Young, emerging Redlands artists to perform Sunday at chamber music society concert

The Redlands Chamber Music Society will culminate its 5th season on Sunday, March 18 at 4 p.m. with its Emerging Artist Concert. The performance features prize-winning concert pianist, Jingfu Peng, a Redlands High School sophomore, who is a past Redlands Bowl Young Artist winner and Grand Prize winner in the 2011 Glendale Piano Competition. Also performing at the Frederick Loewe Performance Hall at University of Redlands will be Victoria Jones, flutist, a University of Redlands senior, who is a student performer with the Redlands Symphony Orchestra. She will be accompanied by pianist Stephanie Lovell, adjunct faculty member at University of Redlands

The program will include Liszt, Chopin, Prokofiev, Messiaen and Schubert. Tickets are $20 for adults and $5 for students. Tickets are available at the door.

Jingfu has also received first prize in competitions such as the California Association of Professional Music Teachers State Finals Auditions, Southern California Junior Bach Complete Works Audition and Concerto Audition, and the Southwestern Youth Music Festival Young Pianist Competition and Concerto Competition. He was awarded “Best Transcendental Etude” at the Tenth Los Angeles International Liszt Competition. In the summer of 2009, at the age of 12, Jingfu won the 58th Redlands Bowl Annual Young Artists Competition and performed at the Redlands Bowl. He started piano lessons at the age of 6 with Judith Johansen and now studies with Roza Yoder.

Victoria Jones is a senior at University of Redlands pursuing a double major in Music Performance and Music Education. Before coming to the University of Redlands, Victoria was an active performer in both her high school music program and in her community, holding the piccolo position in the Pacific Symphony Youth Orchestra from 2006-2008 and piccolo/second flute in the Saddleback Symphony Orchestra from 2006-2008. In the summer of 2007, Victoria received a scholarship to attend the Music For All Summer Symposium in Illinois, where she was principal flute.

Throughout her four years at the university, Victoria has played both principal flute and piccolo with the University Orchestra and Wind Ensemble. In January 2010, Victoria was invited to perform with the Irvine Young Junior Artists. Before studying with Sara Andon, Victoria had the privilege of studying under Florence Estrin and Mary Bestgen. For four years, pianist Stephanie Lovell has been on adjunct faculty at the University of Redlands where she serves as staff accompanist and instructor in the Community School of Music and the Arts.