Western Symphony Orchestra: Concerto Competition Winners and Tchaikovsky 5

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Fri. June 6, 7:00pm PDT

Performing Arts Center 155 - Concert Hall

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Please join the WWU Symphony Orchestra for its celebratory final concert of the 2024-25 season, featuring the three winners of the annual WWU Concerto Competition.

  • Violinist Natalie Bateman, cellist Sara Kaiser, and pianist Emily Perry join forces in Beethoven’s brilliant Triple Concerto
  • Shuichi Irie performs the charming Divertimento for Alto Saxophone and Strings by Roger Boutry
  • Soprano Mia Lapingcao sings Ophelia’s tragic “mad scene” from Ambrois Thomas’s “Hamlet”

Following the solo performances, the orchestra returns to present Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky’s transcendent Fifth Symphony.

Concert Program

  • Ludwig van Beethoven: Triple Concerto in C Major, op. 56 (1804)
    • Natalie Bateman, violin
    • Sara Kaiser, cello
    • Emily Perry, piano
  • Roger Boutry: Divertimento for Alto Saxophone and Strings (1964)
    • Shuichi Irie, saxophone
  • Ambroise Thomas: Ophelia’s Mad Scene from “Hamlet” (1864)
    • Mia Lapingcao, soprano
  • Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor, op. 64 (1888)

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