Classical Concert in the Park
| Hours: | 6:30-7:45 PM |
| Ages: | Infants, Toddlers, Kids, Teens, Adults |
| In/Outdoor: | Outdoor |
| Cost: | Free |
| Category: | Music & Concerts |
Fresh from playing a concert at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre, at which they were featured as winners of the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition, two of its young musicians will be featured in a free concert at the amphitheatre at Nara Park in Acton.
Winning the competition is pretty heady for the two young musicians, violinist Charlotte Malin, 19, and violist Matthew Sinno, 17. The Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra, a major stepping-stone for classical music players, was recently cited in a Boston Musical Intelligencer review as having “the kind of discipline and engagement rarely found in adult organizations. … The entire result was, as today’s youth might put it, ‘awesome.’”
Not the usual fare for NARA Park, the concert promises to deliver some superb playing of Mozart, Beethoven, and Kodaly. Malin and Sinno will be joined by Peter Zazofsky, violinist of the Muir Quartet, who has just returned from a teaching session at the China Conservatory in Beijing. Earlier this month, he and the Quartet played concerts in Fredericksburg, VA, so the NARA Concert Series was fortunate to get him in the window between concertizing throughout the world. (Zazofsky has been soloist with Boston Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony, Berlin Philharmonic, Rotterdam Philharmonic, and Vienna Symphony and has given recitals throughout Europe and United States.)
The fourth player for the evening concert is Ying-Jun Wei, who has performed worldwide as a soloist in such venues as St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Wigmore Hall, and St. John's Smith Square in London, England, and in Switzerland, Japan and China.
Malin, who just graduated from Westwood High School, is currently a student of Zazofsky. She has been a member of the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra for five years, serving as Concertmistress for several concerts in her junior and senior years.
Sinno, who has played with many chamber music groups in the Boston area, heads off for the prestigious Juillard School in the Fall. Wei started studying at the Wuhan Conservatory of Music and became a student at the Royal Academy of Music with full scholarship. In 2007, she came to America to study with Rhonda Rider and is now pursuing an Artist Diploma at Longy School.
The program includes the “Mozart Duo in G Major for Violin and Viola,” K. 423, with Charlotte and Matt; the Beethoven “String Trio in C Minor, op. 9 #3.” with Zazofsky, Sinno, and Wei; and the Kodaly “Duo for Violin and Cello, op. 7,” with Malin and Wei.
For further information about the NARA Park Summer concert series, call 978-264-9608 or visit www.acton-ma.gov
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25 Ledge Rock Way, Acton, MA, 01720 map
NARA Park is located off Rt. 27 on Ledge Rock Way in Acton.
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