Santa Barbara Youth Symphony’s Spring Concert February 17, 2013

Experience the talented young musicians of the Santa Barbara Youth Symphony in the 2013 Spring Concert. Under Music Director Andy Radford, young musicians from the Santa Barbara Youth Symphony, including violin soloist Joel Yan, will perform Scherzo from Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Opus 70 by Antonín Leopold Dvořák. The Youth Symphony will also perform Copland’s Billy at the Rodeo, Franz Joseph Haydn’s Violin Concerto No. 4 in G Major, and Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op. 36 by Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.

Dos Pueblos High School freshman Joel Yan was chosen by audition to perform as a soloist in the Spring concert program. Joel was born in Zhejiang, China in 1998, began playing the violin at the age of four and since then has studied with Danielle Tarley and performed in the Berliner Philharmonie Hall with the Zhengzhou Youth Orchestra. After Joel moved to Santa Barbara, he became concert master at Goleta Junior High and gained the opportunity to study violin with Nina Border. He is currently a member of Santa Barbara Youth Symphony, Santa Barbara Music & Arts Conservatory Junior & Virtuoso Strings, Dos Pueblos High School Orchestra (concert master) and Chinese Evangelical Free Church Worship Team. Joel’s favorite composer is Bach, and he especially likes his Sonata and partita for violin.

Santa Barbara Youth Symphony serves the region by providing musical enrichment to young people through the venues of orchestral performance and instruction in the schools of our community. The Santa Barbara Youth Symphony, Junior Strings and Strings Workshop are among the Education and Outreach program of the Santa Barbara Symphony.

Date: Sunday, February 17, 2013
Time: 4 – 6 p.m.
Location: First Presbyterian Church, 21 East Constance Avenue, Santa Barbara, CA 93105
Cost: $14.00 – Adults, $10.00 – Students/Seniors, Children 6 and under are free.

Tickets are available by calling the Santa Barbara Symphony offices at (805) 898-9386 or online at www.thesymphony.org.