Symphony puts young pianist in spotlight

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Symphony puts young pianist in spotlight

By John Fleming, Times Performing Arts Critic
In print: Thursday, April 17, 2008

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Pianist Sabrina Fernandez is this year's Young Artist Competition winner with the Tampa Bay Symphony. She'll play the first movement of Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 with the symphony, conducted by Jack Heller. Also on the program are works by Berlioz (Hungarian March) and Brahms (Academic Festival Overture) and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 9. The symphony's spring concerts are at 4 p.m. Sunday at Ferguson Hall of the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, 1010 N MacInnes Place, Tampa; 8 p.m. April 25 at Mahaffey Theater, 400 First St. S, St. Petersburg; and 8 p.m. April 27 at Ruth Eckerd Hall, 1111 N McMullen-Booth Road, Clearwater. $15. (727) 442-3696; www.tampabaysymphony.com.