CSO Orchestra And Youth Orchestra Join For a SIDE BY SIDE Concert, 2/26

The Chattanooga Symphony & Opera (CSO) and the CSO Youth Orchestras (CSOYO) present a unique event, featuring not only two of the youth orchestras in concert (Symphony and Philharmonic), but also the CSO Orchestra and the CSOYO Symphony combined. This event gives CSOYO students a chance to learn more about their craft by working alongside the CSO musicians, and gives the audience a chance to hear the huge sound of 150 musicians together on the Tivoli stage.

In addition to providing the up-and-coming CSOYO musicians the chance to play alongside professional musicians, the program also features the top two winners of the 2016 CSOYO Concerto Competition, Juliette Blais and Hayden Daniel, in performances of their winning pieces with the CSO Orchestra.

Please join us for a delightful afternoon of works by Bizet, Gershwin, Saint-Saëns, Dvo?ák, and Von Suppé.

Admission is $15 for adults and $7 for children and students. Tickets are available online at www.chattanoogasymphony.org and through the CSO Office (423.267.8583). Doors open at 2:00pm.

Call 423.267.9011 for more information.

CSO-CSOYO Side-By-Side Concert

Sunday, February 26, 2017 at 3:00pm

Tivoli Theatre

Sandy Morris, conductor, CSOYO Philharmonic

Gary Wilkes, conductor, CSOYO Symphony

Kayoko Dan, conductor, CSO Orchestra

Program

CSOYO Philharmonic

BIZET L'Arlésienne Suite No. 2

GERSHWIN Selections from Porgy & Bess

CSO Orchestra

SAINT-SAËNS Concerto No. 1 in A Minor for Violoncello & Orchestra

Juliette Blais, soloist

KABALEVSKY Concerto No. 1 for Violin & Orchestra, op. 48, 1st movement

Hayden Daniel, soloist

CSO Orchestra/CSOYO Symphony

DVO?ÁK Slavonic Dances, Op. 72, no. 7

VON SUPPÉ Overture to Dichter und Bauer (Poet and Peasant)

Soloists

Juliette Blais has been the principal cellist of the CSO Youth Orchestra's Symphony orchestra under Gary Wilkes since 2013. She also participated in the Philharmonic Orchestra under Sandy Morris for two years and was a student manager during that time. Her private instructor is currently Dr. Wesley Baldwin at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, but previously she studied with Jenny Wilkes-
Hibbard for several years.

Juliette has played cello since 2010, and has attended summer music camps including Wintergreen Summer Music Festival in Virginia, Meadowmount School of Music in New York, and the Brevard Music Institute in North Carolina. She was the recipient of two CSOYO scholarships last spring, and this year won her first competition with the CSO Youth Orchestras.

In her free time, Juliette is a part of an informal youth chamber group comprised of members from three Chattanooga high schools. They rehearse frequently and perform at several private locations, but they especially enjoy busking on the Walnut Street Bridge, a center of city life in Chattanooga.

Juliette currently attends Collegiate High at Chattanooga State Community College where she is enrolled in dual enrollment classes while pursuing her high school diploma. Juliette plans to pursue music with a double major in educational policy at college.

Sixteen-year-old Hayden Daniel has studied the violin since he was seven years old. He currently studies under Dr. Josh Holritz, Associate Concertmaster of the CSO and CSOYO alum. He is a

junior at the Chattanooga School for the Arts and Sciences and has the privilege of playing in the Orchestra there under the direction of Mr. Gary Wilkes. He has been a member of the CSOYO for six seasons and a member of the Chattanooga Boys Choir for eight years. This past summer, Haydn attended The Tennessee Governor's School for the Arts and has performed at several notable venues including the Duke University Chapel and Emory University's Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.

About Us

The mission of the Chattanooga Symphony & Opera is to inspire, engage, and enrich the greater Chattanooga community through music and music education.

The 2016/17 season marks 84 seasons for the CSO, which played its first concert on November 5, 1933.

The CSO, conducted by Music Director Kayoko Dan, consists of top players from the Chattanooga area as well as from across the southern region. The CSO performs a full season of Masterworks, Pops, and Chamber Series concerts from September through May, as well as a variety of community, education and engagement events throughout the year.

The Chattanooga Symphony and Opera Youth Orchestras strive to provide the finest quality orchestral training and performance opportunities for aspiring young musicians in the greater Chattanooga area.

Performing for more than 30 years, the organization is comprised of four separate performing ensembles: the Youth Symphony, Philharmonic Orchestra, the Etude and the Prelude. The Symphony, conducted by Gary Wilkes, is the premiere orchestra of the CSOYO, representing some of the best middle and high school talent in the Chattanooga area. Some of the Symphony alumni are now members of top professional symphony orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic.