The University Wind Symphony and Orchestra will open the 2015-2016 concert season with a free performance on Saturday, October 3, at 7:30 p.m., in Buckley Center Auditorium. All faculty, staff, students, and the public are welcome.
The Wind Symphony features violin instructor Kevin Lefohn performing the American premiere of Peter Adams’ Concerto Burlesca for violin and wind band; conducting associates Tara Egan and Samantha Wright will also make their concert debuts. The UP Orchestra presents Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E minor featuring music student Maranda Hamilton; also Hubert Parry’s rollicking Symphonic Variations, and the iconic “Nimrod” movement from Elgar’s Enigma Variations.
For more information contact performing and fine arts at 7228 or pfa@up.edu.