Last night Ben and Darcy played the first movement of the Sinfonia Concertante by Mozart with the Oak Park River Forest High School Symphony Orchestra (their high school orchestra). Ben and Darcy played with them because they received an ‘honorable mention’ in this year’s High School Concerto Competition. The cadenza begins at about 11 minutes. As soon as the cadenza ended the audience broke out [more]
Last night Ben played the first movement of the Tchaikowsky Piano Concerto no. 1 with the Oak Park River Forest High School Symphony Orchestra (his high school orchestra). Ben played with them because he was one of the winners of this year’s High School Concerto Competition. This is the same piece he played two days ago, but it was fun to hear it with an [more]
Ben played the first movement of the Tchaikowsky Piano Concerto no. 1 in Angela Wright’s annual concerto recital today. Angela accompanied him. Click image below to watch the video. Download Tchaikowsky
We drove down to Peoria yesterday to hear Ben play in the IMEA (Illinois Music Educators Association) All State Honors Orchestra concert. In the violin seating auditions Ben placed first and so he was concertmaster – very exciting! He had a couple of solos in Red Cape Tango (based on Superman) by Michael Daugherty – here are the excerpts with his solos: Download Red Cape [more]
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