Leticia Muñoz Moreno violin

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


Lancaster Symphony Orchestra Will Welcome Two Masters and a Rising International Violinist to Lancaster April 9-11, 2010.

LANCASTER, PA -- “The Masterworks of Shostakovich & Lalo” will be joined by Beethoven and exciting, young Spanish violinist Leticia Muñoz Moreno for a weekend of familiar favorites April 9, 10 and 11, 2010, at the Fulton Opera House. Shostakovich’s joyous yet intrinsically musical Symphony No. 9 and Lalo’s familiar and colorful Symphonie espagnole will be featured at the four performances, along with Beethoven’s dramatic “Leonore” Overture No. 3. 
Leticia Muñoz Moreno will be the weekend’s featured guest soloist in Lalo’s tribute to her homeland’s legendary violinist, Pablo de Sarasate.

Moreno will be coming to Lancaster with a gold medal from the prestigious Ragusa Ibla International Music Competition. The rising young musician were discovered in Italy by Lancaster Symphony Orchestra’s Maestro Stephen Gunzenhauser when he was a distinguished judge of the competition in July 2008.

Violinist Leticia Muñoz Moreno made her Carnegie Hall debut in December 2008. Already she has appeared on concert stages around the world. From Austria, England, Italy, Poland and Russia to Mexico and South America, she has dazzled concertgoers with her virtuosity.

Wrote Madrid’s La Razón of Moreno, she was “charming in her sonorous quality, vibrant in her communicative ability, but very serious in her musical substance.” Declared the Spanish newspaper, Leticia Muñoz Moreno is “already a violinist of heights.”

Moreno began her musical education at the tender age of three. Learning piano and violin with the Suzuki method, she gave her first public recital at the age of five. For six years she studied with Zakhar Bron at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía and in Germany at Köln Musikhochschule. Later she learned under the tutelage of Maxim Vengerov in Saarbrücken and David Takeno at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. There she received the Guildhall School’s highest score ever for her final recital. Since 1996, she has amassed a dozen international awards, including the Regusa Ibla gold medal.

“The Masterworks of Shostakovich & Lalo” concerts will be performed by the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra at the historic Fulton Opera House at 12 North Prince Street in Downtown Lancaster. Ample parking is available adjacent to the Fulton and at the Prince Street garage.

Friday’s opening night performance will begin at 8 pm. Saturday concerts commence
at 3 pm and 8 pm. Sunday night concerts will be performed at 7:30 pm.

Free “Meet the Music” pre-concert talks are held an hour before each performance at the Fulton. A “Meet the Musicians” reception will follow every Friday night concert in the Fulton lobby. Complimentary hors d’oeuvres will be served, and a cash bar will be open.

Tickets to the April 9-11 concert weekend may be reserved by calling the Fulton box office at (717) 397-7425 or visiting lancastersymphony.org online. Single ticket prices
range from $25 to $62. Special discounts are offered to groups of 10 or more concertgoers except Sunday evening concerts.

Underwriting the Lancaster Symphony’s 2009-2010 season will be season sponsors
Willow Valley Retirement Communities and Willow Valley Associates. Classic Concert
Series sponsors are Clermont Wealth Strategies at Fulton Bank, Electron Energy Corp.,
Elizabethtown College, Franklin & Marshall College, Millersville University and TriStarr Staffing. Open Rehearsal sponsor is Highmark Blue Shield, and Sound Discovery sponsor is Lancaster General Health. First Look Hospitality sponsor is Carr’s Restaurant; Encore Hospitality sponsor is FENZ Restaurant. Education sponsor is the Women’s Symphony Association. Ticket sponsor Wiley’s Pharmacy will also be helping support the season.

The 2009-2010 “Only in Lancaster” season marks Maestro Stephen Gunzenhauser’s
29th year as the creative leader of the Symphony. He took the Symphony’s baton in
1980. The Grammy-nominated musician also led the Delaware Symphony for 23 years.

In 2004, he served as artistic advisor and principal conductor for the Bogota
Philharmonic Orchestra. He maintains a regular guest-conducting schedule in Bogota
and with symphony orchestras all over the world. In addition to judging the Ragusa Ibla competition, he also judged the fourth annual Piano Competition in Kazakhstan. The prolific conductor has made 66 recordings and sold over 2 million CDs.

Now in its 62nd season, the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra has evolved from a community orchestra into an organization of professional musicians serving 52,000 music enthusiasts with 24 yearly subscription concerts at the Fulton, two Sounds of the Season concerts at Franklin & Marshall College, a New Year’s Eve gala celebration at American Music Theatre and a free, outdoor community patriotic concert in Downtown Lancaster.

The Lancaster Symphony Orchestra is a 75-member, professional orchestra that was founded in 1947 by Frederick S. Klein and John H. Peifer, Jr. from Franklin & Marshall College.

The orchestra is a non-profit organization, governed by a board of 30 community
volunteers and managed by a professional staff under the direction of president and chief executive officer M. Scott Robinson. Ticket sales revenues and donations from
hundreds of corporate and private benefactors underwrite the Symphony’s invaluable contribution to the quality of life in south central Pennsylvania.

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