Brooklyn Conservatory Community Orchestra performance! June 11, 2010

The Brooklyn Conservatory Community Orchestra
performs
Dukas; Fanfare from "La Peri"
Beethoven: Piano concerto #2
Stella Wong, piano*
*winner of the Conservatory Young Artists Concerto Competition
Hanson: Symphony #2, the Romantic

Saturday, June 12, 8pm
St Ann and the Holy Trinity Church
157 Montague Street Brooklyn, Brooklyn
$15/$10 students and seniors

The Brooklyn Conservatory Community Orchestra, Dorothy Savitch music director, presents. Dukas; Fanfare from "La Peri", Beethoven: Piano concerto #2 & Hanson: Symphony #2, the Romantic. Beethoven: Piano concerto #2 will feature Conservatory Conservatory Young Artists Concerto Competition winner Stella Wong.

Tickets are $15/10 and can be purchased by going to www.bqcm.org or www.bcco.info and by calling Zerve tickets services at 212. 209. 3370.

Guest pianist Stella Wong was born in China in December, 1994. She started her musical education at the age of four. She entered the Special Music School in kindergarten. Since 2003, Stella has studied piano under Golda Tatz. Now she is in the 10th grade at Hunter College High School and the Young Artist Program at Lucy Moses School in Kaufman Center.

Stella’s many awards include prizes in a number of piano competitions: Gold Medal in the World Piano Competition in Cincinnati, 1st Prize in the Young Pianist Competition of New Jersey, Grand Prize in the Honors Recital Award at the Piano Teacher’s Congress, 1st Prize in the Lucy Moses School Concerto Competition, and the Tureck International Bach Competition. She performed on the National Public Radio program From the Top and won the Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award in 2008. Stella is a recipient of Kaufman Center’s Con Edison Scholarship for Advanced Studies.

Stella has performed in many concert halls, including Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, CAMI Hall, Steinway Hall of New York and Connecticut, Rose Studio at Lincoln Center, Merkin Hall, Jordan Hall in Boston, and concerts in Aspen Music Festival. She has also performed benefit concerts for Kaufman Center.

Stella has attended the Puigcerda Classical Music Festival in Spain (2006), the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado (2007 and 2008), Tel Hai International Piano Festival in Israel (2008), and the International Academy of Music in Italy (2009). She has performed concerts in France, Spain, Israel and Italy with great success.

Now in its eighth year, the Brooklyn Conservatory Community Orchestra has generated excitement with its community involvement, bold programming, and exciting music making. Last spring the orchestra’s appeared at the Irondale Center with the clowning troupe the Maestrosities in two performances of the “William Tell Overture” and “Peter and the Wolf”. The result of “orchestra meets clowns” was what might be best described as hysterically innovative.

In a grand event, the BCCO also collaborated with the Brooklyn Conservatory Chorale in Francois Poulenc’s Gloria, and Ralph Vaughn Williams “Toward the Unknown Region”. The BCCO’s players are a mixture of musical amateurs and professionals living and working in and around Park Slope. Since 2002 they have expanded from a modest group of thirty to an ensemble of over 75. When not playing as a full orchestra, many of the musicians have organized themselves to play chamber music together, and have performed at neighborhood schools, Barnes and Noble Bookstore, churches, and even the local subway stop!

Brooklyn Conservatory of Music is one of the oldest and largest nonprofit community schools of the arts in the nation. The Conservatory serves more than 7,000 people each year, of all ages and backgrounds, through free and subsidized music instruction; education and music therapy programs in over 50 schools and community-based organizations; and free and inexpensive concerts. For a concert calendar and brochure about programs and lessons, please call 718-622-3300 or visit the Conservatory’s website at www.bqcm.org.

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