Amadeus Concert Ensemble: RACHMANINOFF & FRIENDS
Sunday, May 31, 2026 • 5:30 pm – 6:45 pm
Amadeus Concert Ensemble will present the final climactic FREE concert of its 2025-26 Season with RACHMANINOFF & FRIENDS under the baton of ACE Artistic Director Brian Salesky. The concert honors Rachmaninoff, the composer whose statue in World’s Fair Park commemorates his final piano recital in Knoxville in 1943. The lavish, romantic program stars soprano Ashley Fabian (“immense warmth and scintillating spin”/Parterre Box) who scored a triumph in ACE’S GOLDEN AGE OF STRAUSS performance last season. Fabian will be heard in heavenly songs and dramatic arias by Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky and Alyabyev. The Amadeus Concert Ensemble orchestra will be featured in three thrilling, popular works: Glinka’s Overture to RUSLAN & LYUDMILA and Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Flight of the Bumblebee” and “The Three Wonders” from THE TALE OF TSAR SALTAN.