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Guest clarinetist, Mozart on BSO bill

BANGOR – Mozart, Elgar and Dvorak are on the program for the next Bangor Symphony Orchestra classical concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 2, and 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 3, at Peakes Auditorium, Bangor High School.

Music director and conductor Xiao-Lu Li will lead the orchestra. The first piece will be Edward Elgar’s “Serenade Mauresque,” Op. 10, No. 2, followed by the Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, featuring guest soloist Alexander Fiterstein. The concert closes with Symphony No. 7, Op. 70 in D minor by Antonin Dvorak.

Alexander Fiterstein, one of the world’s exceptional young clarinetists, was born in Belarus, reared in Israel and now lives in New York.

He is on the artist faculty of Kean University in New Jersey. A first-prize winner of the Carl Nielsen International Clarinet Competition and the Young Concert Artist International Auditions, he appeared with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Lincoln Center, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Polish Kammerphilharmonie, the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony, the Tokyo Philharmonic, the China National Symphony and the Simon Bolivar National Youth Orchestra of Venezuela.

He has premiered works by Osvaldo Golijov, Paul Schoenfield, Samuel Adler, Mason Bates and Ronn Yedidia. In addition to performing with the Bangor Symphony Orchestra this season, he performs with the KBS Symphony of Korea, Israel Chamber Orchestra, Gottingen Symphony in Germany, and the Miami and Flagstaff, Ariz., symphony orchestras.

Ticket prices range from $13 to $40, with senior and youth discounts available. Reservations may be made by calling the Bangor Symphony Orchestra box office at 942-5555, 800-639-3221 or visit www.bangorsymphony.com.


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