April
17
@ 7:00 pm
PST
IAA Orchestra Concerto Competition Finals
April 17 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm PDT
Join us as the IAA Orchestra presents our third annual Concerto Competition Finals to the public! This program will feature Idyllwild Arts instrumentalist finalists competing before a live audience and a panel of distinguished guest judges, including Idyllwild Arts Foundation President Pamela Jordan and professional musicians Haroutune Bedelian, Lorna Griffitt, and Ira Glansbeek. The concert will also feature original works by IAA Jazz composers Cainan Birchim and Seb Olsen, as well as a performance by last year’s competition runner-up, Luis Chen, playing Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto . The winner of this year’s competition will be announced live at the event!
Finalists and their pieces include:
Abby Regua, violin | Antonín Dvořák’s Violin Concerto
Michelle Fan, ‘cello | Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme
Rinka Xiong, piano | Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A-minor
Yiwei Guo, bass | Carl von Dittersdorf’s Concerto for Double Bass
Distinguished Guest Judges include:
- Haroutune Bedelian, graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, London, where at age 20 he won the first prize in the BBC Violin Competition. His teachers have included Ivan Galamian and Nathan Milstein. He has performed in major cities, festivals and concert halls throughout North and South America, the United Kingdom, Europe and the Middle East and has appeared in numerous radio and television broadcasts.
- Lorna Griffitt, who began her career at age 16 performing the Grieg Piano Concerto with the Louisville Orchestra conducted by Robert Whitney. Working with Menahem Pressler, she received her doctorate with distinction in piano performance from Indiana University. She has since appeared on different continents around the world in solo, chamber and concerto performances where she has taught, given master classes and performed with international artists. Griffitt has enjoyed a long career as a professor of piano, beginning her teaching career in 1974 at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana and University of California, Irvine in 1993.
- Ira Glansbeek, who has enjoyed an active and varied freelance career and regularly performs with Los Angeles Opera, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Santa Barbara Symphony, Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra, Long Beach Symphony, and worldwide string quartets. Ira has also performed and recorded with artists such as Placido Domingo, John Williams, Audra McDonald, Stevie Wonder, Barry Manilow, Peter Gabriel, Josh Groban, Mariah Carey, and Beyoncé, and has been seen on the Grammy Awards, American Music Awards, America’s Got Talent, The Ellen Show, and The Tonight Show. He is also active in LA’s recording scene, having played on numerous motion picture soundtracks and albums. As a pit musician in the musical theater world, he has been the cellist at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood since 2017, performing numerous shows including Hamilton, Moulin Rouge, Les Miserables, and Phantom of the Opera, among others. From 2011 to 2013, Ira was the cellist for the Les Miserables 25th Anniversary National Tour, performing over 600 shows in 62 cities.
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