Zifeng Michael Zheng Wins Competition! Professor Rothman sent the following note about last Friday’s 2020 Conservatory Concerto Competition: Dear Conservatory Community, I am pleased to report that we had a robust Concerto Competition on Friday, January 31, with five Conservatory soloists. This year’s winner is Michael Zheng for his dazzling performance of Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No.1 in G minor. Michael will perform the complete concerto on Thursday, March 27, with the Conservatory Orchestra at 7:30 p.m. in the Don Buchwald Theater. I’d like to thank all of our contestants—violinists Elena Ruiz Gonzalez, Isabel Bruschi, and Corrine Bennett, and pianist Martyna Kucinskaite—along with their teachers who helped prepare them for this competition, and this year’s judges, Alexie Lewis, Bruce MacIntyre, and Honora Raphael. Please join me in congratulating Michael Zheng as we look forward to his March 27 performance with the Conservatory Orchestra. Sincerely, Professor Rothman The March concert will be held in the Tow Center’s beautiful Don Buchwald Theater and will also feature the orchestra’s performances of Smetana’s The Moldau, Borodin’s Polovtsian Dances, and Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain, which should provide a thoroughly rich and compelling program to complement the Mendelssohn.
