Big Finish 65th season ends with 'Dance!'
The Butler County Symphony Orchestra is celebrating its final concert of the 65th season with “Dance!” April 12th.
The evening of classics by Tchaikovsky, Kodaly and Beethoven will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Butler Intermediate High School auditorium.
The guest soloist will be violin virtuoso Adé Williams. Adé, 15, is the first William Warfield scholarship recipient and a member of the Music Institute of Chicago’s Academy program where she studies violin.
She is the first place laureate of the junior division of the 2012 Sphinx competition. She is also a first place winner of the 2011 DePaul Concerto Festival for Young Performers, first place and best interpretation winner of Korean music in the 2010 senior and 2009 junior divisions of the Sejong Cultural Society’s music competition, and winner in various other competitions beginning with first place in the Walgreen’s National Concerto competition in 2005.
Named Artist-in-Residence with the Waukegan Symphony Orchestra in 2012, Adé in 2011 took a 14-city tour with the Sphinx Virtuosi and did solos in Switzerland and Bermuda.
In 2004, Adé founded SugarStrings with her cousins Mira and Ayanna, and the trio has been featured on television and in concert.
At the April 12 concert, the symphony also will welcome Young Musicians of Note, who are Butler County school students in 4th through 6th grades who were nominated by their teachers for musical aptitude.
Music director Matthew Kraemer will present a pre-concert lecture at 6:30 p.m. The lecture will include fine points of the music to be performed.
Concert tickets are $23; student tickets are $5.50.
Tickets are available at the symphony office, 259 S. Main St., or by calling 724-283-1402. They can also be purchased at www.ShowClix.com.
