NEWS RELEASE
The Cleveland Orchestra presents “The Fancy Flute”
Musical Rainbow concerts on February 12 and 13
in Severance Hall’s Reinberger Chamber Hall
Cleveland Orchestra flute and piccolo player Mary Kay Fink will be featured in program
PNC is new sponsor of the Musical Rainbow Series
CLEVELAND, January 14, 2010 – Cleveland Orchestra flutist Mary Kay Fink will introduce children ages 3-6 to “The Fancy Flute” in the February 12 and 13 PNC Musical Rainbow concerts, held in Severance Hall’s Reinberger Chamber Hall. Local actress and singer Maryann Nagel hosts the 30-minute, age-appropriate programs, which include narration, demonstration, short solo selections, and audience participation. Biographical information on Ms. Fink follows at the end of this release.
This season, as part of its Grow Up Great initiative in Cleveland, PNC is sponsoring the Musical Rainbows Series for preschoolers as well as a wide range of other activities and programs designed to give very young children “A Great Early Start in the Arts.” PNC Musical Rainbow programs introduce very young children to the instruments of the orchestra, one at a time.
Friday, February 12, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. SOLD OUT
Saturday, February 13, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m.
Reinberger Chamber Hall at Severance Hall
PNC Musical Rainbow: “The Fancy Flute” (ages 3-6)
MARY KAY FINK, flute
MARYANN NAGEL, host
NICHOLAS UNDERHILL, piano
The PNC Musical Rainbow Series is endowed by the Pysht Fund.
Tickets: $7 for adults and children; general admission
To order tickets by phone, call (216) 231-1111. Tickets are also available online.
Parking: For PNC Musical Rainbow concerts at Severance Hall, Standard Parking provides parking in the underground garage adjacent to Severance Hall at a special Rainbow Concert rate of $4.50 per vehicle. Clearly marked school buses and vans may park for free on the west side of East Boulevard. Metered parking is also available on some side streets near Severance Hall.
The Cleveland Orchestra’s PNC Musical Rainbow Series is part of a broad array of educational programs designed to foster a love of music and a lifetime of participation in the musical arts. Other programs include Cleveland Orchestra Family Concerts for ages 7 and up, Cleveland Orchestra Education Concerts (which bring more than 25,000 school children to Severance Hall each year), the Learning Through Music school partnership program, Concert Previews and Music Study Groups for adults, and several programs to nurture aspiring young musicians (Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, Youth Chorus, and Children’s Chorus). For more information, call the Orchestra’s Educational and Community Programs Department at (216) 231-7355.
Media Contacts: Jennifer Schlosser, (216) 231-7518; Email; or
Ana Papakhian, Office: (216) 231-7476; Cell phone: (216) 370-2595; Email
Mary Kay Fink
Flute
Piccolo
Anne M. and M. Roger Clapp Endowed Chair,
The Cleveland Orchestra
Mary Kay Fink joined The Cleveland Orchestra’s flute section in 1990 and made her Cleveland Orchestra debut as piccolo soloist in Vivaldi’s Concerto in A minor (RV445) at the 1994 Blossom Festival. She has since performed as a piccolo soloist with the Orchestra at Severance Hall and at the Blossom Festival. In May 1999, she was a flute soloist in Nicolas Underhill’s Aspirant Variations, alongside her colleagues in the Orchestra’s flute section. Her most recent Cleveland Orchestra solo appearance was in April 2005, performing in Bruce Broughton’s Piccolo Concerto.
Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Mary Kay Fink began playing piano at the age of 6 and flute at age 10. She received a bachelor of music degree from the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Robert Willoughby. Ms. Fink earned a master of music degree from the Juilliard School, where she studied with Julius Baker and Paula Robison. Before coming to Cleveland, Ms. Fink was a member of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra; the Madison Symphony, where she was principal flute; and the New York Philharmonic, where she was acting piccolo. Ms. Fink teaches flute and piccolo at the Cleveland Institute of Music and privately. She is a member of the Cleveland Chamber Collective and performs in solo and chamber music recitals throughout the Cleveland area, often with her husband, pianist and composer Nicolas Underhill.
