Opening Night & Piano Celebration

Jeffrey Zhao and Aaron Jin, winners of the prestigious Eastside Piano Competition, help open Cascade Symphony’s 64th season with piano concerti by Felix Mendelssohn and Edvard Grieg. Aaron was a gold medalist in the 2024 Seattle International Virtuoso competition. Jeffrey, gold medalist at the Pacific International Piano Competition, previously performed Rachmaninov with Cascade Symphony in 2022. The concert also includes Anatoly Liadov’s tone poem, Baba Yaga, the lushly beautiful “In the Garden” movement from Karl Goldmark’s “Rustic Wedding” Symphony, and concludes with the rarely performed 2nd Symphony by Dmitri Kabalevsky.

Program

Grieg – Piano Concerto (1st movement) (Aaron Jin, Piano)
Mendelssohn – Piano Concerto No. 1 (Jeffrey Zhao, Piano)
Liadov – Baba Yaga
Goldmark – In the Garden (4th Mov. of “Rustic Symphony”)
Kabalevsky – Symphony No. 2