Local Youth Musicians Join Forces in a Performance With The Utah Symphony

Local Youth Musicians Join Forces in a
Performance With The Utah Symphony

All-Star Evening May 21 at 7 p.m. in Abravanel Hall.

Accomplished high school musicians get the chance to perform side-by-side with members of the Utah Symphony in the annual All-Star Evening performance.

All-Star Evening, led by Associate Conductor Vladimir Kulenovic, includes a performance of the famous fourth movement, Adagietto, from Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 and George Philipp Telemann’s Concerto for Viola in G major with young soloist Spencer Hunt on May 21, 2013 at 7 p.m. in Abravanel Hall. Other classical masterworks include Debussy’s “Danses sacrée et profane” with youth soloist, Molly Langr performing on the harp. The concert rounds out with recognizable opera preludes by Richard Wagner including his infamous love prelude from the opera, “Tristan und Isolde”.

In addition to performing in Abravanel Hall with a professional orchestra, the 61 students will have the unique opportunity of having a mentoring session with a musician from the Utah Symphony and other musicians in their sections. Students will receive personalized and valuable instruction from a professional who plays their same instrument. In preparation for the concert, the students also have three rehearsals with the conductor and one rehearsal as a whole with the Utah Symphony orchestra.

Students were selected from area youth orchestras and come from 37 high schools.

YOUTH ORCHESTRAS WITH PARTICIPATING STUDENTS
       American Fork Heritage Lyceum Philharmonic
       Davis Youth Symphony
       Granite Youth Symphony Orchestra
       Jordan/Canyons Symphony Orchestra
       Lincoln Youth Symphony
       Nebo Youth Philharmonic
       Timpanogos Chamber Orchestra
       Utah Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra
       Utah Youth Symphony Orchestra & Utah Youth Philharmonic
       Young Artist Chamber Players

YOUTH SOLOISTS
Violist Spencer Hunt is sixteen, lives in Pleasant Grove, and attends American Fork High School. He loves soloing, playing chamber music, participating in orchestra, and teaching music lessons. He has soloed with American Fork Symphony, Pleasant Grove City Orchestra, and Lyceum Chamber Ensemble. He performed on “From the Top” with the Gifted Music School Orchestra and was a finalist in the UMTA Concerto Competition. Spencer has played with the Gifted Music School Orchestra, the Lyceum Philharmonic Orchestra, Rocky Mountain Strings, and AF High Chamber Orchestra. He has also recently attended the Meadowmount School of Music in New York where he was selected to play in a quartet with Joseph Silverstein (a violin professor at Curtis institute of Music and former Music Director of the Utah Symphony). He currently studies viola with Dr. David Dalton, and former teachers include Deborah Moench, Natalie Reed and Denise Willey.

Molly Langr began studying the harp when she was six years old with ShruDeLi Ownbey. At age eleven Molly performed with the Utah Symphony in the Salute to Youth concert as well as several docent concerts for young people. In 2011, Molly won fourth place in the American Harp Society National Competition in Intermediate I Division as well as the Salzedo Award for her performance of “Idyllic Poem”. That same year, she premiered two pieces with a Utah harp ensemble at the World Harp Congress in Vancouver, BC. This year Molly was invited to play a concerto with the Young Artist Chamber Players, and she also performed on the Utah Symphony Youth Guild Recital for the fourth time. She is a member of the Utah Youth Symphony Orchestra and volunteers at the Huntsman Cancer Institute, playing for patients and staff. When not playing the harp, Molly spends her time at West High School, where she is a junior in the International Baccalaureate program, and at Ballet West Academy where she pursues her other passion, ballet.

Tickets for the May 21, 2013  can be purchased by calling 801-355-2787, in person at the Abravanel hall ticket office (123 W. South Temple) or by visiting www.utahsymphony.org.

PROGRAM
The Utah Symphony presents:
       All-Star Evening at Abravanel Hall
       Vladimir Kulenovic, Conductor
       Spencer Hunt, Viola Molly Langr, Harp

Gustav Mahler
       Symphony No. 5
              IV. Adagietto
Georg Philipp Telemann
       Concerto for Viola in G major
              I. Largo
              II. Allegro
              III. Andante
              IV. Presto
              Spencer Hunt, Viola
Claude Debussy:
       Danses sacrée et profane
              I. Danse sacrée: Très modéré
              II. Danse profane: Modéré
              Molly Langr, Harp

Intermission

Richard Wagner
       Prelude from “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg“
Richard Wagner
       Prelude to Act III from “Tristan und Isolde”
Richard Wagner
       Overture to “Rienzi”


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