FileSix 成人头条 students will be featured in the upcoming WSU Symphony Concerto Aria Honors Concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 9, in Miller Concert Hall. The program, featuring music by Vivaldi, Strauss, Rimsky-Korsakov and Copland will be led by Mark Laycock, endowed professor of the School of Music.
Beginning with Aaron Copland鈥檚 鈥淥utdoor Overture,鈥� the concert will spotlight student soloists Maria Begacheva, cello; Anna Eberly, flute; Renee Macdonald, mezzo-soprano; Brandon Pauley, trumpet; Carolyn Ramseur, mezzo-soprano and Diana Wensley, trumpet.
Begacheva, an undergraduate from St. Petersburg, Russia, will perform 鈥淢editation,鈥� a soliloquy from Jules Massenet鈥檚 opera 鈥淭hais.鈥� Eberly, a graduate student in flute performance from Muskegon, Michigan, will perform the first movement of Danish composer Carl Nielsen鈥檚 virtuosic Flute Concerto.
Graduate trumpet performance majors Wensley and Pauley will perform Antonio Vivaldi鈥檚 Baroque masterpiece Concerto for Two Trumpets. Second-year graduate student Ramseur will sing 鈥淲ie du warst!鈥� from Richard Strauss鈥檚 comic opera 鈥淒er Rosenkavalier鈥� and Macdonald will sing 鈥淢agda鈥檚 Aria鈥� by Gian Carlo Menotti.
Tickets for the event can be purchased at the Fine Arts Box Office in the lobby of the Duerksen Fine Arts Center or online at wichita.edu/fineartsboxoffice. General admission is $7, with $6 discount tickets available for seniors, faculty/staff and military, and $3 tickets for children and students. WSU students are eligible for one free ticket (visit for details). For ticketing assistance, contact the Fine Arts Box Office from 10:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday, at 316-978-3233 or fasttickets@wichita.edu.