CLARKSVILLE, TN – The Austin Peay State University Department of Music, with support from the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts, has named Giancarlos Jose Carvajal Fonseca and Tyler Orendorff as the winners of the 2025-26 Concerto & Aria Competition, with an honorable mention awarded to Cal Luzzo.
This annual CECA-sponsored event allows winning students to be featured as soloists with one of the music department’s large instrumental ensembles (the APSU Symphony Orchestra or the APSU Wind Ensemble). The competition is externally judged to ensure a fair selection process.
Fonseca will perform Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto (Movement I) with the APSU Symphony Orchestra at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 25, while Orendorff will perform Ingolf Dahl’s Concerto for Alto Sax & Wind Ensemble (Movements I & II) with the APSU Wind Ensemble at 7:30 p.m. on April 13. Both performances will take place in the George and Sharon Mabry Concert Hall…