Opening the concert will be Beethoven's delightful Creatures of Prometheus overture followed by Wolf-Ferrari's Idillio Concertino, featuring world renown oboist Richard Woodhams.
Featuring new music by the University of Pennsylvania’s Doctoral student composers David Acevedo, Andrew Burke, Eliana Fishbeyn, Max Johnson, Brendan McMullen, and Susanna Payne-Passmore (with collaborator Elise Mark).
Kay Kaufman Shelemay comes to the Lerner Center to discuss the experiences of Ethiopian musicians during the 1974 Ethiopian revolution, their forced migration abroad, and their roles in helping found new communities in the Ethiopian American diaspora.