She has participated in several summer festivals including the Pacific Music Festival, Schleswig Holstein Music Festival, and the Tanglewood Music Festival. Kim was awarded the Arthur Foote Award from the Harvard Musical Association as the cellist of the Klimt Trio. As a dedicated chamber musician, she has performed at festivals such as The Perlman Music Program, Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, Bowdoin International Music Festival fellowship program, Orford Musique, and the Castleman Quartet Program. She was recently elected as President of the Rochester Chapter of the American Harp Society. In the summer of 2018 Willa performed with cellist Christopher Costanza of the St. Lawrence String Quartet at the Madeline Island Chamber Music Festival. In 1991, he appeared as soloist in the first modern performance of the then recently discovered and reconstructed version of the Mozart Rondo, K.371 for horn and orchestra. During the 2014-2015 season, he served as principal 2nd violin. [citation needed] The Hall years She began playing the violin at the age of five. Buy Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Concert Tickets & View the Tour Schedule at Box Office Ticket Sales! McDonald has performed as soloist with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Huntsville Symphony Orchestra, Curtis Symphony Orchestra, Shepherd School Chamber Orchestra, and The Cleveland Orchestra, as well as at the International Double Reed Society conference. She is also the Librarian for RPO Principal Pops Conductor, Jeff Tyzik. In addition to playing the trombone, David enjoys cooking, birding, and cycling. Join the leading star of CATS, Wicked and School of Rock, vocal sensation Mamie Parris, and Phantom of The Opera stars Doug LaBrecque and Lisa Vroman for an evening of award winning songs from the world of . Arts institutions also help drive their local economies. Grand Rapids Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Finger Lakes Opera Orchestra, and Rochester Chamber Orchestra. Originally hailing from Wilmette, Illinois, Ms. Corvington was inspired at an early age by the renowned Chicago Symphony Brass, and she studied regularly with Chicago Symphony Orchestra hornists, Dale Clevenger and Alice Render. She has attended the Pacific Music Festival and the Aspen Music Festival and School. He received his Masters of Music from the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, Md., where he studied with Paul Johnson and had additional studies with John Hood and Rob Kesselman. She maintains a large private studio and serves as a Suzuki Instructor at St. Peters Community Arts Academy in Geneva. In the same year, he began his studies with Timothy Eddy at the Mannes College of Music (BM 2013, MM 2015), awarded with a full scholarship and the Goldsmith Foundation Award. He has performed with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and Symphoria (Syracuse). For the past 5 years, he has enjoyed a steadily thriving career as a New York City freelance musician, playing with many groups including the Orchestra of St. Lukes, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, American Ballet Theater, and the American Composers Orchestra. She has been active in the musical programs of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, including the organization and performance of a benefit concert for Rochester Area Interfaith Hospitality Network (RAIHN), supporting local, homeless families. Previous positions include music director of the Naples Philharmonic Orchestra (Florida) for 10 years, conductor-in-residence with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and artistic advisor of the San Antonio Symphony. Willa received her Bachelor of Music degree with high distinction from the Eastman School of Music in May 2018. As a regularly featured soloist, her expressive and versatile playing has illuminated the RPOs Philharmonics and Pops Series performances. He has also played with Carnegie Halls American Symphony Orchestra, the Radio City Music Hall Orchestra, and the Piedmont Chamber Orchestra. An enthusiastic educator, Carpenter shares her joy for music with her students at the Hochstein School of Music and Dance. He is one of only a few trombonists to win both international competitions for bass trombone in the same year. Kamalia has been a fellow at many festivals around the world, including the Colorado College Summer Music Festival, New York String Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, Round Top Festival Institute, Spoleto Festival USA, Tanglewood Music Center, Texas Music Festival, and Verbier Festival. He has created numerous original programs that include the greatest music from jazz and classical to Motown, Broadway, film, dance, Latin, and swing. 