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High school string players gather in Greeley

Uncategorized | October 6, 2008

This comes from a University of Northern Colorado press release:

The University of Northern Colorado School of Music is proud to announce the 25th Annual Western States Honor Orchestra Festival (WSHOF) will be held November 6-8.

Established at UNC in 1983, this annual “Weekend for Strings” provides three days of intense musical training to advanced high school string players. Musicians are nominated by their directors and private teachers, then selected for the event through a rigorous audition process. Festival participants come from all states in the Rocky Mountain West – Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.

This year’s festival will feature guest artists RACHEL LEE and WILLIAM PREUCIL. Other guest artists and clinicians include Doug Kershaw, “The Ragin’ Cajun;” conductors Sergio Espinosa and Russell Guyver; alternative music/improvisation specialist Julie Lyonn Lieberman; and UNC string faculty members Richard Fuchs, Juliet White-Smith, David Chew, Jim Vaughn and Kathy Moore.

The three-day event opens Thursday, Nov. 6, at 8 p.m., with a concert by the UNC Symphony Orchestra. Soloist Rachel Lee will perform Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto. Ms. Lee will also perform the “Bach Double,” more formally known as the “Concerto for Two Violins,” by J.S. Bach with UNC violin professor RICHARD FUCHS. The program will also feature “Capriccio Espagnol” by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, “An Orkney Wedding with Sunrise” by Peter Maxwell Davies and the “Mamou Two-Step” by Doug Kershaw.

The festival concludes with a concert by Western States Honor Orchestra Festival participants on Saturday, Nov. 8 at 4 p.m.

Led by Sergio Espinosa, the WSHOF Symphony will perform “Sinfonia #2 in D” by Felix Mendelssohn and “March and Scherzo” from “Love of Three Oranges” by Sergei Prokofiev. Following the Symphony’s performance, Russell Guyver, UNC’s resident orchestra conductor, will lead the WSHOF Chamber Orchestra in a performance of “Introduction and Allegro” by Edward Elgar and Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto with William Preucil, soloist.

Tickets for the 25th Annual Western States Honor Orchestra are now on sale.

Tickets for Rachel Lee’s concert with the UNC Symphony Orchestra on Thurs., Nov. 6 are $12 (adults) and $5 (students).

Tickets for William Preucil’s Saturday concert with the Western States Honor Orchestra are $15 (adults) and $10 (students).

FMI: 970-351-2200, 970-356-5000 or 800-315-ARTS. Online at http://arts.unco.edu/music/strings/weekendforstrings/default.html.

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