Symphony Of The Lakes To Perform 'Celebrations' April 17
March 11, 2021 at 2:06 p.m.
By Staff Report-
Dr. Ardis Faber will be the conductor for the program, which will also feature local artist Christi Ziebarth painting onstage during part of the performance.
Featured performers will include the Young Artist Competition winners from 2020 and 2021. Graydon Brath, winner of the 2020 competition, will play Bottesini’s “Elegy in C” with the orchestra. Brath, a bassist, is a senior at Warsaw Community High School who has been playing bass since he was 9 years old. He has played with youth symphonies in Minneapolis/St. Paul and Fort Wayne.
The winner of the 2021 competition, Mark Fu, will play the first movement of Haydn’s Piano Concerto in D major. A native of Chengdu, China, Fu is a junior at Culver Academies. He began playing piano at age 4. After moving to Canada, he performed with a number of ensembles in the Pacific northwest, including earning second place in the British Columbia Music Festival.
Additional repertoire for the April 17 concert includes Copland’s “Fanfare for the Common Man,” excerpts from Bernstein’s “West Side Story,” Gershwin’s “American in Paris,” “Gabriel’s Oboe” from “The Mission,” and selections from “Les Miserables,” “Henry Mancini” and more.
The concert will not be livestreamed, and attendance is limited to 400. Masks and social distanced seating will be required.
Tickets are $10 each and will be available at the door the night of the concert or purchased in advance at the Wagon Wheel box office, or online at www.wagonwheelcenter.org.
The nonprofit Wagon Wheel Center for the Arts encompasses four programs: the professional theater, Center Street Community Theatre, Wagon Wheel Jr. and the Symphony of the Lakes. A modified schedule for resumption of programs is available on the Wagon Wheel’s Facebook page or at www.wagonwheelcenter.org.
Dr. Ardis Faber will be the conductor for the program, which will also feature local artist Christi Ziebarth painting onstage during part of the performance.
Featured performers will include the Young Artist Competition winners from 2020 and 2021. Graydon Brath, winner of the 2020 competition, will play Bottesini’s “Elegy in C” with the orchestra. Brath, a bassist, is a senior at Warsaw Community High School who has been playing bass since he was 9 years old. He has played with youth symphonies in Minneapolis/St. Paul and Fort Wayne.
The winner of the 2021 competition, Mark Fu, will play the first movement of Haydn’s Piano Concerto in D major. A native of Chengdu, China, Fu is a junior at Culver Academies. He began playing piano at age 4. After moving to Canada, he performed with a number of ensembles in the Pacific northwest, including earning second place in the British Columbia Music Festival.
Additional repertoire for the April 17 concert includes Copland’s “Fanfare for the Common Man,” excerpts from Bernstein’s “West Side Story,” Gershwin’s “American in Paris,” “Gabriel’s Oboe” from “The Mission,” and selections from “Les Miserables,” “Henry Mancini” and more.
The concert will not be livestreamed, and attendance is limited to 400. Masks and social distanced seating will be required.
Tickets are $10 each and will be available at the door the night of the concert or purchased in advance at the Wagon Wheel box office, or online at www.wagonwheelcenter.org.
The nonprofit Wagon Wheel Center for the Arts encompasses four programs: the professional theater, Center Street Community Theatre, Wagon Wheel Jr. and the Symphony of the Lakes. A modified schedule for resumption of programs is available on the Wagon Wheel’s Facebook page or at www.wagonwheelcenter.org.
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