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Concert Recap: Adventure Awaits

Adventure Awaits! — And What an Adventure It Was More than 500 members of our community joined the GSO for two performances of Adventure Awaits!—our Sensory Friendly and Family Concerts. With both performances fully reserved well before concert day, families came ready to explore, experience live orchestral music, visit the Instrument Petting Zoo, and even meet Sir […]

GSO Spotlight: Mary Kay Howard — A Lifetime of Showing Up

Mary Kay Howard will be the first to tell you that when she became involved with what was then the Cobb Symphony Orchestra, she knew very little about symphonic music. She had grown up surrounded by music—popular songs from the 1940s, Irish tunes sung by her grandfather, musicals attended with her grandparents, folk albums she […]

GSO Spotlight: Celebrating Edward Eanes

After more than two decades as Concertmaster of the Georgia Symphony Orchestra, Edward Eanes is retiring. Before he takes his final bow, he looked back on his years with the GSO — the mentors who shaped him, the night he watched from the audience instead of the stage, and one backstage story he’s never told […]

Coming Full Circle: Kathryn Encisco Returns to GYSO

For Kathryn Encisco, returning to the Georgia Youth Symphony Orchestra is more than a new conducting opportunity. It is a return to a place that helped shape her as a musician, an educator and a person. Years before she became an orchestra director, Encisco spent six seasons as a cellist in GYSO. Now, she is […]

Georgia Youth Symphony Orchestra Announces Expanded Artistic Leadership Team for 2026-2027 Season

MARIETTA, Ga. — The Georgia Youth Symphony Orchestra (GYSO) is pleased to announce an expanded artistic leadership team for the 2026–2027 season, bringing together an exceptional group of conductors and educators dedicated to providing outstanding musical instruction and performance opportunities for young musicians throughout metro Atlanta. Leading the changes is Dr. Nathaniel F. Parker, who […]

A Quiet Vote of Confidence: Honoring Susan Stensland’s Legacy

After twenty years of service to the Georgia Symphony Orchestra, Susan Stensland has officially concluded her final leadership role with the organization she helped shape for nearly two decades. This June marked the completion of Susan’s five-year term on the GSO Advisory Board. In characteristic fashion, her resignation was understated, gracious, and focused not on […]

Still the Marietta Music Club

This article is the final installment in our special anniversary series, originally published in the Marietta Daily Journal. As the Georgia Symphony Orchestra celebrates 75 years of music, connection, and community, the MDJ has generously partnered with us to help share our story. We’re deeply grateful to our hometown paper and the community that has […]

GSO’s 75th Season Finale A Chance to Reflect on Tradition, Partnership, and Community

On May 23rd, 2026, the Georgia Symphony Orchestra will present its Season Finale Concert at Atlanta Symphony Hall. It is a way to say “Thank You” to the visionaries who began the organization 75 years ago as well as to the people who continue to support its mission.  Guiding this celebration are three extraordinary conductors […]

A Perfect Day for Jazz & Juleps

Under sunny skies and surrounded by the beautifully manicured gardens of Brumby Hall, the Georgia Symphony Orchestra’s Jazz & Juleps celebration brought together music, community, and a shared commitment to our mission. The Derby-inspired setting could not have been more perfect-guests arrived in style, donning flamboyant hats, vibrant spring dresses, seersucker suits, Panama hats, and […]