Hear county’s best young musicians

It’s a concert where young stars strut their musical stuff.

Aptly led by The Starry Night Orchestra of Skagit County, the annual Snohomish County Music Teachers Association student award concert is Sunday, with stars as young as 7 years old performing.

The performers include:

•Pianist Ternessa Cao will be playing a Rachmaninov piano concerto. Cao is a senior at Lakewood High School in Arlington where she also runs track and field, pole vaults and throws the javelin.

Pianist Nathaniel Cutshall will perform a Mozart piano concerto. Nathaniel is 12 and home-schooled. He has been playing since he was 7.

Pianist Liezel Fernando will perform Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue.” Fernando is a 17-year-old junior and honor student at Bishop Blanchet High School in Seattle and began playing the piano at 5 at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

Violinist Yesong Sophie Lee will be playing a Bach violin concerto. Sophie, age 7, lives in Mill Creek and is a first grader at Evergreen Academy in Bothell.

Pianist Joshua Morales will be playing a Haydn piano concerto. Playing piano since he was 4, Morales also plays flute, viola and guitar and is a member of Vocalpoint!Seattle, a ensemble group of high school students.

Pianist Cecilia Nguyen will perform a Bach piano concerto. Cecilia, a ninth grader at Archbishop Murphy High School, won first place in the Snohomish County Music Teachers Scholarships competition.

The Starry Night Orchestra is conducted by Sharyn Peterson, who also directs the Mt. Baker Youth Symphony.

The Snohomish County Music Teachers Association annual student award concert is at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Community Performing Arts Theater in the Everett Mall by Macy’s, 1402 SE Everett Mall Way, Everett. Tickets are $12, $9 and $10 and available through brownpapertickets.com and at the door. For more information call Iris Ingram at 425-377-0623 or go to scmta.wsmta.net.

Theresa Goffredo: 425-339-3424; goffredo@heraldnet.com.