Our annual Young Artist Showcase program opens with an exciting 2011 work by Mason Bates, his techno-inspired Mothership. We then feature the three winners of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s Young Artist Competition. Pianist Wilson Liu plays the opening movement of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20. Alto saxophonist Jacob Peizner plays Jacques Ibert’s Concertino da camera. Hana Gottesman plays Maurice Ravel’s Tzigane. The program also includes, as always, music that showcases the VSO itself, a pair of colorful works by Richard Strauss, the suite from the opera Der Rosenkavalier, and his symphonic poem Till Eulenspeigel’s Merry Pranks.

Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026 at 7 p.m. & Sunday, Jan. 18, 2026 at 3 p.m.
Price: $50 – $63; $15 (Student); $20 (Livestream)

Livestream link: https://mediacampus.com/live/vso/

Artists:
The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra USA
Salvador Brotons, Music Director and Conductor
Hana Gottesman, violin
Jacob Peizner, alto saxophone
Wilson Liu, piano