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Carson City Symphony was founded in 1984 as the
Carson City Chamber Orchestra and gave its first concert in October that
year. It is a community orchestra
open to amateur and volunteer professional musicians.
Members come from all walks of life and have ranged from elementary school
students to senior citizens.
The Symphony performs five or more concerts each year for
audiences in Carson City.
It also
has performed in Minden, Gardnerville, Fallon, South Lake Tahoe, and Virginia
City. We play many works by contemporary composers and have commissioned and
premiered several pieces.
Our Mission Statement (2019)
The mission of Carson City Symphony Association is to
(1) enhance the quality of life in northern Nevada by providing creative, educational,
and social opportunities for amateur and volunteer professional instrumentalists
and vocalists of all ages;
(2) educate and entertain a broad and diverse audience, including residents, visitors,
and tourists;
(3) enhance music education for the K-12 student population and adults; and
(4) expand our reputation for adventurous programming by playing music by
contemporary composers and featuring non-traditional solo instruments.
The Carson City Symphony Assoc. is a member of the
Carson City Downtown Business Assoc.
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Carson City Symphony Association Announces
Membership Party and Annual Meeting
Sunday, July 13, 2025
The Carson City Symphony Association's annual membership meeting and
beginning-of-the-fiscal-year party will be on Sunday, July 13, 2025, at 6:00 p.m.,
at the Carson City Historical Society's Carriage House, behind the Foreman-Roberts House
Museum, 1207 N. Carson Street, Carson City. Admission is free.
All interested individuals - including Association members, orchestra and chorus musicians,
volunteers, and friends - are invited. The meeting will include food, drinks,
live music, a brief review the past year, a preview of the coming season, and election
of members to the nine-member Board of Trustees.
Cellist Naomi Adams and pianist Wendy Whyman will entertain at the event, which also
includes a pot-luck dinner. Main dish and beverages are provided. Attendees may bring
an appetizer, side dish, salad, or dessert to share.
For reservations and information, call 775-883-4154 or email ehbugli@aol.com.
Photo: Wendy Whyman (left) and Naomi Adams will play at Carson City Symphony
Association's membership meeting and potluck on July 13.
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Strings in the Summer
Starts Thursday, July 10, 2025
Carson City Symphony Association's "Strings in the Summer 2025" is a weekly program
for string-instrument players of all ages and levels. Sessions for two experience levels
meet on four Thursdays - July 10, 17, 24, and 31 - at the Carson City Senior Center,
911 Beverly Drive, Carson City. Registration and tuition for both groups are free, donations welcome.
The early session meets from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. in the Tahoe room. It is for younger
and less experienced violinists, violists, cellists, bassists, and guitarists of any age
who are able to play a one-octave D major scale and read notes within the staff. More
experienced players are welcome to join.
The later session meets from 11:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Joshua Tree room. It is
for intermediate and above string players and Not Quite Ready for Carnegie Hall Players (NQR).
A public concert will be held on the last day, July 31. Sign up for one or both
sessions at CCSymphony.com. For more information, contact Micah Dunn, at 775-741-6544
or email micahdunn@gmail.com. You may also sign up by checking the "HERE" link, below.
Carson City Symphony Association's educational programs are funded, in part, by grants from the Nevada Arts Council, a state agency, and
the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency; and by private donations.
Sign up HERE.
Photo: Students playing together in a previous "Strings in the Summer" performance.
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House Recital - Symphony Fundraiser
An afternoon of chamber music, conversation, wine, and delectable edibles
Sunday, July 20, 2025
The chamber music house recital will be on Sunday afternoon, July 20, 2025, at 4:00 p.m. at
2662 Danielle Drive, Carson City. It will
entertain music lovers with a varied program of musical treats by
J.S. Bach, Antonin Dvorak, G.F. Handel/Johan Halvorsen, and Benjamin Godard.
Performers are violinists Brian Fox, Trudy Gonzales, and Ondine Parker; violist
Peggy Cooley; and cellists Evan Stern and Sally Browne.
Brian Fox, leader and coordinator of the house recital, is Assistant Conductor and
Concertmaster of the Carson City Symphony and Director of Orchestras for the Carson
City School District. He also performs with TOCCATA Tahoe Symphony Orchestra and Chorus,
the Reno Philharmonic Orchestra, and in chamber music groups, and holds a Ph.D. in
Spanish Literature. Dr. Fox enjoys presenting annual recitals and benefit concerts
in northern Nevada.
The July 20 recital is a benefit for Carson City Symphony's music performances and
educational programs. Tickets are $40 and are available online at CCSymphony.com,
by calling the Symphony at 775-883-4154 for reservations, or use the button. Space
is limited.
Ticket are available online at CCSymphony.com (click "Buy now," below).
BUY BUTTON:
2025 Summer House Recital
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Photo: Brian Fox, Carson City Concertmaster and Assistant Conductor.
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Future Events (list updated as of April 30, 2025)
- June 8, 2025, 6:00 p.m., Governor's Mansion (outdoors) - Pops Party
Concert - Carson City Symphony, Carson Chamber Singers, and Monique De Haviland. Free.
- July 4, 2025 - 3:45 p.m., Mormon Station Park - Carson City Symphony and, Carson Chamber
Singers, and Monique De Haviland. Part of Genoa Americana Celebration, 10:15 a.m.
to 5:15 p.m. Free.
