Lewisville Lake Symphony

Here's a fun fact! Our soloist for Friday's concert will be Elim Wong, violin. One of Elim's teachers is Shannon Lee, an internationally known violinist. Shannon also performed as a soloist with the Lewisville Lake Symphony. In fact she performed 3 times! -- in 2006, 2008, and 2013. Here is a picture of Shannon.

Please join us for the Lewisville Lake Symphony for our Symphony Series Finale. We will be playing Beethoven’s famous 5th symphony as well as featuring the Grand Prize Winner of the Vernell Gregg Young Artists Competition, Elim Wong. She will be performing Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto.

What a wonderful chamber concert last night! The three tenors from UNT College of Music were magnificent! An added bonus was Timothy Martin's exhibit of his amazing astrophotography. We are grateful to Jamie and Susan Martin and Timothy and Christy Martin's generous sponsorship of this concert in honor of their mother, Korkye Purvviance.

The symphony’s annual concert for LISD third graders was wonderful as usual.

Meet Xiaoliang Qian! He is the Grand Prize winner of the Lewisville Lake Symphony International Piano Competition for 2024. He is studying at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, and will perform Prokofiev's Concerto #2 with the Lewisville Lake Symphony on September 13

Happy Wednesday! It's time to mark your calendars once again. The Lewisville Lake Symphony is having a concert featuring three fabulous tenor singers, Lwazi Hlalti, Cecil Garrison, and Zhihui Pang. You won't want to miss it! The performance will also be free to the public. The concert will be held on March 22nd at 7:30PM. Location listed below.

Trinity Presbyterian Church
5500 Morriss Road, Flower Mound, TX

In addition to hearing three fabulous tenors at our March 22 chamber concert, you have the opportunity to visit the incredible photography of Timothy Martin. "Creatures of the Deep Sky: An Astrophotography Exhibit by an Accidental Astronomer" will fascinate you! Here's an example:

Happy Friday! Today we'd like to introduce our Principal Trombonist, James McNair.

Please check out Mr. McNair's incredible bio down below!

James McNair is in his 13th year with Argyle Band Staff and his 26th year as a music educator. Mr. McNair teaches 6th grade beginner brass classes and assists with the Argyle High School Marching Band and the Argyle Middle School Varsity and Non-Varsity Bands.

Mr. McNair’s experience as a musician and music educator over the past 30 years is as vast as it is varied ranging from military musician to middle school band director to elementary music teacher to private lesson teacher to college professor. Mr. McNair served as Assistant Professor of Music, Associate Director of Bands and Coordinator of Instrumental Music Education at Texas Christian University from 2005-2008. Previous to this appointment at TCU, Mr. McNair taught for ten years in some of the country’s finest band programs including Lake Highlands High School, The Colony High School and Cross Timbers Middle School. Mr. McNair is an active clinician, consultant, and adjudicator throughout the state and has been a clinician for the Texas Music Educators Convention and Texas Bandmasters Conventions in San Antonio.

Mr. McNair is a former member of The “President’s Own” United States Marine Band in Washington, D.C. where he performed regularly at the White House for the President of the United States, on many Marine Band recordings, and on national tours. Mr. McNair is also in high demand as one of the most versatile freelance trombonists in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. He performs regularly with the East Texas Symphony Orchestra, the Lewisville Lake Symphony Orchestra, the Plano Symphony Orchestra, and Imperial Brass. He has also performed with the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, the Dallas Opera, the Dallas Winds, the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, the Richardson Symphony Orchestra, the Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra, and the Las Colinas Symphony Orchestra.

As a soloist, he has performed with The Colony High School Wind Symphony and the Rowlett High School Brass Quintet at the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago, the Coyle Middle School Honor Band at TMEA and with the Dallas Wind Symphony. Mr. McNair is a two-time winner of the Eastern Trombone Workshop National Classical Solo Competition in Washington, D.C.

Mr. McNair has maintained a private trombone studio throughout his career and has had multiple students make various All-State groups at TMEA. Mr. McNair’s students have been accepted to Texas A&M University-Commerce, the University of North Texas, Southern Methodist University, Baylor University, Oklahoma State University, Indiana University, the Eastman School of Music, and the Manhattan School of Music. Mr. McNair was recognized at the 2016 TCU Trombone Summit and presented the “Unsung Hero Award” for his contributions to the trombone community through teaching and performance. Also in 2016, he was named Teacher of the Year for Argyle Intermediate School.

Mr. McNair earned a Bachelor of Music Education degree from East Texas State University where his primary teachers included Dr. Neill Humfeld, Jim Clark, Ed Jones, Mike Morrow, and Tom Bennett. He also earned a Master of Music in trombone performance from Texas A&M University-Commerce. Mr. McNair resides in Hurst with his beautiful and talented wife, Christin who is a band director in the Mansfield ISD.

The kids and their parents had a wonderful time yesterday at "Peter and the Wolf."

Last call for purchasing tickets to Peter and the Wolf! We hope to see you there tomorrow.

