Southeastern Chamber Orchestra to feature soloists in spring concert
Contact: Rene Abadie
3/21/12
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1) SOLOISTS FEATURED AT CHAMBER ORCHESTRA CONCERT -- Three Southeastern Louisiana University music performance students will perform solos at the March 30 concert of the Chamber Orchestra in the Columbia Theatre for the Performing Arts. From left are: Dorsey Minns of Miami, William Pratt of Columbus, Ga., and Oleksiy Harmov of Moscow.
2) GUEST ARTIST TO PERFORM AT CONCERT -- Seventeen-year-old violinist Amy Lidell, a member of Violin Virtuosi of Indiana University, will be the guest artist in the Southeastern Louisiana University's Chamber Orchestra concert March 30 at the Columbia Theatre for the Performing Arts.
HAMMOND – The Southeastern Louisiana University Chamber Orchestra will present "An Evening
of Soloists" featuring a collection of classical selections in its spring concert
scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 30.
The concert will be held in Southeastern's Columbia Theatre for the Performing
Arts in downtown Hammond and will feature several soloists performing the music of
Wagner, Tchaikovsky, Wieniawski, and Bellstedt, along with other composers. Yakov
Voldman, professor of violin and director of the Southeastern Chamber Orchestra, will
conduct the orchestra.
Tickets are available for open seating through the Columbia Theatre box office,
220 East Thomas Street, which is open 11 a.m. – 4 p.m., Monday through Friday and
one hour before the performance. General admission tickets are $10, adults; $5, senior
citizens, Southeastern alumni, faculty and staff. Patrons under 18 and Southeastern
students with student identification are admitted free. For more information on tickets,
contact the Columbia Theatre box office at 985-543-4371.
Seventeen-year-old violinist Amy Lidell, a member of the acclaimed Violin Virtuosi,
a group of young artists associated with Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music
String Academy, will be guest artist at the concert. She will perform Belgian composer
Henri Vieuxtemps' Concerto No. 5 in A Minor, Op. 37.
"I believe our audience will be thrilled and amazed to see the talent and expertise
Amy will exhibit," Yakov said. "At such a young age, she has performed with the Violin
Virtuosi for six years, touring to considerable acclaim in Denmark, Sweden, Argentina
and across the United States."
Lidell began her training at the String Academy when she was five years old,
studying under Mimi Zweig. She was the first place prizewinner in the 2011 worldwide
Dueling Fiddler's Rockin' Fiddle Competition, sponsored by violinist Adam DeGraff
and Shar Products Co., and recently took first place in the 2012 Rising Star Concerto
Competition in Cape Giradeau, Mo. She has won prizes in the Indianapolis New World
Youth Symphony Young Artist Competition, the Bloomington Symphony Competition and
the Master's Youth Symphony Young Artist Competition. Lidell has entered the world
of composing and has performed several of her original works.
Three Southeastern students also will perform solo. Dorsey Minns, music performance
major from Miami, will play the trombone in "Morceau Symphonique, Op. 88" by French
composer Felix-Alexandre Guilmant; graduate music performance student William Pratt
of Columbus, Ga., will play the trumpet in Herman Bellestedt's "Napoli;" and graduate
music performance student Oleksiy Harmov of Moscow will play violin in Polish composer
Henryk Wieniawski's "Fantasie Brillante on Themes from Gounod's Faust, Op. 20."
Other selections to be performed by the orchestra include Richard Wagner's "Rienzi
Overture" and Peter Tchaikovsky's "Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36.
