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March 25 & 27 , 2010
Thursday-7:30pm | War Memorial Auditorium - High School Nite!
Saturday-8:00pm | Dana Auditorium
French Fare with Stars of Tomorrow 
Julian Schwarz
Stefani Collins
Ravel
Mother Goose Suite , Op. 115
I. Pavane of the Sleeping Beauty
II. Hop-‘o-my-thumb
III. Laideronette, Empress of the Pagodas
IV. Beauty and the Beast Converse
V. The Fairy Garden
Debussy
Dances for Harp and Strings L. 103
Hannah Blalock, harp
I. Danse Sacrée: Tres modere
II. Danse Profane: Modere
Saint-Saëns
Concerto for Cello and Orchestra No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 33
Julian Schwarz, cello
I. Allegro non troppo
II. Allegretto con moto
III. Allegro non troppo
Julian Schwarz, cello
Intermission
Ravel
Pavane for a Princess from a Faraway Time
Saint-Saëns
“Havanaise” in E major for violin and orchestra, Op.l83
Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, for violin and orchestra in A Minor, Op. 28
Stefani Collins, violin
March 25 sponsor 
Dedicated to the memory of David Sherman
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Born in 1991, cellist Julian Schwarz made his debut as soloist with the Seattle Symphony at age 11 playing the Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto. He has won numerous competitions and awards including the Interlochen Junior Concerto Competition, the David Tonkonogui Memorial Award, three Linda Sandell Chamber Music Awards, two Merle P. Griffe Awards for Cello Performance, two first place prizes at the Northwest Sinfonietta Concerto Competition, the Sammamish Symphony Concerto Competition, the Bellevue Philharmonic Young Artist Debut Concert Auditions (his performance of the Dvořák concerto was aired on Bellevue Public Television), the Seattle Young Artist Concerto Competition with the Philharmonia Northwest, and an appearance on the NPR show “From the Top.”
Mr. Schwarz has recorded for the Naxos label, and his most recent CD of “In Memoriam,” composed by Gerard Schwarz, was released in spring of 2008. Bernard Jacobson of Music Web International wrote, “Julian Schwarz is destined to rank among the major cellists of the 21st century. Mark my words.” He is the son of Conductor, Gerard Schwarz, Music Director of the Eastern Music Festival and Seattle Symphony.
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Stefani Allison Collins, from Greensboro, N.C., is currently studying violin with Paul Kantor as a Starling Foundation Scholarship recipient at the Cleveland Institute of Music and as a fellowship student at the Aspen Music Festival.
Stefani recently made her Aspen Music Festival debut, after being named the 2009 DeLay Fellow. Last spring, Stefani received the Joseph and Elsie Scharff Prize in violin at the Cleveland Institute of Music and was the winner of the CIM concerto competition, which resulted in a solo performance in Severance Hall. Stefani is a two-time national winner of the MTNA strings competition, in addition to being selected as a Young Artist for the Starling-DeLay Symposium at Juilliard. She has made appearances on NPR’s “From the Top” with Christopher O’Reilly, with the All-Girl Vivaldi Orchestra at the Kennedy Center, on Wilmington’s annual NPR broadcast series featuring young artists, and as a soloist with the 2003 Eastern Music Festival. In 2005 and 2007, Stefani performed as a member of the NY String Orchestra Seminar, under the direction of Jaime Laredo.
Stefani has performed numerous times with the North Carolina, Greensboro, Winston-Salem, Western Piedmont, and Blue Ridge Symphonies. She has toured as a soloist with both the North Carolina and Mid-Atlantic Symphonies. Stefani received her high school diploma from the NC School of the Arts, where she studied with Sarah Johnson.
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Hannah Blalock is a 11th grade high school honors student from Matthews, North Carolina. She has won numerous awards and honors as a harpist. This past summer, she won first place in the Intermediate II division of the American Harp Society’s national solo competition in Salt Lake City, Utah. She also received top prizes at the AHS Los Angeles and Chicago national competitions. Hannah was also a prize recipient in the prestigious Blount-Slawson national concerto competition for all instruments held in Montgomery, Alabama in January, 2009. Selected to perform at the most recent Stars of Tomorrow Concert of the USA International Harp Competition, she performed on the Bloomington campus of Indiana University where she attends master classes and has the opportunity to study with Susann McDonald, Distinguished Professor of Harp.
Hannah is honored to have been selected as a semi-finalist in the senior division at the most recent Lily Laskine International Harp Competition held in Paris, France. Hannah was also selected to perform in the Focus on Youth Concerts of the World Harp Congress held in Dublin, Ireland and in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Hannah’s achievements include being recognized as the youngest harpist to ever be selected to participate in the Aspen Festival in Colorado where she performed with students from around the world for two summers. She has also performed in France and studied for two summers in Switzerland.
Hannah has performed in the prestigious concert venues of the Millennium Stage of the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center, the famous Lyon and Healy Hall of Lyon and Harps in Chicago, and Carnegie Hall in New York City with her youth orchestra.
Hannah has performed several concertos with area orchestras as a Young Artist Concerto Competition winner. She frequently performs with area orchestras and studies orchestra repertoire with Mrs. Helen Rifas, principal harpist with the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra. Hannah is principal harpist with the Charlotte Civic Orchestra, the Charlotte Symphony Youth Orchestra and the Carolina Youth Symphony.
Preludes
Learn more about the evening’s music with Dr. Sonia Archer-Capuzzo, Music for a Great Space .
The Prelude on Thursday, March 25th begins at 6:45 p.m. on the Mezzanine level of the War Memorial Auditorium. The Prelude on Saturday, March 27th begins at 7:00 p.m. in the Moon Room at Dana Auditorium.
Meet the Artists
Join us after the Thursday evening concert for a brief question and answer session held at the front of the stage with our guest artists and Dima.
Radio Broadcast
WFDD will broadcast this
concert on Sunday, May 16 at 8:00 p.m.
“Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.”
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
