Spring Concerts

Three masterpieces from the Romantic period grace our second concert series set, with featured piano soloist Victor Xie performing the virtuosic and dazzling Piano Concerto no. 2 by Camille Saint-Saëns. We also feature our brass section as we open with the Fanfare from La Peri by Paul Dukas, followed by the final movement of the Piano Quartet in G Minor by Johannes Brahms, orchestrated by Arnold Schoenberg in 1937, and concludes with one of Maestro Eylar's signature favorites, the powerful and ultra-romantic Third Symphony of Sergei Rachmaninov.

Leo Eylar, conductor
Victor Xie, piano

Dukas: Fanfare from La Peri
Schoenberg/Brahms: Rondo alla zingarese from
          Piano Quartet in G minor
Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 2
Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 3

Young Artist Competition Winner

Victor Xie is a 16-year-old rising junior attending Ocean Grove Charter School. He began his musical studies at the age of 7 and is currently under the guidance of both Ms. Erna Gulabyan and Mr. Hans Boepple. He was a winner at the Menuhin piano competition in 2011 and U.S. Open piano competition in 2012. He also performed in the Carnegie/Weill Recital Hall twice as a winner for American Fine Arts Festival competition 2011 and for the International Young Gifted Musician Festival‘s “Passion Of Music 2013” competition. In 2014–2015, he will appear in recital as a winner of the San Francisco State University’s 32nd Annual San Francisco Young Pianists Competition, and performed Saint Saens Piano Concerto no. 2 with the Mercury Orchestra at Sanders Theater, Harvard, as a winner of the 2014 Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts Concerto Competition. He attended California Summer Music camp in 2012, Adamant Summer Music school in 2013. Besides the piano, he likes to improvise and to play violin in the Senior Symphony at ECYS.