The Richmond Symphony Presents the 8th Annual Come & Play Concert, 11/23

Tune your strings and oil your keys! The Richmond Symphony is inviting musicians of all ages and abilities to grab their instruments and play alongside the Richmond Symphony musicians for the 8th annual Come & Play. This annual concert at the Stuart C. Siegel Center has become a popular RVA tradition.

Come & Play

Verizon Wireless Arena, Stuart C. Siegel Center Virginia Commonwealth University Sunday, November 23 - concert begins at 6pm Rehearsal is 2:30 - 5pm

Want to play? Register online at www.richmondsymphony.com! Parts available for musicians of all levels.
Registration is $10
T-shirts (optional and sold separately) are just $8

There is no cost to attend the Come & Play performance as an audience member!

Come & Play creates the largest orchestra in the Commonwealth, attracting 600+ musicians from across Virginia and beyond. Don't miss this unique opportunity to play alongside the city's top classical musicians under the baton of Associate Conductor Keitaro Harada. This event is presented in support of music education in Richmond area schools.

RICHMOND SYMPHONY

Come & Play

Repertoire includes

GRIEG - In the Hall of the Mountain King from Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Opus 46 STRAUSS, JR. - Thunder and Lightning Polka, Opus 324
VIGNIERI - An American Hymn
PIAZZOLLA arr. Keitaro Harada - Libertango
BRAHMS orch. Albert Parlow - Hungarian Dance No. 5 in G minor BEETHOVEN - Finale from Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Opus 125, "Choral" ANDERSON - Sleigh Ride

About the Richmond Symphony

Founded in 1957, the Richmond Symphony is the largest performing arts organization in Central Virginia. The organization includes an orchestra of more than 70 professional musicians, the 150-voice Richmond Symphony Chorus and more than 200 students in the Richmond Symphony Youth Orchestra programs. Each season, more than 250,000 members of the community enjoy concerts, radio broadcasts, and educational outreach programs. The Richmond Symphony is partially funded by the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

About Keitaro Harada

Keitaro Harada, conductor, is increasingly recognized at the highest levels for his artistic abilities. A student of Lorin Maazel at Castleton Festival and Fabio Luisi at Pacific Music Festival, recipient of the Seiji Ozawa Conducting Fellowship at Tanglewood Music Festival, Bruno Walter National Conductor Preview, and The Solti Foundation U.S. Career Assistance Award, Harada's credentials are exemplary and, at the age of 29, his achievements are those of a seasoned conductor.

Harada began his appointment as Associate Conductor of Richmond Symphony in Fall 2014. In his continuing position of Associate Conductor for Arizona Opera, he leads their production of La Fille du Regiment in Spring 2015. This season holds Harada's Japan debut in December with the New Japan Philharmonic.

In 2013, Harada was selected by the League of American Orchestras as one of only six conductors for the Bruno Walter National Conductor Preview, a prestigious showcase that occurs biennially in an effort to promote gifted, emerging conductors to orchestra industry leaders. In 2012, Harada was a semi-finalist at the 9th Grzegorz Fitelberg International Competition for Conductors in Poland and also participated in the National Music Festival in Maryland. In 2011, Harada was one of ten semi-finalists invited by Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony to participate in the First Chicago Symphony Orchestra Solti International Conducting Competition.

A native of Tokyo, Japan, Harada graduated from Interlochen Arts Academy and Mercer University. He completed his formal training at University of Arizona with Thomas Cockrell and Charles Bontrager. Harada is represented by JEJ Artists.

Photo Credit: Kathryn Rincker