By Lyn Bronson
It was a large audience that turned out Saturday evening for the Santa Cruz Symphony’s concert at Civic Center. Of special interest on this occasion was the appearance of young Santa Cruz pianist Chetan Tierra as soloist in the Prokofiev Third Piano Concerto. Tierra has shown outstanding talent from an early age, and now, as he finishes his studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music, he could be poised on the brink of establishing a successful career. Maestro John Larry Granger reminded us before the concert that Tierra had appeared several years previously with the Santa Cruz Symphony in a youth concert playing the first movement of the Grieg Concerto. He also announced that Tierra had been selected from hundreds of young pianists from all over the world to compete in the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth, Texas, this coming June.
