Dear Friends and Music-Lovers,

It is my pleasure to welcome you to Alamo City Symphony Viva’s 2024-2025 season, the orchestra’s NINTH year of music-making! As the orchestra approaches a decade of artistic growth and close ties with the community, Viva will present SEVEN unique performances that are sure to inspire, excite, and uplift you!

This season’s symphonic series highlights the breadth and depth of the Classical and Mariachi traditions. Our September program, entitled “Exuberance”, explores energetic and celebratory works by Rossini, Ravel, and Beethoven featuring the electrifying playing of violinist, UTSA faculty, and SA Philharmonic member Stephanie Westney. In November’s “Dreams and Fate” concert, Viva is joined by pianist Paul Jensen for Manuel de Falla’s atmospheric “Nights in the Garden of Spain” and the orchestra probes the depths of Tchaikovsky’s momentous Symphony No. 5. February’s program (“Spring”) features the Suite for 13 Instruments from Copland’s timeless American ballet Appalachian Spring, along with a pairing of Vivaldi concertos (including his famous “Spring” violin concerto from his “Four Seasons”), performed by Symphony Viva concertmaster Ryan Coppin and principal flutist Gregory Obregon. In March, we are honored to partner again with the nationally renowned Mariachi ensemble Campanas de America in what is sure to be a thrilling collaboration at Our Lady of the Lake University. And finally, in June, following a tremendously successful performance last season of Fauré’s Requiem and Poulenc’s Gloria, the San Antonio Choral Society (led by Dr. Jennifer Seighman) joins us once again for a thrilling program (“Opposites Attract”) of Ola Gjeilo’s transcendental Sunrise Mass and Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite.

We anchor each season around two wonderful collaborations with our Alamo City Arts artistic partner, the Alamo City Dance Company. No season would be complete without our full production of The Nutcracker, complete with live orchestra, stunning costumes, and exciting young onstage talent. And, in May, we look forward to a full production of the Léo Delibes’s classic ballet, Coppélia.

Thanks to you, our devoted patrons, we continue to grow our audiences and artistic scope each concert season. Please click the "Tickets " tab below and the “Symphony Viva” tab at the top of the page to explore our season, productions, repertoire, and guest artists.

We look forward to seeing you for our first performance on September 22 and welcoming you to another fantastic season of energetic music-making, collaboration, thrilling soloists, and enduring musical memories!

Musically Yours,

Joseph T. Kneer
Music Director and Conductor
Alamo City Symphony Viva