Southwest Symphony Announces 2023-2024 Season "CELEBRATE!"

Southwest Symphony announces its 2023-2024 Season, CELEBRATE! A season of fun and entertainment to Celebrate Southwest Symphony’s upcoming 40th Anniversary!

The festivities begin on September 9, from 6:30 – 9:00pm at Rockwind Grill for the annual Social Party. Come out for food and a cash bar, while you and your friends enjoy the music with special guest, the Justin Kemp Trio. This is a public event and Season Tickets will be available for purchase.

Monday, September 18, will bring in the first official performance of the season with Collision of Rhythm at R.N. Tydings Auditorium at 7:00pm. Billed as “Stomp meets Blue Man Group meets Cirque du Soleil”, Collision of Rhythm will leave you not just entertained but inspired, empowered, full of joy and pulsing with a fresh understanding that music connects us all.

Violin duo Sons of Mystro bring their reggae, hip-hop, blues, jazz, and classical mix to the stage on Friday, October 13 at 7:00pm. Brothers Malcolm and Umoja McNeish are graduates of Dillard High School for the Performing Arts. They are also winners of the Emerging Artists under 21 award at the International Reggae and World Music Awards.

Southwest Symphony Orchestra will be performing a Christmas concert at R.N. Tydings on Sunday, November 19, at 3:00pm. This concert will include many of the traditional Christmas songs you and your family know and love. What a perfect way to begin the holiday season!

The annual Youth Series for Lea County elementary students will take place January 29-30, 2024. This season Southwest Symphony Orchestra will present “Instruments at Play”. During this extensive event, orchestra members not only from Hobbs, but from all over New Mexico and Texas come together to practice and perform over a three-day period. Lea County 4th and 5th graders will be bused in on Monday and Tuesday January 29 and 30 for a special educational performance from the Southwest Symphony Orchestra. Monday, January 29, at 7:00pm will be a public performance of “Instruments at Play” at R.N. Tydings Auditorium.

This season Southwest Symphony’s Artistic Director, Dr. Mark Jelinek, will serve as a guest cellist. Dr. Jelinek is a Hobbs native and holds a BME and MA from ENMU, as well as his Doctor of Musical Arts from ASU, where he studied cello and conducting. The concert will be on Sunday, March 3, at 3:00pm at First United Methodist Church. Selections for this concert will include “Beethoven’s 5 Secrets” and “Kol Nidrei” along with the Symphony playing selections like Mendelssohn’s “Reformation” Symphony.

For over ten years, Bridge & Wolak have had a ball twisting up classical, world music, and improv comedy. They bring their performance of “Bach to Benny” to Tydings Auditorium in Hobbs, on Saturday, April 27, at 7:00pm. This entertaining clarinet and accordion duo will capture your heart with their whimsical take on the classics and jazz, while their comedic style will have you smiling.

Season tickets are available for $100 each and are available at www.swsymphony.org, Music World and Q Systems Music & Sound.

Individual tickets are available at the door for $25.