We are excited to begin our 2013-2014 season! We are planning five incredible concerts and hope you can join us! Here is a preview of what to expect this season, including some detailed information about our upcoming concert:
Concertos with Friends II
featuring soloists from K&S Conservatory of Music in Woodbury
5:00 p.m., Sunday, October 27, 2013
Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church, Afton
$10 Adults, $6 Students & Seniors, Children 13 and younger admitted free
Meet the musicians! Coffee and cookie reception to follow the concert.
(see more info below)
Holiday Extravaganza
with Woodbury Community Theatre and Woodbury Dance Center
Friday-Sunday, December 13-15, 2013
Loft Stage at East Ridge High School, Woodbury
Fifth annual Side-by-Side concert
with high school orchestra students from School District 833
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Loft Stage at East Ridge High School, Woodbury
Home Cookin’ Concert
featuring members of our orchestra as soloists and in chamber ensembles
Sunday, March 9, 2014
Loft Stage at East Ridge High School, Woodbury
Joint concert with Trinity Lutheran Church choir in Stillwater
Sunday, May 4, 2014
Trinity Lutheran Church, Stillwater
performing Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang (Hymn of Praise)
For our season opener, we are partnering with Woodbury's K&S Conservatory of Music to present an informal, family-friendly program, Concertos with Friends II.
With its commitment to collaborate with and feature artists in its neighboring communities for innovative programs, Concertos with Friends II will include music students Kathleen Kullman performing movements from Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto in A Major and Garrett Verhoeven performing Telemann’s Oboe Concerto in F minor. Music faculty Chaz Fautch will perform a movement from Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1, Greg Kajiwara will perform Weber’s Concertino for Clarinet, Corissa Leonard singing Mozart’s “Deh vieni, non tardar” from The Marriage of Figaro. EMSO members Joyce Bjorkland and Janet Lange will perform a movement from Danzi’s Concertino for Clarinet and Bassoon.
Tickets, available at the door, are $10 for adults, $6 for students and seniors. Children 13 and younger are free. A coffee and cookie reception will be held following the performance.
EMSO is a community orchestra based in Woodbury, led by music director and conductor Dr. Elizabeth Prielozny Barnes and concertmaster Michal Sobieski (retired violinist from the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra). The orchestra performs five concerts per season in the Twin Cities east metropolitan area, in collaboration with local artists and organizations. For more information go to our website or Facebook page.
This is the 3rd season that EMSO has presented a concerto concert featuring local music students and faculty. In 2011 we featured piano students from the Oakdale studio of Elena Piastro in a Piano Extravaganza, while 2012’s first Concertos with Friends program featured South Washington County High Schools’ orchestra teacher Kelly Karow, EMSO’s concertmaster Mike Sobieski and EMSO music director Elizabeth P. Barnes as soloists.
K&S Conservatory of Music has been an important part of the music life in Woodbury providing quality music education since 1990.
