As part of our commitment to performing new music and diversifying the classical music canon, CYSO is thrilled to present the Chicago premiere of Vivian Fung’s Trumpet Concerto performed by Gold Medal Global Music Award winner Mary Elizabeth Bowden, a 2000 CYSO alum. This is the first concerto written by a North American female composer for a female trumpet soloist and was awarded a New Music USA grant. The November 14 concert will also feature concerto performances from Symphony Orchestra’s Bianca Ciubancan performing Paganini’s Violin Concerto No 1 and Louis Auxenfans performing Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto in A Major, alongside works by Barber, Bernstein, and Tchaikovsky.

PROGRAM

Allen Tinkham, conductor
Steven Gooden, assistant conductor
Mary Elizabeth Bowden, trumpet
Bianca Ciubancan, violin
Louis Auxenfans, clarinet

Samuel Barber (1910 – 1981) Second Essay

Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840) Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Movement III, rondo
  Bianca Ciubancan, violin

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart  (1756-1791) Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622, Movements II and III
  Louis Auxenfans, clarinet
  CYSO’s CORE Chamber Orchestra

Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) Overture to West Side Story
arr. Maurice Peress
Steven Gooden, conductor

Vivian Fung (b. 1975) Concerto for Trumpet
  Mary Elizabeth Bowden, trumpet

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) Symphony No. 4 in F minor, op. 36