The SUNY Fredonia Chamber Orchestra will
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Under the direction of Dr. David Rudge, this 44-member ensemble features some of the School of Music鈥檚 best players. The performance opens with Mendelssohn鈥檚 Overture to A Midsummer Night鈥檚 Dream, followed by the string orchestra premiere of Robert Moran鈥檚 Music from the Tower鈥檚 of the Moon.
The concert also includes works by Dvorak and Gounod, featuring vocal soloist and current student, Lydia Herren, and finishes with Beethoven鈥檚 Symphony No. 1.
Soprano Lydia Herren is a senior applied voice and international studies major with a minor in anthropology. Lydia is currently a student of Dr. Angela Haas and has also studied voice with Gwen Coleman Detwiler. Ms. Herren has performed as a soprano soloist with the Fredonia Women's Choir and played the role of Hanna in The Merry Widow for the 2006 Fredonia Opera Scenes production. She made her debut on the Hillman opera stage as Micaela in Bizet's Carmen. Lydia is a recipient of the Hillman, Marion Sonnenfeld, and Faculty Student Association Scholarships and is a member of the Fredonia Honors Program. She is also an anthropology tutor at the university. After graduating this May, Lydia plans to apply for a Fulbright Scholarship in order to pursue her graduate studies abroad. Her performance tonight serves as the second of her Performance Certificate recitals.
Dr. David Rudge, Director of Orchestral Activities and conductor of Opera at Fredonia School of Music, is also the Music Director of the Orchard Park Symphony Orchestra. He has conducted orchestras on five continents to rave reviews. As director of the Orquesta Sinf贸nica Nacional de Guatemala he was credited with the dramatic rebirth of that orchestra.
