JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The Jacksonville Symphony will open its 2026\/27 season Friday and Saturday, Sept. 25 and 26, with a program featuring Mozart and Tchaikovsky at the renovated Jacoby Symphony Hall. Led by Music Director Courtney Lewis, the concerts feature guest pianist Evren Ozel, a bronze medalist at the 17th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.<\/p>\n
The opening concert program includes selections from Tchaikovsky\u2019s \u201cSwan Lake Suite,\u201d Mozart\u2019s Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-flat major, K. 482 and Guillaume Connesson\u2019s \u201cMaslenitsa.\u201d <\/p>\n
Music Director Courtney Lewis described the opening program as an energetic and emotional performance. \u201cIf you\u2019re looking for a concert that lifts you out of the everyday into a whirlwind of irrepressible energy, this one\u2019s for you,\u201d Lewis said. \u201cIt showcases the cinematic power and emotional depth of symphonic music and celebrates the power of love to transcend all obstacles.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pianist Ozel earned the bronze medal at the 17th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2025. He is also a recipient of a 2023 Avery Fisher Career Grant and a 2022 Salon de Virtuosi Career Grant, as well as an Ambassador Prize Winner in the Concert Artists Guild\u2019s 2021 Competition. <\/p>\n
The performance is part of the Greta Challen Berg Artists Series and the David M. Hicks Piano Series, with sponsorship provided by Florida Blue. <\/p>\n
The season-opening concerts take place Friday, Sept. 25 and Saturday, Sept. 26, at the newly renovated Jacoby Symphony Hall inside the Jacksonville Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets for both performances are available online through JaxSymphony.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n >>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The Jacksonville Symphony will open its 2026\/27 season Friday and Saturday, Sept. 25 and 26,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[344,347,161150,161151,28,348,116,351,118,117,13875,161149,349,350,7560,346,345],"class_list":["post-405881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-action-news-jax","tag-cbs47","tag-courtney-lewis","tag-evren-ozel","tag-florida","tag-fox30","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-fl","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jacksonville-symphony","tag-jacoby-symphony-hall","tag-northeast-florida","tag-southeast-georgia","tag-tchaikovsky","tag-wfox","tag-wjax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}