News Release
Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra (COYO) performs
concerts at Severance Hall on May 22 and 29
May 22 program features world premiere of Matthew Smith’s Chasing the Moon and
Youth Orchestra member Brandon Garbot as soloist in the Sibelius Violin Concerto
Youth Orchestra’s 25th Season Alumni Concert on May 29 features performances
by an orchestra composed of COYO alumni from across the U.S. as well as
current COYO members, led by current and former COYO music directors
Release date: January 27, 2011
Sunday, May 22
James Feddeck conducting the
Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra in Severance Hall
Photo by Roger Mastroianni
The Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra (COYO) will perform its third Severance Hall concert of the 2010-11 season on Sunday, May 22, 2011, at 7 p.m. James Feddeck, in his second season as music director of the Youth Orchestra, will lead a program featuring Ottorino Respighi’s The Pines of Rome and the world premiere of Chasing the Moon, by Matthew Smith, winner of the 2010 Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra Composition Competition. Brandon Garbot will be soloist in Jean Sibelius’s Violin Concerto in D minor, Opus 47. The program begins with Samuel Barber’s Essay No. 1, Opus 12.
Matthew Smith, a graduate student at the Cleveland Institute of Music studying with Keith Fitch and Steven Mark Kohn (and formerly with Margaret Brouwer), is the winner of the 2010 Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra Composition Competition, for his new piece titled Chasing the Moon. A composer since age 12, he performs jazz, classical, and rock music on piano and trombone. Matthew Smith has earned two honorable mentions from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts and was a finalist in the 2008, 2010, and 2011 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer competitions. During the summer of 2010, he attended the Aspen Music Festival and School and studied with George Tsontakis. For the 2010-11 concert season, Mr. Smith is serving as Canton Symphony Orchestra Composer Fellow.
Matthew Smith has written that “Chasing the Moon was born, of all places, on a road trip. As one might imagine, driving across the country gave me multiple opportunities to witness complete daily cycles, a process which is somewhat distorted by moving into the west. Particularly in the vast flatlands and abruptly mountainous regions of states like Utah and Colorado, stellar phenomena seem a little bigger and a little closer than they do in a major city. I feel everyone has had an experience like this: the feeling of being helplessly awestruck by nature’s majesty, the realization of time and cosmic distance being absolutely enormous in stark contrast to our own limited existence. Chasing the Moon has no specific program, but given this framework, listeners are encouraged to invent their own program, relate their own experience, and take from it what they will. For me, however, the piece conveys the wonder I felt while simply driving from Cleveland to Los Angeles, sharing the company of a close friend, and watching the sun chase the moon across the sky.”
Brandon Garbot, 17, the winner of the 2011 Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra Concerto Competition, is a student of Cleveland Orchestra Concertmaster William Preucil in the Young Artist Program at the Cleveland Institute of Music and a junior at Shaker Heights High School. Originally from Portland, Oregon, Brandon Garbot made his debut with the Oregon Symphony in 2008 and has been a soloist with other orchestras in Oregon as well as with the Brevard Music Center Orchestra. He won a Young Artist Fellowship with Chamber Music Northwest in 2008 and was chosen as a Young Artist for the 2007 Starling-Delay Violin Symposium at the Juilliard School. Currently co-concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, Brandon Garbot is also enrolled in the Perlman Music Program (PMP) in New York and the PMP Winter Residency in Sarasota, Florida, where he studies with Itzhak Perlman, Catherine Cho, and Sean Lee.
FREE CONCERT PRELUDE
Chamber music ensembles from the Youth Orchestra will perform Eugène Bozza’s Trois pièces pour une musique de nuit; Johannes Brahms’s Trio for Violin, Horn, and Piano, Opus 40 (movement 4); Franz Schubert’s String Quintet in C major, Opus 163 (movement 4); and Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence, Opus 70 (movement 1) at a Prelude Concert in Reinberger Chamber Hall beginning at 6:00 p.m. The Prelude program is free to concert ticketholders.