Lamb of God Lutheran Church
1401 Cross Timbers Road
Flower Mound, TX

February 24th, 2024 - 03:00PM

You can find more ticketing information at https://www.lewisvillesymphony.org/

Have you purchased your tickets for Peter and the Wolf this weekend? If not, hurry and get some! Tickets are selling out fast. Our 2023 was a sellout production!

We also invite you to bring your kids for our instrument petting zoo after the performance!

We look forward to seeing you February 24, 2024 at 3:00PM at the Lamb of God Lutheran Church.

Happy Monday! We hope you all are having a wonderful Monday so far. This week, we’d like to share our wonderful Principal Oboist, Sally Bohls.

Sally Bohls is a professional performer, contractor, studio musician, and private teacher in the Dallas Metroplex. She has been the principal oboist in the Lewisville Lake Symphony Orchestra since 1985. Sally is the oboe side of Bocal Majority Band Director Boot Camps and master classes. Sally is actively sought after as a guest soloist, clinician, and adjudicator. She has articles published in national and international magazines and journals and has co-authored a classroom method book for double reeds. She has been playing oboe since 1967 and started teaching oboe in 1976.

She holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Texas Tech University and a Master of Music degree from Southern Methodist University. She has studied oboe with Stephen Lickman and Eric Barr of the Dallas Symphony and been a participant in master classes and seminars given by John Mack and Ray Still. Sally has played auditions and made the finals for the Boston Symphony and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Sally has played under the batons of Henry Mancini, Col. Lowell Graham, Howard Dunn and Marvin Hamlisch. She plays with the Lewisville Lake Symphony, Dallas Summer Musicals, and has recorded CD’s with the Turtle Creek Chorale. Her woodwind quintet, all about 5, performs throughout the state and at national music conventions.

She has a private studio of young oboists grades 6 thru 12 and has taught at the university level. Sally tries to instill a profound sense of self-worth and joy of playing in all of her students.

Her husband, Jon, is a professional musician/trombone teacher. Sally has three sons, David, Jason, and Mark who are successful musicians themselves. She currently resides in Carrollton, Texas.

Thank you to everyone that came out to hear our production of Pulcinella last night! Please keep an eye out for more information regarding our next concert.

Please join us this week for our performance of Pulcinella by Igor Stravinsky. During the performance you will hear Zhihui Pang, tenor, Kara McBain, soprano, and Jeffrey Tarr, bass, singing beautifully. This exciting love story will be at The Lewisville Grand Theater 100 N Charles St, Lewisville, TX 75057 at 7:30PM.

Please join us on February 24th, 2024 at 3:00 PM for a production of Peter and the Wolf presented by the Lewisville Lake Symphony and the Lakecities Ballet Theatre. We recommend purchasing tickets in advance as our 2023 performance was a sell-out event!

Stay tuned afterwards to learn about your favorite instruments in the orchestra at the instrument petting zoo.

For more information, please visit our website.

Throughout this season we would like to introduce various members of our orchestra! Please meet Maestro Adron Ming.

A native of Weslaco, Texas, Maestro Ming received his Masters Degree in Music Theory from Baylor University where he studied cello and chamber music with Lev Aronson and conducting with Daniel Sternberg. Ming also served on the Baylor faculty as instructor of music theory and assistant conductor of the Baylor and Waco Symphonies. While attending the University of North Texas, Ming studied conducting with Anshel Brusilow before joining the faculty of Bethel College in St. Paul, Minnesota, as Assistant Professor of Music and Conductor of the Bethel Chamber Symphony.

Ming has led the Toledo Symphony Orchestra, the Taipei Sunshine Symphony Orchestra in Taiwan, the Plano Symphony, Irving Symphony, the Chamber Symphony of the Metrocrest, and the New Philharmonic of Irving. He was Associate Conductor of the Richardson Symphony until 2010. In 2016 he became Director of the String Orchestra at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Mark your calendars! The Lewisville Lake Symphony is having their next symphony concert featuring three wonderful artists on February 16th at 7:30PM in The Lewisville Grand Theatreq. Please stay tuned for additional information about this concert in the near future. We would love to see you there and thank you for supporting live music!

Congratulations to Ronnie Lingren, the Lewisville Lake Symphony's 2023 Angel. Every year each of the member arts groups of the Greater Lewisville Arts Alliance chooses a volunteer who has added great value to the organization that year to receive the Angel Award. Ronnie has not only been Board Chair for two years, but he is always the first to volunteer to help with anything that needs doing at our many events. Volunteers like Ronnie make possible the many outreach activities for which the symphony is known. Thanks, Ronnie!

Attention pianists and piano professors! The Lewisville Lake Symphony International Piano Competition deadline for entries is January 2, 2024. For information and application go to
https://app.getacceptd.com/lewisvillesymphony

Below is Ilya Shmukler, 2020 Second Prize Winner of the Lewisville Lake Symphony International Piano Competition and Finalist in the 2022 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.

