Today’s sound, tomorrow’s future
Press Staff | Coeur d'Alene Press | UPDATED 3 years, 1 month AGO
Five young musicians, winners of the Coeur d'Alene Symphony Orchestra’s 2022 Young Artists’ Competition, are set to perform on Saturday.
The concert will be at 7:30 p.m. at the Schuler Performing Arts Center at North Idaho College in Coeur d’Alene.
The musicians featured were selected from a nationwide competition to seek out young and fresh talent. Throughout the years, thousands of applicants from across the United States have submitted applications. Winners are selected by a panel of judges made from musicians who hold principal positions in the orchestra and local conductors.
The concert will feature tots, high schoolers, college and graduate musicians and beginning professionals from across the country and world. Many winners here have gone on to careers in major performance venues around the world.
Winners will perform the piece they submitted for the competition, accompanied by the symphony. Dr. David Demand, former symphony conductor who initiated the competition, will be the guest conductor.
The following winners are scheduled to perform at this concert:
• Richelle Shi performing Liszt Piano Concerto No. 1 in E♭ major, S.12
• Julimar Gonzalez performing Saint-Saens Violin Concerto No. 3, Movement 1
• Wei-Yun Chang performing Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3, Movement 1
• Hannah Muirhead performing Mozart, “Ah, fuggi il traditor” from Don Giovanni, Act 1, scene 10; Verdi, “Caro nome” from Rigoletto, Act 1, scene 2
• Jason Donnelly performing Ernst Sachse, Concertino in F for bass trombone
Tickets prices are $20 for adults, $15 for seniors 65 and older and $10 for students with ID. Free tickets are available for youth ages 12 and younger with at least one adult or senior ticket purchase, NIC students with ID and military/veterans with ID.
Tickets can be ordered via the symphony’s website at cdasymphony.org or call their office at 208-765-3833.