Summit Symphony's 2012-13 Season Starts on October 21

Staff at The Alternative Press

Sunday, September 9, 2012 • 4:15pm

The Summit Symphony Orchestra will begin the 2012-2013 season with a concert on Sunday, October 21 at 3:00pm, at the Lawton C. Johnson Summit Middle School, located on the corner of Summit and Morris Aves. The concert will include music by Beethoven and Paganini. There will be a pre-concert lecture beginning at 2:15 for this performance.

Under the direction of conductor James Sadewhite, the Summit Symphony Orchestra will perform Overture to Prometheus and the Symphony No. 2 in D by Beethoven, and the Violin Concerto No. 1 in D by Paganini. The featured soloist for this piece will be violinist Christine Kwak, who returns to the orchestra after her last performance with us in March, 2011.

By the age of 11, Christine had already made her debut at Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, and Alice Tully Hall. At that tender age, she recorded the complete 24 Caprices by Paganini on a half-size violin, about which Dorothy DeLay has commented, “…one of the most astonishing accomplishments and truly remarkable; one of the best caprices I’ve ever heard.” Christine has been on the front pages of the New York Times, Daily News, Newsday, and Village Voice among many others. Her teacher, the late Dorothy DeLay, renowned for producing many of the world’s finest soloists, said Christine is “an extraordinary talent who will become one of the best of her generation”.

Born in New York City, of a musical family, she began piano studies at the age of 3, and violin at the age of 4. She was first discovered on CNN’s “About Child Prodigies” at age 5, playing piano and violin as well as several of her own piano compositions. She made her Carnegie Hall debut with The New York Pops Orchestra at the age of 11, and since then has appeared with the Westchester Symphony Orchestra; Queens Symphony; Brooklyn Philharmonic; Colonial Symphony; Bronx Symphony; and the Westfield Symphony, among others.

Christine graduated from Columbia University in 2007 with a B.A. degree in philosophy. She subsequently continued her studies at Juilliard, as a student of Stephen Clapp, where she received her M.M. degree in 2009. She has also been a pupil of the late Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School.

This concert is sponsored, in part, by the Summit Department of Community Programs.

Admission for this concert is free.

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