Waterbury Symphony Orchestra

The Waterbury Symphony Orchestra is pleased to welcome the following guest artists to perform during this season.

Saturday, September 19, 2009
8:00 PM
Chu Fang Huang, Piano
Naugatuck Valley Community College
Fine Arts Center

As First Prize winner of the 2005 Cleveland International Piano Competition and a finalist in the Twelfth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Texas in 2005, Ms. Huang has made concert appearances throughout the U.S. "Clarity, poise, lucid phrasing and dead-on technique were in abundance at the electircally charged recital," declared The Birminham News after one of her recent appearances.

Sunday, November 22, 2009
3:00 PM
Beethoven: Ode to Joy!

Lyric coloratura soprano, Amanda Hall is currently working on a Masters Degree at Yale Opera where she made her debut in February singing Queen of the Night. Other roles include Belinda in "Dido and Aeneas" and the family Performance of the title role in Carlisle Floyd's"Susannah" with Central City Opera.

Gala El Hadidi was the New England finalist at the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions 2008. Mezzo soprano Gala El Hadidi joined the Cairo Opera Company in 2001 a the age of 18. Sh has participated in many International Festivals, including the Savonlinna Opera Festival in Finland in 2007 and 2008

Michael-Paul Krubitzer is gaining a reputation as on of America's most promising young tenors. Recent engagements include teh Central City Opera Festival in Colorado where he performed as an apprentice artist in Menotti's "The Saint of Bleeker Street" and Messenet's "Cendrillion."

Baritone, Tyler Simpson, who recently performed in the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra's world premiere of "Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem" will return to Waterbury in this exception thrilling performance of one of Beethoven's most monumental symphonic works of all time.

Nauagtuck Valley Community College Choir and Soloists
Dr. Richard Gard, Conductor
Naugatuck Valley Community College
Fine Arts Center

Richard Gard is the Director of Music at Saint Thomas More Chapel at Yale and Lecturer at Yale University. He is concurrently Associate Professor of Music at Naugatuck Valley Community College, where he leads Connecticut's most comprehensive two-year music program and conducts the college choir, opera, and concert band. Richard is also an active adjudicator and guest conductor.

The NVCC College Choir consists of college students and members of the local community who audition each semester. Each year The Choir presents two concerts with orchestra as well as other performances on campus and elsewhere, such as Wesleyan University, Yale University, the State Capital, the Palace Theater, Oakdale Theater, and local churches. The Choir has toured Great Britain, Hungary, Austria, New Orleans, Puerto Rico, Montreal and Quebec, and has broadcast on Public Radio.

Sunday, January 24, 2010
3:00 PM
Dan Zhu, Violin
Winner, Cleveland International Piano Competition
Naugatuck Valley Community College
Fine Arts Center

"An extraordinary technical ability, an artist of affecting humility and beautiful tone production," declares The Strad. Names "on of the emerging Chinese international artists today" by Gramphone magazine, Dan Zhu is quickly gaining international stature.

Saturday, March 20, 2010
8:00 PM
Dance!
Palace Theater

From the elegance of ballroom to the rhythm of Irish step, with the passion of salsa and the brace of ballet, you may be motivated to leave your seat and join the party! The Waterbury Symphony joins together with the premiere dance ensembles of our local community to bring you a night of unyielding rhythm, breath-taking dance, and a celebration of music's incredible power to inspire movement.

Saturday, May 8, 2010
8:00 PM
Jessica Warren Acosta, flute
Alturas Duo:
Carlos Bostes, viola and charango
Scott Hall, guitar
Naugatuck Valley Community College
Fine Arts Center

Hailed as playing with "....marvelous virtuosity..." by the Washington Post, the Alturas Duo is being recognized as one of the most entertaining ensembles in the chamber music world today. Formed with the idea of performing South American and classical music by using the viola, charango, and guitar, these musicians create dynamic programs that move at ease between J.S. Bach, South American folk rhythms and new music commissioned by the duo.

Described as "remarkable" by the Chicago Tribune and "one to watch in more ways than one" by Muso Magazine, Jessica Warren-Acosta has gained world-wide recognition as a dynamic performer and a flutist who thinks outside the box.