Sunday, May 29
The Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra (COYO) will perform its 25th Season Alumni Concert at Severance Hall on Sunday, May 29, 2011, at 2 p.m. An orchestra comprising COYO alumni from across the United States as well as current COYO members will perform under the direction of current music director James Feddeck and three former music directors of the Youth Orchestra. The program will begin with Richard Wagner’s Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, conducted by Gareth Morrell (COYO music director from 1993 to 1997). Jayce Ogren (2006-2009) will conduct the fourth movement from Johannes Brahms’s Symphony No. 4. Steven Smith (1998-2003) will conduct the Second Suite from Manuel de Falla’s The Three-Cornered Hat. To conclude the concert, James Feddeck will conduct the fourth movement from Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4.
Each of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra’s concerts this season is to be broadcast on later dates by WCLV 104.9 FM. The May 22 concert is scheduled to be broadcast at 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, July 10, 2011, and 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, September 3, 2011. The May 29 Alumni Concert will be broadcast live by WCLV and will be rebroadcast on Saturday, September 10, 2011.
The Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra is part of The Cleveland Orchestra’s initiative 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.
SELECT YOUR OWN SEATS
Severance Hall patrons can select their own seats online. Clicking on any “Buy Tickets” button on the calendar will link to the Ticket Reservations page with seat selection options. A “Print-at-Home” option is available on the Delivery Method page during checkout.
The Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra is supported by a generous grant from the Martha Holden Jennings Foundation and by many other donors. Endowment support is provided by The George Gund Foundation and Christine Gitlin Miles.
Ticket and Parking Information
May 22 Ticket Prices: $12 each (reserved seating). Boxes are available at $160 per concert (8 seats per box).
May 29 Ticket Prices:$10 each (reserved seating). Box seats $20 each.
Ticket Office: The Severance Hall Ticket Office is located in the Smith Lobby. The entrance and 15-minute Ticket Service parking are along East Boulevard. The Ticket Office is open 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Monday-Friday and on Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Closed Sundays and holidays, except for those days with performances, when the Ticket Office opens 3 hours before concert start time.
Group Sales (groups of 10 or more): Call the Cleveland Orchestra Group Sales Office at Severance Hall at 216-231-7463 or email groupsales@clevelandorchestra.com for information.
Parking: For information about parking for Severance Hall concerts, click here.
Venue information: Severance Hall, which opened in 1931 as the home of The Cleveland Orchestra, is located at 11001 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106.
Calendar Listing
Sunday, May 22, 2011, at 7:00 p.m.
(Free Prelude Concert at 6 p.m. featuring chamber music by Bozza, Brahms, Schubert, and Tchaikovsky, performed by members of the Youth Orchestra)
Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra
James Feddeck, conductor
Brandon Garbot, violin
Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra
Barber: Essay No. 1
Sibelius: Violin Concerto
Matthew Smith: Chasing the Moon (world premiere)
Respighi: The Pines of Rome
Tickets: $12 (reserved seating)
To order: 216-231-1111, 800-686-1141, or online to select your own seats and print your tickets at home
Location: Severance Hall, 11001 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland
Sunday, May 29, 2011, at 2:00 p.m.
Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra and Alumni
Gareth Morrell, conductor
Steven Smith, conductor
Jayce Ogren, conductor
James Feddeck, conductor
Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra
25th Season Alumni Concert
Wagner: Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Brahms: Fourth Movement from Symphony No. 1
Falla: Second Suite from The Three-Cornered Hat
Tchaikovsky: Fourth Movement from Symphony No. 4
Tickets: $10 (reserved seating); box seats $20
To order: 216-231-1111, 800-686-1141, or online to select your own seats and print your tickets at home
Location: Severance Hall, 11001 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland
All artists and programs are subject to change.
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Press Contacts
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