Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra Presents May Chamber Concerts

Join the Ann Arbor Symphony at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Ann Arbor on Monday, May 1 at 1:30 pm. This hour-long concert features the unique four-voice cello choir from the studio of renown U-M cellist, Richard Aaron. The quintet will expand the choir to include special songs sung to a cello accompaniment. The program will include: Tchaikovsky's Andante Cantabile from String Quartet No.1 ; selections from Chiquilin de Bachin, Romantico Idilio, Chau Paris by Astor Piazzolla; Schubert's Gute Nacht from Winterreise; Mahler's Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen; Strauss' Morgen; and new composter Victor Huls' Andante for Cello Trio.

Special Guests Include:
? Victor Minke Huls, cello and piano
? Caroline Kim, cello
? Richard Narroway, cello and piano
? Nathaniel Pierce, cello and voice

Victor Minke Huls

Victor Minke Hulls is a cellist, conductor, countertenor and pianist who comes from a Floridian family of musicians. A recent dual-Masters graduate from the University of Michigan, Victor studied cello performance with Richard Aaron and orchestral conducting with Kenneth Kiesler. For three years he served as Music Director and conductor of the Ann Arbor Camerata, a local chamber orchestra of University of Michigan students and professionals. With this group he organized a total of 16 orchestral performances, dozens of outreach events, and multiple recording sessions of new works, including a CD project with Dr. Nancy Ambrose King titled "IllumiNation: New American Concertos for Oboe," to be released by Equilibrium Records with worldwide distribution. In 2015, Victor was featured cello soloist in the NAXOS recording project led by David Alan Miller at the National Orchestral Institute. Last summer, Victor was associate principal cellist of the Aspen Chamber Symphony and is excited to return as an AACA cello fellow. In June, Victor will be Student Guest Conductor for the OperaMaya festival in México, and teach at Prelude Chamber Music Camp in his home city of Jacksonville, Florida. Victor is currently a semi-finalist with the New World Symphony

Caroline Kim

Korean Canadian cellist, Caroline Kim, is currently a doctoral student at University of Michigan and a member of the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra. She is a recent graduate of the Accelerated BM/MM program at the Juilliard School where she was the recipient of the Irene Land Scholarship, the Genevieve Kniese Cahudhuri Cello Scholarship, and the Betty & Daniel Bloomfield Fund Scholarship.

Caroline has given performances across the United States and Canada in many acknowledged venues such as Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall. Caroline is also the winner of the graduate concerto competition at University of Michigan 2017. She has given recitals in Calgary, Alberta, New York City, and Aspen, Colorado. As a student at the Juilliard School, she had been selected as a member of the pool of principal cellists since 2012.

During the summers, she attended Music Academy of the West in 2012, and the Aspen Music Festival in 2013, 2014, and 2015. In winter of 2014, she was invited to be the principal cellist of the New York String Orchestra Seminar. This summer, she has been invited as faculty member at Center Stage Strings in Michigan. The Alberta Foundation for the Arts has funded grants for Caroline for her music and studies since 2008.

Richard Narroway

Recognized for his stylistic versatility and wide-ranging musical interests, Australian cellist Richard Narroway has proven himself to be equally at home with repertoire both new and old. He has appeared as a soloist with the Grand Rapids Symphony and HanZhou Philharmonic Orchestra, and in recital on Chicago's WFMT Dame Myra Hess Series and Symphony Center's Keys to the City Piano Festival. He has given performances in Australia, China, Germany, Canada and the United States, in prestigious venues such as the Kennedy Center, Chicago Symphony Center, Preston Bradley Hall, Pick-Staiger Concert Hall and the Sydney Opera House.

Nathaniel Pierce

Nathaniel Pierce, cellist and tenor, is a highly active chamber musician. He is a Founder and Co-Artistic Director of the Anchorage Chamber Music festival, and Co-Education Director at the Innsbrook Institute. Pierce is a founding member of the Koinonia Piano Trio which has toured in Europe and in the States. They were Excel fellows at the University of Michigan. In 2013, he performed as a soloist at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. He has also been a featured soloist with the Toledo, Dexter, Dearborn, Albany, Ann Arbor and Birmingham-Bloomfield Symphonies, as well as the University of Michigan and Indiana University symphonies.

Tickets are $10 and are available online at a2so.com or at the door. General seating at our chamber concert series is a comfortable cabaret style. Guests will enjoy light refreshments before and during the concert.

The JCC of Greater Ann Arbor is located at 2935 Birch Hollow Drive Ann Arbor, MI 48108 (Stone School Road, North of 1-94 bridge). Free parking, additional street parking and parking across the street at Spruce Knob Apartments is available.

The A2 SO is a premier regional orchestra offering live symphonic music to over 80,000 patrons of all ages in venues ranging from the historic Michigan Theater and Hill Auditorium as well as schools, daycares, libraries, farmers markets, and various senior citizen centers in the five-county area. For tickets visit a2so.com, email tickets@a2so.com or call (734) 994-4801. Student, Senior, and Group discounts are available.

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