Massapequa Philharmonic Youth Concert

MASSAPEQUA PHILHARMONIC PRESENTS A SPECIAL YOUTH CONCERT - FREE ADMISSION, NO TICKETS REQUIRED, SEATING IS LIMITED.

TAEGUK MUN will perform the Tchaikovsky's Roccoco Variations with the Massapequa Philharmonic Orchestra on Sunday afternoon, January 30, 2011, 2:00PM, at the Massapequa High School Auditorium, 4925 Merrick Road,  Massapequa, Long Island. The orchestral works include Mozart's Overture to the Magic Flute, Mussorgsky's Night on a Bald Mountain and selections from  Broadway musicals and marches.

PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE IN THE CONCERT LOCATION!

Cellist Taeguk Mun, born in 1994 in South Korea, started cello at age 4. He moved to New York in 2007, and is currently a full scholarship student of Minhye Clara Kim at the Juilliard School Pre-college Division. Taeguk has attended master classes with Bernard Greenhouse, Aldo Parisot, and Ron Leonard, and won the Third Prize at the Sixth International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians. He was also the First Prize winner of the International Competition for Young People in Oldenberg, Germany, First Prize winner in  the 2009 Juilliard Pre-College Division Cello Concerto Competition, and Grand Prize winner of the National SungJung Music Competition in Korea. Taeguk  has given solo performances throughout Korea, France, Germany, Carnegie Hall, the Juilliard School, and the Port Washington Public Library in New York. He has been featured on From the Top both as a soloist and with his chamber group, and was awarded a Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award. He has been featured nationally on television and radio broadcasts on NPR. Taeguk is currently in 11th grade at W.T. Clarke High School in Westbury, NY.                                                                             

The Massapequa Philharmonic is composed of about 70 local musicians and is one of the largest orchestras on Long Island.  Principal Conductor, David Leibowitz, received his MA from CUNY’s Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College, where his main studies were in performance and musicology. He studied conducting with Carlo Maria Giulini and Herbert Blomstedt, and was a finalist in the International Masterplayers’ Conducting Competition in Lugano, Switzerland in 1986. Mr. Leibowitz is the founder and current music director of the New York Repertory Orchestra, which is in its 18th season.  Since 2002 he has been on the conducting staff of the Rome Festival, leading opera, ballet, and concert performances in Italy. Mr. Leibowitz has appeared with the Greenwich Village, Brooklyn Heights and Centre Symphony Orchestras.

These concerts are made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization Program, administered by the Huntington Arts Council; the Town of Oyster Bay, Department of Community and Youth Services, John Venditto, Town Supervisor and the Town of Oyster Bay Arts Council.

We would like to thank our Major Corporate Sponsors, Target Stores and Mohawk Fine Papers.

For more information  please call: Robert Ackerberg, (516) 795-4071.

Massapequa Philharmonic Orchestra
P.O. Box 52,  Massapequa Park, New York  11762-0052
516-795-4071
www.massphil.org