The Bowling Green Philharmonia will showcase top student talent when it presents its annual Concerto
Concert Sunday at 3 p.m. in Kobacker Hall in the Moore Musical Arts Center on campus.
The orchestra under the musical director of Emily Freeman Brown will perform works featuring the winners
of the Competitions in Music Performance held in December. The winners are: undergraduates Quincheng
Zeng, piano, and Chi Him Chik, saxophone; and graduates, Chappy Gibb, flute, and Christopher Murphy,
saxophone.
Zeng will perform the third movement of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Concerto No. 2 in C minor for Piano and
Orchestra. Robert Ragoonanan will conduct.
Zeng, a native of Xianning, China, studies with Laura Melton. The freshman was part of the winning
undergraduate duo in last weekend’s Conrad Art Song Competition in which he collaborated with soprano
Autum Cochran-Jordan.
Chik will perform the "Maha Mantras for Alto/Soprano Saxophone and Orchestra" by Narong
Prangcharoen.
Chik, born and raised in Hong King, studies with John Sampen. The sophomore was a semi-finalist at the
2014 Jean-Marie Londeix International Saxophone Competition in Thailand and performed in January at the
North American Saxophone Alliance regional conference at Northern Illinois University.
Gibb will perform Concerto for Flute and Orchestra by Jacques Ibert. Santiago Pieros-Serrano will
conduct.
Gibb, from Stillwater, Minnesota, studies with Conor Nelson. He graduated from St. Olaf College in
Minnesota with degrees in flute performance and Spanish. The first year graduate student in music
performance has performed at the Darius Milhaud Conservatoire in France and the Teatro Communale Mario
del Monaco in Italy.
Murphy will perform Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra by Henri Tomasi. Brady Meyer will conduct.
Murphy, from Greenville, South Carolina and now resides in Bowling Green, studies with Sampen. He
received a Bachelor of Music Education from the University of South Carolina.
He has been honored for performances in the Music Teachers National Association as both a soloist and
chamber musician and performed as alto saxophone soloist with the Dick Goodwin Jazz Band.
At the competition in December, Thomas Beverly won the composition award. His piece will be performed at
next fall’s New Music Festival.
Also, Stephanie Titus received the Virginia Marks Collaborative Piano Award.
Honorable mentions were Elizabeth Ritter, flute, in the undergraduate division, and Gunnar Owen Hirthe,
clarinet, in the graduate division.
