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June 20, 2011

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- The Jacobs School of Music's 2011 Symphonic

Series, a highlight of the Indiana University Summer Festival of the Arts,

 begins Friday, July 1, at IU Auditorium with a performance by violin virtuoso

and Jacobs faculty member Joshua Bell and the Summer Festival Orchestra,

conducted by Michael Stern.

Bell, whose career has

catapulted him to international

stardom since receiving an

 Artist Diploma from the Jacobs

School in 1989, will perform

Bruch's Scottish Fantasy.

 Additional works on the

program are The Sorcerer's

 Apprentice by Dukas, The

 Firebird Suite by Stravinsky 

and Variations on "America"

 by Ives. All will be under the

 baton of Stern, now in his sixth

season as music director of the

Kansas City Symphony. Stern

returns to Bloomington following his performance with the Festival

Orchestra in 2006.

Marking the two-year anniversary of her first Bloomington performance

since her appointment to the Jacobs School faculty, Jorja Fleezanis will serve

as concertmaster for the opening concert. She also served as concertmaster

for the series' kickoff the past two years.

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The following evening, July 2, the orchestra will repeat the program at

Chicago's Ravinia Festival, becoming the first collegiate ensemble to be

presented as a featured festival ensemble there.

Other world-class conductors leading this distinguished group of Jacobs

School of Music faculty, students and invited guests include Bramwell Tovey 

and Giancarlo Guerrero.

Tovey, music director of the Vancouver Symphony, conducts a July 21

program including a full orchestral version of George Gershwin's Rhapsody

in Blue and Mahler's Symphony No. 1. In addition to his podium duties, he

 will also be piano soloist for one of his own compositions, Urban  Runway.

Timothy Lees, concertmaster of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, will

serve as concertmaster for the second concert in the series.

Nashville Sy mphony Music

Director Giancarlo Guerrero

returns to Bloomington Aug. 5

to apply his Grammy Award-

 winning style to Rossini's

William Tell Overture,

Respighi's The Pines of   Rome

and Beethoven's Sy mphony 

No. 7.

Jacobs faculty member

 Alexander Kerr will assume

concertmaster duties for the

final Festival Orchestra

concert. Kerr was concertmaster of both the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

and Amsterdam's Concertgebouw and is now concertmaster of the Dallas

Symphony and principal guest concertmaster of the Indianapolis Symphony 

Orchestra.

 Additional faculty members performing with the Festival Orchestra this

summer include Stephen Wyrczynski, viola; Kate Lukas and Thomas

Robertello, flute; Howard Klug, clarinet; Jeff Nelsen, horn; Edward Cord,

John Rommel and Joey Tartell, trumpet; Carl Lenthe and M. Dee Stewart,

trombone; Daniel Perantoni, tuba; and John Tafoya, percussion.

Guests musicians include alumni Steven Moeckel, concertmaster of the

Phoenix Symphony; Tony Ross, principal cello of the Minnesota Orchestra;

and Kristin Ahlstrom, violinist with the St. Louis Symphony; as well as Owen

Lee, principal bass of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; William James,

principal percussion with the St. Louis Symphony; Jeff Rathbun, oboist with

The Cleveland Orchestra; and Marc Vallon, professor of bassoon at the

University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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In addition to the three Festival Orchestra performances, the Jacobs School's

Symphony Orchestra will perform two concerts in the I U Auditorium this

summer, all led by regular guest conductor Cliff Colnot. Colnot is principal

conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's contemporary MusicNOW 

series and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago.

The first Symphony Orchestra concert, July 13, will feature Impromptu for

String Orchestra by Sibelius and Symphony No. 10 by Shostakovich. The

second and final concert, Aug. 10, will include Haydn's Symphony in G Major

and selections from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet .

 All orchestral events during the 2011 IU Summer Festival of the Arts will

take place at 8 p.m. at the IU Auditorium. The three performances by the

Festival Orchestra cost $15 each for the general public and $8 for any full-

time student. The two Symphony Orchestra performances are free.

The IU Auditorium box office is open Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Call812-855-1103 for ticket information, or visit http://www.iuauditorium.com

to purchase t ickets online.

The Summer Music series within the IU Summer Festival of the Arts is

sponsored in part by WFIU Public Radio, WTIU Public TV, the Bloomington

 Herald-Times and Lamar Outdoor Advertising.

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