EVENT DETAILS

Join us for an engaging, family-friendly concert filled with color, character, and creativity! Narrator Annie Jackson leads a captivating journey through the orchestra with Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf and Britten’s Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra. Plus, CVSO’s Young Artist Competition Winner André Peck plays Rachmaninoff and CVSO’s Young Composer Competition winner Luke Tackett premieres his new work, The Hope of Humanity.

LOBBY ACTIVITIES

Join us before the concert for family-friendly activities in the lobby! The lobby doors open at 1:00 PM.

• 1:00-2:00 PM - ARTmobile hands-on activities

• 1:30-1:50 PM - Free lobby concert by members of the Memorial High School Orchestra

COLLABORATORS & SPONSORS

Concert Collaborator: Annie Jackson, LLC
Concert Sponsor: Visit Eau Claire
Guest Artist Sponsors: Ellen and Bob Wynkoop
Young Composer Competition Sponsors: Bobbie and Rob Kuchta
Music Moves Me Sponsors: Ellen and Bob Wynkoop

FULL PROGRAM

• Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 1, Movement 1

  • Performed by 16-year-old André Peck, winner of the CVSO Young Artists Competition

• Benjamin Britten: Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34 (Variations and fugue on a theme of Purcell)

INTERMISSION

• Luke Tackett, winner of the CVSO Young Composer Competition: The Hope of Humanity (world premiere)

• Sergei Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67

Concert Collaborator Annie Jackson