Event

YPSO Pops Concert 2015

YPSO's annual Pops Concert will feature four of the orchestra's 2015 concerto competition winners, Music Director and Conductor David Ramadanoff and 101 young musicians in the final concert of the 2014-15 season.

The concert features four of the orchestra's concerto competition winners: Mitchell Marvin, oboe, who will play Hummel's Introduction, Theme and Variations for Oboe and Orchestra; Eitan Spiegel, tuba, who will play Vaughn William's Tuba Concerto; Jin-Young Heo, violin, who will play the third movement of Beethoven's Violin Concerto; Leon Chou, piano, who will play the first movement of Gershwin's Concerto in F; a selection from the season, Berlioz's Benvenuto Cellini Overture; and Johann Strauss, Jr.'s Bandit Galop, Leroy Anderson's Blue Tango and John Phillip Sousa's Stars and Stripes Forever.

Celebrating his 26th season as Music Director/Conductor, David Ramadanoff conducts 101 YPSO musicians who range in age from 12 to 21 and hail from 25 Bay Area cities in five counties.

Founded in Berkeley in 1936, YPSO is the oldest youth orchestra in California and the second oldest in the nation.

The Pops Concert is sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Berkeley.

Program
Berlioz - Benvenuto Cellini Overture
Hummel - Introduction, Theme and Variations for Oboe and Orchestra,
Mitchell Marvin, oboe
Vaughan Williams - Tuba Concerto, Eitan Spiegel, tuba
Johann Strauss, Jr. - Bandit Galop, Rebekah Katz, conductor
Beethoven - Violin Concerto, third movement, Jin Young Heo, violin
Anderson - Blue Tango
Gershwin - Concerto in F for Piano and Orchestra, first movement, Leon Chou, piano
Sousa - Stars and Stripes Forever