Chamber Orchestra to Open Season in New Venue
The Ithaca College Chamber Orchestra will open its season with a free concert in the intimate acoustics of the Hockett Family Recital Hall on Monday, September 21 at 7 pm. Conductor Jeffery Meyer will be joined by faculty colleagues Richard Faria, conductor; David Parks, tenor; and Alex Shuhan, French horn for Benjamin Britten’s “Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings.” Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s serenade number 12, for wind octet, will round out the program.
Alexander Shuhan, associate professor of horn, is also a founding member (1993) of Rhythm & Brass, an international touring, performing and recording ensemble. He is principal horn with the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra and performs frequently with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra. He also performs regularly at the Skaneateles Chamber Music Festival.
David Parks has performed with Syracuse Opera, Michigan Opera Theatre, Virginia Opera, Arizona Opera, Opera Delaware, Syracuse Symphony, Pacific Symphony, Erie Philharmonic, Louisville Bach Festival, Spoleto U.S.A., Piedmont Opera Theater. His international performances include CAPAB Opera and PACOFS Opera (South Africa), National South African Arts Festival, Mauerbach Festival (Vienna), Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra (in a December 2001 tribute concert for terrorism’s victims), and the Spoleto Festival (Italy).
Jeffery Meyer began his musical studies as a pianist, and shortly thereafter continued on to study composition and conducting. He is the founder and artistic director of the St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic in St. Petersburg, Russia, as well as the director of orchestras at the Ithaca College School of Music. In the 2008-09 season, he assumed the position of artistic director of the Water City Chamber Orchestra, Northeast Wisconsin’s only professional chamber orchestra.
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