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EVANSVILLE - The Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra will showcase a pair of familiar faces at The Victory on Saturday, but in better light and sharper focus than usual.
Kelly Sulick, the orchestra's principal flutist, and Megan Stout, the philharmonic's harpist, will take the center stage spot to perform Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Concerto for Flute and Harp.
This will be the first time in 14 years the orchestra has played the piece, and a premiere performance for Stout and Sulick, each in their second year as principal players with the orchestra.
Courtesy Gray Photography Harpist Megan Stout and flutist Kelly Sulick will take lead roles in Saturday's Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra concert at The Victory.
Stout, who played with the orchestra as a substitute while a student at Indiana University, now lives in St. Louis, where she plays with the St. Louis Symphony.
She's known the concerto, one of the major pieces in the harp repertoire, but neither musician has played it before with a live orchestra.
Before rehearsals this week, Stout met privately to work on the piece with Sulick, who teaches at the University of Evansville as a member of the orchestra's consortium, and they've consulted one another via phone and e-mails in the interim.
Stout said she looks forward to letting her concert harp ring with Sulick's flute from the front of the stage, instead of their usual spots back with the orchestra.
"I'm just going to try to keep it as clear and clean as possible," she said.
The concerto gets top billing on a concert that will include the Overture to Johann Strauss Jr.'s "Die Fledermaus" and Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5.
If you go
What: The Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra will feature its harpist, Megan Stout, and its principal flutist, Kelly Sulick, in Mozart's Concerto for Flute and Harp on a program with works by Johann Strauss Jr. and Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky.
When: Pre-concert talk begins at 6:45 p.m., performance is at 7:30 p.m. Saturday
Where: The Victory
Tickets: $15 to $61 for adults, $5 to $61 for children 12 and younger, $10.50 at the door for students after 6:30 p.m.
Information: Call (812) 425-5050 for reservations or go to www.evansvillephilharmonic.org.
Broadcast: A digital recording of the concert will air at 7 p.m. April 4 on WNIN 88.3FM
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