SMSO presents "Romantic Cello"
15 Year Old Sphinx Competition Winner Kicks off SMSO Season
Ifetayo Ali-Landing
The Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestra (SMSO) presents its 2018-19 Season opening concert, Romantic Cello, Sunday, October 14, 2018, 4:00pm at the Howard Performing Arts Center in Berrien Springs.
The concert showcases the talents of Ifetayo Ali-Landing, who at age 14 was the 2017 Sphinx Competition Junior Division winner. The annual Sphinx Competition is held in Detroit to serve the goals of encouraging, developing and recognizing classical music talent in the Black and Latino communities. Ms. Landing will perform the Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto No. 1.
Complementing the Saint- Saëns will be the “Classical Symphony” by Prokofiev and Franck’s Symphony in D Minor. Conductor Robin Fountain says of the concert repertoire, “I wanted to find pieces that supported the cello piece and featured the unique talents of our players.”
The concert will also include a pre-concert conversation with Maestro Fountain and Ms. Ali-Landing at 3pm, a post-concert reception in the lobby, and Small Business of Note guest Quinlan & Fabish Music Co. of Stevensville, MI.
During Ms. Ali-Landing’s visit, she will offer educational outreach sessions with the Boys and Girls Club of Benton Harbor and local school children.
More information and tickets are available by calling 269-982-4030 or by visiting the SMSO website at www.smso.org.
Single Tickets:
Zone A: Adult: $35 / Full time students $5
Zone B: Adult: $20 / Full time students $5
GRAND SERIES – All 5 concerts
Zone A: $145
Zone B: $85
3 Pack Subscription for any 3 of 5 concerts
Zone A: $99
Zone B: $55
Flex Pass – 4 Zone A tickets- Any combination
$125
PROGRAM
Prokofiev, Symphony No. 1 in D Major, op. 25 (“Classical Symphony”)
Saint-Saëns, Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 33
Featuring Ifetayo Ali-Landing, cello
Franck, Symphony in D Minor
Our Generous Sponsors
The Symphony is only able to perform these concerts with support from our community. While that support takes many forms, we are particularly grateful to our sponsors for this concert: 90.7 WAUS, The Mendel Center at Lake Michigan College, and WNIT. Additionally, this activity is supported by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Small Business of Note:
Stevensville Quinlan & Fabish Music Co., Stevensville
In 1959, fellow music educators George Quinlan and Tom Fabish joined forces and launched Quinlan & Fabish Music Company. The goal was to assist and guide Chicago area school music programs and students. Nearly 60 years later, the Quinlan family remains dedicated to honoring their father’s guiding principles and legacy. Now with eight stores throughout three Midwest states, Quinlan & Fabish remains focused on making it easier for students to participate in Band and Orchestra through outstanding service and community partnerships. As the leading family owned school music retailer in the United States, Quinlan & Fabish continues to earn national recognition for its unwavering support of school music.
Ifetayo Ali-Landing Biography
Ifetayo Ali-Landing, 15, began her musical studies on violin and switched to cello when she was 4 years old. Her teachers and coaches have been Lucinda Ali-Landing, Megan Lauterbach, and Martine Benmann at the Hyde Park Suzuki Institute, Tahirah Whittington, Oleksa Mycyk, and Hans Jørgen Jensen. She has also studied with teachers at summer music camps at Suzuki-Deerfield, Illinois Wesleyan, Sphinx Performance Academy, and Meadowmount.
Ifetayo is the Sphinx Competition Junior Division 1st Place Laureate for 2017 and the 2nd Place Laureate for 2016 and performed as soloist with the Sphinx Symphony Orchestra at Orchestra Hall in Detroit. She was one of the winners of the 2016 DePaul Concerto Festival for Young Performers and performed as soloist with the Festival’s Oistrakh Symphony Orchestra. Ifetayo was honored at the Friends of the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra Rising Stars Showcase at age 10, when she recorded the 1st movement of the Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto (No. 1). To date, this video has over 48,000 YouTube views and over 8 million Facebook views. She also recorded “Celtic Hymn” by James MacMillan who discovered the video and complimented Ifetayo via Twitter. Her most recent YouTube recordings are the 1st movement of the Shostakovich Cello Concerto (No. 1) and Pampeana No. 2 by Alberto Ginastera.
Ifetayo also enjoys singing, dancing, and playing piano.
About the Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestra
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