The Chattanooga Symphony and Opera and the CSO Youth Orchestras present an event, featuring not only two of the youth orchestras in concert (Symphony and Philharmonic), but also the CSO Orchestra and the CSOYO Symphony combined. This event gives CSOYO students a chance to learn more about their craft by working alongside the CSO musicians, and gives the
audience a chance to hear the huge sound of 150 musicians together on the Tivoli stage.
The CSO-CSOYO Side-By-Side Concert will be held on Sunday, Feb. 26 at 3 p.m. at Tivoli Theatre with Sandy Morris, conductor, CSOYO Philharmonic; Gary Wilkes, conductor, CSOYO Symphony; and Kayoko Dan, conductor, CSO Orchestra
In addition to providing the up-and-coming CSOYO musicians the chance to play alongside professional musicians, the program also features the top two winners of the 2016 CSOYO Concerto Competition, Juliette Blais and Hayden Daniel, in performances of their winning pieces with the CSO Orchestra.
'Please join us for a delightful afternoon of works by Bizet, Gershwin, Saint-Saëns, Dvorák, and Von Suppé," officials said.
Admission is $15 for adults and $7 for children and students. Tickets are available online at
www.chattanoogasymphony.org and through the CSO Office 423-267-8583. Doors open at 2 p.m. Call 423-267-9011 for more information.
Program:
CSOYO Philharmonic BIZET L’Arlésienne Suite No. 2
CSOYO Symphony GERSHWIN Selections from Porgy & Bess
CSO Orchestra SAINT-SAËNS Concerto No. 1 in A Minor for Violoncello & Orchestra Juliette Blais, soloist KABALEVSKY Concerto No. 1 for Violin & Orchestra, op. 48, 1st movement Hayden Daniel, soloist
CSO Orchestra/CSOYO Symphony DVORÁK Slavonic Dances, Op. 72, no. 7 VON SUPPÉ Overture to Dichter und Bauer (Poet and Peasant)
Soloist Reviews:
Juliette Blais has been the principal cellist of the CSO Youth Orchestra’s Symphony orchestra
under Gary Wilkes since 2013. She also participated in the Philharmonic Orchestra under Sandy Morris for two years and was a student manager during that time. Her private instructor is currently Dr. Wesley Baldwin at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, but previously she studied with Jenny Wilkes Hibbard for several years.
Juliette has played cello since 2010, and has attended summer music camps including
Wintergreen Summer Music Festival in Virginia, Meadowmount School of Music in New York, and the Brevard Music Institute in North Carolina. She was the recipient of two CSOYO scholarships last spring, and this year won her first competition with the CSO Youth Orchestras.
In her free time, Juliette is a part of an informal youth chamber group comprised of members
from three Chattanooga high schools. They rehearse frequently and perform at several private locations, but they especially enjoy busking on the Walnut Street Bridge, a center of city life in Chattanooga.
Juliette currently attends Collegiate High at Chattanooga State Community College where she is enrolled in dual enrollment classes while pursuing her high school diploma. Juliette plans to pursue music with a double major in educational policy at college.
Sixteen-year-old Hayden Daniel has studied the violin since he was seven years old. He
currently studies under Dr. Josh Holritz, associate concertmaster of the CSO and CSOYO alum.
He is a junior at the Chattanooga School for the Arts and Sciences and has the privilege of playing in the Orchestra there under the direction of Mr. Gary Wilkes. He has been a member of the CSOYO for six seasons and a member of the Chattanooga Boys Choir for eight years.
This past summer, Hayden attended The Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts and has performed at several notable venues, including the Duke University Chapel and Emory University’s Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.