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RENO,
Nev.
(January 2007) – Nineteen-year-old pianist Rachel Naomi Kudo
of
In
2004, Kudo was named a Davidson Fellow Laureate and received a $50,000
scholarship from the Davidson Institute for Talent Development (www.DavidsonGifted.org)
– a national non-profit foundation based in
Currently
attending The Juilliard School, Kudo has been playing concertos and
concertinas on the piano since she was 4 years old. A fluent speaker of
Japanese, Korean and English, Kudo realized early that her music had the
ability to touch people in ways words could not. At the age of 16, she
performed Tchaikovsky's Concerto
No.1 with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and made her debut with
the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Orchestra Hall playing Falla's
Nights in the Gardens of Spain. Kudo
was the only American finalist at the 15th International Frederick Chopin
Piano Competition held in
The January concerts will celebrate the Martin Luther King weekend with Scherzo from Afro-American Symphony, a piece written by William Grant Still, the first African-American composer to write for orchestra. In addition, Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10 will be performed on the 100th anniversary of Shostakovich’s birth. All ticket holders are invited to join Barry Jekowsky for a free, pre-concert presentation, “A Preview from the Podium,” a half-hour prior to each performance to hear him speak about the composers and the works the orchestra will perform.
Tickets
start at $24 and interested parties
should purchase tickets early, as this likely will be a sold-out show.
Discounts are available to seniors, students and groups of 10 or
more. For
more information or tickets log onto www.RenoPhilharmonic.com
or call the Reno Philharmonic Association business office at (775)
323-6393. ### Summary
of Calendar Information
MasterClassics 4 – Sunday, January 14, 4 p.m.; Tuesday, January
16, 7:30 p.m.;
William Grant Still – Scherzo
from Afro-American Symphony
Edvard Grieg – Piano
Concerto, featuring Rachel Kudo,
Piano
Dmitri Shostakovich – Symphony
No. 10
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