VAMP returns to Here Be Monsters anew, performing the world premiere of "Push" by Austin-based composer Russell Podgorsek, movements from "Between the Planets" by VAMP vocalist and composer Laura Mercado-Wright, and Benjie Dia's arrangement of "Blood I Bled."

For Women’s History Month, VAMP presents a concert that highlights the different voices of women then and now.

Presence is the heart of our season.

The culmination of a yearlong collaboration, Presence features music by ACG’s 23-24 Artist-in-Residence and Grammy-nominated composer Reena Esmail, and performances by the extraordinary Mexican guitarist Dieter Hennings Yeomans, Austin’s super-creative and genre-bending vocal ensemble VAMP, and critically acclaimed bassoonist and UT Butler School faculty member Kristin Wolfe Jensen.  

These internationally celebrated artists will be joined by a massive guitar orchestra, conducted by ACG Artistic Director Joe Williams on stage at the gorgeous AISD Performing Arts Center. The Presence Guitar Orchestra features the ACG Youth Camerata, Youth Orchestra & Chamber Ensemble as well as guitarists from UT Austin, UT San Antonio & UT Rio Grande Valley.

With premieres of music written by Reena Esmail, Matthew Lyons, Travis Marcum, Tony Mariano and Joe Williams.  Presence is a celebration of now and our shared experience.  Join us for this unforgettable evening! 

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.

An evening of music connecting us to our ancestors, our world, and ourselves. Collaborating with percussionist Carolyn Trowbridge, dancer Alexa Capareda, and other friends, VAMP takes you between worlds of life and death, spirit and nature, self and others. Featuring world premieres by Peter Stopschinski, Adrienne Inglis, and VAMP's own Laura Mercado-Wright.