Adelphi Orchestra's New York City Concert Series to Continue at Merkin Concert Hall, 6/9

Adelphi Orchestra's New York City Concert Series continues with the second of two concerts, Thursday June 9th at Merkin Concert Hall the Kaufman Music Center. "Celebrating a Grand Legacy" will feature the Adelphi Orchestra and guest violin soloist Christine Kwak Kim, in Tchaikovsky's Concerto for Violin in D Major, with Mendelssohn's Overture to the Hebrides and Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C Minor under the baton of conductor and Artistic Advisor Jason C. Tramm.

Featured soloist Christine Kwak first came to public spotlight at the age of six, when she performed the Kabalevsky violin concerto with The Queens Chamber Symphony. She subsequently performed the concerti of Vivaldi, Bach, and Mozart. She has appeared a number of times with the orchestras of the Charles Ives Festival Orchestra in Connecticut; The Yonkers Philharmonic; The Little Orchestra Society at Alice Tully Hall; and Orchestra New England at Charles Ives Center. At the age of 9, Christine made her Lincoln Center debut at the Avery Fisher Hall with American Symphony Orchestra performing "Carmen Fantasy", a program telecast nationwide for Korean Television. The critics raved about the performance and wrote "at the tender age of nine, Christine is a complete violinist who would make any violinist envious." She was featured as "the most promising talent of the next generation" by Strad magazine. Born in New York City, of a musical family, she began piano studies at the age of 3, and violin at the age of 4. First discovered on CNN's "About Child Prodigies" at age 5, Christine not only played violin but piano as well as several of her own piano compositions. Both Ms. Kwak and a conductor Jason Tramm (who succeeded Silipigni as Artistic Director and principal conductor of the New Jersey State Opera) are protégés of the late Maestro Alfredo Silipigni who remarked of Christine "She is a mature artist and musically intelligent... her accomplishments as a violinist are some of the most brilliant I have ever witnessed."

The season finale concert concludes the Adelphi Orchestra's 62nd year of "Music for All" and celebrates its community of stakeholders: the exemplary musicians, individuals and artistic collaborators who have inspired and contributed to Adelphi Orchestra's distinguished legacy as Northern New Jersey's longest performing orchestra.

CELEBRATING A GRAND LEGACY

Thursday, June 9, 2016 from 7:30 PM

Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Music Center

129 West 67th Street, New York, NY 10036

TICKETS: www.eventbrite.com/e/adelphi-orchestra-gala-celebrating-a-grand-legacy-tickets-20906749651

Premium Seats $35-$45; Student/Senior $25

VIP Seats - $75 Includes reception following concert

PHOTO BY JOHN GLADITSCH