We all know that Mendelssohn and Mozart were extraordinarily gifted composers and musicians. Have you ever had the chance to witness a child prodigy perform at a concert? Tomorrow night you have the opportunity to hear five exceptional young artists at the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra. These students include twelve-year-old cellist Allison Giebisch, seventeen-year-old violinist Nicole Kilroy, seventeen-year-old cellist Danielle Merlis, and twelve-year-old violinist Tristan Zeman.
One of the youngest students ever accepted to Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music is twenty-one-year-old violinist Stephanie Jeong. Ms. Jeong, who has won several prestigious competitions including the Philadelphia Orchestra's Albert M. Greenfield, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's Feinburg and the National Yamaha Young Performing Artists, will show her interpretative and virtuostic skills in Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 4 in D Major, a piece that he wrote at the ripe old age of nineteen. Franz Schubert will be represented on the program with Symphony No. 5, a work that he created also at the age of nineteen. Edvard Grieg's Holberg Suite will round out the evening.
If you wish to acquaint yourself with these pieces, the Library has recordings of the Holberg Suite with the London Festival and Rotterdam Chamber Orchestras, the Mozart Violin Concerto No. 4 with Itzhak Perlman and Isaac Stern and the Schubert Symphony No. 5 with the Georgian Festival Orchestra.
