FCS Principal Cellist, Stefan Kartman, will perform Dvořák’s Cello Concerto in Festival City Symphony’s 2021-2022 “Season Finale” Saturday Classics concert on Saturday, April 9, 2022 at 2:00pm at the Bradley Symphony Center. For tickets, click here or call the Bradley Symphony Center box office at (414)… Read More »FCS Principal Cellist, Stefan Kartman, performs Dvořák
FCS Principal Flute, Emma Koi, will perform Mozart’s timeless first Flute Concerto (Flute Concerto no. 1 in G, K. 313) in the upcoming Saturday Classics concert, “Mendelssohn and Mozart.” The concert will begin at 2 p.m. on Sat., Nov. 20, at the Bradley Symphony Center (212… Read More »FCS Principal Flute, Emma Koi, Featured in Nov. 20 Concert
Milwaukee, Wis.— Festival City Symphony (FCS), the area’s oldest performing symphony orchestra, is pleased to announce a new season of concerts for the 2021-2022 season. FCS will perform an all-new concert series, Saturday Classics, with four concerts at the new Bradley Symphony Center. The Pajama… Read More »Milwaukee’s Festival City Symphony Announces 2021-2022 Concert Season, New Venue
Sub List Audition Information Festival City Symphony holds sub list auditions in early September each year. Please check the website in August 2024 for more details and to sign up for an audition. The Festival City Symphony audition committee listens to sub list applicants unscreened.… Read More »Musician Auditions
Festival City Symphony is excited to announce the first concert of the 2020-2021 season. The free Holiday Pajama Jamboree will take place Wednesday, December 2, 2020 from 7:00-8:00 p.m. at the Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts. Featuring FCS Music Director Carter Simmons and… Read More »Holiday Pajama Jamboree Concert Dec. 2, 2020
In accordance with the recommendations of the Wisconsin Department of Health Services concerning COVID-19, Festival City Symphony has decided to end its Symphony Sundays and Pajama Jamborees 2019-2020 season. The final two Symphony Sunday concerts, “Let Freedom Ring!” and “Monuments,” originally scheduled for Sunday, March… Read More »NOTICE: March & May Concerts Postponed
Jeannie Yu was awarded first prize in the Frinna Awerbuch Piano Competition, the Flint Symphony International Concerto Competition, the Portland Symphony International Concerto Competition, and the Kingsville Piano Competition. She earned the prestigious Gina Bachauer Memorial Scholarship Award, a full scholarship for a Master’s Degree program… Read More »Jeannie Yu Featured in “Rhapsody and Romance: Legends of the Piano” Concert May 5, 2019
Principal clarinet of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the Santa Fe Opera Orchestra and participant in the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, three-time Grammy Award-winner Todd Levy has performed as a soloist at Carnegie Hall, the Mostly Mozart Festival, with the Israel Philharmonic, and at the… Read More »Todd Levy Featured in “Copland and Levy: American Masters” Concert March 31, 2019
Festival City Symphony: May 13, 2018 | Notes by Roger Ruggeri © 2018 Carl Maria von Weber November 18, 1786; Eutin June 5, 1826; London Overture to “Der Freischütz” Derived from German legend, Weber’s opera, Der Freischütz, is filled with Teutonic superstition and diabolical elements. Pacts… Read More »Program Notes: “Legends and Masters” Symphony Sundays – May 13, 2018
