As we move beyond uncertain times, the Carmel Symphony Orchestra brings you a season of Hope Renewed. Single tickets are now on sale for the 2020-21 season, which begins in October.
Saturday, Oct. 10 will be the opening concert for the season. Hope Renewed is the title for this year’s Masterworks Series. The 7:30 p.m. concert will be performed at The Palladium in The Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel. This performance will include Bartok’s Romanian Folk Dances, Grieg’s Holberg Suite and Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings.
Saturday, Nov. 14, also at 7:30 p.m., is Masterworks 2, featuring Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major and Rossini’s Barber of Seville Overture. This concert will feature CSO’s 2019 Young Artist Competition Winner, Cooper Olsen.
Olsen
The Carmel Symphony Orchestra proudly sponsors the annual CSO Young Artists Competition, a unique and prestigious concerto competition allowing Indiana student musicians the opportunity to compete with their peers at the highest level of artistic excellence and have the amazing experience of performing in The Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts.
Olsen was 14 when he won as the CSO Young Artist. He is a freshman at Bloomington North High School in Bloomington, Ind. He won the Young Artist Competition with a performance of Saint-Saens’ Violin Concerto #3, 3rd movement, and studies with Mimi Zweig, professor of music at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music.
The Holiday Pops Concerts presented by IU Health on Saturday, Dec. 12 will cap off 2020. This show will get you prepared for a holiday season filled with inspiration. The annual performance of the Holiday Pops Concert is a celebration for all ages and features singer Heather Bays.
Bays
Heather Bays is now a first call studio singer in the Nashville, Tenn., Indianapolis and Chicago areas where she records voiceovers, jingles, choral demos, film scores and video games. Her versatility, professionalism and experience have given her the opportunity to perform and record with many significant artists and companies over the years, including Hans Zimmer, Disney, EA games, Bill Gaither, Sandi Patty and Josh Kaufmann, just to name a few. She is a seasoned performer and has sung the national anthem for the Indianapolis Colts, the Pacers and the Fever and has performed as a featured artist with many symphonies around the country.
Bays says she is honored to partner with Janna Hymes and is grateful to be able to serve the entire CSO organization and give back to her community in this way. She lives in Carmel with her husband David Watts and her sweet cocker spaniel of 14 years, Mimi. She is a proud mom to two adult daughters, Chloe and Evalee.
Single tickets for the Hope Renewed Masterworks concerts, as well as the Holiday Pops Concerts presented by IU Health, are now on sale. To order tickets, you may call the Center for Performing Arts Box Office at (317) 843-3800.
Visit CarmelSymphony.org to learn more.