Young Artist Competition Winners Perform with Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s season continues with the 2023 National Young Artist Competition gold medal-winners performing with the symphony on Jan. 20-21 at Skyview Concert Hall, 1300 N.W. 139th St., in the Salmon Creek area of Vancouver. Violinist Esme Arias-Kim of Illinois will perform Ernest Chausson’s “Poeme,” saxophonist Diego Chapela-Perez of Texas will perform Alexander Glazunov’s “Concerto in E flat Major for Alto Saxophone and String Orchestra,” and pianist Xinran Shi of California will perform “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini” by Sergei Rachmaninoff. In the second half of the program, Maestro Brotons will conduct the great Danish composer Carl
Neilsen’s “Symphony No. 3.”

Concerts are 7 p.m. Jan. 20 and 3 p.m. Jan. 21. One hour prior to the program’s start on both performance days, a pre-concert talk on the history of the works on the program will be held in Skyview Concert Hall for all ticket holders. The symphony also offers the option of viewing the program live from home. Tickets ($42 to $55) are available at vancouversymphony.org.