NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS

Concert Program

2024 NIU Philharmonic Concerto Competition

PRELIMINARY ROUND

Categories: Strings, Voice

Sunday, October 27, 2024
1:00 pm
Boutell Memorial Concert Hall

Jury: Silas Huff, Mathias Tacke, Gregory Beyer

 

Concert Program

Program

1:00 pm Benjamin GilbertCello   

Eduard Lalo, Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, Movement 1 Prelude, Lento – Allegro maestoso. – 10:00’

Sooka Wang, Piano Accompaniment

1:12 pm Ronnie Gorka – Double Bass   

Serge Koussevitzky – Concerto for Double Bass and Orchestra, Movement 1 (Edited by David Walter) – Approx. 5 minutes

Mikhail Antoshin, Piano Accompaniment

1:19 pm Sofia Vrettou – Cello

Joseph Haydn, Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in d major, Movement 1 – 13:00’

Chang Xu, Piano Accompaniment

1:31 pm Emily Montelongo –  Voice

Jacques Offenbach, “Les oiseaux dans la charmille”, Les Contes D’Hoffmann, – 5:35’

Chang Xu, Piano Accompaniment

1:37 pm Zih-Cian Yu – Cello

Kabalevsky Concerto for Cello and Orchestra No.1 in g minor op.49, Movement 1 – 7:00’

Chang Xu, Piano Accompaniment

1:50 pm Oskar Kaut – Cello

Ernest Bloch – Schelomo (single-movement work), – Approx. 20 minutes.

Chang Xu, Piano Accompaniment

Jury deliberation

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