Camerata PYP featuring Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner

Conductor David Hattner and pianist Llewellyn Sánchez-Werner will guide you through this incredible program of short concertos - concertinos - for piano and string orchestra.

Joaquín Turina’s Rapsodia Sinfónica opens the program, showcasing lush, Spanish-inspired themes that ebb and flow with rich harmonies. This will be followed by Franz Liszt’s brooding and virtuosic Malédiction, a powerful showcase for the piano.

Camille Saint-Saëns’ playful and refined Wedding Cake, a sparkling showpiece, rounds out the first half, leaving the audience ready for what’s to come after the intermission. Contemporary sounds take center stage with Jessie Montgomery’s GRAMMY Award-winning Rounds for Piano and String Orchestra, blending rhythm and melody in fresh and exciting ways. The intensity builds with Carlos Surinach’s Concertino for Piano, Strings, and Cymbals, an electrifying mid-20th-century piece filled with energetic shifts between its three movements, ranging from the lyrical to the fiery.

Bruce Stark’s playful and dynamic Mischief Dance serves as a delightful encore, ensuring that this Camerata PYP concert will leave the audience both exhilarated and enchanted.

“A gifted virtuoso” (San Francisco Chronicle) with “mesmerizing artistry and extraordinary ability to communicate” (The Post-Standard), “poetic, electrifying” (Michigan Live) with “masterful technique and a veritable deluge of sonorities” (La Presse Montreal), 28-year-old Mexican-American Llewellyn Sánchez-Werner was selected First Prize Winner of the 2022 Concert Artists Guild International Competition. Named a Gilmore Young Artist, an honor awarded to the most promising American pianists of the new generation, his multi-faceted artistry has been featured in the New York Times, CBS, PBS, NPR, CNN International, Mexico News Daily, the Wall Street Journal, and WDR-Arte. Keep reading at llewellynsanchezwerner.com.

Since 1924, Portland Youth Philharmonic has inspired and trained young musicians throughout the Pacific Northwest. Founded by Mary V. Dodge, a pioneer violin teacher, the Portland Junior Symphony, America’s first youth orchestra, captured the hearts of radio listeners all across the country.

Camerata PYP performs in more intimate settings around the region and features an engaging mixture of traditional and modern programming, including commissions of new music and collaborations with other professional music organizations. Learn more at portlandyouthphil.org.

Tickets available online here and at the door.