Sat 3/16 @ 7:30PM
The featured performer at BlueWater Chamber Orchestra’s next concert is familiar to area classic music fans. Harpist Yolanda Kondonassis has based her international career in northeast Ohio where she heads the harp departments at Oberlin Conservatory and the Cleveland Institute of Music. She’s performed with orchestras across North America, Asia and Europe, and released nearly two dozen albums. She’s also a huge environmental activist.
Kondonassis will perform Maurice Ravel’s Introduction and Allegro, as present the world premiere of Honolulu-based young composer Takuma Itoh’s Kohola Sings, which honors the humpback whale. Like Jondonassis’ much of Itoh’s music is inspired by the natural world, and he previously contributed to her Five Minutes for Earth compilation.
The program also features Charles Gounod’s Petite Symphonie for Winds by Gounod and selections from Gabriel Fauré’s Incidental Music to Pelléas et Mélisande with soprano Amanda Powell on the Chanson de Mélisande. The ensemble’s artistic director Daniel Meyer conducts the concert which takes place at the Church of the Covenant in University Circle. Tickets are “pay what you wish.” Get them here.
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