Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2
Korngold’s Captain Blood Overture bursts with swashbuckling flair and silver screen grandeur. Then, 2024/25 Concerto Competition winner Harrison Meng steps into the spotlight with Walton’s Viola Concerto, showcasing the instrument’s rich, expressive voice. The program culminates in Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2, a sweeping, romantic masterpiece brimming with lush harmonies and soaring melodies, offering a powerful and passionate musical escape.
Program
Korngold
Captain Blood Overture
Walton
Concerto for Viola, Mvts. I & II
Coleridge-Taylor
Valse bohemiénne from Four Characteristic Waltzes, Op. 22
Rachmaninoff
Symphony No. 2
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Performers
Nicholas Sharma
Harrison Yang Meng
Violist Harrison Yang Meng, is a passionate full scholarship student at The Phil and Eli Taylor Performance Academy for Young Artists. Harrison began violin at age seven with his mother, Linda Yang, and studied with Atis Bankas when he joined the Academy at 13. He started the Viola at age 14 and is currently studying with Theresa Rudolph at the same institution.
Harrison is a winner of the 2024 Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra Concerto Competition and the Grand Prize Winner of the 2024 International Music Festival and Competition. He has also won the 2025 North York Concert Orchestra Concerto Competition and performed as a soloist with the NYCO in their Prize Winners Concert. In addition, Harrison is a prize winner of the Canadian Music Competition and the Ontario Music Festivals Association Competitions, and earned first prizes at both the North York Music Festival and the Kiwanis Music Festival.
Harrison has performed as a soloist with several symphony orchestras, including the Kindred Spirits Orchestra, the North York Concert Orchestra, and the Canada Youth Chamber Orchestra, among others. He attended the Heifetz International Music Institute in 2024 and was a young artist at the 2025 Caledon Music Festival. In the same year, Harrison and his string quartet were invited to participate in the 2025 Banff International String Quartet Competition (BISQC) Youth Chamber Music Program. He has collaborated with renowned musicians such as David Ying, Barry Shiffman, Nicholas Kitchen, Joel Quarrington, the Isidore Quartet, and Min-Jeong Koh. He has also taken part in masterclasses with distinguished artists, including Juan-Miguel Hernandez, Eckart Runge, Mark Steinberg, Ayane Kozasa, Steven Tenenbom, Michael Van der Sloot, the Isidore Quartet, Annemarie Moorcroft, Jonathan Crow, Violaine Melançon, and many other great musicians.
As a dedicated chamber and orchestral musician, Harrison joined the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra as Principal Violist from 2023 to 2025. He’s also the Principal Violist in the RCM Taylor Academy Chamber Orchestra.
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