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The high school concerto competition finals were last night and Ben’s piano performance was one of the three winning ones!
The videos are above (the piano one takes a few moments to start – it’s a 20 minute video). Ben played the first movement of the Tchaikowsky Piano Concerto no. 1 and also the first movement of Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante with Darcy. Angela Wright is accompanying Ben in the Tchaikowsky and Shirley Trissell is accompanying Ben and Darcy in the Mozart. The Mozart went very well but there were some other excellent musicians competing and two of them (violinists) were selected as the other two winners.
The competition winners get to perform their piece with the school symphony orchestra. Ben was hoping he’d have the opportunity to play the Tchaikowsky with an orchestra and so he’s very pleased.