Alumnus Benjamin Bradshaw returns to perform with SUU Symphony Orchestra
By Ashley Pollock
SUU’s music department prepares for its second concert of the 2019–20 season featuring the SUU Symphony Orchestra with guest conductor Jianan Yan and bassoonist and SUU alumnus Benjamin Bradshaw Nov. 1 at 7:30 p.m. in the Heritage Center Theater. The concert will feature works composed by Glinka, Prokofiev, Mozart, Beethoven, and Mendelsshon.
As a soloist, Bradshaw won the Halverson Young Artist Concerto Competition with the Orchestra of Southern Utah in 2009 and again in 2014. Bradshaw graduated from SUU summa cum laude with a bachelor’s degrees in bassoon performance and a math. He continued his education at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts where he received a master’s degree in Bassoon performance. He is in the final stages of his doctoral degree at Indiana University.
Yan holds a doctorate from the Moscow P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory and is the conductor of the Tianjin Opera Orchestra, the Tianjin Youth Symphony Orchestra, and the chief conductor of the Tianjin University Beiyang Youth Symphony Orchestra.
Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for youth. Southern Utah University faculty, staff, and students are free with a valid ID card. Faculty and staff IDs are allowed one guest. Tickets can be purchased at the door the night of the concert or online at suu.edu/pva.
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