Adelphi Orchestra presents “Slavic Celebration: Young Artist Showcase” at River Dell High School Auditorium
Dates: (10/23/2016 )
River Dell High School Auditorium |
55 Pyle St
oradell,NJ 07649
Phone: 2014770406
Tickets: Suggested Donation- $20
Running Time: 2 hours
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The Adelphi Orchestra, now in its 63rdseason of Music for All, presents “Slavic Celebration: Young Artist Showcase” the first of its 2016 concerts dedicated to the orchestra’s long standing young artist initiative, Sunday October 23rd at 3PM, River Dell Regional High School. The concert is free and open to the public.
The orchestra will perform works by Smetana, Dvorak and Sibelius under the baton of Adelphi Orchestra’s Principal Conductor Richard Owen. The program will showcase violin prodigy Nathan Meltzer, 1st place winner of the Adelphi Orchestra’s 2016 Young Artist Competition, in
Sibelius’s Concerto for Violin in D minor. The Concert will also include Slavic masterpieces, Smetana’s The Moldau and Dvorak’s Symphony No. 8 in G major.
Sixteen-year-old Nathan Meltzer studies with Itzhak Perlman and Li Lin at Juilliard Pre-College, where he is a Starling Delay Scholar. Nathan has performed in Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Germany, Israel, and across the U.S., playing solo violin with the Berliner Symphoniker, the Bloomington Symphony, the Charlotte Civic Orchestra, the Evansville Philharmonic, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, the Muncie Symphony, the Orquesta Sinfónica Concepción, and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. .Nathan plays an 1844 Italian violin by Johannes Pressenda on generous loan from Juilliard.
Principal Conductor Richard Principal Conductor Richard Owen is celebrating his fifth season as conductor of the Adelphi Orchestra. Owen is known internationally as a
gifted and visionary conductor for his innovative programming style and audience rapport. Combining a successful career as a conductor, entrepreneur, pianist and organist, Maestro Owen is also music director of Camerata NY Orchestra and St. Jean Baptiste Church (NYC). He was formerly on the conducting staff of the NY Philharmonic (cover conductor) as well as the Deutsche Oper am Rhein (Duessledorf). This season, Mr. Owen has a busy schedule which includes the Nutcracker with the Donetsk State Ballet, Scheherazade with the Adelphi Orchestra and Carmina Burana with Camerata New York and the NYC Masterchorale.
Mo. Owen recently made several conducting debuts including with the Little Opera Theater of New York (Gluck’s The Reformed Drunkard), with Rioult Dance (M. Torke’s Iphigenia) the Center for Contemporary Opera (Night of the Living Dead) and Carmina Burana with the Montreal Symphony, conducting alongside Mo. Kent Nagano. He has conducted symphony orchestras in Duisburg, Duesseldorf, Rzeszow, Jacksonville, Monterrey, Belgrade as well as the Staatskapelle Weimar, the Europa Symphony, the Silesian Philharmonic, the Baltic Opera and the Pacific Symphony. Mr. Owen graduated from Dartmouth College, where he was a recipient of a piano scholarship. He studied piano, accompanying and conducting at the Manhattan School of Music and at the University for Music and the Performing Arts in Vienna, Austria. A native New Yorker, Mr. Owen is committed to the cultural growth of the New York Metro/Northern New Jersey by presenting diverse repertoire to all generations. For more info visit: RichardOwenJr.com
The Adelphi Orchestra is a professional, non-profit orchestra offering symphonic, chamber, operatic, dance as well as a Young Artist Competition and concerts throughout New Jersey and the New York metropolitan area. The Adelphi Orchestra presents concerts with accomplished national and international guest soloists and distinguished conductors. Nominated by its peers for the 2016 Jersey Arts People’s Choice Award in the Favorite Orchestra/Symphony Division, the Adelphi Orchestra is a member of the League of Orchestras. It is northern New Jersey’s longest continuously performing orchestra and a member of the New Jersey cultural community for 63 years. The mission of the Adelphi Orchestra is to serve the musical and educational needs of the citizens of New Jersey, with special emphasis given to families with young children, seniors and those with limited financial means. To further this end, numerous concerts are offered free of admission charges. The Adelphi Orchestra strives to advance the orchestral arts through education, commissions, community partnerships and its robust young artist programing. Within the orchestra, the company fosters a challenging and enjoyable environment where artistic excellence can flourish. Richard Owen serves as the Principal Conductor and Jason Tramm is the Artistic Advisor of the orchestra.
Funding for the Adelphi Orchestra has been made possible in part by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, through grant funds administered by the Bergen County Department of Parks, Division of Cultural and Historic Affairs. To learn more about the orchestra and its programs visit www.adelphiorchestra.org
Adelphi Orchestra “ Slavic Celebration: Young Artist Showcase”
Sunday, October 23st at 3:00 PM
Admission: Free and Open to the Public
River Dell Regional High School
55 Pyle Ave Oradell, NJ 07649
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