The University at Albany Department of Music is pleased to present this
season’s second concert by the University Symphony Orchestra on Sunday, March 16, 2008 at 7pm in the Main Theatre of the Performing
Arts Center on the uptown campus. Directed by faculty member Brett Wery, the program
will include Beethoven’s Turkish March
from “The Ruins of Athens”, Ambroise Thomas’s Gavotte from “Mignon,” Mozart’s Paris
Symphony and Aaron Copland’s Quiet
City with featured artists Geoffrey Stein (English horn) and Michael
Dietlein (trumpet).
With an M.A. from the University of Denver and a B.Mus.
Degree from the North Carolina School of the Arts, Brett Wery
is also a professor at Schenectady County Community College and conducts the
SCCC Wind Ensemble and instructs in woodwind applied studies, chamber music,
music theory and conducting. Currently
also the Principal Conductor of the Capital Region Wind Ensemble, Wery is the
former conductor of the Saratoga Springs Youth Orchestra Wind Ensemble. He performs regularly with the Empire State
Jazz Orchestra and has performed with Albany,
Catskill, Berkshire, Schenectady,
Utica and Vermont Symphonies and
St. Cecilia Chamber Orchestra. He
records with the Empire State Jazz Orchestra, the Albany Symphony and the Dogs
of Desire. His musical theatre experience
includes numerous national tours including Annie and 42nd
Street; performances as a member of the
Westchester Broadway Theatre Orchestra and performances with Rosemary Clooney,
Tommy Tune and Mitzi Gaynor.
Wery
will direct the University Symphony Orchestra in one more performance this
season on May 4.
Tickets are $6 for the general
public and $3 for students and may be purchased through the Performing Arts
Center Box Office. For further information,
contact the Box Office at (518) 442-3997 or visit the Performing Arts Center
website at www.albany.edu/pac.
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