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HSO YOUTH CONCERTO WINNER |
The
winner of HSO’s 2011 Youth Concerto
Auditions is Kenzey Ostrowski, a clarinetist
and senior at Brainerd High School.
She performed Weber’s virtuosic
Concertino for Clarinet with Heartland
Symphony at their Spring concerts
on April 2nd in Brainerd and April
3rd in Little Falls.
Every other year the Heartland Symphony
auditions, selects and presents one
or two young artists from its central
Minnesota service area to perform
solos with the orchestra as a way
to nurture their musical growth and
performance skills. The selected winners
are presented as soloists in concert
with the HSO in both Brainerd and
Little Falls, they receive a recording
of their performance, and they are
each awarded a $150 scholarship to
further their musical education. For
information about this program call
the HSO at 1-800-826-1997.
This program is supported by The
Laura Jane Musser Fund and Five Wings
Arts Council. It is also funded, in
part, by the Minnesota arts and cultural
heritage fund as appropriated by the
Minnesota State Legislature with money
from the vote of the people of Minnesota
on November 4, 2008.
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Kenzey
is the daughter of Sara Ahlers and Todd
Ostrowski. She recently graduated from
Brainerd High School, where she played
in the BHS Symphonic Band under director
Chris Fogderud and in the BHS Chamber
Orchestra under Grant Wilcox. She credits
her teachers for sparking her interest
in music, especially Mr. Tom Frid who
encouraged her to audition for 9th grade
honor band. Kenzey has also studied
clarinet privately for two years with
Dr. Leigh Wakefield at Concordia College
and now plans to pursue a career in
music. Her solo performance with the
HSO in April was Carl Maria von Weber’s
Concertino for Clarinet in E-flat Major,
Op. 26.
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Ostrowski
Brainerd, MN |
HSO's next Youth Auditions will be in January
2013.
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U E S T A R T I S T S
At
least once each season Heartland Symphony
engages a professional guest artist to perform
with the orchestra in order to present works
that feature a virtuosic solo instrument or
voice or to add vibrant new sounds to our
usual orchestration. This practice also provides
opportunities for HSO players to learn from
and perform with highly trained musicians.
On occasion, a guest conductor may be sought
as well, either to present a special type
of music or to fill in for our regular conductor
while on leave. These artists often present
HSO-sponsored music education clinics in local
schools, while they are in the area.
It
is also common practice for the HSO to partner
with musical groups and sometimes soloists
from the region to perform together in concert.
For example, the Central Lakes College Choir,
The Legacy Chorale, the Trinity Lutheran Church
Handbell Choir, the Brainerd High School A
cappella Choir, and the St. John’s Boys’ Choir
have all performed with the HSO in recent
years.
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R T I S T S I N T H E S
C H O O L S
HSO’s own musical
director/conductor and often times our special
guest artists are made available for presentation
of hands-on music education workshops in local
schools, while they are visiting the area.
These music clinics are presented free to
the schools and the students who attend them,
but the artist’s time and travel expenses
are paid by the HSO through special grant
funding. Students who attend the clinics
are often presented with family discount passes
to attend the upcoming concert performance
of the artist they have spent time with.
Last season, over 600 young people participated.
A visit to
your school can be arranged by your administrator
or music educator. Inquiries about your public
or private school participating in this program
should be directed to HSO at info@heartlandsymphony.org
or 1-800-826-1997.
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S C H O O L M A T C H I N G T
I C K E T P R O G R A M
Thanks
to grant funding to the HSO, approximately
60 family tickets per concert (That’s 180
for the season!) are made available to area
school music educators to distribute to deserving
students as they see fit. This is a matching
program where the participating school receives
3 free family passes for every season family
ticket purchased by the school, Parent-Teacher
Association, faculty, staff, volunteer or
donor. Since this program has been active
in the Brainerd Lakes area, literally hundreds
of elementary and middle school age kids and
their families have been to their very first
ever live orchestral concert. These families,
many of them low-income, have received a new,
enjoyable cultural experience and an appreciation
for classical music they would never have
found otherwise.
These tickets
can be made available to any school district
in HSO’s service area upon request and will
be distributed each season on a first come
first served basis. For more information
or to order School Matching Tickets for your
school, call 1-800-826-1997.
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Heartland Symphony programs are generously supported
by The Laura Jane Musser Fund and Five
Wings Arts Council. These activities
are also funded, in part, by the Minnesota
arts and cultural heritage fund as appropriated
by the Minnesota State Legislature with
money from the vote of the people of
Minnesota on November 4, 2008.
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