The Conservatory Project is an initiative designed to present the young musical artists in classical, jazz, musical theater, opera, and more from our nation’s leading undergraduate and graduate conservatories, colleges, and universities in performance at the Kennedy Center.
Free general admission tickets will be distributed in the States Gallery starting at approximately 5 p.m., up to two tickets per person.
Conservatory Project: Students from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University perform DiLorenzo’s Fire Dance; Hillborg’s Brass Quintet; Britten’s Reveille; a movement from Al-Zand’s Imaginary Scenes for Violin and Piano; movements from Barber’s Sonata for Piano; Ysaÿe’s Caprice d’après l’Etude en forme de Valse; Schumann’s Dichterliebe; and Donizetti’s “Ah! Mes Amis” from La fille du regiment.
Free general admission tickets will be distributed in the States Gallery starting at approximately 5:30 p.m., up to two tickets per person.
Students perform a Beethoven String Quartet, Weirich’s Steamboat Stomp for French Horn solo, a soprano aria by Verdi, and Ouyang’s brand new Three Pieces for Piano. Part of the Conservatory Project.
Students play Beethoven’s Piano Sonata in C-sharp minor, Scodanibbio’s “Joke” from Sei Studi, Rabbath’s Le Cri de Venise, Rameau’s Gavotte et Six Doubles, and Ligeti’s Sechs Bagatellen. Part of the Conservatory Project.
Students from participating Conservatory Project schools play selections from works by Widor, Schumann, Buxtehude, Smetana, Shostakovich, Demessieux, Litaize, Albright, Dupre, Ellington, Bach, Cochereau, and others on the Rubenstein Family Organ. Part of the Conservatory Project.
Students perform a program featuring classical works by Barber, Tchaikovsky, and Kodály, as well as vocal selections from Bizet’s Carmen and Rossini’s il barbiere di Siviglia. Part of the Conservatory Project.