Cal Poly Symphony to Showcase Student Winners and Music from Prokofiev’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ on March 9 Concert
Contact: Michele Abba
805-756-2406; mabba@calpoly.edu
SAN LUIS OBISPO — The Cal Poly Symphony’s Winter Concert will showcase the talents of four student soloists and a composer at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 9, in the Performing Arts Center.
In addition, the symphony will perform four movements from Sergei Prokofiev’s “Romeo and Juliet” that trace the story: “Montagues and Capulets,” “Juliet as a Young Girl,” “Romeo and Juliet” and “Romeo at the Tomb of Juliet.”
Student winners of the symphony’s Solo Competition in November will be featured: two instrumentalists, a pair of vocalists and one composer. All are music majors.
The instrumentalists are violist Jayden Perez, of Visalia, California, who will perform the first movement of William Walton’s Viola Concerto and pianist Simone Gabriel of San Luis Obispo, who will play the first movement of Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 16.
Soprano Melissa Scarpelli, of Chico, California, will sing Antonín Dvořák’s “Song to the Moon” and soprano Helena Fuller, of Vista, California, will perform Lerner and Loewe’s “I Could Have Danced all Night” from “My Fair Lady.”
The orchestra will also perform “Falling from Sky” by student composer Wyatt Willard, of San Marcos, California.
The symphony is directed by music Professor David Arrivée.
Tickets to the concert are $15 and 20 for the public, and $10 for students. Event parking is sponsored by the Performing Arts Center. Tickets are available at the Cal Poly Ticket Office between noon and 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday. To order by phone, call 805-SLO-4TIX (805-756-4849). Patrons receive a 20% discount when buying season tickets to four Music Department events through the Performing Arts Ticket Office; Cal Poly faculty and staff receive a 20% discount on individual tickets.
The event is sponsored by Cal Poly’s Music Department, College of Liberal Arts and Instructionally Related Activities program.
For more information, visit the Music Department’s calendar website, email music@calpoly.edu or call 805-756-2406.
