He returned to piano, where he enjoyed playing beautiful music again because late pianist Maria Luisa Faini changed his life. I felt everything I did was wrong,” recalls Young. I wasn’t sure if I was in the right field because music no longer felt good. “He was a good teacher, but very strict and temperamental. He received his master’s in piano performance at University of Colorado and earned his undergraduate degree in music at Eastman School of Music, Rochester University in New York, where he studied under internationally renowned violinist, the late Zvi Zeitlin. He also teaches private violin/piano lessons. “One of the things I am most proud of in my teaching career is that I organized the Parade of Orchestras in the DOE’s Central District, which is aimed at building the orchestra programs in Hawaii because they were going extinct, due to the kids preferring marching bands over orchestra,” he says. The program tripled in size since he took over, now with 500 enrollees. Young has been director of orchestras at Punahou School for the past 27 years. Do yourself a favor: If you have never attended one, treat yourself and your family to a great holiday concert this year.
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The free concerts, which are open to the public, will be Dec. “They enjoy doing it because it helps bring the spirit of Christmas and sharing their talents with community.”
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“The orchestra is made up of LDS church members and their friends, music teachers, members of the professional musicians and teachers’ groups,” Young says. It is often referred to as the local Mormon Tabernacle of sorts, but you don’t have to be an LDS member to participate in the orchestra or choirs (adult, young adults and youth choirs). The two-day Christmas concerts are so inspirational and uplifting that they always are packed solid. “At first, we were doing the Messiah, which was great and a marvelous work, but over the years I changed the format and used traditional music mixed with orchestra, and made it an event for all families and individuals to enjoy,” he explains.
This will be his 28th year conducting annual Christmas Concerts at the Honolulu Tabernacle on Beretania Street for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Young continues to make his own mark in the music industry as an adult. Hawaii Youth Symphony continues its tradition of showcasing young talents during its 45th educational concert held Dec. While other 16-year-olds were building transistor radios and jet-propelled gas planes with ready-made kits, this musical sensation was building an audience as he was brought back to perform a standard classical repertoire, Grieg Piano Concerto, written by one of the leading Romantic-era composers, the late Edvard Hagerup Grieg of Norway. He won another solo spot accompanied by the symphony - this time as a violinist playing Lalo Eduard’s Symphonie Espagnole, Op.
The boy wonder widened his professional repertoire with a different instrument when he was 15 years old. I’m sure the thought crossed his mother’s mind at the time that Craig could well be the next Beethoven or Liberace of our time. 37, which was written by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1800 and was first performed in 1803 by the composer himself. His next appearance with the Listen and Learn concerts would be at age 13, playing Piano Concerto No.
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413, when he performed with the full symphony. At the tender age of 10, he mastered tickling the ivories and blew people away with his rendition of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No.
He started studying the instrument at ageĦ. He played beautiful music in the early ’60s at the then-HIC Concert Hall during the symphony’s “Listen and Learn” annual concerts. Honolulu Symphony concertgoers may remember Craig as a brilliant virtuosic pianist.
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