{"id":53805,"date":"2023-02-07T18:46:56","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T23:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=53805"},"modified":"2023-02-27T12:39:16","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T17:39:16","slug":"winners-of-concerto-aria-competition-to-perform-with-orchestra-in-spring-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2023\/winners-of-concerto-aria-competition-to-perform-with-orchestra-in-spring-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Winners of Concerto\/Aria Competition to perform with orchestra in spring concert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First-year piano student <strong>Rafael de Tablan<\/strong> and junior vocalist <strong>Afton Rhodes-Lehman<\/strong> won the 2023 Concerto\/Aria Competition, earning them each performance spots with the EMU Orchestra during its spring Concerto\/Aria Orchestral Concert on Saturday, April 22, 2023, at 7 p.m. in Lehman Auditorium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>De Tablan, a music performance major who hails from the Philippines, played Shostakovich\u2019s Piano Concerto No. 2, and Rhodes-Lehman, a studio art major with music and honors minors from Dayton, Virginia, sang \u201cThe Silver Aria\u201d from <em>The Ballad of Baby Doe<\/em> to win the competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When de Tablan heard his name announced, he cried. \u201cPlaying with the orchestra is one of my biggest dreams,\u201d he said. Rhodes-Lehman echoed de Tablan\u2019s comments. \u201cNot that many young people can say they\u2019ve sung with an orchestra by the time they\u2019ve graduated.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to EMU Music Program Director <strong>David Berry,<\/strong> \u201cOur winners this year are both excellent musicians and passionate about music. Rafael\u2019s flair and virtuosity at the piano is something truly special. And Afton is a wonderful singer with a beautiful, rich and resonant voice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Berry is de Tablan\u2019s piano instructor at EMU, and Rhodes-Lehman studies voice under <strong>Shannon Kiser<\/strong>. Both de Tablan and Rhodes-Lehman had been working on their pieces for several months prior to the competition. Kiser selected Rhodes-Lehman\u2019s aria, and de Tablan says growing up with the Disney movie <em>Fantasia 2000<\/em> inspired him to learn and chose his concerto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe competition gives performers the chance to work up some of their most challenging repertoire\u2026 and the winners an opportunity to perform as a soloist with an orchestra, which provides so much learning beyond what students are used to when performing with a collaborative pianist,\u201d shared EMU Orchestra conductor <strong>Benjamin Bergey.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>De Tablan and Rhodes-Lehman will perform their selections at the spring Concerto\/Aria Orchestral Concert. Also performing will be the Shenandoah Valley Youth Symphony and <strong>Dan Ott,<\/strong> dean of the School of Theology, Humanities and Performing Arts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First-year piano student Rafael de Tablan and junior vocalist Afton Rhodes-Lehman won the 2023 Concerto\/Aria Competition, earning them each performance spots with the EMU Orchestra during its spring Concerto\/Aria Orchestral <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2023\/winners-of-concerto-aria-competition-to-perform-with-orchestra-in-spring-concert\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about Winners of Concerto\/Aria Competition to perform with orchestra in spring concert<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":53811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4515,14715,5183,5730],"tags":[17216,6166],"feature":[17427,17426,17241],"class_list":["post-53805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-campus-life","category-music","category-undergraduate-programs","tag-music","tag-orchestra","feature-emu-home-page-feature","feature-myemu-feature","feature-news-feature"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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