Winners of Concerto, Aria Competition to Perform March 5

Student musicians will be in the spotlight at the annual Concerto-Aria Competition concert at 8 p.m. Thursday, March 5, in the Center for the Performing Arts at Illinois State University.  Admission is $6 for the general public, $5 for faculty-staff and $4 for students and senior citizens.

Performing with the ISU Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Glenn Block, will be graduate student Christa Krause of Willowbrook playing the first movement of Concerto for Flute by Ellen Taafe Zwilich; senior Julie Gray of Aurora playing the first and second movement of Lonnie Grondahl's Concerto for Trombone; and freshman Raylene Lowe of Normal playing Joan Tower's Concerto for Flute.

The program will also include an orchestra performance of the suite from the Prokofiev ballet "Romeo and Juliet," and Tchaikovsky's "Romeo and Juliet."