West Windsor-based orchestra Sinfonietta Nova is presenting a winter concert featuring Youth Concerto Competition winners on Saturday, January 31, at 7:30 p.m. at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in West Windsor. The program includes music by Glinka, Popper, Wieniawski, and Prokofiev. Tickets are $15.
Gail Lee of West Windsor founded the West Windsor-based orchestra in 2008 to bring live classical music to central New Jersey. As the artistic director and conductor Lee presents audience favorites as well as lesser known musical gems, new works, and educational elements.
“The holidays may be over but the celebration of the orchestra’s seventh season continues,” says Lee. “We will discover the talented musicians of tomorrow and present Eastern European classics of yesteryear.”
The January program features two of the youth concerto competition winners. The competition, open to New Jersey residents under the age of 18, was for all orchestral instruments, excluding piano.
Joshua Park, a middle school percussionist from Millburn, will perform David Popper’s Hungarian Rhapsody, a work originally composed for cello but now arranged for marimba. Sixteen-year-old Elizabeth Hendy from Berkeley Heights will perform the first movement of Henryk Wieniawski’s Violin Concerto No. 2.
The orchestra rounds out the program with two Russian compositions; Mikhail Glinka’s Valse-Fantasie and Sergei Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 7.
