Opening night chamber music concert of the 2026 Northern Lights Music Festival, featuring our renowned performing faculty, guest artists and prize-winning participants in our Young Artists Program.

Program
Common Ground (2025) Alyssa Morris (1984 – )
• One Voice
• Two to Tango
• Three-Legged Race
• Four Corners
Carrie Vecchione, oboe and Rolf Erdahl, bass

Romance, Op. 23 Amy Beach
Rachel Yi, cello: Hans-Derek Yu, piano

Impromptu in G-flat major, Op 90 No.3 Schubert
Alex Lo, piano

Etude Op. 10 no.5                Chopin
Waltz in A-flat major, Op.42     Chopin 
ShuGuang Gong, piano

Dansa esoañola No.5 in e minor, Op. 37            Granados
Malambo, Op. 7           Ginastera
Carlos César Roodríguez, piano

INTERMISSION

Elegy Yevgeny                            Zhelinsky
Suite for Violin and Piano from the film “Ben-Hur” Miklós Rózsa,
Stanislav Izmailov, violin; Sergey Izmailov, piano

Cello Sonata in A minor, Op. 36 Grieg
• I. Allegro agitato
Yosif Feigelson, cello; Vitali Khairutdinov, piano*
*Mr. Khairutdinov is the 2026 First Prize Winner Young Artist Division of the National MTNA Piano Competition

Tickets: Adult $15 / $5 Students (under 18)