Concerto Competition Winners Perform with DePauw Symphony April 15

March 28, 2007

March 28, 2007, Greencastle, Ind. - The DePauw Symphony Orchestra will present its annual Concerto Winners Concert on Sunday, April 15, at 3 p.m. Directed by Orcenith Smith, the concert will take place in Gobin United Memorial Methodist Church, and will feature five School of Music students as soloists, accompanied by the University's Symphony Orchestra.

The DePauw Concerto Competition takes place annually, offering music students a chance to compete for the opportunity to perform in this April concert with the orchestra. Students perform in a preliminary round for a panel of DePauw faculty judges, and those students who continue on to the final round of competition are judged by a panel of professional musicians from outside institutions.

Winners this year include Brian Clark, a sophomore piano student; Nathan Kross, a junior pianist; Keith Teepen, junior pianist; Sarah Wachter, a first-year flutist; and Leah Souder, a junior soprano vocalist. They will perform, respectively, the Prokofieff Concerto in D flat, Op. 10, Liszt’s Totentanz, the first movement of Rachamaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2, Ibert’s Concerto pour flute, and Gershwin’s “My Man’s Gone Now” from Porgy and Bess.

The program displays the diverse, exciting talents of DePauw University School of Music students, and will be an impressive showcase of these large works for soloist and orchestra.

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