The winner will receive a pair of premium price level A tickets to all three concerts in the Las Vegas Philharmonic's 2013-2014 love-filled season.

The three concerts include a Rising Star pianist performing Tchaikovsky’s revered Piano Concerto No. 1, a swinging evening of big band favorites and a musical romp around Paris with Debussy’s Claire de lune.

RISING STAR:

Saturday, March 8, 2014
Pre-concert Conversation at 6:45PM
Concert starts at 7:30PM

Winner of the prestigious 2011 Cleveland Piano Competition and first prize winner of the 2009 International Beethoven Competition in Vienna, this season’s Rising Star soloist German pianist Alexander Schimpf will perform Tchaikovsky’s revered Piano Concerto No. 1 in a program conducted by David Lockington.

Program  

MUSSORGSKY -  Prelude to Khovanshchina, "Dawn Over the Moscow River"
TCHAIKOVSKY - Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23
SIBELIUS - Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 43

LOVE VINTAGE LAS VEGAS STYLE:

Saturday, April 5, 2014
Concert starts at 7:30PM

Fall in love vintage Las Vegas style with a swinging evening featuring big band favorites made famous by Rat Packers Sammy Davis Jnr (A Lot of Livin’ To Do, What Kind of Fool Am I), Dean Martin (Everybody Loves Somebody, That’s Amore, Standing On the Corner) and the most famous crooner of them all, Frank Sinatra (I’ve Got the World On A String, Night & Day, Moonlight In Vermont).  Add some magic with signature songs by Louis Prima and Keely Smith (That Old Black Magic, What Is This Thing Called Love?) and you’ve got yourself one swell party! Conductor and vocalist Matt Catingub performs with guest vocalist Anita Hall and guest drummer, Steve Moretti.

PARIS, JE T’AIME:

Saturday, May 17, 2014
Concert starts at 7:30PM

We say au revoir to the 2013-14 season with an amorous musical romp around one of the most romantic cities in the world… Paris.  Sarah Hicks, Principal Conductor, Pops & Presentations of the Minnesota Orchestra, leads the orchestra in French favorites such as Debussy’s Claire de lune, Bizet’s Farandole from L’Arlesienne, Jacques Brel’s Ne me quitte pas as well as Colombo’s accordion-laced Indifference and Passion.