Academy 20th Anniversary Celebration Orchestra Concert

Come join us to honor and celebrate 20 years of the Music Institute's Academy Program with an Anniversary Concert & Senior Recognition Ceremony.  This concert will feature Academy Special Guest Artists and will include a Senior Recognition Ceremony of the current 2026 senior graduates.

To kick off the Academy’s 20th anniversary, the Academy Orchestra, conducted by Academy Director James Setapen, performs on
Saturday, May 30 at 7:30 p.m.
The celebration brings together performances from among the more than 300 current and former Academy students, including members of the Kairos String Quartet (Joshua Brown and Thompson Wang, violins; Vivian Van de Sype Cucu, viola; and Lydia Rhea, cello), Gold Medal winners in the Junior String Division of the 2018 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, performing a movement by Mendelssohn; violinist Karisa Chiu, performing Camille Saint-Saens’ Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso; and cellist Alexander Hersh, performing Antonin Dvorak’s Silent Woods.

The concert concludes with current and former Academy members performing Beethoven’s 7th Symphony.