Classical favorites highlight CSO’s Carmel Artist Showcase Feb. 23

Local artists Drury, Eapen, Isbitts & Levesque are featured soloists; Carmel High School’s Maestro Thomas Chen to conduct

The Carmel Symphony Orchestra (CSO) will celebrate favorites by Pierne, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, and Sibelius in the Carmel Artist Showcase, set for 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 23 at the Palladium at the Allied Solutions Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel.

Led by Carmel High School’s Maestro Thomas Chen, experience the thrill of the best young Indiana music talents as the 2024 Concerto Competition finalists perform with the CSO in a program featuring piano, clarinet, harp, and violin solos.

This concert underscores the mission of the CSO to support emerging careers while inspiring a new generation of musicians and music enthusiasts. Between opening and closing pieces with the Symphony alone, four young artists will each perform an iconic concerto with the Symphony showcasing the beautiful sound their instrument:

• Harpist Emma Levesque, will perform Konzertstück by French composer Gabriel Pierné, a hidden gem of the Romantic repertoire. This one-movement work brims with energetic brilliance, soaring melodies, and French elegance, making it a thrilling opening concerto of the evening.
• Rohan Eapen, a senior at Hamilton Southeastern High School, then takes on one of the most beloved piano concertos ever written, Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2, performing the first movement which opens with a hauntingly dramatic theme with sweeping romanticism.
• After intermission clarinetist David Drury, a student of CSO principal clarinetist Emily Cook, will play Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s final instrumental work, the Clarinet Concerto, a masterpiece of warmth and elegance that was completed mere weeks before the composer’s death in 1797.
• The fourth and final young artist to perform will be violinist Miranda Isbitts sharing Sibelius’ Violin Concerto. The opening movement’s brooding intensity creates a spellbinding atmosphere before the solo violin enters with a passionate and virtuosic theme.

Click here for tickets. Reserved seats start at $67. Senior and student discounts available.

Meet and greet the musicians for this performance at the CSO After Party in the Brham Founders Club. Tickets are available as a $25 add-on to the regular ticket price, or available as a season benefit to Gold Level donors to the CSO.

About Carmel Symphony Orchestra
The Carmel Symphony Orchestra is a Resident Company of the Allied Solutions Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel. The 65-member orchestra of professional musicians performs at The Palladium, a 1,500-seat concert hall at the Center. Founded in 1976, the CSO performs concerts featuring an eclectic repertoire of some of the world’s greatest symphonic music. The CSO is committed to enhancing our community’s quality of life through creative, artistically excellent performances and educational experiences for diverse audiences of all ages. Learn more at carmelsymphony.org.