海角乱伦社区鈥檚 International Center for Music Orchestra Opening Concert Set for Nov. 1
October 9, 2024 鈥 The 海角乱伦社区 Orchestra will hold its fall concert, its first of the season, on Friday, Nov. 1, starting at 7:30 p.m. in Graham Tyler Memorial Chapel on the University鈥檚 flagship Parkville Campus. Admission to the concert is free, but attendees are asked to .
For this concert, the ICM Orchestra will be under the direction of guest conductor , music director and conductor of the Reno (Nev.) Philharmonic. Jackson has selected a program of works for string orchestra, with music by composers Johann Sebastian Bach, Benjamin Britten and Antonin Dvo艡谩k.
The program is scheduled to include: 鈥淏randenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048,鈥 by Bach; 鈥淪imple Symphony, Op.4,鈥 by Britten; and 鈥淪erenade for Strings in E Major, Op.22,鈥 by Dvorak.
Jackson, who has been music director and conductor of the Reno Philharmonic since 2009, was the first female assistant conductor of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra from 2004-07. Under Jackson鈥檚 leadership, the Reno Philharmonic has expanded its community and education programs and initiatives, including Composers In Residence, Conduct Us, movies with live orchestra performances and Play for a Day, where amateur musicians perform side-by-side in concert with Reno Phil musicians. In the recording arena, Jackson has recorded Michael Daugherty鈥檚 鈥淭ime Cycle鈥 with the Bournemouth (England) Symphony Orchestra Symphony, with Marin Alsop and Mei-Ann Chen for Naxos, with Marc Rovetti and the Tanglewood Festival Orchestra, and Augusta Reed Thomas鈥檚 violin concerto, 鈥淪pirit Musings.鈥
For more information about the concert and Jackson (and a link to RSVP), visit .
The next performance in the International Center for Music鈥檚 2024-25 concert season will be a recital by students in the ICM鈥檚 strings studios on Thursday, Nov. 14, starting at 7:30 p.m. at the 1900 Building in Mission Woods, Kan. The strings studios are led by Ben Sayevich, violin, Daniel Veis, cello, and Chung-Hoon Peter Chun, viola. For more information, visit .