TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The Alabama Symphony Orchestra will perform in the Moody Music Building Concert Hall at The University of Alabama Sunday, Oct. 16 at 3 p.m. as part of the UA’s School of Music Celebrity Series sponsored by the Gloria Narramore Moody Foundation.
Justin Brown will be the conductor, and Daniel Szasz will be playing violin.
Established as one of Britain’s leading young conductors, Brown has worked with most of that country’s top orchestras. He is a familiar figure in Europe, conducting in Scandinavia, Russia, Germany, France and Luxembourg, and his career has taken him worldwide to Israel, Singapore, Taipei and Australia.
Brown studied at Cambridge University and at Tanglewood with Seiji Ozawa and Leonard Bernstein.
Recent engagements included debuts in Asia with the Tokyo Philharmonic and Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestras and in Europe with the Oslo and Bergen Philharmonic Orchestras. Brown made his highly successful conducting debut in America with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra.
Violinist and ASO concertmaster Szasz was born in Romania. He played his first solo recital at the age of 8, and at 13 he performed his first concerto with a professional orchestra. Six years later, while still a student at the Gheorghe Dima Music Academy, he toured extensively, recorded and performed as a soloist with one of his country’s top orchestras.
Szasz is a winner of the Public Prize at the prestigious Vittorio Gui International Chamber Music Competition in Florence, Italy. He has participated in many music festivals, including those in Graz, Austria; Sopron, Hungary; the Blossom of Ohio; Chautauqua, New York and the New Hampshire Music Festival.
Single ticket prices for the concerts are $22 and $15 for general admission and $7 for students. They are available for purchase at the box office at 205/348-7111.
About the Gloria Narramore Moody Foundation: The Moody Foundation was founded in 1990 by Gloria Moody and her husband, the late Tuscaloosa businessman Frank McCorkle Moody, to support the arts and music.
In addition to bringing world-class performers to Alabama, the Moody Foundation has endowed scholarships at UA and has supported arts organizations elsewhere in the United States.
This is the 17th year that the Moody Foundation has brought internationally acclaimed talent to Alabama and underwritten the performances of world-class performers such as the Guarneri String Quartet, pianist Awadagin Pratt, soprano Benita Valente of the New York Metropolitan Opera, violinist Itzhak Perlman and cellist Yo-Yo Ma with pianist Emanuel Ax in a joint recital at The University of Alabama.
The UA School of Music is part of the College of Arts and Sciences, the University’s largest division and the largest public liberal arts college in the state with 6,600 students and 360 faculty. Students from the college have won numerous national awards including Rhodes Scholarships, Goldwater Scholarships and memberships on the “USA Today” Academic All American Team.
Contact
Deidre Stalnaker, UA Media Relations, 205/348-3782, dstalnaker@ur.ua.edu
Source
Joyce Grant, School of Music, 205/348-1672