MUSIC NOTES : Cal State Saxophonist Wins Sawtelle Scholarship Award

Saxophonist Jeremy Justeson, 19, has won first place in the 1990 B. Douglas Sawtelle Music Scholarship competition sponsored by the Orange County Musicians’ Assn. Local No. 7 of the American Federation of Musicians.

An undergraduate music major at Cal State Fullerton, Justeson won $1,000.

Runners-up include Nancy Pirozzi, 32, a returning piano major at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, and Fariborz Hajinabi, 25, a guitar major at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa. Pirozzi and Hajinabi won $500 each.

Guitarist Scott Alper, 17, of Huntington Beach won the $500 Mick Price Jazz Scholarship award. A senior at Marina High School, Alper will go to USC as a music major next fall.

The winners will give a free recital at 7 p.m. on April 26 at the Yamaha School of Music, 15455 Jeffrey Road in Irvine.

Information: (714) 546-8166.

Eighteen Orange County high school choirs will participate in the Fourth Annual Choral Festival sponsored by the Pacific Chorale on April 28 at the Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa.

About 900 high school singers will be heard during the free, 1-to-5 p.m. program.

The singers also have been invited to sing in the Chorale’s Verdi program that day at 8 p.m. at the Center. (Tickets for the evening only: $12.50 to $35. Information: (714) 542-1790.)

Participating school choirs are:

Bolsa Grande, Costa Mesa, Cypress, Dana Hills, El Modena, Esperanza, Foothill, Fountain Valley, Fullerton Union, Irvine, Loara, Orange, Marina, Mater Dei, Savanna, Trabuco Hills and Villa Park. In addition the Orange County Youth Choir will perform.

Eight new members have been elected to the board of directors of the Pacific Symphony, bringing the total number of board members to 39. The new members, to serve three-year terms, are Frank E. Anderson, Edward B. Beckerley, William P. Foley II, Rondell B. Hanson, Donald L. Morrow, John R. Miltner, Martin G. Hubbard, and Michael J. Rafferty.

In other Pacific Symphony news, soprano Carla Perez and bass Mel Whitehead will replace previously announced soprano Suzan Hanson and bass James Moellenhoff in Mozart’s Requiem and Bruckner’s Te Deum, Wednesday and Thursday at the Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa.

Hanson asked to be released to appear in concerts with Philip Glass, and Moellenhoff’s agent said that he was no longer available, according to a Pacific spokesman. Music adviser Kazimierz Kord will conduct the concert.

Tickets: $9-$30. (Student and senior rush tickets, $5 each, subject to availability beginning 6:30 p.m. both days). Information: (714) 740-2000.

Wind-instrument maker and player Susan Rawcliffe will give a lecture-demonstration and a concert April 28 at Newport Harbor Art Museum. Her lecture will be at 4 p.m., the concert at 8 p.m.

Rawcliffe makes and plays ceramic wind instruments, including tuned ocarinas, flutes, whistles and multiple pipes. Her instruments are based upon pre-Columbian models.

Tickets to the lecture are $1. Tickets to the concert are $5.50 for museum members, seniors and students; $7.50, general admission.

Information: (714) 759-1122.

Residents of mobile home parks can receive a $10-per-person ticket to the April 28 program by the Garden Grove Symphony at the Don Wash Auditorium in Garden Grove.

Mobile home park residents also will get a concert preview at their own social halls and free round-trip transportation to the concert with the ticket.

The 8 p.m. program, led by music director Edward Peterson, will include music by Mozart, Verdi, Bizet, Lehar and Strauss. Soprano Celesta Travera will be soloist.

Information: (714) 534-1103.