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Featuring AnnaMaria Mottola
Renowned Concert Pianist
“…exhilarating” – The Washington Post
“I don’t care how much you pay for a sound system, live music is a different experience. It resonates throughout your whole being, especially the big sound of a symphony orchestra. Pianist Anna Maria Mottola brought this music to me physically.” -Patricia Hunt, chaplain at Mary Baldwin College
“AnnaMaria Mottola, on piano… stole the show. With Mottola at the helm of a grand piano the piece seemed effortless, the notes effervescent and pure.” -Pasadena City College Courier, reporting on the 10.24.09 performance
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Dr. Peter Wilson is an engaging and multifaceted American violinist and conductor whose musicianship has been noted as “first-class” by The Washington Post. He was appointed Music Director of the Waynesboro Symphony Orchestra in 2007 and has conducted the National Symphony Orchestra as well as the National Gallery Orchestra.
Highly respected throughout the Nation’s Capital, he is an active soloist, chamber musician, concertmaster, recording artist, and performance clinician throughout the United States. He holds music degrees from Northwestern University and The Catholic University of America where he earned a Doctor of Musical Arts.
He is in great demand for his skills and versatility, commanding respect in genres ranging from classical and jazz to country, folk, and pop/rock. He has appeared as violin soloist with such renowned artists as Rosemary Clooney, Michael Feinstein, Renée Fleming, Bernadette Peters, Randy Travis, Chely Wright, and Trisha Yearwood and he has performed chamber music in concert with Ida Kavafian, Steven Tenenbom, and Peter Wiley. In 2001, he soloed at the personal invitation of former Defense Secretary William Cohen for a private book-signing event honoring Quincy Jones and the release of his autobiography “Q.” In addition, he has soloed in many unique venues including the Presidential Retreat at Camp David, the Vatican before Pope John Paul II, the American Embassy in Paris, and Chicago ’s Comiskey Park , where he performed his arrangement of The Star-Spangled Banner to open a Major League Baseball game.
In addition, he has performed with orchestras backing up such legends as Beyoncé, Ray Charles, Josh Groban, Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, Johnny Mathis, and Joni Mitchell, as well as Jimmy Page and Robert Plant in their Zeppelin UnLEDed World Tour. He has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra and the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra of Washington, DC, has served as a concertmaster for the Alexandria Symphony Orchestra, and recently appeared on HBO as a member of the orchestra that supported the “We Are One” concert at the Lincoln Memorial, which began the Inaugural week of President Barack Obama. Most recently, Dr. Wilson performed with Stevie Wonder in a 21-piece orchestra at the Library of Congress in the World Premiere of Mr. Wonder’s “Sketches of a Life.”
The WSO was founded in 1996 as the Waynesboro Community Orchestra. In its debut concert, 23 musicians performed works by Lully, Bach and Haydn. Over the past decade the ensemble has grown significantly, having over doubled its core size and often tripling the original personnel for some repertoire, which now includes works by Beethoven, Copland, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Schubert, and Wagner. The ensemble has consistently programmed more challenging literature with each season, growing a repertoire that includes works from all centuries of the classical tradition. Highlights from recent seasons include performances of Beethoven’s 5th and 6th Symphonies as well as Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” and Copland’s “Lincoln Portrait.” The WSO has welcomed members from many communities outside Waynesboro, including Staunton, Harrisonburg, Charlottesville, and Richmond, while also performing concerts in Staunton in partnership with Mary Baldwin College as well as fundraising events in Charlottesville. In addition, the orchestra regularly collaborates with professional soloists while remaining deeply committed to the WSO String School, which provides after school lessons to young string players.
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PROGRAM:
ROSKOTT: Overture to a Summer Night
BARBER: Adagio for Strings
COPLAND: Appalachian Spring
GERSHWIN: Rhapsody in Blue
EVENT DETAILS:
Pre-Concert Reception begins at 6:30 p.m.: Orchestra Level tickets include hors d’oeuvres and cash bar. Balcony Level seats include hors d’oeuvres, an open bar and a private reception following the concert with Dr. Wilson, Ms. Mottola, and Concertmaster Susan Black.
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Click here for a YouTube video of Dr. Wilson performing with the Waynesboro Symphony Orchestra
The Waynesboro Symphony Orchestra is a non-profit arts organization that features a unique performance ensemble made up of professional, amateur, retired and student musicians. Serving the Waynesboro, Staunton, Charlottesville, Nelson County, and greater Shenandoah Valley communities, the WSO seeks to provide local, dedicated instrumentalists with opportunities to collaborate and share in the joy of music-making while adding cultural vitality to the region.
The WSO is a 501(c)(3) organization. This allows the orchestra to accept tax-deductible contributions.
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