Renowned violin virtuoso Robert McDuffie is set to tour the eastern United States with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra and acclaimed conductor Steven Mercurio next February, performing Johannes Brahms’ Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 77.

The symphony will return to Macon on Monday, Oct. 4, when the brand-new Macon-Mercer Symphony Orchestra will play its opening concert at The Grand Opera House at 7:30 p.m. Tickets and season subscriptions are available now.

Violinist and pre-college alumna Amy Schwartz Moretti, cellist faculty member Bonnie Hampton, and the Telegraph Quartet will be featured in concerts.

Yearning to attend live concerts again after a long pandemic-fueled delay? Hoping you can listen from the safety and comfort of home instead? This year, fans of the Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival have options.

Concert featuring Robert McDuffie, Mike Mills, Chuck Leavell and Mercer’s McDuffie Center for Strings to be Taped for Distribution to PBS Stations Across America.

Atlanta-area philanthropist Carol Lynn Eden has pledged at least $2.5 million to endow scholarships in memory of her late father, Ralph Moseley Eden, a 1927 graduate of Mercer Law School, to benefit students in the Robert McDuffie Center for Strings in the Townsend School of Music at Mercer University.

Robert McDuffie, the virtuoso violinist from Macon, gave a stirring performance of Brahms' only violin concerto in Thursday's virtual concert from Symphony Hall.

Musicians from Mercer's McDuffie Center for Strings, Macon Pops, and Matt Catinbug all performed songs together at a concert known as "From Samoa to Sinatra".

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