3:00 - Free Children's Concert under the tent @ Arrowhead Park featuring two quartets from the RPO - for children (and adults) of ALL ages! Albrecht also has held positions with the Minnesota Orchestra, San Antonio Symphony, and Honolulu Symphony. As a member of the Brutini String Quartet, Degas Quartet, and Young Eight Octet chamber ensembles, Mr. Peters was a prizewinner at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and has performed in many of America's prestigious venues, including Carnegie Hall and Tishman Hall in New York City, the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. (on the 1699 Ward Stradivarius), the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, on the Raleigh and Chicago Chamber Music Society Series, the Jewel Box Series in Chicago, the Music Mondays Series in New York City, and on the Amatius Concert Series in Austin with the Grammy-nominated Enso Quartet. Tigran Vardanyan was born in Yerevan, Armenia. With a Bachelor of Music degree and a Certificate in World Music, McDonald was one of RPO Concertmaster Juliana Athaydes first students at Eastman. In addition to orchestral playing, she is an active chamber musician, performing as a member of the RPO Woodwind Quintet and the Geneseo Wind Quintet. Prosser has toured worldwide as an orchestral musician, chamber player, recitalist, and clinician, including performances in Tokyo, Osaka, Vienna, Berlin, Munich, Stuttgart, Dsseldorf, Leipzig, Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia, Marseille, Washington D.C., Baltimore, Denver, Houston, Toronto, New York City, Boston, Miami, and Campeche, Mexico. In addition to her solo and chamber music work, Dr. Leenhouts has been a member of the Honolulu Symphony, the Grand Rapids Symphony, and the Aspen Festival Orchestra. In addition to being featured on National Public Radios nationally syndicated From the Top, she and her twin sister Lisa, a violist, have starred in the educational video series Musical Encounters and on Philadelphia television. Violinist, Liana Koteva Kirvan is originally from Bulgaria and moved to the U. S. when she was 15 years-old to pursue advanced musical studies. Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra 255 East Ave., Rochester, NY 14604. Melissa Matson is well known to Rochester audiences as the principal violist of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as a versatile chamber musician. While living and working with the orchestra in Honolulu, she also served as the associate principal horn of the Hawaii Opera Theater and Oahu Choral Society. Neil has also participated in LyricaFest in Boston as well as Charles Castlemans Quartet Program both in Boulder, CO, and Fredonia, NY. The Fourviere it's old Lyon's heart, where the cathedral it's located and where all this city was based on start 2000. A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Ms. Athayde made her solo debut at the age of 16 performing with the San Francisco Symphony and has been praised by critics for her power and precision, melting lyricism, and larger than life performances. Ms. Corvington previously served as Adjunct Professor of Horn at Rochesters Roberts Wesleyan College as well as the Lecturer of Horn at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Laifer has worked with orchestras around the globe, touring and performing across Africa, Eastern and Western Europe, Singapore, and China. Past clinician visits have included master classes given at Louisiana State University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Its primary concert venue is the Eastman Theatre at the Eastman School of Music. A versatile musician and educator, Taiwanese pianist Chiao-Wen Cheng has performed as soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician in major venues throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. Colline de Fourvire. She spent 13 years teaching at the Eastman School of Musics Community Music School where she directed the Summer Chamber Music and Middle School Strings Workshops and served as chair of the string department. He has also taught at Ithaca College and LeMoyne College. In 2016, she taught and played at the Bowdoin International Music Festival. She can be heard on both ensembles GRAMMY award-winning albums:The (R)evolution of Steve JobsandAmerican Rapture. By Brian Campbell Rochester. Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Along with soprano Susanna Phillips, McDonald co-founded Twickenham Fest, a chamber music festival in Huntsville, Alabama, which had its inaugural summer in 2010. credit: Lydia DiMonte, Principal, The Ron and Donna Fielding Chair. His major teachers were Ralph Jones, Jack Budrow, John Hood, Orin OBrien, and Jeff Turner. She is a founding member of the Cello Divas, a boundary-stretching cello quartet which provides her the opportunity to perform unusual and challenging music and to develop her arranging skills. He has also served as conductor of the Geneseo Symphony Orchestra. Summer festivals have included the National Repertory Orchestra in Breckinridge Colorado where he performed in over 20 concerts playing 120 orchestral works. Sooyeon has won top