Symphony Guild to host HSU musicians in Village concert
HOT SPRINGS VILLAGE — The Hot Springs/ Hot Springs Village Symphony Guild will present this year’s Henderson State University Department of Music annual President’s Concert competition winners during a performance at 3 p. m. Jan. 31 in Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, 199 Barcelona Road, in Hot Springs Village.
The program will feature student soloists who were selected as winners of the competition, which took place in November.
“We always enjoy the enthusiastic audiences in Hot Springs Village, and are excited to collaborate with the Symphony Guild again to present our competition winners,” competition coordinator Steven Becraft said in a news release.
Soloists will include Bobby Humphries, a percussionist from Everton, who will perform a marimba transcription of the “Saint- Saens Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso,” Casey Williams, a tenor from Malvern, who will sing “Una furtiva lagrima,” from Donizetti’s “L’elisir d’amore,” and Hunter Mabery, a pianist from Murfreesboro, who will play the first movement of Rachmaninoff’s “Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor.”
Kenneth Harris, a tubaist from Texarkana, Texas, will perform a transcription of Capuzzi’s “Concerto for Double Bass,” Josiah Burns, a baritone from Van Buren, will offer “Bella siccome un angelo,” from Donizetti’s “Don Pasquale,” Zaquary Hale, a flutist from Bryant, will play two movements from Rutter’s “Suite Antique,” and Aaron Schaefer, a tubaist from Navasota, Texas, will perform “The Carnival of Venice.” A reception will follow the free concert. So that organizers can properly plan for the reception, they ask for those interested in attending to register at the website http:// www.symphonyguild.org.