Performance Overview

Michelle Merrill, conductor of the Winston-Salem Symphony, leads the UNCSA Symphony Orchestra in a program of works highlighted by Edward Elgar’s famed “Enigma Variations,” written to depict the unique personalities of his friends and featuring the soaring “Nimrod” Variation at the heart of the work. The program also features alum Carter Doolittle, B.M. ‘25 winner of the 2025 UNCSA concerto competition, performing Henri Tomasi's Concerto for Alto Saxophone—a lush, exuberant, work with a hint of jazz—and "Transfigured to Grace,” a new work by Jessie Montgomery, one of today’s most exciting voices in American music.