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November 7, 2005
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HIGH MOUNTAIN SYMPHONY SEASON CONTINUES ON NOVEMBER 20
—Tomasz Golka is guest conductor
The High Mountain Symphony at William Paterson University in Wayne continues its 2005-2006 concert season on Sunday, November 20, 2005 with a performance at 3 p.m. in Shea Center on campus. Tomasz Golka, winner of the 2003 Eduardo Mata Conducting Competition, will be the guest conductor.
The program, titled “Love, Dance, and a Thousand Songs,” will feature Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5, one of the composer’s most popular works. It will also feature Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, which was based on a poem by Stephane Mallarme, and Ginastera’s Estancia Suite, which captures the rhythms of life on an Argentinean ranch.
Golka is the second of four guest conductors for the High Mountain Symphony’s 2005-2006 season selected from among hundreds of applicants. One will be chosen to become the music director of the Symphony beginning with the 2006-2007 season.
Since winning first prize in the Eduardo Mata International Conducting Competition in 2003, Golka has appeared with numerous orchestras throughout the Americas and Europe in performances of more than 100 major works. An avid supporter of living composers, Golka has conducted several world premieres, including Eleanor Trawick’s Triple Play, which he commissioned while serving as music director of the Ball State Symphony and Opera during the 2003-2004 season. He has also served as cover conductor for the Houston Symphony Orchestra and New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, assistant conductor of Baltimore Lyric Opera, and concertmaster of the Spoleto USA Festival Orchestra. A native of Poland, Golka is a graduate of Rice University with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music.
Tickets for the concert are $25, $20 for senior citizens, William Paterson faculty, staff and alumni, and $8 for William Paterson students and those ages 17 and younger. The concert will be preceded by a pre-concert conversation with the conductor beginning at 2 p.m. in Shea 101.
The High Mountain Symphony is the only professional orchestra in New Jersey in permanent residence at a university. The ensemble’s four-concert season will continue with Saturday evening performances on February 25 and April 29, 2006 at 8 p.m. in Shea Center on the William Paterson campus.
The High Mountain Symphony is underwritten, in part, by William Paterson University. It is also funded, in part, by the Passaic County Cultural and Heritage Council at Passaic County Community College through the State/County Block Grant Program of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.
For more information on subscriptions or individual tickets, call the Shea Center Box Office at 973-720-2371.
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