A full-time Post Secondary Enrollment Options student at the University of Minnesota, oboist Sophia Parente will graduate from Wayzata High School in 2010. She studies oboe with John Snow and plays in the Wind Ensemble at the U of M and in the Symphony orchestras of Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies and Minnesota Youth Symphonies. Sophia has spent the last two summers studying music at the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan. Next year she plans to major in oboe performance as a college freshman.

Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies shines the light on the musical stars of tomorrow in a special concert this Sunday. We invited the soloists - Sophia Parente and Michael Wu to perform at MPR.


Young Soloists in the Spotlight

A full-time Post Secondary Enrollment Options student at the University of Minnesota, oboist Sophia Parente will graduate from Wayzata High School in 2010. She studies oboe with John Snow and plays in the Wind Ensemble at the U of M and in the Symphony orchestras of Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies and Minnesota Youth Symphonies. Sophia has spent the last two summers studying music at the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan. Next year she plans to major in oboe performance as a college freshman.


Sophia Parente

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