Honors Competition Finalist Performances

WHEN:
January 26, 2025

WHAT:
Performing Arts

ABOUT

With students representing brass, voice and strings this event features 10 musicians performing a variety of repertoire in a single concert. Students are competing for the top three spots to perform with the MSU Symphony Orchestra at Wharton on March 21st. Winners will be announced after judge deliberations immediately after the concert.

Judges
The distinguished panel of judges includes Mary Bowden,International soloist, Shenandoah Music Conservatory; Daniel Beckwith, conductor with Metropolitan Opera, Stony Brook University Department of Music, Li-Kuo Chang, violist with Chicago Symphony, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.

Program and Artists

Pengyu Yang, baritone. “Largo al Factotum” from ”Il Barbiere di Siviglia” by Verdi

Runqi Weng, violin. Violin Concerto in D minor, Op.47 by Sibelius

Diya Dong, violin. Violin Concerto No.1 in D Major, Op. 19 by Prokofiev

Seth Lambert, euphonium. Green Hill by Bert Appermont

Benjamin Merte, bass. Divertimento Concertante by Rota

Anderson Johnson, tuba. Concerto for Bass Tuba by Vaughan Williams

Ruoxi Bian, mezzo-soprano. Non, non, non…vous n’avez jamais from Les Huguenots by Meyerbeer

Xiaojie Ji, tenor. La donna è mobile by Verdi

Spencer Clark, trumpet. Slavische Fantasie by Hohne

Jon-Michael Taylor, trumpet. Concertino for Trumpet, Piano and String Orchestra by Andre Jolivet

Phoenix Miranda, soprano. My Darling Jim by Cipullo

Cheng-Lin Yu, cello. Rococo Variations Op.33 by Tchaikovsky