The Rhode Island Philharmonic Music School named Pianist Maddox Realejo, Glocester, winner of the Rhode Island Philharmonic 2017-18 Concerto & Aria Competition. Realejo will perform the third movement from Beethoven’s Concerto No.2 in B-flat major with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Youth Symphony Orchestra, Alexey Shabalin, conducting.

In February, David Gasper, director and artistic administrator for the RI Philharmonic Orchestra, and Francisco Noya, resident conductor, adjudicated the competition held at the Carter Center for Music Education. Realejo was one of four finalists chosen from a field of current students at the RI Philharmonic Music School.