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Brighton Symphony Orchestra Spring Celebration Concert
The Brighton Symphony Orchestra will present their Spring Celebration Concert on Wednesday, May 15, 2024, at 7:30PM at the Temple B'rith Kodesh Wolk Family Center Auditorium, 2131 Elmwood Avenue, Rochester. Conducted by Jonathan Allentoff, this concert will feature composer-in-residence Emmanuel Sikora, flute soloist Philip Nash, and the Bach Children's Chorus.
Sikora, a graduate of Binghamton University and the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College, is a Peruvian-American composer and pianist with recent performances by the Ukrainian Festival Orchestra, Lviv Philharmonic, and the Syracuse University Symphony Orchestra. The Washington Post has described his music as “an appealing melding of the romantic and the contemporary, unselfconscious and unpretentious.”
Nash, principal flute of the Brighton Symphony Orchestra, studied with Sylvia Philips and Henry Zlotnick, and at the Eastman School of Music with John Thomas. Currently, his primary teacher is Joanna Bassett, formerly of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and he also studies with Betsy Hudson Traba of the Sarasota Orchestra. In addition to performing with the Brighton Symphony, he leads the flute sections of the Finger Lakes Community Band and the Penfield Pops Band.
The Bach Children's Chorus, founded and directed by Karla Krogstad, is in residence at the Kanack School of Musical Artistry. The chorus has performed in the Nutcracker Ballet, Carmina Burana, and Howard Hanson's opera, Merry Mount, with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, collaborated with Cary Ratcliff for over two decades, and frequently performed with Madrigalia.
The program includes the world premiere of Sikora’s Symphony in E Major, which was recorded in studio by the Moscow Met Orchestra, and works by Arlen, Bizet, Ellington, Gottschalk, John, Kidd, and Tchaikovsky. The concert's finale will pay tribute to the 150th anniversary of Bizet composing the opéra comique masterpiece, Carmen.
Donations will be gratefully accepted. For additional information, please visit www.brightonsymphony.org.
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