Eli Regier | Bethel College (Kan.)
Eli Regier | Bethel College (Kan.)
Regier wins competition, will play with NMKSO
Eli Regier won the annual Dwight Beckham Young Soloist competition (college division) sponsored by the Newton Mid-Kansas Symphony Orchestra, and will play in the Winter Classics Concert at Bethel Jan. 29.
Regier, a junior music education major, is a saxophonist.
He will play the 2nd and 3rd movements of Scaramouche by Darius Milhaud with the NMKSO Sunday, Jan. 29, at 4 p.m. in Memorial Hall.
The high school division winner, Sophie Thiessen, violin, will play the 1st movement of Max Bruch’s Violin concerto No. 1 in G minor.
Chris David Westover-Muñoz (former Bethel music faculty) conducts, in a program entitled “Chimes of Freedom” that also includes “Tabor” from Ma Vlast by Bedrich Smetana and Music for Prague 1968 by Karel Husa.
To buy tickets online, see https://nmkso.org/tickets/ They can also be purchased in the two weeks before the concert at Faith & Life Bookstore (606 N. Main St., Newton) or the NMKSO office (120 W. 6thSt., Suite 120, Newton) or at the door.
Bethel is a four-year liberal arts college founded in 1887 and is the oldest Mennonite college in North America. Known for academic excellence, Bethel ranks at #14 in the Washington Monthly list of “Best Bachelor’s Colleges,” and #24 in the U.S. News & World Report rankings of “Best Regional Colleges Midwest,” both for 2022-23. Bethel is the only Kansas college or university to be named a Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation (TRHT) Campus Center. For more information, see www.bethelks.edu
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