Johnathan Devey, piano (2021 UVic Concerto Competition winner)
Ajtony Csaba, conductor

Join the UVic Symphony Orchestra (UViSO) for two masterworks that challenged the status quo in their own time. Beethoven broke almost every unwritten rule about symphonies in his Symphony No. 1. Clara Schumann, premiering Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto in 1845, brought a family tradition of music-making to the stage—an absolute exception in that time—with a piece she described as “rich in invention.”

An aspiring concert pianist, Johnathan Devey is a third-year student at UVic studying piano performance with May Ling Kwok. Born in Tokyo, Johnathan began piano lessons at the early age of 5. Johnathan has taken home many awards over the years, including prizes in the North Shore Musical Festival in Vancouver and the European International Piano Concours in Japan, as well as the City of Victoria Medallion—the highest award for piano—in the 2019 Greater Victoria Performing Arts Festival. In 2020, he won the BC Registered Music Teachers Association’s piano competition. Read more

Program:
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 1, Op. 21
Robert Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54, featuring Johnathan Devey, piano

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