CAMELLIA SYMPHONY PRESENTS WORLD PREMIERE COMPOSITION AT SIZZLING CONCERT
The Camellia Symphony Orchestra (CSO) will heat up the new year with an eclectic concert that offers jazzy compositions, a famous ballet by Stravinsky as well as a world premiere piece by up-and-coming jazz and classical music composer, Julian Waterfall Pollack. The concert takes place at CSO’s new venue, The Center at Twenty-Three Hundred on Saturday, February 25.
Waterfall Pollack comes from a musical family: his father is CSO’s music director and conductor, Dr. Allan Pollack (also a composer) and his mother, Susan Waterfall, is a concert pianist. This is Julian’s first classical music composition although he is well known throughout Europe and the United States for his jazz compositions. Julian has recorded two C.D.’s, the latest received critical acclaim from the San Francisco Chronicle and NPR.
TICKET PRICES FOR SIZZLING: Adults: $28, Seniors: $24; Students: $15; Children (12 and under): $8. For tickets call (916) 929-6655 or log onto www.camelliasymphony.org. For groups of 10 or more, please contact the CSO Box Office at: 916 929-6655.
49TH SEASON CONCERT SERIES:
Sizzling
Saturday, February 25, 2012, 8 p.m.
The Center at Twenty-Three Hundred
2300 Sierra Blvd., Sacramento, CA 95825 (located between Fulton and Howe by Fair Oaks Blvd.)
6:00 p.m. Doors open with a free wine tasting and silent auction
6:30 p.m. Camellia Juniors Orchestra—free performance with ticket purchase
7:15 p.m. Pre-concert talk by Maestro Allan Pollack
Bernstein: Three Dance Episodes from On the Town
Pollack: Piano Concerto, Julian Waterfall Pollack, WORLD PREMIERE
Stravinsky: Petrushka
BIO: Julian Waterfall Pollack
Born into a musical family, New York-based pianist and composer Julian Waterfall Pollack started studying piano at age 5 with his mother, a concert pianist. He started leading his own groups as an early teenager, and by the age of 17, he signed with Jazzschool Records, which released his highly acclaimed debut album. Pollack has been recognized by critics around the world for his elegant touch and maturity, and for his singular blend of jazz improvisation and composition that combines a love for today’s popular music as well as a respect for the tradition of classical music.
The past few years have been very exciting for the 23-year old Northern California native. After the release of his second album, Infinite Playground (Junebeat Records, 2010), San Francisco Chronicle Music critic David Wiegand wrote that the new album “provides ample evidence that Pollack is a ferociously assured and creatively dazzling pianist, composer and arranger.” During a primetime NPR interview, Wiegand stated, “You often hear young people who are really, really talented; what you don’t hear–that I hear in Julian’s music–is maturity and soul and a lot of thoughtfulness.” Infinite Playground received a five star rating from the San Francisco Chronicle and has been garnered much critical acclaim from other publications and critics across the globe.
Pollack was recently commissioned by the French Will Never Forget (TFWNF) to compose and arrange for piano and the Academie de Musique Symphony orchestra for the largest September 11th ten-year commemoration in the world outside of NYC, which took place in front of the Eiffel Tower, at the Place du Trocadero in Paris. He was also featured in the 2011 film “In Good Time,” a documentary about the life and music of Marian McPartland, host of NPR’s award-winning program Piano Jazz (on which Pollack first appeared as an 18-year old). Last January, Pollack was appointed Artistic Director of the Jazz Series at the Mendocino Music Festival in California. In June, Pollack was awarded an ASCAP Jazz Composers award for his composition “Blackberry,” from his album Infinite Playground.
Pollack has performed numerous times at the Blue Note in New York City under his own name, and opened for artists such as Chick Corea and Gary Burton. He also has performed and or recorded with the likes of Joshua Redman, John Scofield, Miguel Zenon, George Garzone, Ari Hoenig, Christopher Tordini, Taylor Eigsti, Nir Felder, Ambrose Akinmusire, Billy Buss, Chase Baird, among others. Pollack has performed at many prestigious venues such as the Village Vanguard, Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, The Jazz Gallery, Smalls Jazz Club, Yoshi’s, The A-Trane, Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, and international festivals including Montreux, Umbria, Earshot, Salt Lake City, and Monterey. Pollack is also the recipient of the prestigious Level One Gold Prize awarded by the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts (NFAA) and was a member of its Clifford Brown/Stan Getz All-Stars. After the release of Pollack’s first album, Goin’ For It, internationally acclaimed JAZZIZ Magazine selected the high-octane original, “Take Me Outside,” to be on its monthly CD series, JAZZIZ On Disc. As a 17-year-old, he was featured in the NFAA’s Academy Award nominated documentary, ”Rehearsing a Dream” which has appeared and continues to appear on HBO.
CAMELLIA SYMPHONY AND ST. JOHN’S PRESENT MESSIAH SING-ALONG
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 1, 2011
CONTACT: Roberta McClellan, (916) 929-6655
E-mail: robertaamcclellan@comcast.net
CAMELLIA SYMPHONY AND ST. JOHN’S PRESENT MESSIAH SING-ALONG
Sacramento, CA —The Camellia Symphony Orchestra and St. John’s Lutheran Church Choir will offer their annual holiday concert collaboration that includes a candle light procession, select holiday arrangements and Handle’s Messiah Sing-Along. Conducting the orchestra and choir will be St. John’s Music Director, Steven Johnson.
WHEN: Sunday, December 4, 2011, 5:00 p.m.
WHERE: St. John’s Lutheran Church, 1701 L Street, Sacramento, 95811
PROGRAM:
Part I—Candle light procession by choir members, hand bell presentation, holiday selections by orchestra and choirs
Part II—Messiah Sing-Along with audience participation. Copies of Handel’s Messiah Sing Along will be available for purchase for $15. Audience members are encouraged to bring personal copies to share as well.
TICKETS: Tickets are now being sold through the Camellia Symphony Box Office for $10.00 (12 and under free) or online at www.camelliasymphony.org.
Tickets may also be purchased at the door.
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email: clarinetgal@surewest.net
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