From Beyond the Sea! March 19, 2010

Join the GSO as it hoists the Jolly Roger featuring music from the sea! The GSO will be presenting Mozart’s Ballet Music From Idomeneo, Haydn’s Overture to L’Isola Deshabitata, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92, and will feature from the ranks of the GSO, LeeAnne Thompson, flutist; Laura Shouha, oboist; and Leslie Massenburg; bassoonist performing Vivaldi’s Concerto for Flute, Oboe, Bassoon and orchestra in F Major.
This concert will be led by conductor and composer Maestro Franz Albanese. Maestro Albanese studied at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome and at the Chigiana Academy in Siena. He holds a Doctorate in Musicology at the University of Bologna and in Musical Composition at the San Paolo as well as Los Angeles Universities. He has performed with brilliant success in over 62 countries worldwide as soloist and conductor. Eminent composers have dedicated their works to him and his recordings of both contemporary and classical pieces have won him enthusiastic praise from critics and public and have been broadcast on major radio and television stations in Italy and abroad. Besides his presence as jury member in prestigious international music competitions, his extensive teaching experience include the Federal Universities of: Seville, Detroit, Atlanta, North Carolina, Rio de Janiero, Bogotà, Cork, Budapest, Montevideo, Rosario, Peking, Panamà and the European Cultural University. He is president of the "Doppler" musical association and director of the Italian State Conservatory of Music in Campobasso. Since 1998 he is the principal conductor as well as artistic director of the Molise Symphony Orchestra.