PSO Fall Concert 10/19

Piano soloist Sungeun Kim

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The Parma Symphony Orchestra will present a Fall concert on Sunday, October 19, 2014 at 3:00 PM at Valley Forge High School Auditorium located at 9999 Independence Boulevard in Parma Heights. 

Music Director Dr. Randolph P. Laycock will present Samuel Rotberg, violin soloist performing Zigeunerweisen by Pablo de Sarasate, and piano soloist Sungeun Kim performing Chopin’s Andante Spianato &Grand Polonaise Brilliante. Also on the program is Tchaikovsky‘s Capriccio Italien and Mahler Symphony #1 in D Major 3rd Movement. General admission is $10 for adults and $5 for students and senior citizens.  Family passes of $20 are available for families of up to 2 adults and their children.  All tickets are available at the door beginning at 2:30 PM.

The orchestra, in it’s 46th season consists of 75 members of all walks of life from all over the entire Greater Cleveland area. They meet weekly for rehearsals and present at least four concerts annually.
The Parma Symphony Orchestra is a self-supporting community orchestra in cooperation with the Parma City Schools. For more information can be found on Facebook, web-site www.parmasymphony.org or calling Business Manager Joe Germana 440-882-2012.

Barton Samuel Rotberg has performed as a violinist in the U.S., Canada, France, Spain, Costa Rica and Mexico and has been a prizewinner in the Boston International Chamber Music Competition and the Liberty Freemont Young Artists Competition in Illinois. Currently Assistant Concertmaster of the Warren Philharmonic Orchestra in Ohio, he has served as concertmaster for the Opera Project Columbus Chamber Orchestra, the Opera Per Tutti Chamber Orchestra of Cleveland and for three seasons in the Southwest Symphony Orchestra in Illinois. He has also been a member of the Illinois Philharmonic, Ann Arbor and Flint Symphony orchestras. An avid chamber musician, Dr. Rotberg was a founding member of the Davanti Trio, in residence with the Flint Symphony Orchestra. Endowed by an original founder of General Motors, the Davanti trio gave concerts in the U.S. and abroad. As an Artist in Residence at Mercyhurst University, he was featured on WQLN Public Radio as violinist of the D’Angelo Trio.  Dr. Rotberg has been teaching for more than 20 years. His students have frequently been awarded competition prizes, music scholarships to Universities and concertmaster positions in festival and All-State orchestras. During his time as a doctoral student at Michigan State University, he taught undergraduate and graduate students as an assistant to Professor Dmitri Berlinsky. He has since been a violin instructor at Mott Community College and Assistant Professor of Music at Mercyhurst University’s D’Angelo Department of Music. He is on faculty at International Festival for Strings and More at Western Reserve Academy, and Conservatory Summer Intensive music festival at Baldwin Wallace University, Conservatory of Music. Rotberg has given guest recitals and master classes at the prestigious Interlochen Arts Academy, the Conservatoire de Limonest in France, University of New Mexico and Jamestown Community College in New York. He has been an adjudicator for the Music Teacher’s National Association Competition and the Lakeland Civic Orchestra Concerto Competition.   Samuel Rotberg’s primary teachers have included Marc Zinger, Dmitri Berlinsky, Shirley Givens and Herbert Greenberg. Secondary teachers include Joseph Fuchs, Berl Senofsky and Earl Carlyss. 

Pianist Sungeun Kim has given numerous concerts in the U.S., Canada, Russia, Spain, Korea and Italy. A first-prize winner of the Virginia Waring International Piano Competition, she has been invited as guest artist at the Texas Conservatory Piano Festival for Young Artists, the Virginia Rising Star Concert Series, the Palm Springs Concert Series and the 24th Concert Stage at St. Ivo in Rome. She has appeared with the Russian Federal Orchestra in Bolshoi Hall at the Moscow Conservatory, the Banff Festival Orchestra, the International Chamber Ensemble of Rome and the Gijon Symphony Orchestra. Sungeun Kim is Assistant Professor of Piano at Baldwin Wallace University. She received her degrees from Yon-Sei University (B.M.) with Kyung Sook Lee and the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University (M.M. and D.M.A.) where she studied with Julian Martin and had master classes with Leon Fleisher. She also studied with Dominique Weber and Blanca Uribe at the New Millennium Piano Festival in Spain, and Marc Durand at the Banff Keyboard Festival in Canada.