Wilmington Symphony Orchestra Offers a Night of Dinner and Music at UNCW
2/15/2006 11:20:16 AM
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Wilmington, N.C. - Join the Wilmington Symphony Orchestra for dinner and a concert on Saturday, Feb. 25. The pre-concert buffet dinner begins at 6 p.m. in the Madeline Suite on the campus of the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
The concert, which begins at 8 p.m. in Kenan Auditorium, will bring music to the words of author Clyde Edgerton, UNCW professor of creative writing. The spotlight will also be on two promising musicians, both winners of the annual Richard R. Deas Student Concerto Competition.
Pianist Anh Quyen Mac is performing the Largo from Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, and pianist Nancy Jones is performing the first movement of Schumann's Piano Concerto in A Minor. The orchestra will be showcasing the Symphony No. 3 of award-winning American composer Roy Harris.
The cost for dinner is $25 per person; reservations are required and must be pre-paid by Wednesday, Feb. 22, by calling the WSO Office at 910.791.9262.
Tickets for reserved seating at the concert are $20 and $18. Tickets for those 17 and under are $4. They can be purchased through the Kenan Auditorium box office weekdays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. by calling 910.962.3500 or 1.800.732.3643. Group rates are available.
Program notes for the concert are available at www.wilmingtonsymphony.org.
Edgerton, a North Carolina novelist, is the author of Raney, Walking Across Egypt, The Floatplane Notebooks, Killer Diller, In Memory of Junior, Redeye: A Western, and Where Trouble Sleeps. Five of his novels have received Book of the Year awards from the New York Times. Edgerton has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lyndhurst Fellowship, North Carolina Award for Literature, and membership in the Fellowship of Southern Writers. His first non-fiction book, Solo: My Adventures in the Air, was published in Sept. 2005.
Jones, an active solo pianist, accompanist and teacher, is the winner of the UNCW division of the WSO's annual Student Concerto Competition. She is completing her Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance with Barry Salwen. Jones last appeared with the orchestra as the high school division winner of the Richard R. Deas Concerto Competition in 2002. A voice student of Nancy King, Jones is also an accomplished mezzo-soprano, performing most recently as Prince Orlovsky in Strauss' Die Fledermaus with UNC-WOOP! (UNCW's Opera Outreach Project). She is also the recipient of the UNCW Honors Research Fellowship for her work on a critical edition of an original Liszt manuscript at Yale University.
Quyen is a senior at Waccamaw Academy and a student of Sharynn Edwards at Southeastern Community College in Whiteville. Of Chinese-Vietnamese descent, she was born and raised in Wiesbaden, Germany, and has been living in North Carolina since May 2005. She was a winner of several yearly regional and state competitions called Jugend musiziert from 2001-05 in Baden Wuerttemberg, Germany, including second place in 2004 at the Tonkuenstlerwettbewerb (a statewide piano competition) in Suttgart, Germany. Previous piano studies have been with Michael Kuhn in Stuttgart and with Yvonne de Blaaw in Boeblingen, Germany. Quyen plans to enroll as a freshman at UNCW in the fall.
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