Second Course: Young Artist Showcase & A Tantalizing Tchaikovsky,
Ruth Lin, Conductor
Sunday, January 28, 2006 • 4pm
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Featuring Winners of the 26th Young Artist Competition |
Beethoven |
Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61
Noah Geller, 1st place winner Young Artist Competition |
Tomasi |
Trumpet Concerto (Allegro)
Noah Lambert, 2nd place winner Young Artist Competition |
Tchaikovsky |
Symphony No. 4 in F minor, op. 36 |
 
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Violinist Noah Geller has won numerous competitions and prizes, and has held leading positions in orchestras around the US. He was a recipient of top prizes in the 2006 Corpus Christi International String Competition, the Skokie Valley Symphony Young Artists and Wisconsin Public Radio’s Neale-Silva Young Artists’ Competition in Madison, Wisconsin. Mr. Geller won the concerto competition at the Music Academy of the West (Santa Barbara), resulting in a solo performance with the festival orchestra. Mr. Geller also received top prizes in the 2001 Chicago Youth Symphony Concerto Competition, affording him numerous performances with the orchestra.
In recital, Mr. Geller has appeared at Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago as part of the Chicago Youth Symphony’s Distinguished Alumni Recital series. He has also performed in a live Wisconsin Public Radio broadcast at the Elvehjem Museum of Art in Madison. Through the generosity of the Merit School of Music in Chicago, Mr. Geller performed the world premiere of Eugene O’Brien’s Two Inventions for Violin and Cello, broadcast on WFMT radio. As a chamber musician, Mr. Geller has performed with his string quartet at Alice Tully Hall and Sejong Center in New York.
An avid participant in summer music festivals, Mr. Geller has attended the Aspen Music Festival, Music Academy of the West, and the Taos School of Music in New Mexico. This past summer he was invited to be a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center. As an orchestral musician, he has served in concertmaster and principal positions in the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the Juilliard Orchestra, the Chicago Youth Symphony, and the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra under James Levine.
A previous student of Hyo Kang, Mr. Geller is currently in his first year as a Master of Music degree candidate at the Juilliard School where he studies with Donald Weilerstein and Cho-Liang Lin.
Noah Lambert has been playing the trumpet since 1995. He moved to Chicago in the Fall of 2003, and currently resides in Roger's Park. Noah has performed with many groups all over the country including: The Asheville Symphony, Olympia Symphony, The Seattle Philharmonic, Oak Park /River Forest Symphony, Chicago Civic Orchestra, Chicago Arts Orchestra and The Skokie Valley Symphony. Noah has won or placed in many solo and concerto competitions including: the Eastern Music Festival Concerto Contest, Tacoma Youth Symphony Concerto Competition, Washington Music Educators Solo and Ensemble State Contest, as well as second in the 2006 Skokie Valley Symphony Young Artists Competition.
Noah has a Bachelors of Music Performance from Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University, and is currently attending graduate school at Northwestern University. He has studied with Ben McDonald, Mark Niehaus, Channing Philbrick, and currently studies with Barbara Butler.
Pre-concert Lecture Series
Hosted by Julie Hobbs, D.Mus.
North Shore Center for the Performing Arts
Skokie, Illinois
January 28, 2007 • 2:30pm
Attention Teachers & Students: Program
notes on featured composers will be available following the concert.
Programs subject to change |
