Academy Chamber Orchestra Concert
Free
Camille Saint-Saëns — Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso in A minor, Op. 28
Ottorino Respighi — The Birds
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Violin Concerto No. 1 in B-flat major K. 207
Georges Hüe — Selected works
Sophie Lee, violin
Nicolas Gjording, violin
Tabitha Mason, violin
Alina Butler, flute
Mirta Wymerszberg, bandoneon / vocals
Alan Futterman, music director
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Violin Concerto No. 1 in B-flat major
Ottorino Respighi – Gli uccelli ("The Birds")
Sergei Prokofiev – Violin Concerto No. 2
Various – Argentine tangos
Camille Saint-Saëns – Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
Georges Hüe – Fantasie
The Academy Chamber Orchestra (ACO) is a premier Youth Chamber Orchestra in the Pacific Northwest. Their musicians have won numerous awards and honors on their respective instruments. Graduates from ACO have gone on to attend the Curtis Institute, the Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music, Eastman School of Music, the Cleveland Institute, the Peabody Conservatory, Harvard, Rice University, etc. The ACO provides an opportunities for our musicians to read and perform concerto repertoire with the orchestra. As a result of this valuable experience, many of their students are selected to perform concertos with major orchestras in the Pacific Northwest. In addition, ACO premieres new compositions – some by their own students – and performs world music from many cultures that are not typically included in the European classical tradition.