Please join us for an evening of music for string orchestra by the Eckerd College Orchestra conducted by David Irwin, and the members of the touring chamber orchestra of The New German Symphony. The program is free and open to public Thursday 9 December 2010 at 7:30 PM in Fox Hall on the campus of Eckerd College at 4200 54th Avenue South; St. Petersburg, FL 33711-4744.
Our special guests are member of The New German Symphony, an orchestra which gave their debut in October 2001 in Karlsruhe, Germany with the objective of forming a new orchestra that is independent in all respects and not hierarchically organized.
The members are either playing in opera or symphony orchestras all over Germany, or are outstanding students at the beginning of their careers. Touring Germany, Europe and overseas the orchestra forms chamber groups, consisting of 7-9 players performing orchestral works. They don't work with a conductor, and so interpretation and phrasing are inspired by every musician.
For the New German Symphony it is the fourth series of Florida Christmas Concerts after successful performances in Miami, St. Petersburg, and Orlando, amongst others.
The program includes music by Mouret, Handel, Corelli, Bach, Elgar, and Brahms. The New German Symphony members will perform the Bach Concerto for Flute and Two Violins in D-Major, BWV 1064 and the Elgar Serenade for Strings op. 20 separately. Soloists for the Bach are Flutist Peter Epple, and Violinists Claudia von Kopp Ostrowski and Dietrich Shuz.