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–Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Welcome to Our 2025-26 Season
Dear Friends of SoNA,
We look forward to our 2025-26 season with great anticipation and are excited to invite you to join us for a spectacular subscriber series lineup!
This season promises to be an exciting time of transition and discovery as we search for the next Music Director of the Symphony of Northwest Arkansas. Each of our masterworks programs will feature Guest Conductors who are finalists for the position, and they will lead us through a season of some of the most beloved and beautiful music ever written – from Berlioz’s iconic Symphonie Fantastique to Beethoven’s magnificent 7th symphony, Rimsky-Korsakov’s gorgeous Scheherazade and Prokofiev’s timeless Romeo and Juliet.
As always, the centerpiece of our season will be our community favorite Christmas concert, and this year our dear friend Jack Cleghorn will conduct the orchestra on this beloved celebration of the holiday season.
Please join us as we come together to bring great music to life in Northwest Arkansas!
Ben Harris Executive Director
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Student Subscriptions:
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2025-26 Guest Conductors
Lawrence Loh David Glover
Jack Cleghorn
Akiko Fujimoto
Tamara Dworetz
2025-26 Season at Walton Arts Center
Celestial Visions:
Symphonie Fantastique
SEPT 20, 2025 – 7:30 PM
Lawrence Loh, Guest Conductor
Missy Mazzoli – Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres)
Johannes Brahms – Variations on a Theme by Haydn
Hector Berlioz – Symphonie Fantastique
Celebration in Motion: Beethoven 7
NOV 2, 2025 – 2 PM
David Glover, Guest Conductor
William Grant Still – Festive Overture
Bedřich Smetana – Má Vlast: Moldau & Šárka
Jessie Montgomery – Starburst
Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No. 7
DEC 6, 2025 – 2 PM & 7:30 PM
Jack Cleghorn, Guest Conductor
A pops concert showcasing holiday classics with the SoNA Singers and special guest soloists. A Northwest Arkansas tradition!
the Silk Road: Scheherazade
JAN 31, 2026 – 7:30 PM
Akiko Fujimoto, Guest Conductor
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Overture to the Abduction from the Seraglio
Alexander Borodin – In the Steppes of Central Asia
Maurice Ravel – Mother Goose Suite
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Scheherazade
MAR 7, 2026 – 7:30 PM
Tamara Dworetz, Guest Conductor
Antonin Dvořák – Carnival Overture
Carl Nielsen – Maskarade Overture
Anna Clyne – Masquerade
Aram Khachaturian – Masquerade
Suite: Waltz & Galop
Sergei Prokofiev – Romeo and Juliet