ONNY announces its spring concert Visions & Reflections

POTSDAM, N.Y. (WWTI) – The Orchestra of Northern New York (ONNY) will present its spring concert, Visions, and Reflections, on Saturday, April 27 at 7:30 p.m. in Hosmer Hall, SUNY Potsdam and on Sunday, April 28 at 3 p.m. in the First Presbyterian Church, 403 Washington St., Watertown.

Adrian Sylwotzky, the second and final candidate for ONNY’s Music Director position, programmed the concert and will conduct the 56-piece professional orchestra. Slywotzky’s list of accomplishments include:

• Being a prize winner of the Atlantic Coast International Conducting Competition (Portugal, 2016);
• Being a prize winner of the Audite International Conducting Competition (Poland, 2017);
• The founding conductor of the Yale Medical Symphony Orchestra;
• A music director of the New Haven Chamber Orchestra from 2007 to 2010;
• Conducted Yale’s New Music Directions Ensemble;
• Served as Associate Conductor and Artist Advisor of the Boston Youth Symphony;
• A teaching fellow for the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra;
• Associate Director of Orchestras at the University of Michigan from 2019 to 2022;
• Holds degrees in orchestral conducting from the University of Michigan and the Yale School of Music;
• Participated as a violinist in festivals including Tanglewood Music Center, California Summer Music, and the Norfolk Contemporary Music Festival; and
• Is currently the Director of Orchestras at the Crane School of Music.

The program will include:

• The Overture from The Abduction of the Seraglio by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart;
• “Crystal Gazing,” by Dolores White;
• Le Tombeau de Couperin by Maurice Ravel; and
• Symphony No. 2 by Jean Sibelius.

Tickets for the concerts can be purchased on the ONNY website or by phone at 315-212-3440.

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