Celebrating a Brockport tradition, the Brockport Symphony Orchestra will present their 14th Annual Holiday Pops Concert on Saturday, December 2, at 3 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church of Brockport, 35 State Street in the village. Directed by Jonathan Allentoff, this family concert will feature vocal artists Mary Wojciechowski and Michael DeLuca, violin soloist Eloise Fadial, and clarinet soloist Rachel Roessel.
Wojciechowski, a graduate of Nazareth College and Temple University, has performed as a vocal soloist at the Rochester International Jazz Festival and the Corning Museum of Glass. She appeared with the Philadelphia Pops Festival Chorus under the baton of Peter Nero. DeLuca studied vocal performance with Heinz Rehfuss while attending the University at Buffalo and has performed on stage across Western New York. He records and produces a variety of studio albums for the major streaming platforms.
Fadial, the orchestra’s concertmaster, studied with Grammy-nominated violinist Dr. John Fadial and the distinguished Dr. Beth Vanderborgh at the University of Wyoming. She performed with the University of Wyoming Symphony and Chamber Orchestras and appears as a violinist and violist on the University of Rochester Chamber Music Series. She is currently completing a PhD in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Rochester. Roessel, the orchestra’s principal clarinet, received a Bachelor of Arts in Music from SUNY Oswego. She performs with numerous ensembles in the Greater Rochester area and has appeared in multiple “Side by Side” sessions with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra.
The program features a variety of holiday favorites, along with the world premiere of Allentoff’s “Sparkling Lights” for Violin and Orchestra. The orchestra will also present an encore performance of this program at the Livingston County Auditorium, 1 Murray Hill Drive, Mt. Morris on Saturday, December 9, at 2 p.m., hosted by the Genesee Valley Council on the Arts.
Admission is free, and donations will be gratefully accepted. This project is made possible with support from the Village of Brockport and funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by the Genesee Valley Council on the Arts.
For additional information, please visit http://www.brockportsymphony.org.
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