Young musicians from West Windsor and Plainsboro are featured in four upcoming concerts. The combined choirs of High Schools North and South accompanied by the South Philharmonia Orchestra present a gala concert featuring Ralph Vaughn Williams’ “Dona Nobis Pacem” (Give us Peace) at the Great Auditorium in Ocean Grove on Saturday, May 17, at 2:30 p.m. The piece was created after Williams served as an ambulance driver in World War I. His libretto combines liturgical texts with Walt Whitman’s poems on war.##M:[more]##
The Philharmonia Orchestra also presents “The Raiders’ March” by John Williams. South’s string ensembles performs “Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis” by Vaughn Williams. Soloists are soprano Shari Wilson and baritone Rob Phillips. Sun Min Lee conducts. Tickets are $10.
“A Journey of Concertos and More” is a benefit concert at Westminster Choir College’s Bristol Chapel, in Princeton, on Saturday, May 17, at 7 p.m. Works of Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, and Rachmaninoff will be presented by musicians Molly Zhu, Carl Aquino, Saraswathi Shukla, Andrew Sun, Julia Edgren, Taylor Lee, and Farshad Tahvildar-Zadeh, all students of Larissa Korkina.
West Windsor-Plainsboro Nonets, string players from the school’s symphony orchestra, also perform. Members include Kathy Li, Liliana Ma, Andrew Sun, Michelle Huang, and David Hui on violin; Sung Lim and Kevin Kostiw on viola; Danielle Docheff and Lucy Xu on cello; and John Surany on bass. Proceeds benefit Autism Speaks and “Hannah Korkina Memorial Scholarship Fund” for Westminster Conservatory students. Reception in Thayer Lounge follows. Free-will donations.
Youth Orchestra of Central Jersey, based in Plainsboro, presents two concerts at Richardson Auditorium, Princeton University, on Sunday, May 18. This is the group’s first performance in Richardson.
The String Preparatory Orchestra, Pro Arte Orchestra, Saxophone Ensemble, and Wind Symphony present works of Mozart, Saint-Saens, Leemans, Mendelssohn, and J.S. Bach at 3 p.m. The Symphonic Orchestra, Woodwind Choir, Brass Ensemble, Saxophone Choir, and Percussion Ensemble present works by Tchaikovsky, Gabriele, Rivier, Scmitt, and Piazzolla at 7 p.m. The program runs under the guidance of John Enz, artistic director; and conductors Phillip Pugh and Brian Woodward. Tickets are $10; $5 for seniors and children.
The world premiere of “Voyage” by Kiri Murakami will be performed at 7 p.m. The piece was commissioned with help from a grant from Church & Dwight in honor of the 30th anniversary season. Murakami, a violinist with Princeton Symphony Orchestra, was concertmaster with New York Youth Orchestra for three years.
Gala Concert, WW-P High School North and South, Great Auditorium, Ocean Grove, 732-775-0035. www.oceangrove.org. $10. Saturday, May 17, 2:30 p.m.
Benefit Concert, Westminster Choir College, Bristol Chapel, Princeton, 609-921-2663. www.rider.edu. Free-will donations. Saturday, May 17, 7 p.m.
Two Concerts, Youth Orchestra of Central Jersey, Richardson Auditorium, Princeton University, 609-258-5000. www.yocj.org. $10; $5 for seniors and children. Sunday, May 18, 3 and 7 p.m.
Musicians from West Windsor and Plainsboro include:
Anna Chicco, Tiffany Ge, Roger Lin, Kevin Maa, Ami Sawhney, Felicity Smith, Karin Sugeno, and Ananya Yalamanchi. Catherine Ding, Molly Fisch-Friedman, Samantha Jeng, Hye-jin Kim, Dylan Ogden, Noel Su, Eugene Tang, Shaili Tanna, Victoria Wang, Emily Zhao, and Sylvan Zheng.
Brian Chan, Shwetha Hariharan, Yui Kitamura, Tatyana Kozina, Lucy Liu, Alex Maeda, Anushka Sindkar, Nikila Venkat, and Elizabeth Yang. Joyce Chang, Eric Gan, Shannon Sheu, Claire Su, Jasmine Tsai, Kento Wada, Meea Yim, and Viola You. Matthew Bratton, Erika Friedman, Josef Grossmann, Richard Hua, Veronica Kim, Samir Koppolu, Eric Kwong, Micah Langer, Libby Lewis, Eitan Paul, DJ Sarkar, and Jacob Wydra. Ayza Akhtar, Kevin Gu, Eric Hsu, Eugene Kim, Dana Kong, Tzuriel Tong, Elianna Wydra, and Stanford Zhou.
Ivy Kang, Mercy Soong, Stephanie Huang, Victoria Chan, Tonia Li, Steven Maa, Kunal Rath, Christina Shen, Aini Sun, Kathleen Wan, Charles Wu, and Amy Xu. Muxin Cui, Jennifer Kim, Felix Su, Harika Vedati, Eli Wang, Sam Boyles, Anant Gharpure, and Lekha Kanchinadam. Amanda Sorensen,””,Brian Hui, Kaushal Khambhati, Nick Kosar, David Ku, Sinthu Ranjan, Joshua Sung, and Douglas Wallack.
Moya Chin, Susan Im, Christina Chen, Rupa Karmakar, Nicholas Wuensch, Victoria Song, Austin Hwang, Ragani Sharma, Lisa Sher, Brian Lee, Kristie Liao, Joe Thel, Jason Sher, Teddy Snieckus, Christopher Tian, Gregory Yang, and Tracy Mischell.
Christopher Bromberg, Brian Chan, Sophia Chan, Michael Hui, Hye-won Kim, Kevin Kostiw, Adam Shih, Sheila Enamandram, Kevin Gu, Michelle Huang, David Hui, Ensign Kaul, Andrew Sun, Andrew Lin, Cassandra Vasiliu, Brian Kim, Amanda Lee, Joshua Rose, Mark Brown-McMillin, James Ding, Isaac Knutson, Ekta Panigrahi, and Jerry Xu.
Irina Matos, Selena Park, Sharon Ryoo, Bethany Tsai, Belinda Ji, Ariel Wu, Emily Mapelli, Ethan Julius, Alex Liu, Morven Chin, William Goldin, David Meni, Vrushabh Shah, Michael Stern, Philip LaBella, and Michael Zhuang.
Kathy Li, Cong Ding, Dan Lee, Aishwarya Misra, Daniel Tan, Steven Senko, Simon Hwang, Sahil Kulgod, Radhika Dalal, Hanaan Yazdi, and Jason Zhang. Avilash Bagchi, Ivan Soler, Christopher Perron, Katie Ryn Stewart, Anny Fan, Eugene Park, Andrew Benerofe, and Raghav Kalra.
