54th annual Concerto Concert features student soloists

Contact: Meredith Bradford
April 5, 2013
Photo of the featured soloists for the COncerto Concert.
From left: D. Giles Simmer, Mingyuan Yang and Youyang Qu

KALAMAZOO鈥擳he Western Michigan University Orchestra, under the direction of Bruce Uchimura, will present the 54th annual Concerto Concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 14, in Miller Auditorium. Featured soloists are the winners of the 2013 School of Music鈥檚 Concerto Competition: soprano D. Giles Simmer, violinist Youyang Qu, and bassoonist Mingyuan Yang. The concert is free and open to the public.

Simmer will perform an aria from Gaetano Donizetti鈥檚 opera "Don Pasquale," Qu will perform Jan Sibelius鈥檚 "Violin Concerto," and Yang will perform Johann Nepomuk Hummel鈥檚 "Bassoon Concerto." In addition to these works, the orchestra will perform the overture to Giuseppe Verdi鈥檚 opera "La Forza del Destino" and Felix Mendelssohn鈥檚 "Symphony Number 5 in D Major," Opus 107.