The Hartt School presents An Evening of Concerto Winners 2/5
The Hartt School presents An Evening of Concerto Winners on Friday, February 5, at 7:30 PM in Lincoln Theater on the University of Hartford campus. This wonderful event features the four Paranov Concerto Competition winners from the 2009-2010 season. Two of the competition winners will perform with The Hartt Wind Ensemble, led by Glen Adsit, and two will perform with the Hartt Symphony Orchestra, led by special guest conductor Edward Cumming, Music Director of The Hartford Symphony Orchestra. Admission is free.
Performing with the Wind Ensemble will be Joe D'Aleo, saxophone and The West End Brass Quintet. D'Aleo will perform Ingolf Dahl's Saxophone Concerto. The West End Brass Quintet will perform Eric Ewazen's Shadowcatcher.
Performing with the Hartt Symphony Orchestra will be Sam Martin, violin and Stuart Breczinski, oboe. Martin will perform Korngold's Violin Concerto; Breczinski will perform Paul Patterson's Phoenix Concerto for oboe and string orchestra.
Edward Cumming is in his eighth season as Music Director of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, hailed for its remarkable artistic growth during his tenure.
Before coming to Hartford, Cumming was Resident Conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony, where he stepped in for an ailing Mariss Jansons to conduct a program including Mahler's Kindertotenlieder and Debussy's Jeux, of which the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette wrote, "some conductors could not do as well even with months to prepare." During his time in Pittsburgh, he was Music Director of the nationally-acclaimed Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra, which was one of five orchestras invited to the biennial National Youth Orchestra Festival in 1998 and 2002.
World premieres in Hartford include Valerie Coleman's The Painted Lady, Richard Cumming's Aspects of Hippolytus, Michael Gatonska's Wandering the Moon Nursery, and Stephen Michael Gryc's Passagi (Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra), with Joe Alessi as soloist. In 2003 and 2006, the League of American Orchestras awarded Mr. Cumming and the HSO the ASCAP award for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music. For more information about Cumming visit www.hartfordsymphony.org.
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