Waterbury Symphony Orchestra

Guest Artists for the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra
2008-2009 Season

The Waterbury Symphony Orchestra is pleased to welcome the following guest artists to perform during this season. Click on the picture to read a full biography of each individual.
	Saturday, September 27, 2008 8:00 PM Yevgeny Sudbin, Piano Naugatuck Valley Community College Fine Arts Center Yevgeny Sudbin has performed extensively throughout the world, many of his performances having been broadcast on radio and television. He has appeared with several of the world’s most distinguished orchestras, and performed at venues such as the Musikhalle, Hamburg, the Gewandhaus, Leipzig and Konzerthaus, Berlin; as well as London’s Wigmore Hall.. “Yevgeny Sudbin is already hailed as potentially one of the greatest pianists of the 21st century.”

	Saturday, October 25, 2008 8:00 PM Five By Design in Club Swing Palace Theater Minneapolis-based Five By Design has toured extensively throughout the continental U.S. and Canada averaging over 200 days on the road and 60 performances per season. Their talents have even taken them on a whirlwind visit to Istanbul, Turkey for an appearance at the “Bosphorus -International Music Festival.” The ensemble is gaining national exposure with their appearance on syndicated media broadcasts including National Public Radio’s “Weekend Edition—Sunday” and “Swingin’ Down the Lane” and have been featured in Symphony magazine.

	Sunday, November 16, 2008 3:00 PM Nauagtuck Valley Community College Choir and Soloists Dr. Richard Gard, Conductor Naugatuck Valley Community College Fine Arts Center Richard Gard is the Director of Music at Saint Thomas More Chapel at Yale and Lecturer at Yale University. He is concurrently Associate Professor of Music at Naugatuck Valley Community College, where he leads Connecticut's most comprehensive two-year music program and conducts the college choir, opera, and concert band. Richard is also an active adjudicator and guest conductor. The NVCC College Choir consists of college students and members of the local community who audition each semester. Each year The Choir presents two concerts with orchestra as well as other performances on campus and elsewhere, such as Wesleyan University, Yale University, the State Capital, the Palace Theater, Oakdale Theater, and local churches. The Choir has toured Great Britain, Hungary, Austria, New Orleans, Puerto Rico, Montreal and Quebec, and has broadcast on Public Radio.


	Saturday, January 17, 2009; 8:00 PM Sunday, January 18, 2009; 3:00 PM Alexander Ghindin, Piano Winner, Cleveland International Piano Competition Naugatuck Valley Community College Fine Arts Center Alexander Ghindin was born in 1977 in Moscow. At the age of 13, he became laureate of the Moscow Young Pianists Competition. Later he was the youngest prize-winner of the 10th International Tchaikovsky Competition, and subsequently won the 2nd prize of the Queen Elisabeth Competition. In 2007, he was the First Prize of the Cleveland International Piano Competition. The numerous ensembles and orchestras he has played with include the London and Munich Philharmonic Orchestras, New Japan Philharmonic, the Swedish Royal Festival Orchestra, Rotterdam Symphony Orchestra, Israel Chamber Orchestra, and the Russian National Orchestra.

	Saturday, February 14, 2009 8:00 PM Julie Budd, Vocalist Palace Theater While enjoying a multi-faceted musical career, Julie Budd's credits range from television to film and the New York stage, from symphonies to the most lavish casinos and showrooms in the country. She began her professional career at the tender age of twelve, after meeting record producer/orchestrator, Herb Bernstein, who immediately took Julie under his wing and introduced her to Merv Griffin at a recording session in New York City. After hearing Julie sing, this "Mini-Girl with the Maxi-Voice" was invited to appear on over 100 of Merv's TV shows. From there she went on to appear on The Tonight Show, Entertainment Tonight and every other major TV show. In the years that followed, Julie co-starred with such legendary performers as Frank Sinatra, Bill Cosby, Joan Rivers, Bob Hope, George Burns, Liberace, and Carol Burnett. Her concerts include performances at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, The London Palladium, Tel Aviv's Israel Performing Arts Center, venues in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, and major symphony halls in the United States.

	Sunday, March 8, 2009 3:00 PM Pip Clarke, Violinist Naugatuck Valley Community College Fine Arts Center During the past decade, Pip Clarke has established herself as one of the leading violinists of her generation. A highly expressive and romantic artist, her concert touring has taken her all over the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia. Pip is a unique musician at the very peak of her talent, and it is said that her tone warms and haunts the listener long after the music has ended. Loved by audiences wherever she goes, critics have described her playing as “dazzling”, demonstrating “incredible emotion” and often noting an “audience spellbound”. To date, she has performed with over 70 orchestras in the United States alone.

	Saturday, May 9, 2009 8:00 PM Ysaye Barnwell, Composer Palace Theater Ysaye Barnwell lives in Washington, DC, where since 1979, she has performed with the internationally acclaimed a cappella quintet, Sweet Honey in the Rock. Dr. Barnwell has composed and arranged music on more than 14 recordings on labels including Sony Classical. She has worked as a commissioned composer on numerous and varied projects including Sesame Street, Dance Alloy of Pittsburgh, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, Women's Philharmonic of San Francisco, Redwood Cultural Work, The New Spirituals Project , The Steel Festival of Bethlehem, PA, and The Plymouth Music Series.