The Austin Civic Orchestra partners again with The University of Texas at Austin for the 10th Texas Rising Stars concert at Bates Recital Hall. The winners of the Butler School of Music’s String Concerto Competition perform concerti accompanied by the orchestra.

ACO Guest Conductor, Jacob Schnitzer leads our outstanding student artists on works from Schumann and Sibelius.

The Orchestra concludes the concert with an innovative presentation of Holst’s The Planets. Local artist Laura Mercado-Wright composed interludes – titled Between the Planets – to fit between the movements of Holst’s composition. VAMP Vocals will perform each interlude as an introduction of the astrological characteristic of the following movement. VAMP will then be joined by singers from Austin Cantorum and the UT Chamber Treble Choir in the final movement of Holst’s Planets, Neptune.