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Symphony Orchestra, “Honors Concert and Enigma Variations”

Image shows MSU percussion, brass and woodwind players playing isntruments on stage in front of music stands.

Friday, March 26, 2027

Wharton Center

7:30 pm

Tickets go on sale to the public beginning August 19

The MSU Symphony Orchestra presents its annual Honors Concert, celebrating outstanding student soloists from the Honors Concerto Competition. The program also features The Descending Sun by Ethan Gurwitz, winner of the Jere Hutcheson Composition Competition, and Edward Elgar’s Enigma Variations, a masterful set of orchestral portraits that brings each character vividly to life. Conducted by Octavio Más-Arocas and Junting Yi.