Each year, pupils at Vanderbilt’s Blair School of Music compete for slots on the annual Student Showcase. It’s one of the highlights of the school’s concert calendar, this year giving eleven undergraduate acts a chance to perform solo and chamber music on Blair’s largest stage.  Kristin Whittlesey brought a handful of students to Studio C to give us a preview of Friday night’s show.

set list:

Sonata for Clarinet and Piano by Francis Poulenc

• mvt. 1 Allegro tristamente

Keeheon Nam, clarinet;  Polly Brecht , piano (faculty accompanist)

String Quartet No. 15 in a, Op. 132 by Ludwig van Beethoven

• mvt. 1 Assai sostenuto – allegro

Eliza Wong and Nathan Lowman, violin; Sabina Kim, viola; Emily Azzarito, cello

Voices from WWII by Gene Scheer

• 3. At Howard Hawk’s House
• 1. Holding Each Other

Austi Vitaliano, baritone; David Rodgers, piano