Chamber Orchestra of New York to Welcome Di Wu for Gershwin & Tchaikovsky at Carnegie Hall, 12/12

Chamber Orchestra of New York, Salvatore Di Vittorio, Music Director, will present Gershwin and Tchaikovsky, with Di Wu, a concert on Saturday, December 12 - 8:00 PM at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, 57th Street at Seventh Avenue in Manhattan. Soloists will be Di Wu, pianoforte and Thomas Boulton, trumpet.

CONY will perform Gershwin's Lullaby and Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings, along with Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 35 and Three Variations on a Gregorian Theme, a World Premiere by Italian composer Emiliano Imondi, Winner of the 2014 Respighi Prize for Composition.

Based in New York, Di Wu made her Philadelphia Orchestra debut in 2009. Her recent itinerary began with two international engagements: a debut tour of Brazil, as well as a re-engagement with the Nanjing Philharmonic Orchestra in her birthplace, Nanjing, China. Other concerts included debuts with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, and Illinois Symphony Orchestra, and re-engagements with North Carolina Symphony and Philadelphia Chamber Music Society. Much more about her at www.diwupiano.com.

Tickets are $40 orchestra and $30 balcony and can be purchased online at www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2015/12/12/0800/PM/Chamber-Orchestra-of-New-York, by calling CarnegieCharge at 212-247-7800 or by visiting the Carnegie box office at 57th Street and 7th Avenue. More about the concert at chamberorchestraofnewyork.org/gershwintchaikovsky.

Chamber Orchestra of New York was founded in honor of Ottorino Respighi - the preeminent early twentieth century Italian composer whose compositions bridge the classical and modern traditions. The orchestra's programming presents great works of the 20th and 21st centuries, including film scores and rarely performed gems, alongside ancient music. For more about them, visit www.chamberorchestraofnewyork.org.

A native of Italy, Salvatore Di Vittorio has achieved international recognition as a composer and conductor, hailed by Luigi Verdi of the prestigious Philharmonic Academy of Bologna, as a "lyrical musical spirit, respectful of the ancient Italian tradition...and an emerging leading interpreter of the music of Ottorino Respighi." He gained considerable attention with his orchestration and completion of Ottorino Respighi's rediscovered first Violin Concerto (in A Major), a commission he received from Respighi's family descendants and archive curator. Much more about him at www.chamberorchestraofnewyork.org/music_director.html.