Five-year-old prodigy Jonathan Okseniuk will join the St. Petersburg String Quartet and its new chamber group, Suprima Orchestra, in a benefit concert to support the St. Petersburg International Music Academy at Wichita State University.

The concert is at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 22, in Wiedemann Recital Hall. Tickets are $25 with discounts available; contact the Fine Arts Box Office at (316) 978-3233 or www.wichita.edu/fineartsboxoffice.

One year into residency at Wichita State, the St. Petersburg String Quartet has worked with the College of Fine Arts Institute to form the St. Petersburg International Music Academy, its own chamber orchestra and a monthly chamber music series for the 2011-2012 fine arts season.

The benefit event will feature the premier of the St. Petersburg Quartet chamber orchestra, Suprima Orchestra. In addition, it will feature Okseniuk, the YouTube sensation who attended the SPSQ Summer Academy.

To see Okseniuk on YouTube, go to http://www.wichita.edu/j/?1328 (3 years old, Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony at home) and http://www.wichita.edu/j/?1331 (4 years old, Strauss’ “Thunder and Lightening” polka in concert).

St. Petersburg String Quartet

Wichita State’s program will feature selections from Mozart, “Eine Kleine Nachtmusic,” Britten, “Simple Symphony,” Elgar, “Serenade for the Strings,” and Accolai, “Concerto for Violin.”

The academy, administered under the WSU College of Fine Arts Institute, provides the opportunity for students to participate in intensive musical training focused on the tenets of musicology, music theory, music history and professionalism.

The hope is to nurture the students' musicality, technical skill, creativity and style from the onset of their instruction. Working directly with the Grammy-nominated St. Petersburg String Quartet, students will be immersed in study of solo performance, chamber music and orchestra.

St. Petersburg String Quartet started in residence in the WSU School of Music in fall 2010. Alla Aranovskaya, first violin and director of the academy, and Leonid Shukayev, cello, are faculty members in Wichita State’s strings program. Evgeny Zvonnikov, second violin, and Boris Vaynor, viola, round out the quartet.

For more information about the quartet, go to http://www.stpetersburgquartet.com/.