Penn State School of Music President's Concert
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DateMarch 16, 2022
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Doors Open6:30PM
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VenueMain Theater
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Ticket PricesTickets start at $25.
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On SaleOn Sale Now
Event Details
The 15th Penn State President’s Concert will include the Philharmonic Orchestra, under the direction of Professor Gerardo Edelstein, and Oriana Singers, conducted by Dr. Kathryn Hilton. Retiring Penn State President Eric Barron will host his final President’s Concert. The annual event is sponsored jointly by the Penn State Alumni Association and the School of Music, with a reception for alumni and friends preceding the concert.
PROGRAM
Richard Strauss - Der Rosenkavalier Suite
Kabalevsky, Dmitri - Overture to Colas Breugnon, Op. 24
The performance closes with the combined ensembles and audience singing the Penn State Alma Mater.
This the first appearance for the Oriana Singers at a President’s Concert. The treble voice choir was founded in 1995 by Dr. Lynn Drafall and has appeared both on and off campus singing music written for treble voices from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century: madrigals, motets, part-songs, folk songs, musical theatre, and music by female and underrepresented composers. Dr. Kathryn Hylton is associate director of choral activities in the School of Music. The choir composed of sixty students representing a wide variety of majors at University Park.
The Philharmonic Orchestra has performed throughout the northeastern United States, including concerts at New York City’s Carnegie Hall, Pittsburgh’s Heinz Hall, Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center, and the MENC Eastern Division Conference in Baltimore. In March 2006, the orchestra participated by invitation in the Sixth International Orchestra Festival in Zaragoza, Spain. Enrollment, open to all University Park students, is by audition at the beginning of each semester. Gerardo Edelstein is the music director.