Children's Concert Series

One of the Mid-Texas Symphony's proudest contributions to the community is the presentation of the Children's Concert Series which is held each year. Thousands of students from Comal and Guadalupe Counties are bused to the concert venue where they hear the Mid-Texas Symphony perform just for them. And with the help of generous supporters, it is all done at no cost to the children.

Young Artist Competition

Cellist Jun Seo, a student at the University of Texas – Austin won the Mid Texas Symphony 2010 Young Artist Competition in Strings. Seo will join the Mid-Texas Symphony in concert on Sunday, March 28, 2010 at the New Braunfels Civic Center, performing the first movement of the Schumann Cello Concerto in A minor.

Alexander Trygstad of Baylor University took the second place award on viola. Fahad Awan of Stephen F. Austin University, a violinist, finished third.

Next season’s Young Artist Competition, for winds, will be held in the winter of 2011.

The Young Artist Competition was supported by generous grants from the Cecilia Young Willard Helping Fund and the Union Pacific Foundation.

String Lessons

Together with Texas Lutheran University, the Mid-Texas Symphony sponsors string lessons for young strings students in the Seguin and New Braunfels area. Lessons are offered after school at a reasonable cost through the Community Music Academy. For information, contact sessma@tlu.edu.

Music Memory

The annual Mid-Texas Symphony Music Memory contest will be held Saturday, February 27, 2010 in the Wupperman Little Theater located in the Fine Arts building on the Texas Lutheran University campus. Students will demonstrate their knowledge of the UIL Music Memory list of compostions, composers, and music styles, competing individually and in teams.