ATG Thursday Night Concert and Documentary Preview. July 9th 2026
Thu, Jul 09
|Libby Gardner Concert Hall
Featuring a discussion and short preview of the ATG Documentary on the Life of Joan Sommers as well as a concert by the UMKC Community Accordion Ensemble Conducted by Joan Sommers
Time & Location
Jul 09, 2026, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Libby Gardner Concert Hall, David P Gardner Hall, 1375 Presidents' Cir, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
About the event
Thursday night will feature a discussion and a short preview of the ATG sponsored Documentary Film on the life of Joan Cochran Sommers as well as a concert by the UMKC Community Accordion Ensemble conducted by Joan Sommers.
Joan Sommers is a lifelong ATG Member, past President and ATG Champion. She is the founder of the CIA World Accordion Orchestra and was awarded the title of Professor Emerita upon her retirement from the University of Missouri – Kansas City Conservatory of Music (USA), where she established and taught the accordion degree program for forty years. She has arranged innumerable works for the accordion orchestra over many years, often for the UMKC Accordion Orchestra, a large symphonic accordion orchestra, which, under her direction, competed in and won more First Prizes in Virtuoso Accordion Orchestra Competitions than any other similar American group. This is a record still unbroken today.
Under the direction of Joan Sommers, the UMKC Community Accordion Ensemble continues to be the premier classical accordion ensemble in the United States. Most of the players in the ensemble are alumni of the University of Missouri-Kansas City and former members of the renowned UMKC Accordion Orchestra. The players make their living in various careers, but each has remained devoted to promoting the accordion and its varied repertoire, including transcriptions, commissions, and other original works.
Tickets
General Admission
From $20.00 to $35.00
$35.00
+$0.88 ticket service fee
$30.00
+$0.75 ticket service fee
$20.00
+$0.50 ticket service fee
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