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Advent Chamber Orchestra News

Roxana Pavel Goldstein, Music Director, Founder, and Concert Mistress of the Advent Chamber Orchestra has her hands full these spring days. Not only is she giving four recitals in May, she is also the mother of two young children, ages 2 and 9 months that keep her hopping.  If you have not heard this beautiful young woman play her violin you can look forward to her recitals this month. The amazing Matthew Ganong will accompany her on the piano.  The program will include the 4 Romantic pieces by Dvorak, Sonatas of Bach and Mozart and Handel, and shorter works by Gluck, and Rachmaninov.  You have a huge treat in store, hearing these two wonderful artists.

Please add these dates to your calendar, invite some friends to come with you and enjoy an hour and a half with these outstanding performing artists.

• Thursday, May 13, 2010, 7:30 p.m. at the Naperville Public Library

• Saturday, May 15, 2010, 8:00 p.m. at Grace United Methodist Church in Naperville.

• Sunday, May 16, 2010, 3:00 p.m. at the First Congregational Church in Western Springs.  1108 Chestnut Street

• Saturday, May 22
• Andrews University Choir and ACO perform selections from Bach's Cantata #4 with additional works by Couperin, Bach, and other TBA.

• Barrows Auditorium (Billy Graham Center)

  500 College Ave,

  Wheaton, IL 60187

   

  Program Order:

  7:30 Introduction and Vespers Service conducted by Adventist Midwest Health CEO

  7:45 Concert Begins with Andrews University Choir

  8:05 ACO and Andrews Choir Perform together.

ELIAS GOLDSTEIN RECEIVES TWO DISTINGUISHED AWARDS

The Advent Chamber Orchestra Board is excited to pass along the news that Executive Director Elias Goldstein has been hop scotching the world and winning some very distinguished prizes.

Elias has been to

where he Second Prize in the sixth Yuri Bashmet international viola competition.  To date, he is the only American to have won a top prize at this event.   He performed Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante with the Moscow Soloists, and the Walton Viola Concerto with the New Moscow Philharmonic under the direction of Alexander Slatkovsky. 

Elias also won one of the top named prizes at the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition, which took place in March of 2010, on the Isle of Man in the

. The competition attracted over 150 applicants.   He was awarded a silver mounted bow by John Clutterbuck worth 2000 sterling pounds.