The White Mountain Symphony Orchestra will perform in concert at 3 p.m. on Saturday, April 16, at the Blue Ridge High School Auditorium.Two area high school students who won the WMSO concerto competition will be featured. Sam Lupe will be performing a movement of the Vivaldi concerto on his Piccolo and a movement of the Telemann concerto on his flute, and Nate Campbell will be performing the first movement of a Mozart piano concerto.
Samuel Lupe is an Apache from Cibecue, and is a senior at Show Low High School. He began attending school in Show Low in seventh grade as an alto saxophone player, but also took flute in the beginning band and fell in love. During his high school career, he has played both baritone saxophone and flute/piccolo for marching and concert band, and was one of the drum majors for the 2015 Marching Band season, where the band received a Superior rating at the Painted Desert Small Schools State Marching Festival. During his high school years, Sam has been in the flute section of the Northeast Regional Honor Band all four years, and has been first chair flute for the past three, as well as piccolo. In 2015, he was the first alternate piccolo for the Arizona Allstate Band/Orchestra. Other honor groups in which Sam has been a member include Eastern Arizona College Honor Band in 2015 and 2016, Central Arizona College Honor Band in 2015 and 2016, and University of Arizona Honor Band in 2015 and 2016, playing as first chair in 2016. He has been a member of the White Mountain Symphony Orchestra since the fall of 2013. He has performed as a soloist with the White Mountain Children’s Chorus and Show Low High School Choirs, and has appeared in concerts of the White Mountain Chorale. Additionally, he has performed in the pit orchestras of Blue Ridge’s production of Cinderella and Show Low’s productions of the Secret Garden and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. He hopes to teach or perform flute professionally.
Sam will be performing Vivaldi’s Concerto in C Major for Flautino and the Ouverture to Telemann’s Suite in A Minor.
Nate Campbell is a freshman at Blue Ridge High School. He began piano lessons at the age of 6 and is a student of Scott Gentry. Nate was awarded the 2015 White Mountain Chorale Music Scholarship to attend the NAU Curry Summer Music Camp. He has performed at numerous fundraising events in the community, and enjoys sharing his love of music. He is the accompanist for the Blue Ridge High School Choralaires & Harmonies choirs. He also excels as a student, maintaining a 4.0 grade point average, with mathematics being his favorite subject. In his free time Nate enjoys running, camping, archery, ultimate Frisbee and playing with the family dog, Mozart.
The concert will include John Williams’ Star Wars Orchestral Suite adapted and edited by WMSO Conductor Dr. Ted Vives, the Blue Danube Waltz by Strauss and the Merry Wives of Windsor Overture by Nicolai.
Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for youth 5 to 18, and can be purchased at area chambers of commerce, online at http://www.wmso.webs.comor at the door.
