Orchestra, Governor Preview Kennedy Center Performance
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (Dec. 3, 2008) – The University of Kentucky Symphony
Orchestra welcomes to the stage Governor Steve
Beshear for a preview concert of music from the anticipated Kennedy Center program "Our Lincoln." This concert, which also
features performances by this year's UK Concerto Competition winners, will be presented at 7:30
p.m. Thursday, Dec. 4, at the Singletary Center for the
Arts Concert Hall. The concert is free and open to the public.
The UK Symphony Orchestra concert is a local preview of music from the "Our Lincoln" program, which is sponsored by the Kentucky Humanities Council in partnership with UK Opera Theatre. "Our Lincoln," which is scheduled for Feb. 2, 2009, at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., is a national tribute to Kentucky's own Abraham Lincoln and will highlight a variety of musical performances including the UK Symphony Orchestra, UK Chorale, American Spiritual Ensemble, Lexington Singers and Lexington Children's Choir.
Thursday's concert will showcase the UK Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of John Nardolillo, and features composer Aaron Copland's "Fanfare for a Common Man" and "Lincoln Portrait," narrated by Governor Beshear, which is slated for the "Our Lincoln" event. The program will also include performances by the 2008-2009 UK Concerto Competition winners, cellist Andrea Kleesattel and violinist Duo He, performing Antonin Dvorak's Concerto for Violoncello and Nicolo Paganini's Violin Concerto No.1 respectively. The evening will conclude with "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks" by Richard Strauss.
The UK Symphony Orchestra has been featured on a number of prominent CD releases in recent years. Among its CD credits are "In Times Like These" recorded live with famed folk icon Arlo Guthrie in March 2006 at the Singletary Center; the premiere cast recording of Thomas Pasatieri's "The Hotel Casablanca" with UK Opera Theatre; and "Music of the Horse," a collection of equestrian-inspired music sponsored by UK School of Music and the Keeneland Foundation.
Nardolillo has made conducting appearances throughout the U.S. and Europe, leading major American orchestras in concerts, tours, and television and radio broadcasts. He has conducted major symphonies in such locales as San Francisco, Seattle, Atlanta, Detroit and Dallas. Nardolillo has also conducted at the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall and Philadelphia's Kimmel Center, and is the founder and music director of the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C. He earned a bachelor's degree in violin from the Cleveland Institute of Music and master's degree in both violin and conducting from the Peabody Conservatory.
The UK Symphony Orchestra concert is a local preview of music from the "Our Lincoln" program, which is sponsored by the Kentucky Humanities Council in partnership with UK Opera Theatre. "Our Lincoln," which is scheduled for Feb. 2, 2009, at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., is a national tribute to Kentucky's own Abraham Lincoln and will highlight a variety of musical performances including the UK Symphony Orchestra, UK Chorale, American Spiritual Ensemble, Lexington Singers and Lexington Children's Choir.
Thursday's concert will showcase the UK Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of John Nardolillo, and features composer Aaron Copland's "Fanfare for a Common Man" and "Lincoln Portrait," narrated by Governor Beshear, which is slated for the "Our Lincoln" event. The program will also include performances by the 2008-2009 UK Concerto Competition winners, cellist Andrea Kleesattel and violinist Duo He, performing Antonin Dvorak's Concerto for Violoncello and Nicolo Paganini's Violin Concerto No.1 respectively. The evening will conclude with "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks" by Richard Strauss.
The UK Symphony Orchestra has been featured on a number of prominent CD releases in recent years. Among its CD credits are "In Times Like These" recorded live with famed folk icon Arlo Guthrie in March 2006 at the Singletary Center; the premiere cast recording of Thomas Pasatieri's "The Hotel Casablanca" with UK Opera Theatre; and "Music of the Horse," a collection of equestrian-inspired music sponsored by UK School of Music and the Keeneland Foundation.
Nardolillo has made conducting appearances throughout the U.S. and Europe, leading major American orchestras in concerts, tours, and television and radio broadcasts. He has conducted major symphonies in such locales as San Francisco, Seattle, Atlanta, Detroit and Dallas. Nardolillo has also conducted at the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall and Philadelphia's Kimmel Center, and is the founder and music director of the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C. He earned a bachelor's degree in violin from the Cleveland Institute of Music and master's degree in both violin and conducting from the Peabody Conservatory.