Symphony Orchestra features Jiung Yoon, piano

The Symphony Orchestra is performing at Weigel Auditorium on Friday, October 23, with pianist Jiung Yoon as the evening's featured soloist. The concert is conducted by Miriam Burns, though the opening overture gets a different hand: guest conductor Raúl Delgado Navarro takes the podium for the Beethoven. The program pulls from four different centuries, and it opens High School Honor String Orchestra Weekend.

That span of time shows up in the repertoire. The night opens with Beethoven's Prometheus Overture, then moves into the 18th century with Mozart's Symphony No. 35 in D major, known as Haffner. The 20th century is covered by Bartók's Piano Concerto No. 3 in E major, which is the piece Jiung Yoon takes on, and Richard Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel. It's a wide range of styles in one sitting, from the classical structure of Mozart to the more modern textures of Bartók and Strauss.

Jiung Yoon is a faculty member at The Ohio State University, and he describes himself as a late bloomer. He worked as a professional collaborative pianist in Korea before continuing his piano studies in the United States in his late twenties. Since then, he's performed in more than 1,000 concerts as both a collaborator and a soloist across the US, Europe, and Korea. This performance puts him in the soloist's chair for the Bartók concerto, with the orchestra behind him.

The concert runs from 7:30 to 9:00 PM at Weigel Auditorium, part of The Ohio State University School of Music in Columbus. It's free and open to the public, and no ticket is required. If you can't make it in person, a livestream of the performance also starts at 7:30 PM.