Symphony Orchestra Young Artists

The winners of the Young Artist Competition perform with the Andrews University Symphony Orchestra as soloists, under the direction of Claudio Gonzalez.

The following is the program:

Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80+, Johannes Brahms and “Song to the Moon” from ‘Rusalka’,  Antonin DvoÅ™ák -Katharine Drexler, Soprano

“O Don Fatale” from ‘Don Carlo’, Giuseppe Verdi -Alice Hyde, Mezzo-Soprano

 “Habanera” from ‘Carmen’, Georges Bizet- Natasha Poholka, Soprano

Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104, B.191*, Antonin DvoÅ™ák -Erica Evans, Cello

 Concerto for Double Bass and Orchestra, Op. 3, Serge Koussevitzky -Hsiang Hsu, Double Bass

The Lark Ascending*, R. Vaughan Williams -Arielle Cady, Violin

Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25, Felix Mendelssohn -  Gona Choi, Piano                                                                                  

Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35,  Peter I. Tchaikovsky-  André Moncrieff, Violin                                                                                                                  

+Paul Byssainthe, Jr. and *Elsy M. Gallardo-Díaz, Conductors

(In partial fulfillment of the Masters degree in Orchestral Conducting)