Instrumental ‘Postcards

From Paris’

DANBURY — The Danbury Music Centre will sponsor a concert for young people of all ages, and their families, on Sunday, January 27, at 3 pm. The performance will be in Ives Concert Hall, 181 White Street, on the midtown campus of Western Connecticut State University. The concert is within White Hall.

Danbury Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of music director and conductor Ariel Rudiakov, will be the featured performers for a concert called “Postcards From Paris.” The orchestra will be joined by violinist Nicole Kilroy, a senior at Poughkeepsie Day School.

Nicole was the winner of the 6th annual Danbury Symphony Orchestra Student Concerto Competition. She is the student of Anna Ostrofsky and has been a member of New York Youth Symphony. This past summer Nicole was concertmaster in the Guilford Festival Orchestra at Eastern Music Festival in Greensboro, N.C., where she attended on merit scholarship. In December she performed at the Eastman Theatre in Rochester, N.Y., with the Conference All-State Symphony Orchestra. On January 27, she will perform the first movement of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto.

The orchestra will also play music by French composers including Saint-Saëns’ famous dance, Bacchanale, from Samson and Delia featuring the English horn’s snake charming solo; Ravel’s popular Mother Goose Suite; and also a little known work for string orchestra by Pierne.

Admission to the concert is free.Additional information is available by visiting Danbury.org/MusicCtr or calling Nancy Sudik at 748-1716.