| Saturday Apr 29, 2017 7:30 PM - Saturday Apr 29, 2017 10:00 PM | Free - $2500.00 |
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Event
YPSO Spring Concert 2017
YOUNG PEOPLE'S SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
David Ramadanoff, Music Director/Conductor
PROGRAM
Richard Wagner - Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Bernhard Henrik Crusell - Clarinet Concerto No. 2, first
movement, Michelle Ho, clarinet
Henryk Wieniawski - Polonaise Brillante No. 1, Sofia Matthews,
violin
Paul Creston - Concertino for Marimba, third movement,
Elizabeth Butler, marimba
Johannes Brahms - Academic Festival Overture
Paul Hindemith - Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes by Carl
Maria von Weber
We have a voluntary admission policy which does not require a contribution for admittance but pre-registration for a ticket is highly recommended.
We suggest a minimum donation of $15 to help offset our venue costs and further the mission of the orchestra.
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Young People's Symphony Orchestras (YPSO) 80th season continues with the Spring Concert that will feature three of the orchestras 2017 concerto competition winners, Music Director and Conductor David Ramadanoff and 96 young musicians in music of Wagner, Crusell, Wieniawski, Brahms, Creston, and Hindemith.
Each season, YPSO offers its members the opportunity to enter the Concerto Competition to compete for the chance to play the movement of a concerto with the orchestra on a regular concert program.
Michelle Ho will perform the first movement of the Clarinet Concerto No 2 of Bernhard Henrik Crusell (1775-1838). Ho, age 17, is a senior at Amador Valley High School in Pleasanton. This is her second year in YPSO, and she also plays in her schools Wind Ensemble I and Symphony Orchestra. She began playing the clarinet at age 10. She was principal clarinetist of the CODA 2015 Honor Symphony Orchestra, principal clarinetist of the Cal Poly All-State Music Festival Wind Symphony in 2016 and 2017, and had the honor of performing the West Coast Premiere of "Rhapsody" for solo clarinet and band by Patrick J. Burns in May 2016. She studies with Joe Bonfiglio, whom she has been studying with for the past six and a half years.
Sofia Matthews, age 14, a freshman at Berkeley High School, will perform the Polonaise Brillante. "Besides the virtuosic passage work, I think that the hardest part about this piece is the repetitive aspect of it. The theme, introduced in the beginning, is played many times. The level of contrast needed from the performer in order to keep the audience engaged in their playing is, I would say, the most difficult part about it," she says.
Matthews has been playing violin for four years under her current violin teacher, Heghine Boloyan. She joined YPSO in 2015, after two seasons with the Berkeley Youth Orchestra. In the Berkeley Youth Orchestra, Matthews was the concertmaster and also the winner of its annual concerto competition in 2014, performing the first movement of Beriot Violin Concerto No. 9. Matthews is currently in her second season with YPSO. Outside of YPSO, Matthews is the first violinist in the Méraki Quartet. She also performed in the 2017 Junior Bach Festival at several of its Berkeley concerts.
Elizabeth Butler, age 18, a senior at Berkeley High School, will perform the third movement of the Creston Concertino for Marimba. "This was the first piece I learned for solo marimba, under my former teacher Don Bakers recommendation. I enjoy playing Crestons work because it is the first concerto for marimba and as a musician playing an instrument so new to the world of classical music, its important I know its history. The piece combines a quick and lively scherzo theme with a finale, and is simple and fun from start to finish," she says.
Butler is in her second and final season with YPSO. Besides YPSO, Butler is also a member of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra and Berkeley Highs chamber winds, and orchestra. Butler currently studies with Jacob Nissly, current principal percussionist with the San Francisco Symphony and faculty member at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. In the fall, Butler will begin her collegiate studies of percussion performance, with hopes of one day playing professionally in a symphony orchestra.
Celebrating his 28th season as Music Director/Conductor, David Ramadanoff conducts 96 YPSO young musicians who range in age from 12 to 19, and hail from 32 Bay Area cities in eight counties.
Founded in Berkeley in 1936, YPSO is the oldest youth orchestra in California and the second oldest in the nation. The 2016-17 season is the 80th season since violinist and conductor Jessica Marcelli founded YSPO at the suggestion of Clarabelle Bell, an amateur harpist and Berkeley resident, who got the idea after hearing a youth orchestra on a trip to Portland, Oregon.
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LocationWalnut Creek Presbyterian Church (View)
1801 Lacassie Avenue
Walnut Creek, CA 94596
United States
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| Minimum Age: 5 |
| Kid Friendly: Yes! |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
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