prizes in the Music Teachers National Association Competition, the Friday Woodmere Music Club Young Artists Competition, and the New York Music Competition. He is a graduate of The Eastman School of Music and began playing in the orchestra after graduating in 1991. His principal teachers were Donald Mattea, James Pyne, and D. Stanley Hasty. Our tickets are 100% verified, delivered fast, and all purchases are secure. The Massif Central extends into Ardche and is separated by a series of valleys . As a chamber musician, Benjamin is a devoted member of the Salaff Quartet (with RPO musicians Thomas Rodgers, Molly McDonald and Aika Ito) performing concerts throughout the Rochester community and serving as Outreach Ambassadors for the Society For Chamber Music in Rochester from 2017-2019. She received bachelors and masters degrees, and the Performers Certificate, from the Eastman School of Music. During his time in the Los Angeles area Josh recorded for numerous feature films and television productions, working with renowned film composers including John Williams, James Newton Howard, and Ludwig Gransson. He has been Concertmaster for numerous Broadway musicals which have featured many of the world's best-known stars. His teachers include Paul Hunt, Dennis Smith, and Don Harwood. His Viola Concerto won the ASCAP Nissim Prize for Best New American Orchestral work. Prior to joining the RPO, he was principal bass of the Canton Symphony Orchestra from 2012-16. She has also performed with the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, the Rochester Oratorio Society, and the Skaneateles Festival Orchestra. Josh has toured extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia as a member of the Verbier Festival Chamber orchestra, and a guest musician with Ivan Fischers Budapest Festival Orchestra. McDonald grew up playing music with both of her parents, and gained exposure to chamber music and orchestral playing through local festivals in Kansas City. Share Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra - Brahms Requiem on LinkedIn; I'm Interested. He received his formal music education at the University of South Carolina and the Eastman School of Music. She was awarded the Cassado Prize at the Gaspar Cassado International Cello Competition in Japan and top prizes in numerous other competitions, including the Houston Symphony's Ima Hogg Young Artists Competition, the Hudson Valley Philharmonic String Competition, the Five Towns Music Competition, and the Corpus Christi International Competition. A year later he moved to Rochester to become concertmaster of the Rochester Philharmonic . Violinist An-Chi Lin comes from a family of musicians and began playing the piano at the age of five and the violin at age six. In May 2009, the University of Rochester made him an honorary doctor of music. Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. For four seasons he was Assistant Principal viola in the Naples Philharmonic Orchestra. ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra announced a jam-packed catalog of free and paid concert performances ahead of Summer. Summer engagements include performances with the Pittsburgh Festival Opera, Artosphere Festival Orchestra in Fayetteville, Arkansas; Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan; Brevard Music Center in Brevard, North Carolina; and the Pierre Monteux School in Hancock, Maine. Ellen Sonnenberg, a native of Wisconsin, joined the RPO in 2018. WXXI is proud to offer you concerts from the current season of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, upon the approval of the RPO musicians. Fred Dole is currently Section Double Bass in the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and also performs with the Richmond Symphony, Virginia Symphony, and West Virginia Symphony Orchestras, and the Atlantic Chamber Ensemble (ACE), of which he was a founding member. An active chamber musician in the Greater Rochester and Finger Lakes region, Shannon frequently collaborates with colleagues from the RPO and faculty members of the Eastman School of Music on the recital series of Society for Chamber Music in Rochester, Morning Chamber Music at Eastman, the Finger Lakes Chamber Ensemble, the Canandaigua Lake Chamber Festival, and WXXIs Live from Hochstein series. Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra 255 East Ave. Rochester, NY 14604. 