Winter Concert Series - February 17, 18 & 19, 2012
Concert Season Funding
Carpenter Foundation
City of Ashland
Collins Foundation
Cow Creek
Umpqua Indian Foundation
Jackson County
Cultural Coalition
James F. & Marion L. Miller Foundation
Oregon Arts Commission
National Endowment
for the Arts
Pacific Power Foundation
Sharkey Family
Charitable Foundation
U.S. Bancorp Foundation
&
The Friends of the YSSO
Winter Concert Series Partners
Bill & Sarah Epstein
Performances:
Friday, February 17, 7:30 p.m.
Grants Pass Performing Arts Center
Saturday, February 18, 7:30 p.m.
Craterian Ginger Rogers Theater, Medford
Sunday, February 19, 3:00 p.m.
SOU Music Recital Hall, Ashland
Ticket information
Program:
Youth Symphony
Jose Pablo Moncayo, Huapango
A. Carlos Gomez, Il Guarany Overture
Édouard Lalo, Cello Concerto in D minor
Paul Shubat, cello
Youth Orchestra
Ernesto Lecuona, Andalucia Suite
Robert Baurenschmidt (arr.), Mexicano
Johann Strauss, Thunder & Lightning Polka
Youth Strings
Ludwig van Beethoven, Sonatina
John Caponegro, March of the Bowman
Henry Purcell, Rondo
2011 Concerto Competition Winner
One of the winners of the 2011 Youth Symphony of Southern Oregon (YSSO) Concerto Competition, Ashland High School (AHS) freshman Paul Shubat joined the YSSO organization in 2007. He has played in both Youth Orchestra and Youth Symphony.
His private teacher is Beth Goldstein. His current school music teacher at AHS is Gerry Paré. Paul has participated in master classes led by Elinor Frey, Antoine Lederline of the Belcea String Quartet, and Mikayel Haknazaryan of the Kuss Quartet. He has participated in many institutes and camps including the Northern California Suzuki Institute, National Cello Institute, Japan Seattle Suzuki Institute, Oregon Suzuki Institute and the Advanced Suzuki Institute at Stanford University. Last summer Paul attended the National Cello Institute: Advanced Residency Program at the Pioneer School of Music in Orange County, California, where he worked with Gilda Barston, Rick Mooney, Sarah Koo and David Dunford.
When asked about the selection of Édouard Lalo’s Cello Concerto in D minor, Paul said, “The concerto displays the power of the orchestra and the bond between soloist and strings in a vibrant way. It gives the Youth Symphony an opportunity to play dramatic interludes and to display strength and finesse in the brass, woodwinds and strings.”
Paul would like to thank his loving parents, Milo and Jeanne Shubat, for their support and encouragement, and most of all Paul wishes to extend his gratitude to Beth Goldstein, his lifetime teacher and mentor, for the unending patience and loving kindness she has shown him over the years and for her insight and vision for him as a musician. Paul extends a special thanks to Melissa Keevil for her generosity in allowing him to use her cello for the performances. Paul is honored to perform this concerto with the Youth Symphony and would like to offer his thanks and appreciation to Cindy Hutton, the dedicated YSSO governing board, Sharon Wilson and his colleagues in Youth Symphony whose dedication to classical music make this opportunity possible.
Photograph: Bryon DeVore Photography
