Saturday’s Bendigo Chamber Music Festival Community Concert with the Bendigo Symphony Orchestra and Luke Severn featured two Bendigo-born soloists in contrasting concertos. Mozart’s popular Horn Concerto No. 2 with soloist Andrew Young and Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 1 with Noah Lawrence as the cello soloist.

Capital Theatre, Bendigo. Photo supplied

Cellist Luke Severn is the Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Bendigo Symphony Orchestra, Bendigo’s premier musical organisation. There were a few esteemed extras snuck amidst the Bendigo musicians including Natsuko Yoshimoto, the Concertmaster of the fabulous Queensland Symphony Orchestra. With such a range of talent, the locals had the rare opportunity to shine amongst internationally acclaimed musicians.

The first stellar solo was from local Andrew Young in his third solo performance with the Bendigo Symphony, playing Mozart’s Horn Concerto No. 2. Young has a promising future as he is trialing for Associate principal horn with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. It was a flawless rendition bursting with bodacious Bendigo bounce.

Young and his first horn teacher Catherine Moore, who was also performing with the orchestra, treated the audience to the jaunty first duet of Mozart’s Twelve Horn Duos. It was a...