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The Asheville-Buncombe Youth Orchestra, conducted by Ron Clearfield, will be giving a free concert on Friday, March 12, 2010 at 5:30 p.m. in Thomas Wolfe Auditorium. The program will feature the annual concerto competition finalist. The performance will include the Overture to the Poet and Peasant by Suppe, the first movement of the Concerto for Violin and Orchestra by Mendelssohn with Kay Nakazawa, violin soloist and the finale from the Sibelius Second Symphony.Soloist, Kay Nakazawa, is a 15-year-old freshman at TC Robertson High School who began playing the violin at the age of three. Kay has been a member of the Asheville-Buncombe Youth Orchestra since 2005 and this is her third season as the concertmaster of the ABYO. She has been studying with her current teacher, former concertmaster of the Asheville Symphony, Mary Byrd Daniels for 7 years. She recently won second place at the 2010 Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra Young Artists' Competition. In addition to her music studies, she enjoys the American Mathematics Competitions, running, reading and Mock Trial. Cellist, composer and conductor, Ron Clearfield, directs the Youth Orchestra. He graduated with honors from the New England Conservatory of Music and studied cello with Aldo Parisot and conducting with string pedagogues and conductors Joseph Silverstein and Leon Barzan. Ron was previously a member of the Indianapolis Symphony, the Miami Philharmonic and the Asheville Symphony. He has performed with such pop notables as George Benson, Judy Collins, Linda Ronstadt and Dionne Warwick as well as with classical luminaries Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland and Seiji Ozawa. Ron also conducts the Blue Ridge Orchestra and the UNC-Asheville Chamber Symphony. The Asheville-Buncombe Youth Orchestra is a thirty-five year old organization that serves five counties in Western North Carolina and includes public, private and home-schooled students. Over sixty students playing string, woodwind, brass and percussion instruments practice weekly during the school year and showcase their talents in four annual performances. Since its inception, the orchestra has graduated more than a thousand students, a quarter of which have gone on to study music in colleges, universities and conservatories. Many dozens have pursued professional careers in music. Please join us in supporting these wonderfully talented young people. They represent some of the success stories from the Asheville Symphony’s Music in the Schools initiative. Many of them will become future ASO musicians and audiences. For additional information please contact: (828) 683-4425 or go to the Youth Orchestra link at: www.blueridgeorchestra.org. (Image provided by The Asheville-Buncombe Youth Orchestra.)
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