1720). Also a composer, he has had several pieces commissioned and premiered by the RPO over the last several years under the batons of Jeff Tyzik and Michael Butterman. Audiences at a variety of Rochester's festivals and musical venues - from the Rochester International Jazz Fest to the Dinosaur BBQ, have enjoyed the variety of sounds produced by his purple electric violin and collection of effects pedals. Most recently, Kirvan became the assistant principal cellist of the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra. In 2009, Vardanyan became a U.S. citizen and lives in Rochester with his wife and two sons. David Hult, winner of the Viola Virtuoso Prize at the Hudson Valley International String Artist Competition, balances an active career as a guest soloist and recitalist, a chamber and orchestral musician, and a teacher and adjudicator. Cheng has performed with violinist Juliana Athayde, Yoojin Jang, Rene Jolles, and Robin Scott, cellist Steve Doane, Guy Johnston, and Astrid Schween, and members of many major orchestras. Patricia (Pattie) Sunwoo, originally from Vancouver, performed on stages around the world for five years as a member of NYC-based Whitman String Quartet, winner of the Walter Naumburg Award. Smith travels all over upstate N.Y. doing workshops and presentations on classical music and the accessibility of this music for non-musicians. Cheng began piano lessons with her aunt at the age of four. In the summers, Grant teaches at the Aria International Festival at Mt. Let freedom ring! Contact. Among other credits, he can be heard on the soundtracks for movies from the Star Wars, Lego Movie, Creed, Charlies Angels, and IT franchises, and TV series including The Mandalorian, The Orville, and American Dad. Purchase tickets online 24 hours a day or by phone 1-800-515-2171. Violinist Youngsun Kim received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the Manhattan School of Music with the dissertation The Solo Violin Caprice: A Survey of its Evolution from the Eighteenth Century to the Present. Prior to her doctoral studies, Ms. Kim graduated Summa Cum Laude from Seoul National University and holds her Masters degree and Artist Diploma from Yale University. 2009) and two years at the Eastman School of Music. In September 2004, he was appointed Principal Horn of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, having previously served as Assistant Principal/Acting Principal Horn (1983-95) and as Acting Assistant Principal Horn (2002-2004). Shannon is married to RPO trumpeter Wesley Nance, and together they have enjoyed exploring the interesting repertoire of chamber music for violin and trumpet. Before joining the RPO, she played in the Dallas Opera, Ballet and Chamber Orchestras. Rochester NY 14604. As a founding member of the Chester String Quartet (1978-83), she performed throughout the U.S. and won top chamber music awards at the Munich and Portsmouth (England) international competitions. Sunday Matinees Series concerts take place at Beston Hall at Glazer Music Performance Center, Nazareth College, 4245 East Ave. OrKIDStra Series concerts take place at the Performance Hall at Hochstein, 50 North Plymouth Avenue. Margaret Leenhoutsis currently on the faculty of Nazareth College, in addition to her work at the RPO. In 1995 he returned to the U.S. to rejoin the Rochester Philharmonic as principal trumpet, and in 1997 was appointed to the faculty of the Eastman School of Music as associate professor of trumpet and brass chamber music. Prior to his time in Hanover, Mr. Delfs was Music Director of the Bern Opera; resident conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony during the tenure of Lorin Maazel; and Music Director, at an early age, of the Orchestre Suisse des Jeunes. She plays on a 1980 viola by Hiroshi Iizuka. Elder served as principal guest conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (1992-1995) and music director of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra (1989-1994). Ms. Athayde holds a B.M. Currently, Behr serves as an Adjunct Professor at Roberts Wesleyan College, and has served as a guest oboe teacher at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and Rice University. In addition to performing with the RPO, Griffin owns and operates Luthier's Care, specializing in hand making violin family instruments in the Cremonese tradition. Conductors included Karina Canellakis, Andrew Litton, Peter Oundjian and Michael Stern. Recently, Mr. Shen has appeared in the Starry Night concert series at Stony Brook with Hagai Shaham and musicians from the Emerson String Quartet and the concert series of The Society for Chamber Music in Rochester. Contact. Other premieres with the RPO include Sonata for Clarinet and Piano and theFantasy Etudes,composed by Verne Reynolds, former professor of horn at the Eastman School of Music. Daryl Perlo studied violin with Joseph Silverstein and Raphael Druian at Boston University, where she obtained her bachelors degree. As a chamber musician, she has participated in festivals such as Yellow Barn, Chesapeake Chamber Music, and Marlboro. As a chamber musician, Brown has performed around upstate New York and in New Mexicos Church of Beethoven. As a member of The Eastman Broadband Ensemble, a new music ensemble based at Eastman, he has toured Europe and Mexico, participated in two recording projects, one of which was a Pulitzer-Prize Finalist, and performed in the Zankel Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall.
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