Dancing at the Symphony
CANCELLED
BAINBRIDGE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Music Director & Conductor Mario Alejandro Torres
The Program
RICHARD STRAUSS: Der Rosenkavalier, Op. 59
Waltz Sequence No. 1
JOHANN STRAUSS, JR.: Emperor Waltz, Op. 437 | THE BLUE DANUBE, OP. 314 | Voices of Spring, Op. 410 | Thunder and Lightning Polka, Op. 332
Felix Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 (1st movement)
Yvette Kraft (violin) – Winner 2020 Young Artist Concerto Competition, Senior Division
Édouard Lalo: Cello Concerto in D minor (1st movement)
Daniel Stein (cello) – Winner 2020 Young Artist Concerto Competition, Junior Division
Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra closes its 47th season with a program that beckons enjoyment both from the comfort of one’s seat and the nimble movement of one’s feet. From its pure dance form all the way to its symphonic concert setting, Waltz will be the centerpiece of the evening. This concert will also feature the winner of our Young Artist Concerto Competition, to be announced January 2020.
Mario Alejandro Torres
Mario Alejandro Torres is a conductor, teacher, and performer native to San Pedro Sula, Honduras. Currently based in Seattle, Washington, Mr. Torres made his Benaroya Hall conducting debut in collaboration with Maestros Ludovic Morlot and David Alexander Rahbee in an exciting concert with the University of Washington Symphony Orchestra. For the past two years, he has served in a conducting fellowship with the Seattle Symphony, assisting Maestro Morlot in collaboration with artists such as Hilary Hahn and John Luther Adams. As the Music Director of Poulsbo Community Orchestra, he has brought a new and exciting sound to the ensemble. Outside of the United States, he has conducted performances with the Eddy Snijders Orchestra in Paramaribo, Suriname, and in his hometown with the professional Chamber Orchestra of San Pedro Sula, and Victoriano Lopez School of Music Choir.
As an advocate for Education, Mr. Torres serves as Assistant Conductor of the University of Washington Symphony Orchestra, where he is a candidate for the doctoral degree in orchestral conducting under the mentorship of David Alexander Rahbee and Seattle Symphony Music Director Ludovic Morlot. His energy and passion to work with young musicians have brought the UW Campus Philharmonia Orchestras to a higher level of artistic performance. He has also held teaching positions at the Victoriano Lopez School of Music in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, and Louisiana Academy of Music in Natchitoches, Louisiana. In his work for social inclusion, Mr. Torres has appeared internationally as a guest conductor and clinician for programs such as The National Music School of Suriname in South America and the Académie Musicale Occide Jeanty in Croix des Bouquets, Haiti.
As a violist, he has performed as a soloist with the Chamber Orchestra of San Pedro Sula, NSULA Symphony and Chamber orchestras, Rapides Symphony Orchestra, and the Monteux School and Music Festival. He has been co-principal violist for Texarkana Symphony Orchestra, South Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, and Shreveport Summer Music Festival. He has also played with Symphoria, Shreveport, Longview, Rapides, Marshall, and Costa Rica Symphony orchestras. Mr. Torres performed with the Youth Orchestra of the Americas in Germany, Italy, France, Belgium, and England.
Mr. Torres holds a Master of Music in Orchestral Conducting from Ithaca College under the mentorship of Jeffery Meyer, and a Bachelor and a Master of Music in Viola Performance from Northwestern State University of Louisiana (NSULA). Mr. Torres completed a professional program with the Youth Orchestra of the Americas’ Global Leaders Program, focusing on community leadership, teaching artistry, and social entrepreneurship. Mr. Torres also holds degrees in Computer Information Systems and Business Administration.
His wife Jenny is an active member of the community, supporting and engaging in activities with the Seattle Music Partners Program, and the Special Events department of the Seattle Symphony.
Yvette Kraft (violin) – Winner 2020 Young Artist Concerto Competition, Senior Division
Yvette Kraft was born in Spokane, Washington and began violin at the age of five with Mateusz Wolski. She has performed at master classes with prominent musicians including Noah BendixBalgley, Augustin Hadelich, Josef Špaček, Vadim Gluzman, Ilya Kaler, and Shlomo Mintz, to name a few. She made her debut with the Spokane Symphony at the age of eleven and since then has won multiple concerto competitions in Washington, Idaho, and Michigan. She has performed as a soloist with the Spokane Symphony, Spokane Youth Symphony, Interlochen Intermediate Orchestra, the Washington/Idaho Symphony, Seattle’s Philharmonia Northwest Orchestra, and will be debuting with the Seattle Symphony in 2020 having won their Young Artist Appearance Award in 2019. She is a 2019 Seattle Young Artist Music Festival Gold Medalist and a semi-finalist in the 2019 Louis Spohr International Violin Competition. She will be competing on the international stage again in the Grumiaux International Violin Competition in Brussels, Belgium this March. She studies with Simon James in Seattle, WA.
Daniel Stein (cello) – Winner 2020 Young Artist Concerto Competition, Junior Division
Daniel Stein, 16, began cello lessons at the age of six at the Hochstein School in Rochester, NY, and has since studied with teachers at home and abroad, including Pippa Macmillan and Kirsten Jensen in Cambridge, England, and Priscilla Jones of Bainbridge. While in England, he also had the opportunity to collaborate with the Britten Sinfonia, as well as the Seraphin Chamber Orchestra at King’s College, Cambridge. Daniel currently studies with Rajan Krishnaswami in Seattle, and plays a 1933 Marc Laberte cello generously loaned to him by the Carlsen Cello Foundation. He also plays in the cello sections of both Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra and the Bainbridge Island Youth Orchestra, as well as with a string quartet composed of Island teenagers. Daniel conducts his studies at home. Besides cello, he especially enjoys Spanish and history. In his free time, he enjoys playing chess, as well as writing articles for the e-mag Autodidact’s Journal.
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Tickets
Adults - $21.00 USD
Discounted - $18.00 USD
Youth 18 and under (free with paying adult) - $0.00 USD
Youth in Music Initiative: Please phone the BPA Box Office at 206.842.8569 to take advantage of this offer for youths, 18 and under.
Performances
May 30 & 31, 2020