Concerted Effort

SSU Symphony Orchestra Features Concerto Competition Winners
September 8, 2016
conductor leading orchestra

Orchestra Director Alex Kahn leads the SSU Symphony Orchestra

Sonoma State University students Zachary Hall and Megan Rice, winners of last year's concerto competition, are featured in the SSU Symphony Orchestra's program, "A Concerted Effort," in Weill Hall at the Green Music Center, September 30, 7:30 p.m.

Hall and Rice won the University's first Concerto Competition last semester. SSU Symphony Orchestra director Alexander Kahn conducts the competition winners in two Russian works: Hall in Alexander Arutiunian's Trumpet Concerto in A-flat; and Rice in Alexander Glazunov's Saxophone Concerto in E-flat.

The program also includes a performance of Georg Philipp Telemann's "The Frogs" by the Sonoma State University Symphony Orchestra with guest violinist Aaron Westman.

The SRJC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jerome Fleg, performs pieces by Gabrieli, Sibelius, Beethoven (featuring Westman) and Dvorak.

General admission is $8, free to SSU students with promo code SSUStudent. Purchase tickets online at tickets.sonoma.edu. For more information call (707) 664-2324 or visithttp://www.sonoma.edu/music/.

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Nicolas Grizzle