SKS to Conclude Season on Sunday
Winfield, Kan., April 18, 2022 — The South Kansas Symphony's 2021-2022
season will conclude with “Belated” on Sunday, April 24, at 3 p.m., in
Richardson Performing Arts Center. This performance is generously sponsored by
Larry and Linda Hahn.
Amber Peterson, South Kansas Symphony conductor, says that this will be a
special performance.
“We will perform Beethoven's ‘Symphony No. 5,’ which was originally
programmed for the 2019-2020 season to celebrate his 250th birthday,” Peterson
says. “Audiences will finally have the opportunity to enjoy this
masterwork. “‘Memorial Ode’ by Dwight Beckham, a Kansas native, will also be
performed.”
The symphony's 2022 Concerto Competition winners will additionally be
featured. Christina Ge, winner of the Junior Division, will perform the last
movement of Elgar's “Cello Concerto.” Ge is currently a student of Meredith
Blecha-Wells at Oklahoma State University. She was a recent winner of the
Oklahoma City Orchestra League Buttram Competition and has performed in master
classes with renowned cellists. Ge has served as principal cellist for the
Oklahoma Youth Orchestra, the Oklahoma All-State Orchestra, the North Central
Honors Orchestra, and the Edmond North High School Symphony Orchestra.
Katie Miller, winner of the Senior Division, will perform the first
movement of Mozart's “Piano Concerto No. 23.” She is a junior piano performance
major at Southwestern College who can frequently be seen performing with the
South Kansas Symphony, the Williams String Quartet, A Cappella Choir, SC
Singers, and theatre productions. She also provides private piano lessons in
Southwestern College's Community Music School.
Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for children (5-18), and free for
Southwestern College students, faculty, and staff.
