Keila Wakao Plays Barber
Saturday, April 26, 2025 at 7:30pm
First prize winner of both the Menuhin International Violin Competition and the Stulburg International String Competition, Keila Wakao is a Boston native currently attending the New England Conservatory of Music. She has performed concertos with orchestras across the United States including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra, the Eugene Symphony, the Richmond Symphony, the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, the Lexington Symphony, the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, and many more. She returns to the Apollo Ensemble to perform Barber’s Violin Concerto on a program that also features the world premiere of Gala Flagello’s Droughts and Downpours for string orchestra and Brahms’ 3rd Symphony.
St John’s Episcopal Church
1 Roanoke Ave. Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Program:
Gala Flagello – Droughts and Downpours (*World Premiere*)
Brahms – Symphony No. 3 in F major
~Intermission~
Barber – Violin Concerto (Keila Wakao, Violin)
Artists:
| Conductor | Elias Miller |
| Soloist | Keila Wakao |
| Composer | Gala Flagello |
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Our 2024-25 season also includes world premieres by Ebun Oguntola and the New England Premiere of Sam Wu’s Eagle Huntress. Cellist Leland Ko will return to perform Dvorak’s Cello Concerto, and the winner of the Massachusetts Viola Society Competition will perform Bruch’s Romanze. Some of the greatest works of the standard repertoire including Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings, Mozart’s Symphony No. 39, Dvorak’s Symphony No. 7, and more fill out what will be our most ambitious season to date.
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Saturday, January 11, 2025 · 7:30 – 9:30pm EST — First Church in Cambridge
Dvorak’s 7th
Saturday, March 29, 2025 · 7:30 – 9:30pm EDT — St. John’s Episcopal Church
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