Sammamish Symphony Celebrates Spring Blossoms! Featuring: 2016 Youth Concerto Competition Winner Violinist Adrian Steele.

The Spring Blossoms of the Earth

Featuring:

2016 Youth Concerto Competition Winner Violinist Adrian Steele

Sunday, June 12, 2016 ~ 2:00 pm

Eastlake Performing Arts Center

Conducted by Adam Stern, the program opens with Aaron Copland's The Tender Land, taken from Copland's only full-length opera. The action centers on a Midwestern family of farmers and the traditions they uphold. Brahms Symphony No. 2, Op. 73, occasionally referred to as its composer's "Pastoral" symphony, closes the season with one of the glories of the Romantic period.

First Place 2016 YCC Winner! - Violinist Adrian Steele.

Sammamish Symphony audiences will also have a chance to hear a rising young soloist as this concert features the winner of the SSO's annual Youth Concerto Competition. The orchestra will be joined by Adrian Steele, as he performs Sibelius' Violin Concerto in d, Op. 47.

Adrian Steele, aged 16, has studied violin with Ron Patterson since 2010, having previously studied with Mihoko Hirata and Tracy Helming. A sophomore at Garfield High School in Seattle, he is a member of Garfield’s Symphonic Orchestra and also pursues music academics at the Seattle Conservatory of Music. This April, Adrian was awarded the Grand Prize and named “National Young Artist of 2016” at the Pepsico – Charleston Symphony Orchestra National Young Artist Competition in Charleston, South Carolina. Other recent awards include winning the Seattle Young Artists Music Festival Association’s 2016 Concerto Competition and Festival Medal, the 2016 Washington Music Educators Association State Solo Contest, the 2015-2016 Orchestra of Seattle Concerto Competition, the 2015 Coeur d’Alene National Young Artists’ High School competition and the Seattle Young Artists Music Festival Association’s 2014 Concerto.

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