Austin Area Symphony and Opera
Under the baton of Peter Bay, the symphony presents arrangements by the world's greatest composers with performances year-round. Also check out the Austin Youth Symphany.
P: 512-476-6064
The AYO program, founded in 1993, was established to enhance orchestral music education in the metropolitan Austin and central Texas area. The various orchestras accommodate different levels of experience, playing ability, and age groupings
Founded in May 1986 as Austin's first professional opera company, the Austin Lyric Opera has rapidly become a cultural touchstone for the fine arts community in the Central Texas Region and gained national-acclaim as a producer of great opera.
P: 512-472-5992
The Austin Civic Chorus was founded in 1964. The Austin Vocal Arts Ensemble, formally known as the Austin Handel-Haydn Society, was founding in 1985. In 1999, the two ensembles merged to be managed and operated by a newly formed non-profit corporation, Chorus Austin. Each of the ensembles maintains its own season of performances, musical style, and membership.
P: 512-719-3300
The Austin Civic Orchestra (ACO) is a non-profit civic organization devoted to bringing high quality music to the community and providing a musical outlet for professional and non-professional musicians alike. The Orchestra performs approximately eight concerts each season, all of which offer programming to suit a wide variety of musical tastes, from traditional classics to pops and most everything in between.
P: 512-301-7370
Under the baton of Music Director Richard Floyd, this Texas-based group has become one of this nation's premier volunteer concert bands. The band was awarded the John Philip Sousa Foundation's coveted Sudler Silver Scroll in 1993.
The band's 2007-2008 season extends the band's tradition of bringing quality music to the community with the continuation of our three concert Subscription Series. The Series features themed concerts and fine guest artists.
P: 512-345-7420
The Austin Chamber Ensemble was formed in 1981 as a wind quintet. It began with a series of six concerts in 1985 as a tribute to the Texas Sesquicentennial with the "Six Flags Over Texas" concerts featuring composers from France, Spain, Texas, Mexico, the Confederacy, and the US.
Although it initially had a wind quintet as its core ensemble, it has gradually branched out to include all instrumental and vocal combinations in its concerts.
P: 512-345-3399
The Austin Chord Rangers are a group of men of all ages who enjoy singing together in a cappella four-part harmony, both as a chorus and in organized quartets. Singing what is best known as "Barbershop Harmony," one of the four truly unique, American-born styles of music.
P: 512-477-SONG
The Austin Civic Wind Ensemble (ACWE) is Austin's oldest community band and is an ensemble formed of both amateur and professional musicians. The mission of the band is twofold: to provide an ensemble for Austin area musicians who want to pursue music performance as a hobby and to bring public performances of great concert band literature to the Austin community.
P: 512-345-3399
The Austin Classical Guitar Society is thrilled to present three unique and exciting events this summer. The series begins in a picturesque setting with delicious food and beautiful music in support of the ACGS educational outreach program. In June, Jorge Caballero and the Axis String Quartet will present two evenings of South American music at the Mexican American Cultural Center. The series closes with one of the premiere guitar quartets in the world -- the Brazilian Guitar Quartet.
P: 512-300-2247
The purpose of the Capital City Men's Chorus is to provide a creative and welcoming environment for gay men to rehearse and perform high quality , diverse choral music that is entertaining and inspirational to its audience. The Chorus offers a safe social outlet to its members and presents a positive and respected image of the gay community.
P: 512-477-SING
The Chamber Soloists of Austin perform with guest artists from across the country each year in their Austin concert series and annual chamber orchestra concert without conductor. The annual orchestra concert has included evenings of all six Bach Brandenburg Concertos in Bates Recital Hall at UT, as well as Mozart Birthday Celebrations and concerts of the music of Vivaldi. The ensemble has received funds from the City of Austin in order to produce the Austin concert series. Since the 1991-1992 season, the group has been on the roster of the Texas Commission on the Arts' Touring Program and has performed in many towns throughout Texas. The Chamber Soloists have also been participants in the Mid-America Arts Alliance touring program.
P: 512-499-0060
The Heart Of Texas Chorus is the performing chorus of the Central Texas Corridor
Chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society, the largest all-male singing organization in
the world. Established in early 1994 under the principles of Total Quality Management, the chorus vision is to serve as a model for a new generation of barbershop choruses; not only
from the standpoint of singing and performance excellence, but also from the
perspective of how a chorus may be effectively organized and operated.
P: 866-801-4238
La Follia Austin Baroque, founded in 1980 and based in Austin, Texas, performs Baroque music using instruments and performance styles proper to the Baroque period (c. 1600-1750).
River City Pops (RCP), under the musical direction of Sheryl Jones, is a pop/variety show choir that's been entertaining family audiences in Austin, TX, since 1984. The group is composed of twenty-five voices, give or take a few, who love to sing and perform for the fun of it!
P: 512-350-POPS
Tapestry Singers (a.k.a. the Austin WomenŒs Chorus) was founded in 1987 by Ruth Huber to provide women in the greater Austin area the opportunity to sing together and explore their vocal abilities, regardless of skill level or experience. Today, this vibrant organization continues to welcome closet crooners and shower sopranos of all abilities to join in and sing along in a dynamic program of varied repertoire and exciting performance opportunities.
P: 512-471-0851
The Wild Basin Winds quintet was founded in 1996 by five talented musicians who have performed together in orchestras around the globe for almost two decades. As accomplished performers, college professors and lively compatriots they are delighted to be offering polished and imaginative concerts and educational presentations to audiences everywhere.
P: 512-331-9333