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Troy Webdell, conductor
Miho Sasaki, piano

The Fort Wayne Philharmonic Youth Orchestras program provides student musicians with an authentic, professional orchestra experience. From classics to pops, enjoy the accomplishments of these young musicians.

JUNIOR STRINGS

BARTOK
Echoes of Bartok (Themes from For Children)
BERNSTEIN
Somewhere from West Side Story
BACH
Allegro from Brandenburg Concerto No. 5

YOUTH SYMPHONY

SHOSTAKOVICH
Music from the film HAMLET
 
The Ghost
 
Hamlet & Ophelia
 
The Duel & Death of Hamlet
GLASS
Piano Concerto No. 3
 
Movement I
 
Movement II
 
Movement III (for Arvo Pärt)
 
 
 
Miho Sasaki, piano
RODGERS
Victory at Sea: A Symphonic Scenario
 
Song of the High Seas
 
Submarines in a Calm Sea
 
Beneath the Southern Cross
 
The Guadalcanal March
 
Theme of Growing & Building
 
Fiddlin’ Off Watch
 
The Sunny Pacific Islands
 
The Approaching Enemy
 
The Attack
 
Death & Debris
 
Hymn of Victory

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MIHO SASAKI, PIANO

A native of Japan, composer, pianist and teacher Miho Sasaki has collaborated and performed with numerous orchestras, universities, and contemporary music festivals across the US and Asia, including the Tokyo to New York concert series, Bargemusic (Brooklyn), Queens (NY) New Music Festival, Aichi University of Music and Fine Arts in Japan, Manhattan Contemporary Chamber Ensemble and IDRS (International Double Reed Society). Sasaki was awarded a Creative Renewal Arts Fellowship from the Arts Council of Indianapolis and selected for MTNA/IMTA commissioned composer 2024. She has recently performed Stravinsky’s Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments under the director of Michael Colburn with the Butler Wind Ensemble, Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, and premiered her composition for two pianos, four hands with Kate Boyd at IMTA conference at St. Mary’s College in Notre Dame, South Bend