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Featured soloists include Fredonia violin professor, Janet Sung, and special guest artist Simon Boyar, percussion. The two will perform together in the Concerto for Violin and Percussion by Harold Farberman. The concert opens with Beethoven’s Overture to Egmont, and will close with Sheherazde by Rimsky-Korsakov.
After graduating from Julliard, Harold Farberman went on to become the youngest members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He is also highly regarded as a conductor, and has created the Conductors Institute, the premiere training ground for young conductors from around the world. He has recorded more of Charles Ives’ works than any other conductor and is the only one to date to have recorded all four of that composer’s symphonies.
Violinist Janet Sung enjoys an acclaimed international career as a virtuoso soloist, praised for her lustrous tone, dynamic interpretations and bravura performances. Sung has been guest soloist with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Aspen Chamber Symphony, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston, as well as the orchestras of Adrian, Boise, Corpus Christi, Delaware, Dubuque, Fargo-Moorhead, Hartford, Owensboro, Wheeling and Wyoming. Acclaimed for her compelling performances of traditional works from Vivaldi to Berg, she also reveals her repertoire’s diversity by presenting the works of 20th and 21st century composers and regularly touring with fiddler Mark O’Connor’s American String Celebration. Janet Sung plays a c.1600 Maggini violin.
Percussionist Simon Boyar has presented the world premieres of numerous works for the marimba. He has performed internationally and at New York venues ranging from Lincoln Center to the Knitting Factory. As a featured guest artist on marimba and percussion, he has appeared with the New Jersey Symphony, the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra, and the Juilliard Orchestra, among others, and he has presented numerous solo recitals and concerts. Classical, jazz, hip-hop, pop and R&B are among the many genres besides classical in which he excels both as a live performer, lyricist, self-producer, and recording artist (for Naxos, API Records, Opus One, and EMW Records).
