NAVO is concluding its 7th season on May 7, 2022 with The Gift of Music for Mother’s Day, a musical celebration featuring works by Florence Price, Ingrid Stölzel, and Franz Joseph Haydn. For this occasion, soprano Liz Pearse returns to Kansas City to perform Livid Loneliness of Fear by Ingrid Stölzel - a Kansas City Premiere not to be missed! The program will feature some of the region’s finest chamber musicians, as well as two up-and-coming young artists!  It is a privilege to introduce two wonderful young artists on May 7: Brayden Bukenya (piano) and Will Savage (cello). Brayden is a 6thgrader who recently won Best performance of a piece by an African-American composer at the Chicago International Music Competition as a student of Jung Spooner. He will perform Ticklin’ Toes by Florence Price. Will is a 5th grader who studies with Susie Yang, and he is the 1st prize winner of the 2022 Civic Orchestra Young Artist Competition. Will is performing the 1st movement of Haydn’s C major cello concerto. NAVO musicians who are contributing to making this season finale an unforgettable evening include Karen Benda (clarinet), Hannah Collins (cello), Paulina Leisring (piano) Véronique Mathieu (violin), J. J. Pearse (percussion), Liz Pearse (voice), Karen Savage (piano), and Daniel Velasco (flute).