Come and enjoy the Sunshine Coast Community Orchestra's spring concert, featuring the programs of four conductors: Joe Hatherill, Lyle Carter, Michelle Bruce and Heather Beckmyer.
The concert is set for Sunday, May 29, at 2 p.m. at the Raven's Cry Theatre.
The senior orchestra will feature Stephen Beckmyer on piano in the first movement of Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor. Tickets are only $8 for adults, $6 for students and seniors, and will be available at Coast Books in Gibsons, Talewind Books in Sechelt and the General Store in Roberts Creek.
Stephen, 18, has been playing piano since he was four and violin since he was five. He is a long-time member of the Sunshine Coast Community Orchestra, first playing in the introductory orchestra and now in the senior symphony orchestra.
He also performs frequently with the Coast String Fiddlers with whom he will travel to Scotland this August, to perform at the Aberdeen International Youth Festival. He also plays with an offshoot of the fiddlers, NYWP, a group of young musicians under the direction of Vancouver world musician Oliver Schroer. NYWP performed at the Vancouver International Youth Festival last summer and this summer will perform at the North Island Folk Fest and the Harrison Hot-Springs Folk Fest.
Together with the Sunshine Coast Community Orchestra, under the direction of Hatherill, Stephen has been working on the Piano Concerto in A minor by Robert Schumann. Written in 1841, and premièred by his wife, Clara Wieck-Schumann, this concerto is an inspiring romantic piece for piano and orchestra.
