The Olympia Chamber Orchestra presents BRILLIANCE featuring the winners of the Olympia Music Teachers Association piano ) student Concerto Competition

Conductor Nickolas Carlson says “I am pleased to be returning to performances with the full orchestra, and so happy to have the OMTA Concerto Competition Winners joining us again. It is always such a treat to work with these talented kids. “

Phoebe Goh will perform W.A. Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 19, Movement 1. Phoebe, age thirteen, studies piano with Amy Yang, .

Chloe Song performs Frederic Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1, Movement 3. Chloe Song is a high school freshman. Chloe studies piano with Dr. Ramona Allen.

OCO’ string brings Leos Janacek’s “Adagio” from Idyll.

Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2 was written in 1801-1802. The compositions of Joseph Haydn and W. A. Mozart form a strong historical background for the first movements of this symphony, as in Beethoven’s first symphony. In the last movement Beethoven’s characteristic style, profoundly expressed in “Eroica”, his third symphony, begins to emerge. In the last movement, Beethoven’s emphatic theme and motif development bring the symphony to a crashing finale.

“Tendre Amour” from Les Indes Galantes by Jean-Phillipe Rameau is performed to promote peace in the Ukraine.

Vocal Soloists are Khristy Harvey, Crystal Zimmerman, Ryne Olson and Darrell Born.