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Wingate Pops Union Symphony Orchestra September 11, 2020, 5:30PM Wingate University Lawn Season Opener Union Symphony Orchestra October 3, 2020, 7:30PM Dowd Theater tickets at http://unionsymphony.org Preludes Jacksonville Symphony October 28 and 29, 2020, 10:00AM and 11:30AM Jacoby Hall, Times-Union Center The Return of the Jedi Jacksonville Symphony November 20 and 21, 2020, 7:00PM Jacoby Hall, Times-Union Center tickets at http://jaxsymphony.org The Nutcracker Jacksonville Symphony December 4 and 5, 2020, 7:00PM The Batte Center, Wingate University tickets at http://unionsymphony.org First Coast Nutcracker Jacksonville Symphony December 11 and 12, 2020, 8:00PM December 12 and 13, 2020, 2:00PM Jacoby Hall, Times-Union Center tickets at http://jaxsymphony.org Open House Jacksonville Symphony January 3, 2021, 3:00PM Jacoby Hall, Times-Union Center Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Jacksonville Symphony January 18, 2021, 7:00PM Jacoby Hall, Times-Union Center tickets at http://jaxsymphony.org Music for Turning Point, Battered Women's Shelter Union Symphony Orchestra January 23, 2021, 4:00PM Dowd Theater tickets at http://unionsymphony.org Family Concert Jacksonville Symphony January 31, 2021, 3:00PM Jacoby Hall, Times-Union Center tickets at http://jaxsymphony.org Gershwin and More Jacksonville Symphony March 12 and 13, 2021, 8:00PM Jacoby Hall, Times-Union Center tickets at http://jaxsymphony.org Choral: Beethoven and Mendelssohn Union Symphony Orchestra March 27, 2021, 7:00PM Dowd Theater tickets at http://unionsymphony.org Art, Music, and Film Union Symphony Orchestra April 11, 2021, 2:00PM Dowd Theater tickets at http://unionsymphony.org Abbey Road 50th Anniversary Jacksonville Symphony April 16 and 17, 2021, 8:00PM Jacoby Hall, Times-Union Center tickets at http://jaxsymphony.org Major Minor Jacksonville Symphony and the Jacksonville Symphony Youth Orchestras May 6, 2021, 7:30PM Jacoby Hall, Times-Union Center tickets at http://jaxsymphony.org Monroe Pops Union Symphony Orchestra May 9, 2021, 7:00PM Downtown Monroe Family Concert Union Symphony Orchestra May 22, 2021, 11:00AM Dowd Theater tickets at http://unionsymphony.org |
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Deanna Tham is currently the Assistant Conductor of the Jacksonville Symphony and Music Director of the Union Symphony Orchestra. She is also Principal Conductor with the Jacksonville Symphony Youth Orchestras. Tham was appointed Assistant Conductor of the National Youth Orchestra (NYO-USA) for summer of 2019. She was previously Music Director of the Louisville Youth Orchestra in Louisville, Kentucky, and the Assistant Conductor at the Chicago Sinfonietta. She is a regular guest conductor with groups all over the United States, including Ballet Idaho and Opera Idaho. She has studied with Carl Topilow at the Cleveland Institute of Music and Dr. Mallory Thompson at Northwestern University, and worked with other renown conductors such as Antonio Pappano, Marin Alsop, James Ross, Victor Yampolsky, Kenneth Kiesler, and Richard Rosenberg . Previously, she was resident music director of the American Chamber Opera, based in Chicago, Illinois. Her work with the company has included a groundbreaking semi-staged production of Mendelssohn's oratorio, Elijah, and Mozart's Don Giovanni, staged in English.
Tham received her Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon University in Horn Performance. Recent News
See the announcement of Deanna's appointment as the new Music Director of the Union Symphony Orchestra here!
Deanna's entry for the Jacksonville Symphony blog, "Conducting Electricity" was recently featured in the Times Union and in the The Hub with the League of American Orchestras. See Deanna in a recent interview on First Coast News about the First Coast Nutcracker. |
