April Concert: The Stuffs of Life!
Prokofiev: Lt. Kije Suite
Smetana: The Moldau
Gershwin: Gershwin by George!
Barber: Adagio for Strings
Pavone: Skyfall Peaks (world premiere)
Pergolesi: “Stizzoso, mio stizzoso” from La Serva Padrona
Lily Tao, soprano, Emerging Artist winner
Lily Tao, soprano
Tao won the Paradise Symphony Orchestra’s Young Artist Competition as a pianist in the junior division in 2023
and in the senior division in 2025. Besides the instrumental division, she also won the vocal division of this year’s Shasta Symphony Orchestra Emerging Artist Solo & Aria Competition.
She is passionate about serving the community. She organized a concert to honor longtime Chico State Music Professor Robert Bowman, who died in 2023, that raised $1,300 for the restoration of Bidwell Mansion. She says she would be “happy to perform, either on piano or as a vocalist, at future events in the area to support local causes.”