HILLSBORO, Kan. – The Tabor College Music Department will host its first guest performance in the newly opened Shari Flaming Center for the Arts.
The Newton Mid-Kansas Symphony Orchestra will perform its Winter Classics Concert at 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 28. The performance will be in the Richert Auditorium.
The program will include “Morning Noon and Night in Vienna,” from Franz von Suppé, Richard Strauss and Carl Stamitz. Winners of the 10th Annual Young Solist Competition will perform, with Thomas W. Douglas conducting.
“It will be an honor to host the members and audience of the NMKSO for their Winter Classics Concert, and to build that audience with the Marion County community,” said Dr. Bradley Vogel, professor of Music at Tabor College. “Of additional interest is that this concert features the winners of the NMKSO’s Young Soloists Competition, and the high school winner of the competition, Jacob Engelland, is a piano student of Tabor’s Dr. Sheila Litke.”
Engelland, a high school sophomore from Sterling, will play the “Youth Piano Concerto No. 3” by Dimitri Kabalevsky. McPherson College sophomore Kento Aizawa will be featured on the “Clarinet Concerto No. 3” by Carl Stamitz.
“I have enjoyed working with Jacob,” Litke said. “He is a hard worker and has improved so much this last year. So to see him grow as a musician and then for him to win this award is very exciting. When we heard that this performance would be in the new Fine Arts Center, we were really excited. What an honor for Jacob to be part of this special event.”
The Newton Mid-Kansas Symphony Orchestra, now in its 61st Season, is a community orchestra comprising professionals, community musicians, music educators and advanced high school and college students. Many of the orchestra members participate in Tabor’s production of Handel’s “Messiah” and spring oratorio concert.
Douglas continues in his seventh season as NMKSO’s Music Director and has a longstanding position as music director of Music Theatre Wichita. He is also on faculty at the Carnegie Mellon School of Music and is Artistic Director and Conductor of the Bach Choir, both in Pittsburgh, Pa. Guest conducting appearances include the Edgewood (Pa.) Symphony, Pittsburgh (Pa.) Philharmonic, Dallas Symphony Chorus and Wichita Symphony Orchestra.
Ticket are available at Faith & Life Bookstore and the NMKSO Office, 120 W. 6th St., Ste 120, in downtown Newton. Tickets can be purchased at the door and online at http://nmkso.org/winter-classics-concert-brilliance.