A Tennessee Tech junior and percussionist will take center stage with the Bryan Symphony Orchestra Sunday to perform a marimba concerto following his win at the Joan Derryberry Memorial Concerto Competition.
Bryan Symphony Orchestra Executive Director Dr. Susan Miranda highlighted the upcoming program, which features a specific focus on the winner of a recent competition. The soloist will perform a piece by Eric Ewazen during the event.
“And so we’re also going to be, we’re going to be playing a Marimba Concerto because the Joan Derryberry Memorial Concerto Competition winner this year is a marimbist, or a percussionist, and his name is Andrew Frost,” Miranda said.
Frost is a junior music performance major who studies percussion at Tennessee Tech. The representative said he performs regularly with the Bryan Symphony, the Troubadours Jazz Ensemble, the percussion ensemble, the concert band, and the Golden Eagle marching band Miranda said.
“He’s really, really into a lot of different groups in the area and at Tech,” MIranda said. “Yeah, and so he’s also the president of the TTU Percussion Studio.”
Miranda said Frost has represented the percussion studio in chamber ensemble competitions during 2023 and 2024. These performances took place at the annual conference for the percussion association.
“So the last few years he’s, he’s been a performer at, at PASIC, which is fun,” Miranda said. “So yeah, we’re very excited to hear Andrew’s Marimba Concerto.”
Miranda said the concert will also feature the overture to Scenes from Faust by Robert Schumann and selections from Richard Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde. Miranda said that the program includes themes of tragedy appropriate for the weekend following Valentine’s Day.
“And I, you know, I would love to just invite all of your listeners to join us on Sunday,” Miranda said. “We really are excited to, to be a community group. You know, we want to play music that is of interest to everyone in our area in the Upper Cumberland.”
The performance is scheduled to take place this Sunday at 3.