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This year, Young Artists Spotlight goes to the concert hall, with a season featuring recorded concert performances from the Central Valley’s top student ensembles. From the stages of Fresno and Bakersfield, to Disney Hall in Los Angeles, we’ll hear talented student groups live in the spotlight. Join us and hear why the future of classical music in the San Joaquin Valley is especially bright. Hear the 2025 season on KVPR, Saturday nights at 9:00 PM beginning April 5, 2025.Support for Young Artists Spotlight on KVPR comes from the Bonner Family Foundation.2025 Broadcast & Podcast Season:Saturday April 5, 2025, 9pm: Bakersfield Youth Symphony Orchestra, June 2024 ConcertSaturday April 12, 2025, 9pm: Bakersfield Youth Symphony Orchestra November 2024 ConcertSaturday, April 19, 2025, 9pm: Fresno Philharmonic - Brahms and TablaSaturday April 26, 2025, 9pm: California State University Bakersfield Concert Band Fall 2024 ConcertSaturday May 3, 2025, 9pm: The FOOSA Festival/Fresno Summer Orchestra Academy - Scriabin Poem of Ecstacy, Shostakovich 11Saturday May 10, 2025, 9pm: The FOOSA Festival/Fresno Summer Orchestra Academy - Bloch, Lyaponuv, Mahler 5Saturday May 17, 2025, 9pm: Youth Orchestras of Fresno - Ruggero Leoncavallo: PagliacciSaturday May 24, 2025, 9pm: Youth Orchestras of Fresno - George Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue French pianist, Jean-Baptiste Doulcet; Overture, Toot Toot Tootie Toot (Dance of the Reed-Pipes), Peanut Brittle Brigade (March), Sugar Rum Cherry (Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy), Entr'acte, The Volga Vouty (Russian Dance), Chinoiserie (Chinese Dance), Danse Of The Floreadores (Waltz Of The Flowers), and Arabesque Cookies (Arabian Dance).
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This week on Young Artists Spotlight, we hear a performance of George Gershwin's Rhapsody In Blue by Youth Orchestras of Fresno.
This week on Young Artists Spotlight we hear Youth Orchestras of Fresno perform Ruggero Leoncavallo's Pagliacci.
This week on Young Artists Spotlight, we hear the FOOSA Festival/Fresno Summer Orchestra Academy perform works by Bloch, Lyaponuv, and Mahler's 5th Symphony.
The FOOSA Festival/Fresno Summer Orchestra Academy - Scriabin Poem of Ecstasy, Shostakovich 11
Hear a concert from the California State University Bakersfield Concert Band Fall 2024.
This week on KVPR's Young Artists Spotlight, we hear a performance by the Bakersfield Youth Symphony Orchestra Recorded June 8, 2024. Dr. Leo Sakomoto, conductorRitual Fire Dance – Manuel de FallaNorwegian Dances, Op. 35 – Edvard GriegDanse Espagnole – Manuel de Falla, Brian Teeten, violinHungarian Dance No. 1 – BrahmsHungarian Dance No. 5 – Brahms
This week on KVPR's Young Artists Spotlight, we feature another performance by the Bakersfield Youth Symphony Orchestra, recorded in November 2025 in Bakersfield.
The 2024 season concludes with the Bakersfield Youth Symphony Orchestra and their Spring concert, held March 17, 2024 at the Edward Simonsen Performing Arts Center on the campus of Bakersfield College.
In this episode we join the Bakersfield College Chamber Singers, led by Dr. Jennifer Garrett, on their 2023 European, as they perform a wide range of sacred and secular music for audiences in Vienna, Prague, Leipzig, and Berlin.
In this episode we feature the Fresno State Wind Orchestra from their recent performance at the annual conference of the Western and Northwestern Divisions of the College Band Directors National Association, held at Las Vegas Academy of the Arts in March 2024.
This episode features sacred music of Bach, Haydn, Handel, and Schubert. Singers from Fresno Pacific University are joined by several area choirs, along with the Fresno Choral Artists and the San Joaquin Chorale.
From their Winter Magic concert, recorded December 3, 2023 at Paul Shaghoian Concert Hall in Fresno, Youth Orchestras of Fresno perform Dvořák's Carnival Overture and Beethoven's Symphony No.5 in C minor.
This week's episode features Youth Orchestras of Fresno's (YOOF) Love Conquers All concert, recorded February 18, 2024 at Paul Shaghoian Memorial Concert Hall in Fresno.
In the second episode of the 2024 Season of Young Artists Spotlight, Dr. Thomas Loewenheim leads the FOOSA Philharmonic in Dmitri Shostakovich's cinematic Symphony No.11 at Disney Hall in Los Angeles.
The 2024 season of Young Artists Spotlight opens with the FOOSA Philharmonic, performing Gustav Mahler's Symphony No.5, conducted by Dr. Thomas Loewenheim.
This episode features two string soloists from Fresno and a pianist from Bakersfield.
In this episode, we present participants in Fresno State's 6th Annual Art Song Festival
This episode features a piano quartet from Fresno State, performing music by Joaquin Turina and Ernst Dohnanyi. They are Jackson Snead (violin), Melissa McGlumphy (viola), Emma Hill (cello), and Alina Xiong (piano).
This episode features the Bakersfield Youth Symphony Orchestra (BYSO), from a concert recorded June 11, 2022 at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Fresno, and also pays homage to trumpeter Daniel Edwards, a former member of the BYSO and a past performer on Young Artists Spotlight, who died tragically from COVID in March 2021. We’ll hear Daniel Edwards’ appearance on YAS from March 2009. A centerpiece of the BYSO performance is the world premier of a work commissioned in honor of Daniel Edwards, composed by retired CSUB professor Doug Davis.
Violinist Xavion is a student at University High School in Fresno. He performs music of Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Henri Casadesus, and Vittorio Monti.
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