Symphony to play 'Sci-Fi Spectacular'
The Butler County Symphony Orchestra will present a “Sci-Fi Spectacular” featuring music from “Star Trek,” “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and the “Star Wars” series at a concert Saturday.
The show will begin at 7:30 p.m. at the Butler Intermediate High School auditorium.
Members of the Starkiller Garrison of the 501st Legion will be special guests in the lobby before the concert. They will be dressed as some favorite “Star Wars” characters.
A pre-concert lecture will be given by music director and conductor Matthew Kraemer at 6:30 p.m. in the auditorium.
Tickets for the concert are available at the symphony office, 259 S. Main St., or online at www.butlersymphony.org.
For more information, call 724-283-1402.
Young Artist winner
Enoch Hsiao, who has played piano since he was 6 years old, is the winner of the symphony's 39th annual Young Artist Competition.
A junior at North Allegheny High School, he also plays as a co-concertmaster in the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra.
Enoch has studied under Marina Lupinacci and Rachel Stegeman in piano and violin, respectively, since he moved to Pittsburgh in July 2013.
He has placed in several piano competitions:
- first place in division 2 in Social Music Works 2014
- honorable mention at the 2014 Piano Competition at the Ithaca College School of Music
- one of the winners of Pittsburgh Concert Society 2015
- second place in the junior group of Duquesne Young Artist National Competition 2015
- winner of the 2017 Pittsburgh Philharmonic's Young Artist and Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition.
He will perform will perform Rachmaninoff's “Piano Concerto No. 2” with the Butler symphony at its April 14 concert.
