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SPADES Concert, Concord Chamber Orchestra

Concert Info:In addition to the winner of our annual Dorothy J. Oestreich Concerto Competition, this concert will focus on ground-breaking and experimental composers who have changed the course of music’s development in the past, the present and (possibly) the future!

• Three Hungarian Folksongs by Dennis Bathory-Kitsz

• "Solemn Processional" from Symphony No. 4 by Gustav Mahler arranged by Jamin Hoffman, dedicated to the memory of Ralph Lane

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• Violin concerto in E Minor, Op. 64 by Felix Mendelssohnfeaturing Wyatt Underhill, winner of the Dorothy J. Oestreich Concerto Competition

• Symphony No. 3 (“Eroica”) by Ludwig van Beethoven

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Soloist Spotlight:A native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, violinist Wyatt Underhill is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory where he studied with Gregory Fulkerson. He was a winner of Oberlin's Senior Concerto Competition and took 2nd Prize at the 28th Annual Irving M. Klein Competition for Strings in San Francisco. He has served as concertmaster for several tours and recording projects, most notably for the Oberlin Orchestra’s tours of China and Singapore in 2010 and Carnegie Hall in 2013.

Equally interested in both contemporary and early music, Underhill is also a baroque violinist and has performed with Apollo’s Fire (The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra), Juilliard 415 (Juilliard’s period performance orchestra) and at the Boston Early Music Festival. He has performed with Oberlin’s Contemporary Music Ensemble and the New Juilliard Ensemble, and has served as concertmaster for the world premieres of several works by composers such as Philip Cashian, Kip Winger and Lorenzo Palomo.
 
He was a member of the Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra for 6 years and has performed as soloist with their Senior Symphony. He has also been a soloist with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. He is currently pursuing a masters degree at The Juilliard School as a student of Catherine Cho.

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