ROMEO & JULIET

NOVEMBER 15, 2025 @ 7:30 PM

MICHIGAN THEATRE

Section A: $40
Section B: $35
Section C: $25
Student Tickets: $5

Single Tickets on sale September 1, 2025

Experience an evening of drama and lyricism with music that stirs the soul. Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet overture-fantasy sets the tone with its passionate and timeless depiction of Shakespeare’s tragic lovers. Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915, featuring soprano Kathryn Mueller, captures the tender nostalgia of childhood and simpler times. The program concludes with Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5, a masterful exploration of fate and triumph, brought to life in its full emotional grandeur

PRE-CONCERT CONVERSATION
Join us for a free, interactive lecture before the concert at 6:30pm.

PROGRAM SCHEDULE

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture <1869; rev 1880>

Samuel Barber
Knoxville: Summer of 1915, op.24 <1947>

INTERMISSION

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No.5 in E minor, op.64, TH 29 <1888>

RUNTIME: 1H 45M

AFTERPARTY

Location: TBD

Keep the celebration going after the baton is down and the instruments are put away. Taking place in various locations around Jackson following Saturday evening concerts, these events are a great opportunity to mingle with musicians, guest artists, composers, other symphony fans, and of course, the Maestro. All are welcome at this event and the $20 ticket buys you entry, hors d’oeuvres, and drinks.

GUEST ARTIST

Kathryn Mueller
Soprano

American soprano Kathryn Mueller has made a mark with her “appealing stage presence of personal warmth and musicianship”, singing a wide range of repertoire from period baroque performances to world premieres of new works. 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 as a guest artist with the award-winning early music group Wayward Sisters, and has also sung operatic roles for Arizona Opera, the North Carolina HIP Music Festival, and Bach Collegium San Diego.

Kathryn’s honors include a GRAMMY nomination for her solo work on True Concord’s album Far in the Heavens,” and prizes from the Oratorio Society of New York’s Solo Competition and Early Music America’s Baroque Performance Competition. She was also an Adams fellows at the Carmel Bach Festival. Kathryn has recorded two GRAMMY-nominated albums with Seraphic Fire, and is featured as a soloist on Seraphic Fire’s best-selling Monteverdi Vespers of 1610.

An advocate for new music, Kathryn co-commissioned and premiered The History of Red, a concerto-length work for soprano and orchestra by USA Fellow Reena Esmail.

Kathryn was born in San Francisco, began her musical studies at 7,000 feet elevation in the White Mountains of Arizona, and got her first pro gig (church choir section leader) during high school in Rhode Island. She went to college at Brown University and then earned a Masters degree in vocal performance from the University of Arizona. She is based in Raleigh, NC. Kathryn is a member of Beyond Artists and supports the Poor People’s Campaign with this performance.