Concert for Community
Concert for Community
Saturday
Mar 28, 2026
3:00p
Winston-Salem Symphony
WSS Youth Symphony
Louis Gao Piano (PPYTS Jr. Division Winner)
Natália Siqueira Biasotto Violin (PPYTS Sr. Division Winner)
J. Aaron Hardwick & Margaret Rehder Conductors
Our annual, admission-free showcase features a large orchestra led by Youth Symphony members paired with their professional counterparts in the Winston-Salem Symphony, plus exciting concerto performances by the winners of this year’s Peter Perret Youth Talent Search. It is a wonderful, early-spring family experience not to be missed!
Jasil Olabode Losing Ground
W.A. Mozart Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-flat Major, K. 482
Camille Saint-Saëns Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 28
—Intermission—
R. Strauss Fanfare/Sunrise from Also sprach Zarathustra
J. Strauss, Jr. On the Beautiful Blue Danube
Gustav Holst Excerpts from The Planets
1. Mars
2. Venus
4. Jupiter
Admission is free but tickets are required.
The performance is expected to last one hour and 40 minutes with one 15-minute intermission.
This concert is made possible through a generous contribution from the Montgomery/Tucker Charitable Fund.
Saturday
Mar 28
3:00 PM
Venue
Wait Chapel
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, NC
Rideshare and Dining
Louis Gao Piano
Louis Gao, a seventh grader from Charlotte, NC, has been studying the piano with Florence Ko.
Over the last three years, he has won a number of competition awards, including first place in the G. Henle Verlag piano competition and a silver medal at the Bach Festival Piano Competition. In 2024, he was named the state winner of both the Maxine Taylor Fountain Memorial Award in the NCFMC Scholarship Competition and the Royalty NC State Piano Scholarship. In 2025, he won the RPTA Young Artist Audition as well as the Elizabeth Bullard Competition, and was recognized as the MTNA (Music Teachers National Association） Junior Performance Division State Winner. This year, his winning ways continued as he won the Wingate Piano Competition in January.
In addition to being a violinist in his school’s orchestra, Louis enjoys drawing and playing tennis in his spare time.
Natália Siqueira Biasotto Violin
15-year-old Natalia Siquera Biasotto started violin lessons at the age of 3. She began participating in the school orchestra at 6, the youngest student in that youth ensemble, while living in Brazil. At the age of 9, she began lessons with Cecilia Guida, whom she has studied with. Recently, she also started lessons with Alex Kerr.
At the age of 10, Natalia was invited to play as a soloist with a professional orchestra in Brazil by Maestro Fernando Ortiz (Orquestra Sinfônica Municipal de Botucatu), which was a very special and challenging opportunity at that young age. In the last years, she was a finalist of the Hilton Head Island Orchestra Youth Concerto Competition (2026), alternate winner of Chapel Hill Philharmonia Young Concerto Competition (2025), first place in the Student Music Contest, Woman’s Club of Raleigh (violin and all-instruments) (2024), and received the following chamber music awards: NCCMI Outstanding Artistry and Chamber Music Excellence and Teamwork (2023, 2024, 2025), and NC Federation of Music Clubs Piano Chamber Award (2025) and Joel Adams String Quartet Award (2024). Last year, she was also recognized with an Honorable Mention by the Peter Perret Youth Talent Search at UNCSA.
Currently, besides solo and chamber music preparation, she has been an intern at NCCMI during the 2025-2026 school year, with a primary role as a peer mentor for other ensembles. She is also currently the Associate Concertmaster of the Triangle Youth Philharmonic, the top youth orchestra of Triangle Youth Music in Raleigh, NC.
