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The Asheville Symphony returns with a Masterworks concert marking a year since Hurricane Helene, including a new composition honoring local heroes.

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A GIF cycles through scenes of the Asheville Symphony: the packed audience applauding inside First Baptist Church, the full orchestra performing on stage, close-ups of musicians playing their instruments, and a wide view of the conductor leading the ensemble.

This will be the first of seven “Masterworks” performances for the symphony’s upcoming season.

Photos provided by Alex Avrumchuk and Emanual Ax

The Asheville Symphony will strum the first notes of its 2025-26 Masterworks Series on Saturday, Sept. 20, as the community reflects on a year since Hurricane Helene.

Masterworks 1: Eroica will honor our shared community resilience, opening with a piece commissioned for the occasion entitled “The Things We Say to Death,” composed by Asheville Symphony’s own Amber Ferenz, Second Bassoonist.

World-renowned guest

A very special guest artist will also be in attendance: American classical pianist Emanuel Ax.

Largely considered one of the best living pianists in the world. Ax will perform Beethoven’s “Piano Concerto No. 3" before the show concludes with Beethoven’s heroic “Symphony No. 3, Eroica.”

Two chances to support

Audiences have only two opportunities to experience this moving Masterworks performance — Saturday at 2 p.m. and again at 8 p.m. at the First Baptist Church. A portion of net proceeds will directly benefit the River Arts District Artists Foundation.

Find tickets online or by calling the symphony’s box office at (828) 254-7046.

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