Fairfield County Festival Concert Will Include Newtown Musicians
Fairfield County Festival Concert Will Include Newtown Musicians
DANBURY â On Saturday, April 2, the Fairfield County String Teachers Association will present its annual String Orchestra Music Festival.
Featured on the program will be three string orchestras with a total of over 200 area middle and junior high school students participating. Eighteen towns in the western region of Connecticut will be represented.
The event is an enrichment experience for qualified instrumentalists recommended by their school music teachers and selected by festival committees.
A Connecticut State University, 181 White Street in Danbury. The performance will begin at 3 pm. Tickets are $5 for adults. Children under 14 years of age will be admitted free.
The conductors for the festival will be Howard Hsu, conductor of the Greater Bridgeport Youth Orchestras Symphony Orchestra; Andrew Dabczynski, Professor of Music at Brigham Young University; and Dr Kathlene Goodrich, Assistant Conductor of Music Education at the Hartt School of Music.
The featured soloist at the festival will be Jefferson Zhang, a fourth grade cellist from McKinley Elementary School in Fairfield. Jefferson is the principal cellist in the symphony orchestra of the greater Bridgeport Youth Orchestras.
Also participating in this yearâs concert are seven young musicians from Newtown: Christie Attanasio, Sarah Attanasio, Emily Loose, Meghan Loose, Katie McMorran, Gretchen Streett, Christopher Teri.
For additional information contact Fairfield County String Teachers Association publicity chairman Nancy Haydu McBrien at 746-4311.