Nell Flanders, Conductor & Artistic Director
Pre-concert Chat with Maestro Flanders and Kristin Renee Young
6:30PM in the Rotunda
to make this mountain taller
Sara Gibson
Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op. 24
Samuel Barber
Kristin Renee Young, soprano soloist
Symphonic Dances, Op. 45
Sergei Rachmaninoff
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Nell Flanders, Conductor & Artistic Director
Pre-concert Chat with Maestro Flanders and Guest Artists
6:30PM in the Rotunda
Collaborations with musicians and dancers from the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes
Farewell
Hovia Edwards and Justin Ralls
Hovia Edwards, Native American flute soloist
Concerto for Orchestra
Béla Bartok
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Native American Flute Soloist, Hovia Edwards
Nell Flanders, Conductor & Artistic Director
Pre-concert Chat with Maestro Flanders & Guest Artists
6:30PM in the Rotunda
Featuring festivals of light and music from around the world, in collaboration with our marvelous ISU Concert Choir and the Camerata Singers, under the direction of Dr. Jeffrey Francom.
Repertoire TBA
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Nell Flanders, Conductor / Artistic Director

Jeffrey Francom, Director of the ISU Concert Choir and Camerata Singers
Lauded as “fantastic” by The Toronto Star and observed as demonstrating “masterful vocal control” by The Boston Musical Intelligencer, soprano Kristin Renee Young began her musical studies at age five. Equally at home in the worlds of opera, oratorio, recital, musical theater, and voiceover, Kristin has appeared at world-renowned venues, such as Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater.
Kristin 2023-24 engagements include Sophia in Tod Machover’s VALIS at MIT and Alceste in a reimagined version of Handel’s Admeto with Opera Essentia. In recent seasons, Kristin performed the role of Lucy in a revised, newly-orchestrated version of Scott Joplin's Treemonisha, arranged by Jessie Montgomery and Jannina Norpoth; Zerbinetta in Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos with Barn Opera; Queen of the Night in a unique, film version of Mozart’s The Magic Flute with INSeries Opera; and covered the role of Amelia Alumond in Quamino’s Map (Wallen/Brevoort) with Chicago Opera Theater. Other highlights include Sister Sophia (The Sound of Music) with Asolo Repertory Theater and Williams in the premiere of Stonewall by Iain Bell and Mark Campbell with New York City Opera, as well as Adina (L'elisir d'amore), Belinda (Dido and Aeneas), Cleopatra (Giulio Cesare), Constance (Dialogues of the Carmelites), Despina (Così fan tutte), Maria (West Side Story), Monica (The Medium), Mrs. Julian (Owen Wingrave), Nanetta (Falstaff), Norina (Don Pasquale), Pamina (The Magic Flute), Tytania (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), and Zerlina (Don Giovanni).
Kristin received The Marc and Eva Stern - Los Angeles Opera Fellowship at SongFest. She has also performed with American Lyric Theater, Beth Morrison Project, Center for Contemporary Arts, Chicago Opera Theater, Colby Symphony Orchestra, Corkscrew Theater Festival, Encompass New Opera, Gotham Chamber Opera, Harlem Opera Theater, International Brazilian Opera Company, Juventas New Music Ensemble, New Camerata Opera, Orchestra of Indian Hill, Philadelphia Sinfonia Players, and the Rites of Spring Festival.
Kristin has performed under the baton of international conductors, including Kalena Bovell, Neal Goren, Carolyn Kuan, and Lidiya Yankovskaya, and has.worked with directors, such as Josh Rhodes, Jay Scheib, and Jennifer Williams.
She received a master’s degree from Boston University and bachelor’s degree from Barnard College of Columbia University. Kristin resides in Brooklyn, NY, where she is also a certified yoga instructor.
Hovia Edwards is from the Fort Hall Indian Reservation, Fort Hall, Idaho. She is the daughter of Herman Edwards and Nancy Nacki. Her paternal heritage is of the Okanagan-Similkameen band of Keremeos, British Columbia, Canada. Her maternal heritage is of the Shoshone tribe of Fort Hall, Idaho, and the Navajo Nation of Red Mesa, Arizona. Hovia has natural talent for music, especially the Native American flute. Some people ask how her name came to be. The word “Hovia” (Who-vee-ah) is the Shoshone word for “song” or” music.”
Hovia’s songs consist of her own compositions, as well as traditional songs that she enjoys playing for people that have special meaning to her and to others.
Hovia was honored to represent the Goshute Tribe of Utah in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, as a flutist in the opening ceremonies. It was an awesome event always to be remembered for everyone who was there, and those who watched it on television around the world.
Hovia’s most recent project consists of working with the Opera Theater of Oregon on a new opera, Nu Na-Hup: Sacajawea’s Story, which tells the story of Sacajawea through an Indigenous perspective. On May 13-14, 2023, was a premier of the Prelude and a 35-minute scene of this work, alongside excerpts of orchestral music, opera singing, soundscapes, and presentations of traditional Shoshone music, language, and culture by Hovia and Rose Ann Abrahamson. Hovia was honored to be part of this exciting project.