Are you ready?

To hear music that will take you back to the big top with clowns, elephants, and cotton candy?

To hear the music that won the Oscar for Best Music in a Motion Picture in 1965? Hint: it includes "Do-Re-Mi" and "Edelweiss"

To hear a familiar march from an opera that was once criticized in France because of its "obscene" libretto?

To hear a favorite by Leroy Williams that features a typewriter as a percussion instrument?

Join us on Friday, November 17, at 7:30 pm for "Romeo and Juliet and Other Audience Favorites," destined to be one of our most popular concerts of the season.

For tickets and more information, go to www.LewisvilleSymphony.org.

We had a fabulous opening to our 40th season last night. TJ Gilmore, Mayor of Lewisville, read a proclamation and we heard a very talented Julia Grünbaum perform Glière's "Concerto for Harp." After the concert we celebrated with cake!

Why do we play music?

Not because we expect you to be an expert in classical music...
Not because we expect you to play or sing all your life...
But so you will be human...
So you will recognize beauty...
So you will be closer to an infinite beyond this world...
So you will have something to cling to...
So you will have more love, more compassion, more
gentleness, more good --
in short, more LIFE.

Today is North Texas Giving Day. Support the Lewisville Lake Symphony by clicking www.NorthTexasGivingDay.org/lewisville-lake-symphony-association

"Music is a basic need of human survival. Music is one of the ways we make sense of our lives, one of the ways in which we express feelings when we have no words, a way for us to understand things with our hearts when we can't with our minds." -- Karl Paulnack, pianist and director of the music division at Ithaca College in a speech to parents of incoming freshmen on the importance of what their children have chosen to do with their lives by becoming musicians.

Keep the music in our community and in our lives by supporting The Lewisville Lake Symphony between now and Thursday, September 21, by clicking
ww.northtexasgivingday.org/lewisville-lake-symphony-association

So happy to see this article in the Cross Timbers Gazette!

Lewisville Lake Symphony kicking off 40th anniversary season - Cross Timbers Gazette | Southern Denton County | Flower Mound | News The Lewisville Lake Symphony is celebrating its 40th anniversary with its first concert of the 2023-24 season next week. Music Director and Conductor Adron Ming has been there since the first concert and has watched it grow over the last four decades. “We started off as an all-volunteer community ...

Now you can have your cake and eat it too!

Join us for our first concert of the orchestra's 40th anniversary season featuring an outstanding program followed by a celebration with cake in the lobby.

But hurry! Tickets are going fast!

Julia Grünbaum, Harp
Grand Prize Winner of the 2023 International Competition for Strings and Harp

Friday, September 22
7:30 pm

Lewisville Grand Theater
100 N. Charles St, Lewisville

Glière: Harp Concerto
Mendelssohn Italian Symphony

So you are not wild about classical music...why should you support the Lewisville Lake Symphony?

Because a local professional orchestra strengthens our community. It provides employment for musicians and venue staff and encourages local tourism. People and businesses like having cultural activities available. And it enhances the lives and creates new experiences for all citizens, young and old.

Schedule your gift now through September 21 at

NTX Giving Day: Give With Purpose North Texas Giving Day is the largest one-day giving event in the country. In 2022, North Texans gave $62 million to 3,200 local nonprofits!

So you don't care much for classical music...why should you support the Lewisville Lake Symphony?

Because a local professional orchestra strengthens our community. It provides employment for musicians and venue staff and encourages local tourism. People and businesses like having cultural activities available. And it enhances the lives and creates new experiences for all citizens, young and old.

Schedule your gift now through September 21 at
http://www.NorthTexasGivingDay.org

See more about the Lewisville Lake Symphony and our impact on the community by clicking below:

Did you know?

Last year's Lewisville Lake Symphony season broke all previous attendance records with sold out concerts for the last three performances.

The orchestra has planned another blockbuster year to celebrate its 40th anniversary with performances by competition winners, a concert of pop favorites, and finally "Beethoven's Fifth Symphony."

Funding for the local arts, including our funding, has been cut for the last few years, forcing us closer to using contingency funds.

North Texas Giving Day is September 21, with early giving starting this Friday, September 1.

We need your support to continue bringing live classical music and youth programs to North Texas.

Learn more about North Texas Giving Day at www.northtexasgivingday.org.

Save the date!

Join us for our 40th Anniversary of Great Music...Nearby!

We sold out our last 2 concerts last year, so get your tickets now to make sure you don't miss one great musical moment of this special season.

Our 40th Anniversary Symphony Series includes:

September 22 -- Julia Grünbaum, Harp (winner of the 2023 International Competition for Strings and Harp)

November 17 -- Romeo and Juliet and Other Favorites

February 16 -- Pulcinella: a Neapolitan Love Story

April 12 -- Beethoven's Fifth and the Winner of the Vernell Gregg Young Artists Competition

Get your tickets at www.LewisvilleSymphony.org/copy-of-tickets