Bellevue Symphony Young Artist Concert
$48 ($37 youth/senior)
- Timothy Yu, violin
- Alvin Lee, piano
- Sarah Lee, cello
- Jeffrey Zhao, piano
- Alexander Vollmer, piano
- Michael A. Nim, tenor
- A. Brian Davenport, conductor
Maurice Ravel — Piano Concerto in G major, M. 83 ("III. Presto")
Antonín Dvořák — Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104, B. 191 ("I. Allegro")
Frédéric Chopin — Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11 ("I. Allegro maestoso')
Sergei Prokofiev — Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 16 ("I. Andantino")
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64
Giacomo Puccini — "Nessun dorma" from Turandot
Bellevue Symphony presents its highly anticipated Young Artist Concert, featuring four the Grand Prix winners of the 3rd Annual Bellevue Symphony Concerto Competitoin, and the Grand Prize winner of the 2024 RCMS Russian Music Competition.
Pre-Concert show at 2pm featuring 6 Grand Prix winners from the 2025 International French Piano Music Competition!
About Michael A. Nim, tenor
International tenor Michael A. Nim has appeared in numerous Lyric Opera Northwest productions (now the Bellevue Opera) including as the Artful Dodger in Oliver!, Angelotti in Tosca, Melchior in Amahl and the Night Visitors, Morales in Carmen, and, moving on to the tenor repertoire, as Goro in Madama Butterfly, Borsa in Rigoletto, and Alfredo in La Traviata, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, and Rodolfo in La Boheme.
As a tenor concert soloist, he has been featured twice with the Federal Way Symphony. Recent engagements include tenor soloist in the Messiah at St. Marks, Alfredo in La Traviata with Lyric Opera Northwest at Meydenbauer Center Theatre, Arturo in Lucia di Lammermoor and El Remendado in Carmen in 2016, and Nejus in The Merry Widow with Tacoma Opera. He was invited to sing in Turandot with Pacific Northwest Opera in Skagit County, and gave a solo recital at the Frye Art Museum. He has also sung in Caltagirone, Sicily, and also London, England, and will soon make a path in his career to Germany. Aside from singing Opera, he also loves teaching private voice lessons.
https://www.operabase.com/artists/michael-nim-77509/enAbout A. Brian Davenport, conductor
Born in Walla Walla, Washington, Maestro A. Brian Davenport began his interest in music at the age of four. After obtaining his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Music from Harvard, he spent three years in Paris, France, studying music under the famous Nadia Boulanger, and conducting in Monte Carlo under the tutelage of Igor Markevitch. He has conducted orchestras in countries throughout the world, including China, Scandanavia, Germany, and Ukraine. In 1990, he conducted the Federal Way Symphony in the opening sellout performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony for the Goodwill Games. He also conducted the world premiere of Handel's Messiah in Russian in the city of Kazan.