Minnesota Sinfonia to Perform Annual Youth Outreach Concert
Minneapolis, MN, June 23, 2012 --(PR.com)-- This year’s concert will feature Sarah Grimes, Senior Division Winner of the 2012 Young Artist Competition and the Claire Givens Violins Cash Prize, performing Dvorak’s “Concerto in a minor,” plus 25 local student musicians performing a joint concert with the musicians of the Minnesota Sinfonia on July 20.
Also featured on the program, the 2012 Junior Composers winning composition, Night Colors by Jana Wilkes and “Symphony No. 9, from the New World, opus 95” by Antonin Dvorak.
The concert will be held 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 20 at Lake Harriet Bandshell, 4135 W Lake Harriet Pkwy, Minneapolis, MN 55419. Admission is free and children are welcome to attend. Audience members should arrive early—all concerts are first-come, first-seated.
Sarah Grimes is eighteen years old and a student of Almita Vamos at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL and a resident of Shoreview, MN. Growing up in the Twin Cities, she began violin lessons at the age of four with Nancy Lokken, and later studied with Sarah Kwak. She performed in the Minnesota Youth Symphonies for many years, was a member of Trio Lumineaux, coached by Tom Rosenberg, and has attended several chamber music festivals, most recently the Castleman Quartet Program. Sarah has been honored in many competitions, including Schubert Club, Thursday Musical, MNSOTA, YPSCA and MYS Solo Competition.
Jana Wilkes is a music major at Gustavus Adolphus College. She has been playing music and composing almost her entire life; she started the piano when she was four and the clarinet when she was nine. In her senior year of high school she decided that composing was something she wanted to pursue more seriously. Since then she has attended Junior Composers and is studying music theory in college.
Additional Minnesota Sinfonia concert information is available at 612-871-1701 or www.mnsinfonia.org.
The Minnesota Sinfonia is a professional chamber orchestra whose mission is to serve the musical and educational needs of the citizens of Minnesota, especially families with children, inner-city youth, seniors and those with limited financial means. The Sinfonia plays concerts for over 25,000 people each year, and is the only professional orchestra of its kind, offering all concerts free of admission charges, welcoming children to every performance, and dedicating over half its services to inner-city schools. Founded in 1989 by Artistic Director Jay Fishman, the Minnesota Sinfonia is an independent, non-profit 501(c)(3) organization supported by corporate, foundation and individual contributors. For more information, to make a donation, or for a list of upcoming performances, visit www.mnsinfonia.org or call 612-871-1701.
For Calendars: Summer Concert Series II: Youth Outreach. Friday, July 20 at 7:30pm, Lake Harriet Bandshell, 4135 W Lake Harriet Pkwy, Minneapolis. Free. 612.871.1701. www.mnsinfonia.org
Also featured on the program, the 2012 Junior Composers winning composition, Night Colors by Jana Wilkes and “Symphony No. 9, from the New World, opus 95” by Antonin Dvorak.
The concert will be held 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 20 at Lake Harriet Bandshell, 4135 W Lake Harriet Pkwy, Minneapolis, MN 55419. Admission is free and children are welcome to attend. Audience members should arrive early—all concerts are first-come, first-seated.
Sarah Grimes is eighteen years old and a student of Almita Vamos at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL and a resident of Shoreview, MN. Growing up in the Twin Cities, she began violin lessons at the age of four with Nancy Lokken, and later studied with Sarah Kwak. She performed in the Minnesota Youth Symphonies for many years, was a member of Trio Lumineaux, coached by Tom Rosenberg, and has attended several chamber music festivals, most recently the Castleman Quartet Program. Sarah has been honored in many competitions, including Schubert Club, Thursday Musical, MNSOTA, YPSCA and MYS Solo Competition.
Jana Wilkes is a music major at Gustavus Adolphus College. She has been playing music and composing almost her entire life; she started the piano when she was four and the clarinet when she was nine. In her senior year of high school she decided that composing was something she wanted to pursue more seriously. Since then she has attended Junior Composers and is studying music theory in college.
Additional Minnesota Sinfonia concert information is available at 612-871-1701 or www.mnsinfonia.org.
The Minnesota Sinfonia is a professional chamber orchestra whose mission is to serve the musical and educational needs of the citizens of Minnesota, especially families with children, inner-city youth, seniors and those with limited financial means. The Sinfonia plays concerts for over 25,000 people each year, and is the only professional orchestra of its kind, offering all concerts free of admission charges, welcoming children to every performance, and dedicating over half its services to inner-city schools. Founded in 1989 by Artistic Director Jay Fishman, the Minnesota Sinfonia is an independent, non-profit 501(c)(3) organization supported by corporate, foundation and individual contributors. For more information, to make a donation, or for a list of upcoming performances, visit www.mnsinfonia.org or call 612-871-1701.
For Calendars: Summer Concert Series II: Youth Outreach. Friday, July 20 at 7:30pm, Lake Harriet Bandshell, 4135 W Lake Harriet Pkwy, Minneapolis. Free. 612.871.1701. www.mnsinfonia.org
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