Aubree Oliverson

Aubree Oliverson is a violinist appearing as soloist with the Amarillo Symphony, performing Samuel Barber's Violin Concerto. This piece pairs a warm, songful opening with a famously fast, restless finale, giving listeners a chance to hear a soloist handle both lyrical melody and technical bite in the same work.

Listeners at these Amarillo Symphony concerts will hear Oliverson perform Barber's Violin Concerto, a piece built around contrast. The first two movements unfold as long, singing lines, closer to a vocal aria than a display piece, giving the soloist room to shape phrases with a warm, unhurried tone. The third movement flips that mood entirely: a short, relentless moto perpetuo (a movement built on continuous rapid notes) that demands precision and stamina rather than expressive lingering. How a soloist balances these two halves, lyrical patience versus rhythmic drive, is really the story of this concerto, and it's the clearest window into a performer's musical personality on this program. The concert also opens with Berko's "Look Up" and closes with Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony, a work full of brass fanfares and a folk-tune-based finale.