News Release
Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra
performs first Severance Hall concert
of the 2009-10 season on November 22
New Youth Orchestra Music Director James Feddeck conducts
program featuring music by Berlioz, Brahms, and Copland
CLEVELAND, October 27, 2009 – The Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra will perform its first Severance Hall concert of the 2009-10 season on Sunday, November 22, 2009, at 3:00 p.m. James Feddeck, in his first season as music director of the Youth Orchestra, will begin the performance with Hector Berlioz’s Roman Carnival Overture, followed by Aaron Copland’s Suite from Appalachian Spring. After intermission, the program concludes with Johannes Brahms’s Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Opus 98.
A Prelude Concert will be held in Reinberger Chamber Hall beginning at 2:00 p.m. The Prelude will feature chamber music by Brahms and Milhaud performed by Youth Orchestra ensembles, and is free to concert ticket holders. The music to be performed includes selections from Brahms’s String Quintet No. 1 in F major, Opus 88; Brahms’s String Quintet No. 2 in G major, Opus 111; and Darius Milhaud’s Suite d’après Corrette, Opus 161 (for wind trio).
Biographical information on James Feddeck follows.
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TICKETS cost $12 each (reserved seating). Three-concert season subscriptions are also available for $30. Boxes are available at $160 per concert (8 seats per box).
To charge tickets by telephone on American Express, Discover Card, MasterCard, and Visa, call Cleveland Orchestra Ticket Services at (216) 231-1111 or 800-686-1141 during regular ticket office hours (Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and on Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Closed Sundays and major holidays, except for those days with performances, when the Ticket Office opens three hours prior to the performance start time.). Tickets are also available through The Cleveland Orchestra’s website at clevelandorchestra.com. The website offers secure ticket transactions with any major credit card and provides complete concert listings.
Please note: There are no added service charges or handling fees for concert tickets purchased through the Severance Hall Ticket Office – in person, by telephone or fax, or on the website.
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In June 2009, the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra made its first appearances (performing four concerts) in Boston, Massachusetts, and surrounding areas, marking the first COYO tour since the Youth Orchestra’s triumphal tour performance at Carnegie Hall in 2001.
The Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra is supported by generous grants from the Martha Holden Jennings Foundation, the Surdna Foundation, and many other donors. Endowment support is provided by The George Gund Foundation and Christine Gitlin Miles.
Each of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra’s concerts this season is to be broadcast on later dates by WCLV 104.9 FM. The November 22 concert is scheduled to be broadcast at 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, January 10, 2010, and 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, July 17, 2010.
The Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra is part of The Cleveland Orchestra’s wide-ranging Community Music Initiative (CMI), which seeks to engage the community in transformational musical experiences, and to foster a love of music and a lifetime of participation in the musical arts. For more information, please contact the Orchestra’s Department of Education & Community Programs at (216) 231-7355, or visit clevelandorchestra.com.
Calendar Listing
Sunday, November 22, 2009, at 3:00 p.m.
(Prelude Concert at 2:00 p.m. featuring chamber music by Brahms and Milhaud performed by members of the Youth Orchestra)
Severance Hall
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA YOUTH ORCHESTRA
James Feddeck, conductor
BERLIOZ – Roman Carnival Overture
COPLAND – Suite from Appalachian Spring
BRAHMS – Symphony No. 4
The Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra is supported by generous grants from the Martha Holden Jennings Foundation, the Surdna Foundation, and many other donors. Endowment support is provided by The George Gund Foundation and Christine Gitlin Miles.
TICKETS: $12 (reserved seating). Call (216) 231-1111 or 1-800-686-1141, or order online at clevelandorchestra.com
Media Contacts: Jennifer Schlosser, (216) 231-7518 / Email: jschlosser@clevelandorchestra.com; or
Ana Papakhian, Office: (216) 231-7476; Cell phone: (216) 370-2595 / Email: anap@clevelandorchestra.com
James Feddeck
Music Director
Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra
Assistant Conductor
Elizabeth Ring and William Gwinn Mather Endowed Chair
The Cleveland Orchestra
James Feddeck is in his first season as an assistant conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra and as music director of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, having been appointed by Franz Welser-Möst in March 2009. As assistant conductor, Mr. Feddeck conducts Education, Family, and other concerts and serves as cover conductor for Severance Hall and Blossom Festival subscription concerts. He also helps oversee the editing of archival recordings of concerts and provide assistance to Franz Welser-Möst. Mr. Feddeck made his debut with The Cleveland Orchestra in a Blossom Festival concert in August 2009, as an Aspen Academy Conductor.
As music director of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, Mr. Feddeck leads the ensemble in weekly rehearsals and will conduct its 2009-10 season three-concert series in Severance Hall, concerts in the Cleveland area, and a performance for Severance Hall’s Community Open House Day in January 2010. In March, he also will conduct the Youth Orchestra in a side-by-side concert with The Cleveland Orchestra, for high-school students.
James Feddeck came to Cleveland from his prior position as assistant conductor of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. During his two-season tenure in Memphis, he developed and conducted subscription programs, educational concerts, and community programs, and served as an advocate for music education.
This past summer, Mr. Feddeck served as assistant conductor at the Aspen Music Festival and School. A conducting fellow for three summers at the American Academy of Conducting at the Aspen Music Festival and School, where he studied with Murry Sidlin and David Zinman, James Feddeck received the Aspen Conducting Prize in 2008. He was awarded the Robert J. Harth Conductor Prize in 2007 and was nominated for the Glimmerglass Opera Conducting Prize in 2006. In addition, he was the unanimous winner of the Sixth Vakhtang Jordania International Conducting Competition and, at twenty-two, its youngest participant.
Mr. Feddeck’s musical training and background is unusually diverse and multifaceted. He holds the distinction of having been admitted to the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in four areas: piano, oboe, organ, and conducting. While at Oberlin, he was music director and conductor of Mozart’s Così fan tutte. Following undergraduate and graduate degrees from Oberlin, where he studied conducting with Steven Smith, Timothy Weiss, and Bridget-Michaele Reischl, Mr. Feddeck continued his studies in conducting at the University of Michigan, working with Kenneth Kiesler. He has participated in conducting masterclasses at Aspen with Patrick Summers, Harry Bicket, and James Conlon.
An accomplished organist, Mr. Feddeck has performed recitals throughout Europe and North America and has won competitions sponsored by the American Guild of Organists. As an oboist, he has taken a special interest in new music, having commissioned and premiered works including Daniel Pinkham’s Oboe Quartet.
Recent and upcoming conducting engagements include appearances at the Aspen Music Festival with artists including Misha Dichter and Cho-Liang Lin, Cleveland Institute of Music, Charlotte Symphony Orchestra (with soloist Yo-Yo Ma), and return performances with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra.
