Enjoy a concert full of orchestral color and dramatic expression under the direction of tomorrow’s conducting stars! This concert will feature the 2026 Violin Concerto Competition winner, Elizabeth Poppy Song.

Los Angeles-based composer Celka Ojakangas was last year’s Aspen Music Festival Jacob Druckman Prize winner. She explores blurring boundaries between conventional genres, resulting in a fun and eclectic palette of textures and rhythms designed to bring creativity and play to the listener’s and performer’s experience.

Bringing the concert to a rousing close is Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony. The four movements are unified with a “motto theme,” commonly thought to represent the idea of Fate.

Conducting Academy Orchestra concerts run approximately 100 to 120 minutes and vary based on programming.