R.L. Halversen Young Artist Concert on April 8, 2021

We are looking forward to hearing these wonderful young soloists with the Orchestra of Southern Utah. Tickets now available at https://www.myosu.org/tickets 

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Orchestra of Southern Utah Season Finale Features Young Artists

For the final performance of the season, the Orchestra of Southern Utah presents the R. L. Halversen Young Artists Concert, conducted by Xun Sun. Once every two years, young musicians are given an opportunity to perform with the orchestra after being selected through two rounds of auditions. So many talented performers participated this year that the entire program will be dedicated to the young artists.

Irene Hu will present the energetic, bright opening movement of Dimitri Kabalevsky’s Violin Concerto in C Major. 

David Sun will give us Franz Liszt’s Totentanz, a dramatic, varied, and somewhat macabre picture for piano and orchestra.

Ruth Howe and Will Zeller will feature in Antonio Vivaldi’s Concerto for Two Trumpets, a delight to the ear.

Chase Radmall will play for us the passionate and melancholy first movement of Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E minor.

Jennifer Holstead will perform Alexander Glazunov’s Concerto in E flat Major for Alto Saxophone, taking an instrument usually associated with jazz and pop music to the classical realm and proving its versatility with melodious brilliance. 

Vocalist Meredith Draper will bring us “Porgi Amor”, a song of youthful love from Mozart’s opera, The Marriage of Figaro. 

Hannah Bradshaw will play Musette and Galop, from Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Suite for Viola and Orchestra, Group III, bringing us the gentle wonder of an English countryside and a fast-paced dance.

Join the Orchestra of Southern Utah in celebrating these young artists and a wide array of concert music Thursday, April 8 at 7:30 p.m. at the Heritage Theater. Ticket prices are as follows: $12 for adults, $6 for children, and $6 for students. Children over six welcome with adult supervision. No babies please as the concert is recorded. Tickets are now available online at www.myosu.org.