GAMBIER – The Knox County Symphony, under the direction of Benjamin Locke, will present its second concert of the season on Saturday, February 7, 2015, at 8:00 p.m. in Rosse Hall Auditorium on the Kenyon College campus. This concert will feature the talents of the winners of the Young Musicians Competition. Co-sponsored by Psi Iota Xi, the competition is held annually in October.
The second-place winner in the High School Division is Brianna Smith, a junior at Mount Vernon High School. She will be singing two arias from The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The first-place winner is Achal Fernando-Peiris, a senior at Mount Vernon High School. He will be performing the first movement of the Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor by Max Bruch.
In the Collegiate division, Clara Yetter, a first-year student at Kenyon, earned second place with her performance of the first movement of Mozart’s Flute Concerto No. 1 in G major. The first-place winner is Grace Potter, a sophomore at Kenyon, who will also be singing an aria from The Marriage of Figaro, as well as “Steal me, sweet thief” from Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Old Maid and the Thief.
The concert will open with the famous Overture to Act III of Lohengrin by Richard Wagner. The final number will be The Moldau by Bedrich Smetana, a programmatic composition that depicts the journey of a river through Bohemia, now part of the Czech Republic.
The Knox County Symphony is now halfway through its forty-ninth season of providing quality music to local audiences with local musicians. The membership of the orchestra represents all of Knox County with community members from all walks of life as well as students from Mount Vernon Nazarene University, Mount Vernon High School and Kenyon College. For information on ticket prices, please call Sarah Goslee Reed at 740-392-4955.
