This year, Young Artists Spotlight goes to the concert hall, with a season featuring recorded concert performances from the Central Valley’s top student ensembles.
From the stages of Fresno and Bakersfield, to Disney Hall in Los Angeles, we’ll hear talented student groups live in the spotlight. Join us and hear why the future of classical music in the San Joaquin Valley is especially bright.
On the radio and KVPR's livestream, you can hear Young Artists Spotlight Friday nights at 9 p.m. beginning March 1, 2024. The podcast will be available soon after.
Friday March 1 – FOOSA @ William Saroyan Theatre - Mahler Symphony No.5
Friday March 8 – FOOSA @ Disney Hall – Shostakovich
Friday March 15 – Youth Orchestras of Fresno February 2024 Concert @ Shaghoian Hall
Friday March 22 – Youth Orchestras of Fresno - Winter Magic - Dvorak & Beethoven
Friday March 29 – Fresno Pacific University 2024 Choral Masterworks Concert
Friday April 5 – Fresno State Wind Orchestra
Friday April 12 - Bakersfield College Chamber Singers 2023 European Tour
Friday April 19 – Bakersfield Youth Symphony Orchestra Spring 2024 Concert
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The 2024 season concludes with the Bakersfield Youth Symphony Orchestra and their Spring concert, held March 17, 2024 at the Edward Simonsen Performing Arts Center on the campus of Bakersfield College.
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In this episode we join the Bakersfield College Chamber Singers, led by Dr. Jennifer Garrett, on their 2023 European, as they perform a wide range of sacred and secular music for audiences in Vienna, Prague, Leipzig, and Berlin.
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In this episode we feature the Fresno State Wind Orchestra from their recent performance at the annual conference of the Western and Northwestern Divisions of the College Band Directors National Association, held at Las Vegas Academy of the Arts in March 2024.
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This episode features sacred music of Bach, Haydn, Handel, and Schubert. Singers from Fresno Pacific University are joined by several area choirs, along with the Fresno Choral Artists and the San Joaquin Chorale.
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From their Winter Magic concert, recorded December 3, 2023 at Paul Shaghoian Concert Hall in Fresno, Youth Orchestras of Fresno perform Dvořák's Carnival Overture and Beethoven's Symphony No.5 in C minor.
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This week's episode features Youth Orchestras of Fresno's (YOOF) Love Conquers All concert, recorded February 18, 2024 at Paul Shaghoian Memorial Concert Hall in Fresno.
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In the second episode of the 2024 Season of Young Artists Spotlight, Dr. Thomas Loewenheim leads the FOOSA Philharmonic in Dmitri Shostakovich's cinematic Symphony No.11 at Disney Hall in Los Angeles.
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The 2024 season of Young Artists Spotlight opens with the FOOSA Philharmonic, performing Gustav Mahler's Symphony No.5, conducted by Dr. Thomas Loewenheim.
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This episode features two string soloists from Fresno and a pianist from Bakersfield.
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In this episode, we present participants in Fresno State's 6th Annual Art Song Festival