Concert Notes:

Family Concert at Dexter and Southfield Schools on May 7, 2006, 3:00 pm

The Parkway Concert Orchestra will perform in a family concert on Sunday, May 7 at 3 p.m. in Fiske Hall at Dexter School, 20 Newton Street, Brookline. This concert is presented at no charge for the public by the Dexter and Southfield Schools.

Music Director and Conductor Peter Freisinger has chosen a lively program including Die Fledermaus Overture, Smetana's "Dance of the Comedians", a premiere by Koray Sazli, "That's a Plenty", "April in Paris" and "Sing, Sing, Sing". The orchestra will accompany Baritone Ishan Johnson who will sing "Smoke Gets In your Eyes" and "Close to You".

The winner of the orchestra's 2006 violin concerto competition, Daisy Joo, will be featured in Intro and Rondo for Violin by Saint Saens. Daisy, a maturing violinist of 15, started her lessons at age 4. Since then her repertoire has flourished to solo, chamber, and orchestral music. She is part of New England Conservatory's highest orchestra, Youth Philharmonic Orchestra, under the direction of the acclaimed conductor Benjamin Zander. This past summer, she traveled to Brazil and Venezuela with this youth orchestra. Currently, Daisy studies with Jin-Kyung Joen, a faculty member of NEC, and has been doing so for about 4 years. Recently Daisy won 2nd Prize in Brockton Symphony's Feinstein Concerto Competition, 3rd prize in Chamber Music Festival of New England's Chamber competition, and 3rd prize in NEC Preparatory School's Category B concerto competition. In addition to music, Daisy enjoys art, traveling, and design.

After the concert, the audience will be able to meet the instruments at an instrument petting zoo.

For further information, please call 617-522-5544.

The Program:

Special Guests:

Baritone Ishan Johnson recently finished his Bachelors of Music at the Boston University College of Fine Arts where he studied with James Demler, Mark Schnaible, and Z. Edmund Toliver. He most recently performed the role of Betto in the B.U. Opera Institute's production of Gianni Schicchi. Other roles include Sciarrone in Tosca, Jabez in Regina, and Dashwood in Little Women. He was featured in the Opera Boston productions of Chabrier's L'etoile and Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia. Mr. Johnson hails from Long Island, New York and is excited to be performing with the Parkway Concert Orchestra.

Daisy Joo, a maturing violinist of 15, started her lessons at age 4. Since then her repertoire has flourished to solo, chamber, and orchestral music. She is part of New England Conservatory's highest orchestra, Youth Philharmonic Orchestra, under the direction of the acclaimed conductor Benjamin Zander. This past summer, she traveled to Brazil and Venezuela with this youth orchestra. Currently, Daisy studies with Jin-Kyung Joen, a faculty member of NEC, and has been doing so for about 4 years. Recently Daisy won 2nd Prize in Brockton Symphony's Feinstein Concerto Competition, 3rd prize in Chamber Music Festival of New England's Chamber competition, and 3rd prize in NEC Preparatory School's Category B concerto competition. In addition to music, Daisy enjoys art, traveling, and design.

Koray Sazli, born in Istanbul Turkey in 1973, graduated from the classical guitar division at Mimar Sinan University State Conservatory in Istanbul (1994). He completed his Master's (1998) and Doctorate (2005) in music composition at Boston University. During his studies at BU, he was honored with the Composition and Theory Departmental Award, selected for membership in Pi Kappa Lambda (American National Music Honor Society), and was the winner of the Kahn Career Entry Fund Award. Mr. Sazli's compositions have been performed in Turkey, Czech Republic, Hungary, Greece and the USA. He received the Jury Special Award at the First National Guitar Composition Competition in Istanbul, Turkey (2002) and Second and Third Places at the IX. International Competition of Blind Music Composers in Prague, Czech Republic (2003).