Bellevue Student and Cellist Kristy Park to Perform with Sammamish Symphony

Thursday, June 8, 2017 at 7:30 pm

Meydenbauer Theatre

Sunday, June 11, 2017 at 2:00 pm

Eastlake Performing Arts Center

Bellevue student and talented cellist Kristy Park, winner of the Sammamish Symphony's 2017 Youth Concerto Competition, joins the Sammamish Symphony Orchestra for two performances of Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto. Miss Park, 15, is a sophomore at Newport High School in Bellevue. She began cello studies at age 10 with Leslie Marckx. Since then Kristy has received numerous honors such as receiving first in her PAFE division multiple years in the concerto and solo divisions, as well as being a finalist in the Seattle Young Artists Music Festival for two years.

Her recent accomplishments include placing first in the 2016 Washington Music Educators Association State Solo Contest. In November 2016 she performed the Elgar Cello Concerto with the Seattle Youth Symphony in Benaroya Hall after winning their concerto competition. Kristy has served as principal cellist in the Seattle Youth Symphony and in the NAFME All-Northwest orchestra. This past summer, she attended the Meadowmount School of Music, where she studied with Jonathan Koh. Kristy has had the honor to play for Ronald Leonard, Hans Jørgen Jensen, Natasha Brofsky, and Alison Wells, and has studied chamber music with the Tokyo string quartet. Kristy plays on an R. Masens cello made in Lettonia, Latvia c. 1969, generously loaned to her by the Carlsen Cello Foundation.

What you will hear

Written at the time when his deafness was first becoming apparent, Beethoven's Symphony No. 2 is nonetheless a joyous and festive work that bespeaks its composer's indomitable spirit. The concert concludes with three of America's most treasured musical voices: Leroy Anderson, the master of light symphonic music, Aaron Copland, "the dean of American composers", and John Philip Sousa, the justly-crowned and never-deposed "March King." Kristy Park, winner of the Sammamish Symphony’s 2017 Youth Concerto Competition, joins the Symphony for a performance of Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto.

For tickets and more information visit: http://www.sammamishsymphony.org