The Season
The symphony embarks on its sixty-first consecutive season. Our children’s concert will again be held at Ariel-Foundation Park as our first public (and free!) presentation. We thank the Ariel-Foundation board of directors for inviting us again to close their summer series, and also the Gund Gallery Associates for providing activities—this year relating how both music and art can be a clever arrangement of patterns.
The fall concert will be hosted by the Mount Vernon Nazarene University. The centerpiece of this concert will be a symphonic work by Ohio composer Vera Stanojevic, Imagine This, which the Knox County Symphony commissioned and premiered in 2019.
The winter concert’s repertoire will be determined largely by the winners of the annual Young Musicians Competition, which highlights the talents of our local high school and college-aged students.
For the spring, the Kenyon Community Choir will again collaborate with the symphony in a performance of the Requiem in D Minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
CHILDREN’S CONCERT
Sunday, September 27, 2026—3:00 p.m.
Schnormeier Event Center, Ariel-Foundation Park Mount Vernon, Ohio
A potpourri of music designed for listeners of all ages! Jodi Kovach, deputy director of curatorial affairs and education, and other representatives from Kenyon’s Gund Gallery will design artistic activities for our young guests that relate to the music the orchestra plays. For this concert the symphony will be drawing inspiration from Korean artist Haegue Yang’s piece in the Gund Gallery collection, Swaying Flaring Blooming Formation— Mesmerizing Mesh #135. FREE ADMISSION, and plenty of cookies and cider for our guests!
FALL CONCERT
Saturday, October 31, 2026—7:30 p.m.
R. R. Hodges Chapel Auditorium Mount Vernon Nazarene University Mount Vernon, Ohio
The Thieving Magpie Overture
Gioachino Rossini
(1792–1868)
Variations on a Shaker Melody
Aaron Copland
(1900–1990)
Imagine This
Vera Stanojevic
Night on Bald Mountain
Modest Mussorgsky
(1839–1881)
WINTER CONCERT:
Saturday, February 13, 2027—7:30 p.m.
Rosse Hall, Kenyon College Gambier, Ohio
Music from Encanto
Lin-Manuel Miranda;
arranged by Larry Moore
Selections TBA:
Winners of the Young Musicians Competition
Pirates of the Caribbean Suite
Klaus Badelt;
arranged by Ted Ricketts
SPRING CONCERT:
Sunday, May 2, 2027—7:30 p.m.
Rosse Hall, Kenyon College Gambier, Ohio
Requiem in D Minor, K. 626
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(1756–1791)
with the Kenyon Community Choir
The new parking garage is open for easy access to Rosse Hall.
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