Community Partner Events

The Gambrell Center for the Arts and Civic Engagement partners with our local arts community so, together, we can cultivate connection and collaboration, interdisciplinary discovery, and creative scholarship.

Romantic Expressions

Presented by The Charlotte Symphony and Queens University

February 18, 2025 – 7:30 p.m.

Sarah Belk Gambrell Center for the Arts & Civic Engagement

Join the Charlotte Symphony at Queens University of Charlotte’s Gambrell Center for an evening of beloved masterworks interwoven with poetry celebrating the theme of love. Students from Queens will bring the music to life with poignant readings of their original works paired with lush melodies from the Romantic era and early 20th century.

The Program

Christopher James Lees, conductor

Program Partners: Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, Arts at Queens, Queens University’s English Department, and the Sarah Belk Gambrell Center for the Arts and Civic Engagement.

Past Events

Vivaldi Re-Imagined: The Four Seasons in Music and Verse

Join us for an extraordinary evening where classical music meets contemporary poetry, presented by the Charlotte Symphony in collaboration with the English students and faculty of Queens University of Charlotte. This unique event re-imagines Vivaldi’s timeless masterpiece, “The Four Seasons,” through a fusion of captivating music and inspiring verse.

Program Partners: Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, Arts @ Queens, Queens University’s English Department, and the Sarah Belk Gambrell Center for the Arts and Civic Engagement.

Questions? Contact the Gambrell Center Box Office (704-337-2466, gambrelltix@queens.edu).

Learn more about Arts at Queens and The Charlotte Symphony!

Music & Mind with Renée Fleming

Partner: Charlotte Symphony Orchestra and Atrium Health

Thursday, September 21, 2023

A leading advocate for the study of the powerful connections between the arts and health, Renée Fleming has created a presentation called Music and Mind, in which she invites leading local neuroscientists, researchers, physicians, music therapists, educators, and universities to discuss their work at the intersection of music, neuroscience, and healthcare.

On September 21, Ms. Fleming will be joined by the President and CEO of Atrium Health, Eugene Woods; President of Neuroscience Institute at Atrium Health, Anthony L. Asher; Vice Provost for the Arts and Interdisciplinary Initiatives at Wake Forest University, Christina Soriano; and Senior Instructor, Art, Design & Music Department at Queens University, Meg Stanley Johnson. Additional panelists will be announced at a later date.

Legacy Concert: Dett & Bernstein

Partner: Charlotte Master Chorale

Thursday, September 30, 2023

Celebrating over seven decades of performing choral-orchestral masterworks, the Charlotte Master Chorale’s annual Legacy Concert this year features Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms and the North Carolina premiere of R. Nathaniel Dett’s long-neglected oratorio The Ordering of Moses, which builds on the spiritual “Go Down, Moses” to portray the liberation of the Hebrews from bondage in Egypt.

These concerts are presented in partnership with the Gambrell Center, the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra and collegiate singers from Queens University, UNCC, and Johnson C. Smith University.

It is made possible, in part, with funding from ASC and the N.C. Arts Council, a division of the Department of Natural & Cultural Resources, and the Sally Ann and Joe Hall Fund of the Charlotte Symphony’s Endowment.