George Fox University hosts Portland Youth Philharmonic Nov. 9

October 26th, 2009

NEWBERG, Ore. – George Fox University will host a free concert performed by the Portland Youth Philharmonic at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 9, in Bauman Auditorium on the university’s Newberg, Ore., campus.

Led by conductor and music director David Hattner, the concert is a preview of the orchestra’s fall concert to be held in the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall on Nov. 14. The program will feature Kai Talim, the winner of PYP’s Piano Concerto Competition.

Selections will include Verdi ballet music from Otello, Beethoven’s Concerto No. 4 (featuring Talim), Debussy’s Fanfare from Le Roi Lear, Bloch’s Two Interludes from Macbeth, and Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet.

No tickets are required for the concert. For more information, call the Portland Philharmonic at 503-223-5939.

Founded in 1924, PYP is America’s first youth orchestra. Musicians in the orchestra range in age from 12 to 23 and come from throughout Northwest Oregon and Southwest Washington. For more information about the Portland Youth Philharmonic, go to portlandyouthphil.org.

George Fox University is ranked by Forbes as one of the top 100 colleges in the country and highest among Christian colleges. George Fox is the only Christian university in the Pacific Northwest classified by U.S. News & World Report as a national university. More than 3,300 students attend classes on the university’s campus in Newberg, Ore., and at teaching centers in Portland, Salem, and Redmond, Ore., and Boise, Idaho. George Fox offers bachelor’s degrees in more than 40 majors, degree-completion programs for working adults, five seminary degrees, and 12 master’s and doctoral degrees.

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