Four different concerts highlight a busy weekend for music-making young people from West Windsor and Plainsboro.
The choirs from High Schools North and South and the High School South orchestra collaborate for a concert featuring the music of Vaughn Williams and Liszt at the Great Auditorium in Ocean Grove on Saturday, May 21, at 4 p.m. Sun Min Lee of Lehigh University is the guest conductor. Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for seniors and ages 12 and under and can be purchased at the door or by E-mailing ken.carter@ww-p.org.
The Youth Orchestra of Central Jersey gives its spring concerts on Sunday, May 22, at 3 and 7 p.m. at High School North. The highlight of the later concert will be the Symphonic Orchestra’s performance of “Zigeunerweisen” by Pablo de Sarasate, featuring concerto competition winner Jeremy Zhang on violin. Zhang, a senior at High school South, studies with Dr. Kevin Tsai.
The 7 p.m. concert also includes the Percussion Ensemble and Saxophone Choir performing works by Bach, Becker, Holst, Tchaikovsky, and Gershwin.
The 3 p.m. concert includes the String Preparatory Orchestra, the Pro Arte Orchestra, the Wind Symphony, and the Percussion Prep with music of Britten, Shostakovich, Bizet, and Schumann.
Spring Concerts, Youth Orchestra of Central Jersey, High School North, 90 Grovers Mill Road, Plainsboro. Sunday, May 22, 3 and 7 p.m. $10; $5 seniors and students. www.yocj.org.
The Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra presents “A Concerto Extravaganza,” its season finale, on Sunday, May 22, at Princeton Alliance Church in Plainsboro. The concert features performances by the winners of the 2016 Young Artists Competition, sponsored by the orchestra, conducted by Chiu-Tze Lin.
The four competition winners include two from WW-P: Kit Ying Cheng, 16, is a West Windsor resident whose father started teaching her the violin at age three. She moved to the U.S. from Hong Kong in 2010 and is a student in the Juilliard Pre-College Division. She will perform the first movement of Henri Vieuxtemps’ Violin Concerto No. 5. The other is Max Wang, 11, a pianist and sixth grade student at Grover Middle School. As a result of previous competition wins, he has performed at Carnegie Hall and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He also plays the oboe. He will perform the first movement of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major.
A Concerto Extravaganza, Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra, Princeton Alliance Church, 20 Schalks Crossing Road, Plainsboro. Sunday, May 22, 7 p.m. $20 to $30. 908-420-1248. www.bravuraphil.org.
