{"id":78636,"date":"2026-01-05T21:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T21:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/78636\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T21:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T21:19:09","slug":"berks-sinfonietta-opens-2026-season-with-soloists-a-round-on-january-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/78636\/","title":{"rendered":"Berks Sinfonietta opens 2026 season with \u201cSoloists A Round\u201d on January 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/berksweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Stock-Photo-Web.jpeg\" data-caption=\"Photo courtesy of Berks Sinfonietta: Bassoonist Joshua Schairer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Stock-Photo-Web-696x464.jpeg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Berks Sinfonietta\"\/><\/a>Photo courtesy of Berks Sinfonietta: Bassoonist Joshua Schairer<\/p>\n<p>Berks Sinfonietta will open its 2026 concert season with Soloists A Round, a program celebrating three homegrown musicians, on Saturday, January 10, 2026, at 4 p.m. The performance will take place at Atonement Lutheran Church, located at <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/ppCN9oszjRiZbvfp8?g_st=ipc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">5 Wyomissing Blvd. in Wyomissing<\/a>. Buy tickets here: <a href=\"https:\/\/berkssinfonietta.org\/concert\/soloists-a-round\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">berkssinfonietta.org\/concert\/soloists-a-round<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The concert continues the ensemble\u2019s mission of bringing people together through music by spotlighting locally sourced performers and pairing familiar masterworks with lesser-heard pieces that expand the traditional orchestral experience in Berks County.<\/p>\n<p>Soloists A Round features four works spanning classical and 20th-century repertoire:<\/p>\n<p>Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart \u2013 Concerto for Bassoon in B-flat Major, featuring soloist Joshua Schairer. Written when Mozart was just 18, it is his first wind concerto.<br \/>\nWolfgang Amadeus Mozart \u2013 Concerto for Flute No. 1 in G Major, featuring soloist Suzanne Francis.<br \/>\nRuth Gipps \u2013 Jane Grey, Fantasy for Viola and String Orchestra, featuring soloist Kathleen Bahena.<br \/>\nDavid Diamond \u2013 Rounds for String Orchestra, composed in 1944 as a creative response to the challenges of World War II.<\/p>\n<p>Bassoonist Joshua Schairer, DMA, will take center stage in Mozart\u2019s Concerto for Bassoon in B-flat Major\u2014one of the most recognized works for the instrument.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI auditioned for my bachelors playing the third movement of this work \u2013 the most fun to play, in my opinion,\u201d Schairer said. \u201cWhile this concerto is one of the most often performed for the instrument, the bassoon is rarely heard as a solo instrument; I am hoping that by seeing the bassoon in front of the orchestra, it will draw more young people to the instrument.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schairer began studying the bassoon at age 10 and later trained at the University of Northern Colorado and Temple University\u2019s Boyer School of Music. His performance career includes appearances with orchestras across Colorado, New York, and the greater Philadelphia region. He has also taught at several universities and currently operates a private studio based in Oslo, Norway, with a focus on reed-making instruction.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets and Information<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are available online and at the door. Pricing, directions, and season subscription details can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/berkssinfonietta.org\/concert\/soloists-a-round\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">berkssinfonietta.org\/concert\/soloists-a-round<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo courtesy of Berks Sinfonietta: Bassoonist Joshua Schairer Berks Sinfonietta will open its 2026 concert season with Soloists&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-78636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-reading-city","9":"tag-reading-city-headlines","10":"tag-reading-city-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}