For Release: October 17, 2022
Contact: Christine DeMint 864-232-0344 x.122
THE GREENVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PRESENTS
HAYDN SYMPHONY 98 featuring Principal Clarinet, Anthony Marotta
GREENVILLE, SC – Greenville Symphony Orchestra, led by Maestro Edvard Tchivzhel, will perform its first Chamber Series Concert of the 75th Anniversary Season on Friday, October 21, 2022, at 7:30 pm, Saturday, October 22, 2022, at 7:30 pm and Sunday, October 23, 2022, at 3 pm in Gunter Theatre at the Peace Center.
The concert opens with Gioachino Rossini’s Overture to “Il Signor Bruschino.” The opera, one of Rossini’s earliest works, premiered in Venice in 1813 when the composer was 21 years old.
The concert continues with Carl Maria von Weber’s Clarinet Concerto No.2. Weber’s friendship with a great clarinetist led to the creation of an excellent series of orchestral and chamber works showcasing the expressive and virtuosic capabilities of the clarinet. Greenville Symphony Principal Clarinetist Anthony Marotta will be the featured soloist on the Clarinet Concerto. Anthony is a graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy in Interlochen, MI, and received a Bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University. He also holds a Master’s degree from the University of South Carolina. He has held musical posts as principal clarinet of the Augusta Symphony Orchestra, associate principal clarinet of the Filarmonica de Queretaro (Mexico), principal clarinetist of the Long Bay Symphony Orchestra, and clarinetist with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago.
The concert concludes with Franz Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 98. Haydn’s Symphony No. 98 is one of 12 works commissioned by the London impresario Johann Peter Salomon that are the grandest of Haydn’s symphonies in both proportion and orchestration.
Tickets to the Greenville Symphony Orchestra’s “HAYDN SYMPHONY 98” concert are $50 and $60, with special day of performance rates of $5 for students and $10 for teachers with ID. To purchase tickets, visit the Peace Center box office at the corner of Broad and Main Streets in downtown Greenville, or call (864) 467-3000 between 9:30 am – 5:30 pm Monday through Friday.
THE GREENVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA is celebrating its 75th Anniversary during the 2022-2023 season. Recognized as one of the finest professional orchestras in the southeastern U.S., it began as a small group of volunteer musicians performing in the Women’s Auditorium on the old Furman College campus. Since 1990 the GSO’s home has been The Peace Center in Greenville SC. The orchestra performs the classical repertoire in Masterworks and Chamber Series concerts and an Artists Up Close Series featuring smaller ensembles. In addition, they perform three Pops concerts annually. The GSO has been led by Music Director and Conductor Edvard Tchivzhel since 1999. The Russian-born Tchivzhel is the Symphony’s 5th Music Director. Through its Education and Community Outreach concerts and programs, the Greenville Symphony annually reaches more than 50,000 children and adults in the Upstate. greenvillesymphony.org