the NMSO
featuring ICC & NEMCC Community College Choruses, NMSO Children’s Chorus
The NMSO performs its annual Christmas program — one of the region’s finest — featuring choruses from Itawamba Community College and Northeast Mississippi Community College, and the NMSO Children’s Chorus. The program will present many of your holiday favorites and some new versions of some old classics!
February 22, 2025
7:30PM • Harrisburg Baptist Church
Spirit of the Wild
featuring Titus Underwood & Austin Smith, Oboes; Zell Long, Narrator
The NMSO welcomes Titus Underwood, Principal Oboe of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra and the 2021 recipient of the Sphinx Medal of Excellence award and a 2021 Midsouth Regional Emmy winner for his work as film director on We Are Nashville. Titus performs the thrilling and exotic Spirit of the Wild oboe concerto by Australian composer Nigel Westlake, and he pairs with NMSO Principal Oboe Austin Smith to perform Vivaldi’s delightful Concerto for Two Oboes in D Minor. By popular demand, the orchestra reprises the dynamic work New Morning for the Worldby Joseph Schwantner, featuring Tupelo’s own Zell Long delivering the powerful words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Titus Underwood
Austin Smith
Zell Long
March 29, 2025
7:30PM • Link Centre Concert Hall
American Essence
featuring Artina McCain, Piano
A program of wonderful musical masterpieces by extraordinarily gifted American composers. The NMSO performs an exquisite lament by Pulitzer Prize winner George Walker, two works by Florence Price — the first black female composer to have a symphony performed by a major American orchestra: her passionate and powerful Symphony No. 1, with its musical reflections of Dvorak’s great New World Symphony, and also Price’s dynamic Piano Concerto. The NMSO welcomes the University of Memphis Artist-in-Residence Artina McCain, who also performs a delightful Dance Tribute by Ghanaian-American composer Fred Onovwerosuoke.
April 26, 2025
7:30PM • Harrisburg Baptist Church
Sacred Choral Traditions
featuring
The Chancel Choir of the First United Methodist Church — Dakota Hill, Director
The Chancel Choir of the First Presbyterian Church — Robert Taylor, Director
The Sanctuary Choir of Harrisburg Church — Jasen Brown, Director
The NMSO and the combined choruses of the First United Methodist Church, First Presbyterian Church, and Harrisburg Baptist Church combine to perform exquisite works from the wonderful and vast sacred choral repertoire.