Tour Preview Concert
You will definitely want to mark your calendar for this event, as CYS prepares to travel to the Czech Republic, Poland, and Hungary for a whirlwind tour that will find us performing in some of the most famous and acoustically perfect concert halls in the world. Our program will feature the wildly raucous Roman Carnival Overture by Hector Berlioz, Gershwin’s Cuban Overture, and Richard Strauss’s Suite from Der Rosenkavalier. Our program also highlights soloist Parker Van Ostrand, who will perform Leonard Bernstein’s Symphony No. 2 The Age of Anxiety for Piano and Orchestra.
Leo Eylar, conductor
Dr. Joseph Kim, asst. conductor
Parker Van Ostrand, piano
Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture
Gershwin: Cuban Overture
Strauss: Suite from the opera Der Rosenkavalier
Bernstein: Symphony No. 2, “The Age of Anxiety”
(Parker Van Ostrand, piano)
Guest Soloist
Parker Van Ostrand began studying piano at the age of four. As a competition winner, he performed with the Merced Symphony, the Central Valley Youth Symphony, the California Youth Symphony, the Auburn Symphony, and the Frost Symphony Orchestra, and was invited to perform with the Symphony Parnassus in 2017 and the Camellia Symphony in 2019.
Assistant Conductor
Dr. Joseph Kim is an active trumpeter, conductor, and educator. As an orchestral player, he has performed at iconic venues such as Davis Symphony Hall, Walt Disney Concert Hall, and The Musikverein Wien, and has worked with notable artists such as Carl St. Clair, Myung-Whun Chung, and Joe Hisaishi. He currently works in the Bay Area as a freelance musician and has performed with Symphony Silicon Valley and Merced Symphony.
