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The Christmas Show! The Ohio Valley Symphony-2022
December 3, 2022 at 7:30 p.m. Purchase Tickets Now Is there any Christmas music more beloved than the Nutcracker? On December 3rd hear the suite in its entirety along with other holiday songs of the season such as Silver Bells, Feliz Navidad, Frosty the Snowman and more under the baton of Steven Huang on December 3rd. Join in the fun with our annual Maestro for a Moment competition Steven Huang, conductor Maestro Steven Huang is thrilled to return to Southeastern Ohio to the podium of The Ohio Valley Symphony. He has conducted orchestras...
read moreMaestro for a Moment FUN-draiser 2022-23
The Ohio Valley Symphony’s annual Maestro for a Moment Fundraiser is one of the highlights of the season for both audience and orchestra! Each season three candidates vie for the opportunity to conduct the orchestra during the The Christmas Show! on December 3rd, 2022, in a rousing rendition of Sleigh Ride! This year’s candidates are Kaiti Dovyak, from the OVS’s first string class and a founding member of the Ohio Valley Youth Orchestra; Robin Fowler, the State Farm Insurance Agent located just down the street on Second...
read moreAriel’s Merry Tubachristmas! 2022
Join the fun at the ARIEL’S MERRY TUBACHRISTMAS! December 10, 2022 at 2 pm FREE CONCERT! MERRY TUBACHRISTMAS is celebrating its 49th Anniversary (1974-2022). Created by Harvey Phillips, MERRY TUBACHRISTMAS 2022 will be presented in over 300 cities throughout the United States and in several foreign countries. TUBACHRISTMAS ensembles may attract participants aged 8 to over 90 years! The warm, rich organ-like sound of tuba-euphonium choir has won the ears and hearts of every audience! Come and Listen 100% FREE! TUBACHRISTMAS is 100% FREE...
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Sunday, December 11, 2022 3:00 p.m. FREE CONCERT! Join us in the historic Ariel Chamber Theatre as we unwrap the beauty of the season through the gift of music! Music teachers Rebecca Honett and John McAlister bring together the talented students of The Ariel Academy to present vocal and piano performances featuring favorite holiday carols, classical standards, and contemporary classics – with favorites from the Broadway stage and silver screen. From intimate solo performances to eight hands playing four keyboards simultaneously,...
read moreLunch & Learn, New Frontiers in Advertising
December 13, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. Ariel Chamber Theatre Free! Register Now! Put a new perspective on your new year’s marketing endeavors! Allen White, marketing consultant for WCHS will present new and innovative methods of digital advertising. He will delve into OTT, search optimization, social media services, email marketing, mobile, web services, and more, to help understand where your businesses can get the most out of your advertising budget. This presentation of New Frontiers in Advertising is held in conjunction with the Gallia...
read moreBuilding a Practical Marketing Strategy that Works
August 24, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. Ariel Chamber Theatre Free! Register Now! Chris Kanski, owner of New Pillar Marketing, has been working in the web and marketing realm for over 12 years. He earned his bachelor’s in marketing from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2008 and has since had the privilege of working for numerous businesses in varying sectors. These experiences have helped to fuel his real passion: Entrepreneurship. In May 2019 he made the leap to make his own business, New Pillar Marketing, a full-time reality. With New Pillar...
read moreJ. Mark McVey, October 6, 2007
Ohio Valley Symphony bound for Broadway in season opener There’s nothing like autumn in New York, but there’s no need to wait in an airport line, drive for hours or negotiate cabs and subways. Let the Ohio Valley Symphony take you to the Great White Way for “Broadway and Beyond,” opening concert of the orchestra’s 18th season. Broadway star Mark McVey joins the OVS — southeast Ohio’s only professional orchestra — at 8 p.m. Oct. 6 on the stage of the historic Ariel-Ann Carson Dater Performing Arts Centre in...
read moreGraceful Ghosts, November 3, 2007
Ghosties, goblins and witches are all part of the brew when The Ohio Valley Symphony presents “Graceful Ghosts” Saturday, November 3 at 8 pm. The Morris & Dorothy Haskins Theatre will host a variety of spectres as the costumed musicians take the stage at the Ariel-Ann Carson Dater Performing Arts Centre at 426 Second Ave. in Gallipolis, Ohio. Music Director, Ray Fowler, promises you an evening of hauntingly beautiful and ghoulishly familiar music that will stir your emotions and fire your imagination. “Graceful Ghosts,” is a program of...
read moreOVS Pops Program Kicks off Holiday Season, November 25, 2007
The elves of the Ohio Valley Symphony are ready to deck the hall — in the historic Morris & Dorothy Haskins Theatre of The Ariel-Ann Carson Dater Performing Arts Centre in downtown Gallipolis, Ohio — with the sounds of the holiday season. Join the orchestra, under the direction of Music Director Maestro Ray Fowler, at 8 p.m. Saturday, December 1, for a program of traditional and familiar Christmas songs. The evening starts with a grand flourish as the brass section of the orchestra ring in the season with Hark, the Herald...
read moreLori Sims, March 29, 2008
Ohio Valley Symphony Pulls at the Heartstrings LORI SIMS, piano Soloist for the Rachmaninov is Lori Sims, an internationally-known pianist who has performed throughout the United States, Europe, and China. Now the John T. Bernhard Professor of Music at Western Michigan University, Sims is a graduate of the Yale School of Music, where she was named most outstanding graduating student. Her 2000 debut at New York’s Alice Tully Hall earned a rave review from the New York Times. As presidential hopefuls vie for support in both Russia and the...
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