This year, Young Artists Spotlight goes to the concert hall, with a season featuring recorded concert performances from the Central Valley’s top student ensembles.
From the stages of Fresno and Bakersfield, to Disney Hall in Los Angeles, we’ll hear talented student groups live in the spotlight. Join us and hear why the future of classical music in the San Joaquin Valley is especially bright. Hear the 2025 season on KVPR, Saturday nights at 9:00 PM beginning April 5, 2025.
Support for Young Artists Spotlight on KVPR comes from the Bonner Family Foundation.
2025 Broadcast & Podcast Season:
Saturday April 5, 2025, 9pm: Bakersfield Youth Symphony Orchestra, June 2024 Concert
Saturday April 12, 2025, 9pm: Bakersfield Youth Symphony Orchestra November 2024 Concert
Saturday, April 19, 2025, 9pm: Fresno Philharmonic - Brahms and Tabla
Saturday April 26, 2025, 9pm: California State University Bakersfield Concert Band Fall 2024 Concert
Saturday May 3, 2025, 9pm: The FOOSA Festival/Fresno Summer Orchestra Academy - Scriabin Poem of Ecstacy, Shostakovich 11
Saturday May 10, 2025, 9pm: The FOOSA Festival/Fresno Summer Orchestra Academy - Bloch, Lyaponuv, Mahler 5
Saturday May 17, 2025, 9pm: Youth Orchestras of Fresno - Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci
Saturday May 24, 2025, 9pm: Youth Orchestras of Fresno - George Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue French pianist, Jean-Baptiste Doulcet; Overture, Toot Toot Tootie Toot (Dance of the Reed-Pipes), Peanut Brittle Brigade (March), Sugar Rum Cherry (Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy), Entr'acte, The Volga Vouty (Russian Dance), Chinoiserie (Chinese Dance), Danse Of The Floreadores (Waltz Of The Flowers), and Arabesque Cookies (Arabian Dance).
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This week on KVPR's Young Artists Spotlight, we hear a performance by the Bakersfield Youth Symphony Orchestra Recorded June 8, 2024. Dr. Leo Sakomoto, conductorRitual Fire Dance – Manuel de FallaNorwegian Dances, Op. 35 – Edvard GriegDanse Espagnole – Manuel de Falla, Brian Teeten, violinHungarian Dance No. 1 – BrahmsHungarian Dance No. 5 – Brahms -
This week on KVPR's Young Artists Spotlight, we feature another performance by the Bakersfield Youth Symphony Orchestra, recorded in November 2025 in Bakersfield.
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The 2024 season concludes with the Bakersfield Youth Symphony Orchestra and their Spring concert, held March 17, 2024 at the Edward Simonsen Performing Arts Center on the campus of Bakersfield College. -
In this episode we join the Bakersfield College Chamber Singers, led by Dr. Jennifer Garrett, on their 2023 European, as they perform a wide range of sacred and secular music for audiences in Vienna, Prague, Leipzig, and Berlin. -
In this episode we feature the Fresno State Wind Orchestra from their recent performance at the annual conference of the Western and Northwestern Divisions of the College Band Directors National Association, held at Las Vegas Academy of the Arts in March 2024. -
This episode features sacred music of Bach, Haydn, Handel, and Schubert. Singers from Fresno Pacific University are joined by several area choirs, along with the Fresno Choral Artists and the San Joaquin Chorale. -
From their Winter Magic concert, recorded December 3, 2023 at Paul Shaghoian Concert Hall in Fresno, Youth Orchestras of Fresno perform Dvořák's Carnival Overture and Beethoven's Symphony No.5 in C minor. -
This week's episode features Youth Orchestras of Fresno's (YOOF) Love Conquers All concert, recorded February 18, 2024 at Paul Shaghoian Memorial Concert Hall in Fresno. -
In the second episode of the 2024 Season of Young Artists Spotlight, Dr. Thomas Loewenheim leads the FOOSA Philharmonic in Dmitri Shostakovich's cinematic Symphony No.11 at Disney Hall in Los Angeles. -
The 2024 season of Young Artists Spotlight opens with the FOOSA Philharmonic, performing Gustav Mahler's Symphony No.5, conducted by Dr. Thomas Loewenheim.
