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June 20, 2011
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- The Jacobs School of Music's 2011 Symphonic
Series, a highlight of the Indiana University Summer Festival of the Arts,
begins Friday, July 1, at IU Auditorium with a performance by violin virtuoso
and Jacobs faculty member Joshua Bell and the Summer Festival Orchestra,
conducted by Michael Stern.
Bell, whose career has
catapulted him to international
stardom since receiving an
Artist Diploma from the Jacobs
School in 1989, will perform
Bruch's Scottish Fantasy.
Additional works on the
program are The Sorcerer's
Apprentice by Dukas, The
Firebird Suite by Stravinsky
and Variations on "America"
by Ives. All will be under the
baton of Stern, now in his sixth
season as music director of the
Kansas City Symphony. Stern
returns to Bloomington following his performance with the Festival
Orchestra in 2006.
Marking the two-year anniversary of her first Bloomington performance
since her appointment to the Jacobs School faculty, Jorja Fleezanis will serve
as concertmaster for the opening concert. She also served as concertmaster
for the series' kickoff the past two years.
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The following evening, July 2, the orchestra will repeat the program at
Chicago's Ravinia Festival, becoming the first collegiate ensemble to be
presented as a featured festival ensemble there.
Other world-class conductors leading this distinguished group of Jacobs
School of Music faculty, students and invited guests include Bramwell Tovey
and Giancarlo Guerrero.
Tovey, music director of the Vancouver Symphony, conducts a July 21
program including a full orchestral version of George Gershwin's Rhapsody
in Blue and Mahler's Symphony No. 1. In addition to his podium duties, he
will also be piano soloist for one of his own compositions, Urban Runway.
Timothy Lees, concertmaster of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, will
serve as concertmaster for the second concert in the series.
Nashville Sy mphony Music
Director Giancarlo Guerrero
returns to Bloomington Aug. 5
to apply his Grammy Award-
winning style to Rossini's
William Tell Overture,
Respighi's The Pines of Rome
and Beethoven's Sy mphony
No. 7.
Jacobs faculty member
Alexander Kerr will assume
concertmaster duties for the
final Festival Orchestra
concert. Kerr was concertmaster of both the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
and Amsterdam's Concertgebouw and is now concertmaster of the Dallas
Symphony and principal guest concertmaster of the Indianapolis Symphony
Orchestra.
Additional faculty members performing with the Festival Orchestra this
summer include Stephen Wyrczynski, viola; Kate Lukas and Thomas
Robertello, flute; Howard Klug, clarinet; Jeff Nelsen, horn; Edward Cord,
John Rommel and Joey Tartell, trumpet; Carl Lenthe and M. Dee Stewart,
trombone; Daniel Perantoni, tuba; and John Tafoya, percussion.
Guests musicians include alumni Steven Moeckel, concertmaster of the
Phoenix Symphony; Tony Ross, principal cello of the Minnesota Orchestra;
and Kristin Ahlstrom, violinist with the St. Louis Symphony; as well as Owen
Lee, principal bass of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; William James,
principal percussion with the St. Louis Symphony; Jeff Rathbun, oboist with
The Cleveland Orchestra; and Marc Vallon, professor of bassoon at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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In addition to the three Festival Orchestra performances, the Jacobs School's
Symphony Orchestra will perform two concerts in the I U Auditorium this
summer, all led by regular guest conductor Cliff Colnot. Colnot is principal
conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's contemporary MusicNOW
series and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago.
The first Symphony Orchestra concert, July 13, will feature Impromptu for
String Orchestra by Sibelius and Symphony No. 10 by Shostakovich. The
second and final concert, Aug. 10, will include Haydn's Symphony in G Major
and selections from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet .
All orchestral events during the 2011 IU Summer Festival of the Arts will
take place at 8 p.m. at the IU Auditorium. The three performances by the
Festival Orchestra cost $15 each for the general public and $8 for any full-
time student. The two Symphony Orchestra performances are free.
The IU Auditorium box office is open Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Call812-855-1103 for ticket information, or visit http://www.iuauditorium.com
to purchase t ickets online.
The Summer Music series within the IU Summer Festival of the Arts is
sponsored in part by WFIU Public Radio, WTIU Public TV, the Bloomington
Herald-Times and Lamar Outdoor Advertising.
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