Frankford Preservation Foundation - May 25th Spring Concert

Sunday, May 25th Spring Concert – 3-4:30pm
Mount Vernon Music, performing Sorrow to Joy: Musical Messages.

Weather permitting there will be a reception behind the church after the concert.

PROGRAM

• Sally Beamish, Opus California for string quartet
• Svante Henryson, Off Pist for clarinet and cello
• Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Quintet in F sharp minor, op. 10 for clarinet and string quartet.
  
  Intermission
  
  
• Dmitri Shostakovich, String Quartet No. 8
• Jesse Montgomery, Strum for string quartet
  

Musicians
Ivan Petruzziello, Clarinet
Italian clarinetist Ivan Petruzziello currently serves as Assistant Principal Clarinetist of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and Principal Clarinetist of the Corpus Christi Symphony. Previously, Mr. Petruzziello served as Principal Clarinetist of the Cali Philharmonic and Valle Symphony in Colombia.

As a guest, Mr. Petruzziello has performed with orchestras around the world, including the Orchestra Internazionale d’Italia, the Latina Philharmonia, the Orquesta Filarmonica Nacional de Cuba, the Orquesta Filarmonica de Bogotá and the Orquesta Clásica of Colombia.
In North America, he has performed with the Irving, Plano, Las Colinas, San Angelo and Victoria Symphony Orchestras, among others.Festival appearances include those with the Sinfonietta di Roma, Euromediterraneo Festival, Tiroler Festspiele, Orquesta Sinfonica de Holguin and Orchestra Nuova Amadeus.

Mr. Petruzziello is a teaching artist in the B Sharp Music Program. Previously, he was on faculty in several institutions in Colombia, such as the Universidad Central, Universidad del Valle, Universidad EAFIT and the Antonio María Valencia Conservatory. He has presented masterclasses in Colombia, Cuba, Italy, Panama, Perú and the United States.Mr. Petruzziello earned a Bachelor of Music in Clarinet Performance under the tutelage of Francesco Belli, a Master of Music in Chamber Music and an Artist Dipoma Certificate from Texas Christian University. He resides in Fort Worth with his wife, cellist Laura Ospina and their children Tomas and Olivia.

Mark Miller, Violin
Besides serving as concertmaster of the East Texas Symphony Orchestra, violinist Mark Miller performs with the Fort Worth Symphony and other North Texas ensembles. He is a founder and president of Mount Vernon Music, a membership-based nonprofit bringing outstanding performances of chamber music to under-served audiences in East Texas.Mark also co-presented the chamber series “The Color of Sound” at Texas A&M University – Commerce, where he taught and performed as Artist-in-Residence with his wife, ETSO principal violist Ute Miller. Their duo recordings (Duo Renard) can be heard at the following links: Duos for Violin and Viola – Mozart and Brydern, The Deeper Magic with works by Martinu, Ted Hansen, Myron Fink and David Cleary, and duos by Fuchs, Kühnl, Martinu. Following studies at SUNY Purchase, Indiana University – Bloomington and Boston University, Mark studied with Jürgen Kussmaul in Germany, where he was assistant concertmaster in the Robert Schumann Kammerorchester of Düsseldorf and a member of the Orchester der Beethovenhalle Bonn.

Andres Bravo, Violin
Andres Bravo, originally from La Paz, Bolivia, has established his performance and teaching career in Dallas, Texas. As a performer, Andres has performed as a soloist with Bolivian and US orchestras and played alongside members of the Escher Quartet, Viano Quartet, Julius Quartet, Nicola Benedetti, Aaron Boyd, Philip Quint, Jaime Laredo, and Paul Nebauer. Andres has been appointed Concertmaster and principal second in orchestras at Interlachen, Eastern Music Festival, Texas Music Festival, Round Top Festival Hill, Bolivia Clasica, SHSU Symphony Orchestra, and Meadows Symphony Orchestra. He has also been a guest artist at the Erikson Center of the Arts for the past few years. Currently, he holds positions with East Texas Symphony Orchestra, Abilene Philharmonic Orchestra, McKinney Philharmonic, and he regularly plays with the Plano Symphony Orchestra and Irving Symphony Orchestra.

Ute Miller, Violin
Ute Miller is the principal violist of the East Texas Symphony, performs frequently with the Dallas and Fort Worth Symphony Orchestras, and has appeared as a soloist with the East Texas Symphony Orchestra. A founder and the Executive Director of Mount Vernon Music Association, Ute performs with her husband Mark in the violin-viola ensemble Duo Renard, which was brought to Texas with a National Endowment for the Arts Rural Residencies chamber music grant.

She also produced the Color of Sound series at Texas A&M Commerce, where she was Artist-in-Residence. Ute’s musical studies include the prestigious Konzertexamen diploma from the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf, and a year at Boston University as a student of Raphael Hillyer. In addition to playing with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, she served for seven years as assistant principal violist of the Gürzenich Orchester/Cologne Philharmonic, and for eight years as principal violist of the Dallas Opera Orchestra.

Laura Ospina, Cello
Laura Ospina completed her Master’s Degree at TCU with Dr. Jesus Castro Balbi. In 1999, she won the Ministry of Culture’s “Roberto Mantilla” national competition and had the opportunity to perform as a soloist with the Symphony Orchestra of Colombia. She has played as soloist with the foremost orchestras in Colombia and presented recitals in prestigious concert halls across Colombia.

Ospina has been a part of international festivals such as: FOSJA (Puerto Rico), International Piano Festival (Colombia), Carlos Prieto Cello Competition (Mexico), Chamber Music Festival (Cuba), Sabaudia Music Festival (Italy), Carpineto Romano (Italy), and National University Cello Festival (Colombia).

In 2009 she was invited to perform as a soloist with the Holguin Symphony in Cuba and during 2010 and 2011 she was a part of the International Chamber Orchestra in Rome. In 2013 Ospina performed as a soloist with the Las Colinas Symphony Orchestra and Latina Philharmonia in Italy. In 2016 she performed as a soloist with Fondi Chamber Orchestra in Italy.

In recent years Ospina has been active teaching. She is currently the Cello Professor at Mountain View College in Dallas, and Fort Worth Country Day. Previously, she has served as a cello professor at the Central University of Bogota and the University of Los Andes. Currently, she plays as the principal cello with the Garland Symphony, Odysseus Chamber Orchestra, and San Angelo Symphony. She also substitutes for Plano, Irving and Waco symphonies and Abilene Philharmonic.