Virginia’s Blue Ridge Music Festival
Saturday, June 8 6 pm
Floyd County High School Gym (new)
5 pm Pre-concert Talk
“Concerto Competition Winners – PLUS”
Festival Symphony Orchestra
David Stewart Wiley, conductor
Mozart –
Overture
to “The Marriage of Figaro”
Mozart
Clarinet Concerto in A
, 1st movement
Maria Ortiz-Laboy, clarinet
Faure
Pavane,
Op. 50
Haydn
Trumpet Concerto
, 1st movement Allegro
Marisa Youngs, trumpet
Intermission
Brahms
Hungarian Dance #5
in G minor
Dvorak
Cello Concerto
, 1
st
movement
Miriam Liske-Doorandish, cello
Sibelius
Finlandia
“Finland Awakes”
See Program Notes on page 22; the Program will last about an hour and a half.
Miriam Liske-Doorandish
is from Eggleston, VA, and began her cello studies at the age of two.
Miriam has broad experience with solo, chamber, and orchestra performance, and enjoys many
genres of music. She has attended several music festivals, appeared on NPR radio, and won several
competitions. In the fall she plans to continue her cellistic studies at the Royal College of Music in
London.
Maria Ortiz-Laboy
is currently pursuing her Master of Music degree in clarinet performance from
the University of Akron. Maria has played principal clarinet in orchestras and bands both in Puerto
Rico where she was born and in the United States. She has won the James Tannenbaum Memor-
ial Scholarship. After graduating from Akron, Maria plans to pursue a DMA in Clarinet Performance.
Marisa Youngs
is a recent graduate of Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) with a degree in
Music Education. She has served as principal trumpet of numerous orchestras and ensembles,
including the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra, and has won the IUP Concerto Competition.
In the fall, Marisa will begin her Master's Degree in Trumpet Performance at Boston University
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