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2026 Concerto/Aria Competition - March 7

Blanche M, Touhill Performing Arts Center, University of Missouri-St. Louis

Final Round Schedule

9:00 am:  Andreas Landstedt, piano
                    Nikolai Medtner: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 50 “Concerto-Ballade”

9:30 am: Takeshi Nagayasu, piano
                     Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 1 in F♯ minor, Op. 1 (1891)

10:00 am: Jiaxiang Zhao, clarinet
                     Carl Nielson: Clarinet Concerto:

            10:30-10:40am, BREAK

10:40 am: Jesus David Milano Melgarejo, clarinet
                     Carl Maria von Weber: Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in E-flat Major Op.74

11:10 am: Jacob Bickham, saxophone
                     Paul Creston: Concerto for Alto Saxophone, Op. 26 1941.

             11:40-12:45 pm: BREAK/LUNCH

  1:00 pm: Runqi Weng, violin. 
                     Nicolo Paganini: Violin Concerto No. 2 in B minor, Op. 7

 1:30 pm: Matthildur Traustadóttir, violin
                     Alexander Glazunov: Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 82

2:00 pm: Alexandra Smith, voice
                    Richard Strauss: Four Last Songs

2:30-3:00 pm: Judges deliberation

3:15 pm: Announcement of winners

 

Artist Presentation Society exists to identify, encourage, and promote exceptional young musicians in the Midwest. Our competition is open to applicants from 16 Midwestern States.


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