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Concert Features Cellist

Thu, Nov 04, 2010

Concert Features Cellist

For the second concert of the 2010-2011 orchestral season, the Colgate University Orchestra, Marietta Cheng, conductor, will perform Tchaikovsky! on Sunday, Nov. 14 at 3:30 p.m. in the Colgate Memorial Chapel.

A highlight of the program will be: Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E Minor featuring Sophie Shao, cellist and winner of an Avery Fischer Career Grant. Also on the program will be: Berlioz’s Overture to Les Francs-Juges

At the age of nineteen, cellist Sophie Shao received the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant, and has since performed throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia.

A native of Houston, Shao began playing the cello at age 6. When she was 13 she enrolled at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.  

This concert is free and all are most welcome.

For more information, call the Colgate Music Department at 228-7642.

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