Youth shall be served (and featured) at the Pacific Northwest Chamber Orchestra’s free annual “Soaring Soloists” concert Monday, June 1, at Centralia College’s Corbet Theatre.
Three area students have been selected to perform instrumental solos. Centralia Christian School seventh-grader Jisu Han will be spotlighted on de Beriot’s “Violin Concerto No. 7,” W.F. West sophomore Jason Chung plays lead on Kabalevsky’s “Piano Concerto No. 3” and Lower Columbia College freshman Jared Devine takes center stage during Vivaldi’s “Cello Concerto in A minor.”
Other selections include Mozart’s “Jupiter Symphony,” Shostakovich’s “Ballet Suite No. 1” and a medley of compositions by jazz legend Duke Ellington.
Han, 13, spent two years with the Student Orchestra of Greater Olympia before joining the PNCO this season. She also plays piano and clarinet.
Chung, 14, opened for the Lewis County Concert Series this March and has performed twice at the Washington State Music Teachers Association Conference Recital Competition in Olympia.
Devine, 18, has been a member of the Southwest Washington Symphony Orchestra for four years, is cellist for the Lower Columbia College String Quartet and sings tenor with the LCC Concert Choir.
Members of Centralia’s Fords Prairie Grange will serve free refreshments in the theater lobby during intermission, which will include the traditional basket pass where audience members may make donations to the PNCO, which has never charged admission for a concert in 12 seasons.
Longtime local high school music instructor David Judd, enshrined alongside original PNCO conductor Dee Morton in the Washington Music Educators Association’s Hall of Fame in 2010, oversees most rehearsals in addition to conducting concerts.
This is his fifth season as the orchestra’s conductor/music director.
