The Season
The Symphony embarks on its sixtieth 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 mediums for telling stories.
The fall concert will be hosted by the Mount Vernon Nazarene University. The centerpiece of this concert will be Vasily Kalinnikov’s Symphony No. 1 in G Major.
The winter concert’s repertoire will largely be decided via the winners of the annual Young Musicians Competition that highlights the talents of our local high school and college aged students.
The Kenyon Community Choir will again collaborate with the Symphony in performing Johannes Brahms’s Song of Fate, plus another work to be announced.
CHILDREN’S CONCERT
Sunday, September 28, 2025 - 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 representaties from Kenyon’s Gund Gallery will design artistic activities for our young guests that relate to the music the orchestra plays— a comparison of Naudline Pierre’s Suspended in Tempo and Camille Saint-Saens’s Dänse Macabre, among others. FREE ADMISSION!
FALL CONCERT
Saturday, October 25, 2025 - 7:30 p.m.
R. R. Hodges Chapel Auditorium Mount Vernon Nazarene University Mount Vernon, Ohio
❧ To complement an evening out, enjoy a sumptuous pre-concert dinner on the campus of Mount Vernon Nazarene University.
Danse Macabre, op. 40
Camille Saint-Säens (1835–1921)
Two Melodies, op.53
Edvard Grieg (1906-1975) March of the Knights (from Romeo and Juliet)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Symphony No. 1 in G Major
Vasily Kalinnikov (1866-1901)
WINTER CONCERT:
Saturday, January 31, 2026 - 7:30 p.m.
Rosse Hall, Kenyon College
Gambier, Ohio
Academic Festival Overture
Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
Selections TBA
Winners of the Young Musicians Competition
“Jupiter” from The Planets, op. 34
Gustav Holst (1874–1934)
SPRING CONCERT:
Sunday, April 26, 2026 - 7:30 p.m.
Rosse Hall, Kenyon College
Gambier, Ohio
Song of Fate, op. 54
Johannes Brahms (1833–1997)
with the Kenyon Community Choir
The new parking garage is open for easy access to Rosse Hall.
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