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Helena Fuller, Jayden Perez, Simone Gabriel
Wyatt Willard and Melissa Scarpelli
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Cal Poly Symphony Winter Concert: Student Soloist Showcase

Saturday, March 9, 2024
7:30 p.m., Performing Arts Center

The Cal Poly Symphony’s Winter Concert will showcase the talents of four student soloists and a composer.

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 ($15 and $20 general, $10 students)

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Cal Poly Symphony and Choirs: France Tour Preview Concert

Saturday, June 8, 2024
7:30 p.m., Performing Arts Center

The Cal Poly Choirs and Symphony will combine to present repertoire the groups will perform while on tour in France. Repertoire will include selections by American composer Dan Forrest as well as Canadian composer Nathaniel Dett’s "Chariot Jubliee." Selections by French composers Gabriel Fauré and Camille Saint-Saêns will also be included.

Tickets ($15 and $20 general, $10 students)

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