Join us for this family-friendly celebration! This event is completely FREE, including parking (when you register).
Follow Peter and his animal friends on a fairy tale adventure perfect for all ages! Composed with young listeners in mind, Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf is an enchanting classic that’s guaranteed to capture the imagination. This hour-long, family-friendly bilingual program begins with Kevin Day’s energetic Lightspeed.
Meet and Greet at 10:30am before the concert
Shepherd School students introduce audiences to their instruments in the Grand Foyer outside of Stude Concert Hall before the concert begins.
Stick around after the concert - your concert ticket gives you access to all Shepherd School 50th Anniversary Community Day events!
Repertoire
Kevin Day: Lightspeed
Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf
Artists
Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Emmy award-winning and Grammy-nominated conductor, is a master of color, drawing idiomatic interpretations from a diverse and wide range of repertoire in concerts across the globe.
Celebrating 35 years of professional conducting, and with a deep commitment to passing his experience on to the next generation of musicians, he has been appointed Distinguished Resident Director of Orchestras and Professor of Conducting at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, a position that will start in the 2025-2026 school year. Currently, he is on faculty at Baylor University, where he is the Mary Franks Thompson Director of Orchestral Studies and Music Director of the Baylor Symphony Orchestra through the 2024-2025 school year.
He has also established The Conducting Institute to teach the fundamentals of conducting to students ages high school and up, of all levels, through intensive summer and winter programs, workshops, courses, and seminars.
Sponsored By
Cullen Trust for the Performing Arts
