The Friends University Community Orchestra Concert will perform Thursday, April 28, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. in Sebits Auditorium, Riney Fine Arts Center on the Friends University campus.
The program will feature the winner of the Miller Concerto Competition, Amanda Hawkins, playing Kabalevsky’s Third Piano Concerto and the winner of the Wichita Metropolitan Music Teachers Association piano competition, Emma Thacker, playing Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto in C minor. The orchestra will also premiere a new work by violist and Friends University alumnus Steven Garcia titled Suite of the Celestial Traveller. The concert will finish with Schubert’s famous Symphony No. 8 “Unfinished.”
The performance will take place in Sebits Auditorium, Riney Fine Arts Center on the Friends University campus at 2100 W. University Ave., Wichita, Kan. Tickets are $11 for adults and $9 for seniors and students.
For more information on this event or other Fine Arts events and to purchase tickets, please contact the Fine Arts Box Office at 316-295-5677 or finearts@friends.edu.
Friends University, a Christian University of Quaker heritage, equips students to honor God and serve others by integrating their intellectual, spiritual and professional lives.