October 21-22
Saturday | 10.22.16 | 8:00 PM
October's concert series at the DiMenna Center opens with Athena Adamopoulos's Passage, a moving piece about the Syrian refugee crisis. Christine Todd is our featured soloist on Claude Debussy's Première rhapsodie for Clarinet & Orchestra on Friday and Emily DiAngelo performs Jean Françaix's L'horloge de Flore with the orchestra on Saturday. Both concerts conclude with Mahler's Fourth Symphony featuring soprano Cree Carrico.
Conducted by Matthew Aubin and Mark Seto
Tickets available now on Eventbrite
Concerts will be held at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, 450 West 37th Street
Photo by Mustafa Bader
Program
Featured Artists
Praised by Opera News for her “gleaming tone,” soprano Cree Carrico is an emerging singing actress quickly gaining recognition as an interpreter of 20th and 21st century works. This season, Cree will perform the role of Amour in Orphée et Eurydice and Sagredo/Eos in Galileo Galilei with De Moines Metro Opera, the role of Gilda in Rigoletto with Syracuse Opera, and a double bill as Williamson Girl/Soprano in Difficulty of Crossing a Field/Little Match Girl Passion with Portland Opera.
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Emily DiAngelo played with The Chelsea Symphony from 2007-2012 and is thrilled to be returning this year as a soloist. She is currently on the oboe faculty at Cornell University, Hamilton College, and the Luzerne Music Center, and is a candidate for the Doctor Of Musical Arts degree at Manhattan School of Music. Emily has performed with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Symphoria, Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, The West Point Army Band, Tri-Cities Opera, Rochester Chamber Orchestra, and more. She has recorded …
Clarinetist Christine Todd began performing with The Chelsea Symphony in 2008. A CPA, Christine holds an MBA from Columbia University and BA/BS degrees in German and accounting from Binghamton University. Since completing her studies and pursuing her professional career in New York (formerly the Vice President and CFO of The Juilliard School, and now CFO of the Kaufman Music Center), Christine has performed with many area musical organizations in addition to The Chelsea Symphony, including the New York Repertory Orchestra, …
Conductor
A leader in the 21st century orchestral landscape, Dr. Matthew Aubin is constantly reaching new audiences through innovative performance formats and creative initiatives both on and off the podium.
The 2022-23 season kicks off Dr. Aubin’s inaugural year as Music Director of the Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestra. Additionally, he is Music Director of the Jackson Symphony Orchestra and serves as Artistic Director of The Chelsea Symphony. In his role at TCS, he has led highly visible collaborations with partners such …
Mark Seto leads a wide-ranging musical life as a conductor, scholar, teacher, and violinist. He is Artistic Director and Conductor of The Chelsea Symphony in New York City, and Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Music at Brown University, where he directs the Brown University Orchestra and teaches courses in music history, theory, and conducting. Highlights of his 2023-24 season include performances with violinist Itzhak Perlman, violinist Randall Goosby, and clarinetist Anthony McGill, and the inauguration of The …