Conservatory’s best to be honored at Family Symphony Concert

Composer Alberto Guidobaldi (Facebook via Coralia [Coro de Concierto de la Universidad de Puerto Rico])

By PEGGY ANN BLISS

Special to The STAR

Sunday afternoon at the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music will keep the competitive juices flowing along with the Academy Awards and other measures of excellence.

Student awards for the Miramar institution’s “2025 Interdepartmental Competition” will be presented along with an entertaining program, according to information provided by Roselín Pabón, emeritus musical director of the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra, who also directs the Conservatory Symphony Orchestra.

The students have put their talents on the line during their intense first semester, and the next Family Concert will be their chance to show who has been doing their practicing.

The winners will be presented during a concert of contemporary and classical music, “a varied and entertaining program with something for everyone,” Pabón said.

The program includes a work by a faculty member, Italian composer Alberto Guidobaldi, Pabón told The STAR.

Other selections are by Alan Hovhaness, a 20th-century North American composer of Armenian descent; Robert Schumann, of the German Romantic Period; and Max Bruch, a German 19th-century composer, said Pabón, who will conduct the program, the orchestra’s third Sunday concert this academic year.

The Family Symphony Concert program will be presented at 4 p.m. Sunday at the Conservatory, on Ponce de León Avenue in Miramar.