Bay Youth Orchestras of Virginia

Tuesday, November 21, 7:30 PM
Virginia Beach Pavilion Theater

On Tuesday November 21 at 7:30pm at the Virginia Beach Pavilion Theater the Bay Youth Orchestras of Virginia will open their concert season with a program of symphonic music titled “Ole’”.

The Concert Orchestra will perform several selections including Bizet's "Carmen Suite".

The second half will feature the Symphony Orchestra performing Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Capriccio Espanole”, Ravel’s “Bolero” and accompanying guest soloist, violinist Brendan Conway, in Sarasate’s “Zigueunerweisen”.

Conway is twelve years old and an eighth grader from McLean, Virginia. He was the winner of the 1999 Virginia String Teacher’s Association Solo Competition and has won numerous Concerto Competitions since he began studying the violin at the age of 5. He has studied at the Levine School of Music with Olga Khroulevitch, Patinka Kopek of the Manhattan School of Music, Itzhak Perlman and most recently with Ricardo Cyncynates.

Brendan performs extensively in the Washington area, as well as Boston and New York. He was selected by the Russian American Music Association to perform at the ”Young Virtuosos 2000” gala in Moscow in May, and returned to Russia in June for a series of performances at the Rachmaninoff International Festival. For the past two years, Brendan has performed at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center with Itzhak Perlman at the Mostly Mozart Festival. He has performed at Carnegie Recital Hall, the Kennedy Center, Embassy of Canada, Lincoln
Theater, and the New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall on a national radio program “From the Top”.

When not practicing or studying, Brendan love to play chess, soccer and golf.
Tickets are $5 for adults, $3 for children 18 and under. 618-1800 for information.