🎹✨ Witness the brilliance of our 2024–2025 Piano Prodigy Young Artist, Sherlock Luan, performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 19 in F major, K. 459 (Mvt. 1) with the Southern California Philharmonic! 📍Recorded live on May 30, 2025, at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Tustin, CA. 💥 Want to be next? Young Artist Competition applications for our 2025–2026 season open August 15! 🎶 3 age groups: • Prodigy (13 & under) • Artiste (14–17) • Virtuoso (18–23) 🎼 3 categories: • Instrumentalists • Vocalists • Pianists 🏆 1st place winners in each category/age group will: ✔️ Win a cash scholarship ✔️ Perform as a soloist with the full SoCalPhil orchestra! Mark your calendars & follow us for updates! (fb)

✨ Award Winner Alert! 🎉 We’re thrilled to share that Christopher Sterling, bassist with SoCalPhil and music educator extraordinaire, has received the 2025 Young Musician Leadership Award from Association of California Symphony Orchestras 👏👏👏 From mentoring students across SoCal to launching tuition-free music programs and leading SoCalPhil’s inaugural internship pilot, Christopher is shaping the future of orchestral music with passion and purpose. 💛🎶 🎓 Just graduated with dual degrees in Music Ed + Double Bass 🎼 Mentors under-resourced communities in Long Beach, Irvine & Garden Grove 🎷 Founded a jazz ensemble at age 15 🌊 Leads the “Summer Reading Orchestra at The Beach” — tuition-free & inclusive 🌟 And now: headed to grad school for Conducting at Cal State Long Beach! We are so proud to have him in the #SoCalPhil family. Let’s celebrate Christopher and the future he’s helping build — one student, one concert, one bold idea at a time. 🎉 Christopher will be formally honored during an awards ceremony at the Association of California Symphony Orchestras (ACSO) Annual Conference, taking place August 7–9, 2025, in Costa Mesa, CA. (fb)