Having thrilled audiences with a Holiday Joy and New Year’s Eve concert, Julien Benichou and the MSO return in their annual Spring Concert at Easton Church of God, March 17, 7:30 PM.
Jean Ferrandis, will play Mozart’s Flute Concerto in G Major and the Fauré Fantasie. He is an inspirational teacher and performer with superb musicianship according to the NYFC newsletter. He was the winner of the prix from the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Lyon in 1985 and won principal flute position with the Orchestre de Prix in Paris. There to give a master class, Leonard Bernstein was so impressed by the beauty of Jean’s playing an adagio by Mozart that he said, “It is Pan himself” and composed a cadenza for him, becoming his mentor.
What followed is an illustrious international career as a performer in concertos, chamber music and recitals in major music halls and festivals.
He is on the faculties of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, and California State University at Fullerton, and gives master classes world-wide in Europe, Asia, Australia. His outstanding premiere performance of Yuko Uebayashi’s Au Dela du Temps at the National Flute Association convention in Pittsburgh brought the house down.
No one who hears him play remains untouched: an invisible technique, clear and accurate, his music making is natural. As a conductor, he leads the St. Petersburg Camarata and the St. Christopher Chamber Orchestra in Vilnius, Lithuania with which he recorded the flute concertos of C.P.E. Bach. He has also recorded CDs of Mozart’s Concertos for flute as well as the music of D’Indy, Hindemith and winner Yuko Uebayashi.
Lucy McKnight, a prize winner in the Chesapeake Youth Orchestra’s concerto competition will join the orchestra playing Massenet’s “Meditation” from “Thais.” Lucy is 16 years old and has played the bass since age 8. She joined the Chesapeake Youth Symphony Orchestra (CYSO) in January of 2010. She is currently the Principal Bassist of the CYSO Symphony Ensemble and the Severna Park High School String Orchestra. Her hobbies are SCUBA diving, traveling, reading, and fishing on the Chesapeake Bay with her family.
The program also includes Poulenc Deux marches et un interméde and the first of Mozart’s last three symphonies, Symphony No. 39.
SPRING CONCERT, “Mozart Fantasy” Thursday, March 17, 7:30 PM Easton Church of God concert hall, 1009 N. Washington St. Easton. Tickets $38 for adults, free for 18 and under with reservations. 1-888-846-8600 or online at www.midatlanticsymphony.org or at Crackerjacks toy store, 7 S. Washington St. (only check or cash accepted).
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