Young People's Symphony Orchestra Concerto Concert 2012 - Free Community Outreach Concert

Venue: First Congregational Church - Berkeley
Date: Sun February 12, 2012 3:30pm
City: Berkeley
Email: ypsomusic@yahoo.com
Price Range: Free - Community Outreach Concert
Tickets: 510-849-9776

Young People's Symphony Orchestra

The Young People’s Symphony Orchestra (YPSO) 2012 Concerto Concert on February 11 and 12 will feature music director/conductor David Ramadanoff, three winners of the orchestra’s concerto competition, and 100 young orchestra musicians. The program will feature John Adams’ Lollapalooza the François-Adrien Boieldieu Harp Concerto in C Major, Madeline Olson, harp; Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A Minor, Michelle Zhang, pianist; and Serge Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, June Park, violin, and Samuel Barber’s Symphony No. 1.

Each season, YPSO offers all members who have been in the orchestra for at least one full season the opportunity to enter the Concerto Competition to compete for the opportunity to play one movement of a concerto with the orchestra at a regular concert. The competition’s judges are Ramadanoff, YPSO Executive Director Wendy Howe, and Oakland School for the Arts music teacher and conductor Omid Zoufonoun.

Celebrating his 23rd season as Music Director/Conductor, David Ramadanoff conducts 100 YPSO musicians who range in age from 12 to 21 and hail from 28 Bay Area cities in six counties.

Founded in Berkeley in 1935, YPSO is the oldest youth orchestra in California and the second oldest in the nation. Violinist and conductor Jessica Marcelli founded YSPO at the suggestion of Clarabelle Bell, an amateur harpist and Berkeley resident, who got the idea after hearing a youth orchestra on a trip to Portland, Oregon.