Young musicians revive Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake

Warrenton was treated to a revival of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake Sunday aftertoon.

The Piedmont Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Music Director Glenn Quader, performed eight selections from the classic ballet at the Rice Theater for the Performing Arts at Highland School.

That performance was secondary to the display of young talent in the orchestra's 11th annual Young Artists Competition, in which high school seniors Mason Yu, Kristine Harner and Caleb Cook battled for scholarship money by performing challenging solo pieces with the orchestra's accompaniment.

Harner, a violinist from Brentsville District High School, won the $1,500 first-place prize with the first movement of Edourd Lalo's Symphonie Espagnole.

Wu, of Gar-Field High School in Woodbridge, played Carl von Weber's Concertino for Clarinet from memory.

And Cook, a home-schooled clarinetist from Manassas, chose Introduction, Theme and Variations, a difficult composition from Gioachino Rossini.