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Trawick Chamber Ensembles
In January 2008, Maryland Classic Youth Orchestra received from the Trawick Foundation, a multi-year grant to provide MCYO students with Chamber Music and Small Ensemble opportunities.
MCYO’s goal is to give all our musicians an opportunity to participate in chamber music. Playing chamber music requires special skills, both musical and social, which are different from the skills required for solo or orchestral works.
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Preparatory Winds, directed by: Tim Beadle and Ashleigh Townsend. MCYO wind coaches will work on special repertoire to help develop and enhance orchestral performance skills in preparation for gradual inclusion into the Young Artists Orchestra. Preparatory Winds will join Young Artists for a concert on stage in the Strathmore hall with Maestro Bairos.
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Flute Choir, directed by: Janese Sampson.. Janese Sampson enjoys a multi-faceted career as a recitalist, chamber musician, flute soloist, adjudicator, private instructor and educator. Currently she is the Applied Flute Professor at Bowie State University, teaches Instrumental Music in Montgomery County Public Schools, and coaches the Woodwind section of MCYO Young Artists Orchestra. Her flute solo and chamber music performances have been heard throughout the Washington area at venues such as the Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Barns at Wolf Trap, the Phillips Collection, the National Building Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. As a freelance artist, Ms. Sampson has performed with such renowned performers as Aretha Franklin, Patti Austin, the late Ray Charles, Kathleen Battle, The Harlem Boys Choir, and the Washington Saxophone Quartet. |
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Clarinet Choir, directed by: Dr. Albert Hunt.. Clarinetist Albert Hunt is a critically acclaimed performer and prominent teacher now residing in McLean, Virginia. He earned the Doctor of Musical Arts Degree from The Juilliard School, where he was a scholarship student with Joseph Allard, David Weber and Vincent Abato. Dr. Hunt also worked with William Blount of the Orchestra of St. Luke's and David Niethamer, former Principal Clarinetist of the Richmond Symphony.
Dr. Hunt performs in solo and chamber music concerts throughout the United States and abroad. In April 2009, Dr. Hunt journeyed to Quito, Ecuador and performed Carl Maria von Weber's Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in F minor with the Ecuador Philharmonic. Diario Hoy, one of Quito's leading newspapers, stated "Albert Hunt demonstrated refined phrasing and much versatility....his fingers ran across the instrument as if it were an extension of his body." He has appeared in the clarinet sections of the Cleveland Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Luke's, the New York City Ballet Orchestra, and the National Philharmonic Orchestra. A fan of new music, Dr. Hunt has premiered many works, including several composed to him. |
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