Orchestra performing final concert tonight
The SUNY Fredonia Chamber Orchestra will
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Under the direction of Dr. David Rudge, this 44-member ensemble features some of the School of Music’s best players. The performance opens with Mendelssohn’s Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, followed by the string orchestra premiere of Robert Moran’s Music from the Tower’s of the Moon.
The concert also includes works by Dvorak and Gounod, featuring vocal soloist and current student, Lydia Herren, and finishes with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1.
Soprano Lydia Herren is a senior applied voice and international studies major with a minor in anthropology. Lydia is currently a student of Dr. Angela Haas and has also studied voice with Gwen Coleman Detwiler. Ms. Herren has performed as a soprano soloist with the Fredonia Women's Choir and played the role of Hanna in The Merry Widow for the 2006 Fredonia Opera Scenes production. She made her debut on the Hillman opera stage as Micaela in Bizet's Carmen. Lydia is a recipient of the Hillman, Marion Sonnenfeld, and Faculty Student Association Scholarships and is a member of the Fredonia Honors Program. She is also an anthropology tutor at the university. After graduating this May, Lydia plans to apply for a Fulbright Scholarship in order to pursue her graduate studies abroad. Her performance tonight serves as the second of her Performance Certificate recitals.
Dr. David Rudge, Director of Orchestral Activities and conductor of Opera at Fredonia School of Music, is also the Music Director of the Orchard Park Symphony Orchestra. He has conducted orchestras on five continents to rave reviews. As director of the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Guatemala he was credited with the dramatic rebirth of that orchestra.
