Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No 3

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The West Coast Symphony and Maestro Bujar Llapaj have assembled an exceptional program for their November concerts. The featured soloist, Tianyu Zhou, will be performing Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3, the brilliant, inventive and most critically acclaimed of the composer’s five piano concertos. Tianyu Zhou, is a young classical pianist born into a family of musicians. She started her piano education at the age of four and gave her fist public concert at the age of five. During her short career, the twenty-year old pianist has already won numerous competitions and has performed at festivals and with orchestras across Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia. Tianyu immigrated with her parents to Canada when she was nine and received a scholarship to study with Marina Geringas at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. She finished her Bachelor degree at the Vancouver Academy of Music with Prof. Lee Kum-Sing. Currently, Tianyu is studying at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music with Prof. Wojciech Switala.
The world premiere of a composition by contemporary Macedonian composer, Marko Videnovik, entitled Night on the Mountain is also featured on the program. The awarding-winning Videnovik is a violist as well as composer and arranger with the quartet Music Progressive, which performed with the West Coast Symphony in 2013 in its Canadian debut. He has played in many ensembles and orchestras throughout the world as a soloist. Videnovik also holds the chair of Principal Viola with the National Macedonian Philharmonic Orchestra and its chamber orchestra. As a composer, he has written for various solo instruments, chamber ensembles and orchestras and has composed orchestrations for several recent Macedonian movies.
Last, but certainly not least, the orchestra will perform Rimsky-Korsakov‘s most popular composition–his dazzling symphonic poem, Scheherazade. Nancy DiNovo is guest concertmaster.
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