The Cal Poly Symphony’s Winter Concert will showcase student soloist winners and musical selections from the movies “Lawrence of Arabia,” “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl,” “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and “Star Trek: Into Darkness.” The concert will conclude the Cal Poly Band and Orchestra Festival.
The concert will be the capstone of the all-day Cal Poly Band and Orchestra Festival which is being produced in collaboration with the San Luis Obispo County Band Directors Association. Middle and high school bands and string orchestras will participate in the festival, which will offer performance adjudications and professional clinics.
The student soloists were winners of the symphony’s Solo Competition in November: four instrumentalists, a pair of vocalists and one composer.
The instrumentalists are music major Emiko Wong, who will play the first movement of Robert Schumann’s Cello Concerto in A Minor; forest and fire sciences major Matthew Anderson, who will perform Geraldine Green’s Bass Clarinet Concerto, first movement; business administration major Ayden Gregory who will perform Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E Minor, first movement; and music major Ari Maman, who will play Alexander Glazunov’s Alto Saxophone Concerto in E-flat major, first section.
The vocalists are Julianna Hornung, who will sing Franz Liszt’s “Oh, quand je dors,” arranged by Felix Mottl; and Mary Thomas who will perform Franz Schubert’s “Gretchen am Spinnrade,” arranged by Max Reger. Both are sopranos and music majors.
The orchestra will also perform “The Journey to Safe Haven” by student composer and computer engineering major Srinivas Sundararaman.
The symphony is directed by music Professor David Arrivée.
The event is sponsored by Cal Poly’s Music Department, College of Liberal Arts and Instructionally Related Activities program. For more information, visit the Music Department’s calendar website.
