GUEST ARTISTS

Concert 1 - November 12, 2023

Cadence Lui • World Premiere Concerto for Flute and Orchestra

Cadence Liu is a high school senior from Foster City, California. She studies flute under Catherine Payne and composition under Arkadi Serper and June Bonacich in the precollege division of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She is a member of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra and has been honored for her flute playing by the National Flute Association, YoungArts Foundation, and Peninsula Symphony. 

She most recently composed a work for wind trio and piano as well as an a cappella setting of portions of the Requiem mass. Her practice focuses on reinventing the genre of sacred vocal music. Her compositions evoke ecstatic movement and song in order to open a channel to the divine for the performers and the audience.