Burlington, Vermont / 213

About

This week, from the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts in Burlington, Vermont, our line-up of outstanding performers includes a 21-year-old alumna who returns to our stage after winning last year’s Metropolitan Opera National Council Audition, an 11-year-old cellist performs a piece by François Francoeur, and a local teenage composer shares his piece for bassoon quartet.

Performers and Repertoire:

Cellist Leland Ko, 11 from Weston, MA, performs I. Adagio cantabile and II. Allegro vivo from Sonata in E major by François Francoeur

Pianist and Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist JeeHae Ahn, 18, from Seoul, South Korea, performs Concert Paraphrase on Rigoletto, S.434 by Franz Liszt

Soprano and 10th Anniversary Alumni Performer Nadine Sierra, from Delray Beach, Florida, performs “Ah, Je veux vivre!” from Romeo et Juliette by Charles Gounod

The Bassooniacs (bassoonists Debra Egan, 16, from East Waterboro, ME, and Emily Olmstead, 16, Westbrook, ME, Emma Shapiro, 17, from North Waterboro, ME; and composer/bassoonist and Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Tim Woos, 17, from New Haven, VT) perform movements V and VII from Suite for Bassoon Quartet by Tim Woos

The Vermont Youth Orchestra performs III. Ritmico Con Brio from Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra by Joseph Schwantner. Conducted by Andrew Massey.

Performers & Repertoire

• Nadine Sierra, soprano

  “Ah, Je veux vivre!” from Romeo et Juliette by Charles Gounod
• Tim Woos, bassoon/composer

  V and VII from Suite for Bassoon Quartet by Tim Woos
• JeeHaeAhn, piano

  Concert Paraphrase on Rigoletto, S.434 by Franz Liszt
• The Bassooniacs

  V and VII from Suite for Bassoon Quartet by Tim Woos
• Vermont Youth Orchestra

  III. Ritmico Con Brio from Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra by Joseph Schwantner. Conducted by Andrew Massey
• Nadine Sierra, soprano

  "Ah, Je veux vivre!" from Romeo et Juliette by Charles Gounod
• JeeHae Ahn, piano

  Concert Paraphrase on Rigoletto, S.434 by Franz Liszt
• Leland Ko, cello

  I. Adagio cantabile and II. Allegro vivo from Sonata in E major by François Francoeur

Release Dates

• Monday, September 26, 2011
• Monday, October 11, 2010
• Monday, May 10, 2010

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