Celebrating its 15th Anniversary Season, the Brockport Symphony Orchestra will present its fall concert, “Folk Music & Popular Songs Around the World” on Sunday, November 3, 4 p.m., at the First Presbyterian Church of Brockport, 35 State Street, Brockport. Directed by Jonathan Allentoff, this family concert will feature violin soloist Eloise Fadial and composer-in-residence and guest pianist Emmanuel Sikora.
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 was the recipient of the prestigious McElhone Scholarship. Currently completing a PhD in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Rochester, she performs as concertmaster and violin soloist with the Eastman Summer Studio Orchestra and appears as a violinist and violist on the University of Rochester Chamber Music Series.
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.”
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 Genesee Valley Council on the Arts.For additional information, visithttp://www.brockportsymphony.org.
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