VERBRUGGHEN HALL 2026

Mosaic at the Con

About the Concert

We are excited to present “Mosaic at the Con”, a true international concert and a mosaic of music. Four highly skilled youth orchestras will be performing in the 2026 Mosaic at the Con concert: The Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies (USA), Northern Sydney Youth Orchestra, Spokane Youth Symphony (USA) and the Sunshine Philharmonic Orchestra. Learn more about each ensemble below.

Doors open at 5:30 PM, concert begins at 6:00 PM. Admission is free. Tickets coming soon.


Spokane Youth Symphony

Conducted by Dr. Philip Baldwin

Programming Snapshot

  • Brahms, Serenade Op. 11, No. 1 in D (20’)
  • Haydn, Symphony No. 82 “The Bear” (movement 1, 8’)
  • Copland, Old American Songs (Flex Arrangement by Robert Longfeld) (5’)
  • Copland, Down a Country Lane (‘2). 
  • Saint-Saens:  A night in Lisbon (4’)D

Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies

Conducted by Maestro Mark Russell Smith

Programming Snapshot

  • Die Meistersinger: Prelude, Richard Wagner
  • Music from Lincoln, John Williams
    • With Malice Toward None
      • Christian Garner, trumpet
  • Delights & Dances, Michael Abels
    • Lorelei Schoenhard, violin
    • Layla Chakhvashvili, violin
    • Emily Alexander, viola
    • Sophia Alexander, cello
  • An Overture: The Mouse and Its Shadow, Luke Soneral
  • Romeo and Juliet, Sergei Prokofiev
    • Montagues and Capulets (1891–1953)
    • The Child Juliet
    • Friar Laurence
    • Dance
    • Romeo at Juliet’s before Parting
    • The Death of Tybalt
    • Romeo at Juliet’s Tomb
    • The Death of Juliet

Sunshine Philharmonic Orhcestra

Conducted by Dr. Paul Terracini

Programming Snapshot

Symphony Group:

  • Mozart – Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K.550
  • Mozart – The Marriage of Figaro Overture
  • Bizet – L’Arlésienne Suite No. 2: Farandole
    (If GTCYS chooses this as the exchange piece, we will perform it together with their students. If another piece is selected, we will perform this work independently.)

Chamber Group:

  • Saint-Saëns – Danse Bacchanale, or
  • Rimsky-Korsakov – Dance of the Tumblers

Northern Sydney Youth Orchestra

Conducted by David Griffin

Programming Snapshot

  • TBD

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