2025-2026 Season (only Carson City Symphony listed)
- Sunday, October 26, 2025, 4:00 p.m., Carson City Community Center - Carson City Symphony
- Sunday, December 14, 2025, 4:00 p.m., Carson City Community Center - Carson City Symphony
- Sunday, February 22, 2026, 4:00 p.m., Carson City Community Center - Carson City Symphony
- Sunday, April 26, 2026, 4:00 p.m., Carson City Community Center - Carson City Symphony
- A Sunday in June, 2026, (to be confirmed), 6:00 p.m., Governor's Mansion - Carson City Symphony
- Saturday, July 4, 2026, 3:45 p.m., Mormon Station Park (to be confirmed) - Carson City Symphony - (pending)
2026-2027 Season (listed only until end of 2026)
- Sunday, October 25, 2026, 4:00 p.m., Carson City Community Center - Carson City Symphony
- Sunday, December 13, 2026, 4:00 p.m., Carson City Community Center - Carson City Symphony
Carson City School District Orchestras Concerts, Brian Fox, Director
(list updated as of Sept. 27, 2024)
- Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024, 6:00 p.m. at Carson City Community Center
- Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024, 6:00 p.m. at Carson City Community Center
- Tuesday, March 11, 2025, 6:00 p.m. at Carson City Community Center
- Tuesday, May 20, 2025, 6:00 p.m. at Carson City Community Center
Classes and Rehearsals
All free, donations or Symphony Association
memberships requested (list updated as of February 2, 2025)
Mondays:
- Consort Canzona early music recorder ensemble, 6:30 p.m. at Carson City Senior Center
Tuesdays:
- Beginning Cello classes with Priscilla Hawkins, 1:30 p.m. and 5:15 p.m. at Brewery Arts Center
- Beginning Violin classes with Jaden Caraway, 3:15 and 4:30 p.m.
at Empire Elementary School
- Carson Chamber Singers rehearsals, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., with Gary Schwartz and Katie
Cardoza at LDS Church, Carson City
Wednesdays:
- Symphony Youth Chorus rehearsals with Nancy Jones and Cristian Valenzuela
Gonzalez, 4:30 to 5:15 p.m. at Shepherd of the Sierra Lutheran Church
- Carson City Symphony rehearsals with David Bugli and Brian Fox, 6:20 to 8:30 p.m. at
Carson High School; string sectionals TBA
Thursdays:
- Not Quite Ready for Carnegie Hall Players (NQR) adult intermediate string group with
Micah Dunn, 11:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Carson City Senior Center.
- Beginning Violin classes with Melinda Reynolds, 3:15 and 4:30 p.m. at Bordewich-Bray
Elementary School
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- Allegro, introductory youth string ensemble with Suzanne McGarraugh, 3:30 to
4:15 p.m. at St. Paul's Lutheran Family Church.
- Vivace, intermediate youth string ensemble with Suzanne McGarraugh, 3:30 to
4:45 p.m. at St. Paul's Lutheran Family Church.
- STRAZZ, advanced youth string ensemble with Suzanne McGarraugh, 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.
at St. Paul's Lutheran Family Church.
- (Note: Overlap in time and location of the three ensembles listed above is intentional.)
Flex Tickets Available
Good for Multiple Events
The Carson City Symphony Association offers
Flex Tickets that can be used for various performances by the Carson City Symphony and
Carson Chamber Singers. Flex tickets are offered at discounted prices.
Discount Flex Pass -- Can't commit to concerts dates in advance? Get Flex Tickets!
Flex Tickets are good for four admissions to any Carson City Symphony and Carson
Chamber Singers concert(s). You may use the pass any way you choose: bring four people
to one concert, two people to two concerts, etc. Flex Tickets never expire.
To purchase them,
click on the "Buy Flex Tix Now" button, below. Remember
to keep your receipt...it is your ticket!
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Interested in being a member of the Carson City Symphony Association, and support all our non-profit
work? Just download a membership form in PFD format from our
here
and mail it in with your check. It will be appreciated.
To join the Carson City Symphony or Carson Chamber
Singers, call 775-883-4154.
For Association membership information, click here.
For feedback that we have received on Carson City Symphony concerts,
click here: reviews.
Read about Carson City Symphony's Symphony Youth Strings program.
This season's concerts have been made possible, in
part, by a grant from the Nevada Arts Council, a state agency, and the National
Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.
The orchestra is a licensee of ASCAP and BMI and a member of the Carson City Arts & Culture
Coalition. 
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David C. Bugli, Music Director and Conductor, has a
Bachelor of Science Degree in music education from Ithaca College, New York,
where he studied composition for four years with Karel Husa. He has a Master
of Music Degree from the University of Massachusetts. In addition to
conducting, he plays classical and jazz piano, tuba, and trombone, and he
composes and arranges music. He was also an adjunct faculty at Western Nevada College.
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Conductor David Bugli
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Contact us:
David C. Bugli, Music Director and Conductor
Carson City Symphony
PO Box 2001
Carson City, NV 89702-2001
Phone: (775) 883-4154
Fax: (775) 883-4371
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Most Symphony rehearsals are on Wednesday nights (late August through late May), 7:00 p.m.
to 9:15 p.m., in the band room at
Carson High School, 1111 N. Saliman Rd., Carson City.
Map.
- - - LINKS - - -
The Carson Chamber
Singers is a choral
group that has been associated with the Carson City Symphony since 1985.
For chamber music, see the Silver Strings.
For youth string programs, see Symphony Youth Strings (formerly
Strings in the Schools).
For information on events at the Brewery Arts Center,
click here.
Carson City Community Center, 851 E. William St.,
Carson City. Map
Carson City Symphony is funded, in part, by the Nevada Arts Council, a
state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency;
Carson City; Nevada Humanities, the National Endowment for the Humanities,
and private donations.
This page last updated 7/7/2025
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