The Fulton Chain of Lakes Performing Arts Council, Inc. will again present an Evening with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra under the tent in Arrowhead Park in Inlet on Friday, July 25th.
Vocalist Nick Ziobro
Michael Butterman will return as conductor for the gala event.
General admission tickets and tickets for the pre-event cocktail party at the Woods Inn are currently available for purchase at the Inlet and Old Forge Visitor Information Offices. Continue reading
Gerald Dupuis, chairman of the Fulton Chain of Lakes Performing Arts Council, Inc., has announced that The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra will return on Friday, July 25 for a concert under the tent at Arrowhead Park.
The FCLPAC is also awaiting word on a repeat free concert by the U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain Division Band at the same venue on Sunday, July 27th.
Tickets for the performance will be available for purchase at the Inlet and Old Forge Information Offices in mid-May, but in the meantime the FCLPAC is hoping appreciators of the symphony will consider making a contribution to assist with starting costs for this year’s event. Continue reading
Michael Butterman conducts the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra
The symphony performance by the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra on Saturday, July 6 drew an audience of over 400 to Inlet’s Arrowhead Park.
Jerry Dupuis, chairman of the Fulton Chain of Lakes Performing Arts Council, host organization of the event, said he and his fellow board members were pleased with attendance numbers at the concert, and that the cocktail party at the Woods Inn was a massive success with 250 guests. Continue reading
The concert by the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra at Arrowhead Park in Inlet on Saturday, July 6 will be under the direction of conductor Michael Butterman.
Maestro michael Butterman, Conductor of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra
Now in his 13th season as the RPO’s Principal Conductor for Education and Outreach—the first position of its kind in the United States—Butterman is also Music Director for both the Boulder Philharmonic and the Shreveport Symphony orchestras.
Beginning in the fall of 2009, he assumed the additional post of Resident Conductor for the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra. This past season was highlighted by his debut with the renowned Cleveland Orchestra.
Butterman gained international attention as a diploma laureate in the Prokofiev Inter-national Conducting Competition at Saint-Petersburg and as a finalist in the prestigious Besançon International Conducting Competition in France.
As the 1999 recipient of the Seiji Ozawa Fellowship, he studied at Tanglewood with Robert Spano, Jorma Panula, and Maestro Ozawa, and shared the podium with Ozawa to lead the season’s opening concert. In 1997, he was sponsored by UNESCO to lead the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Moldova in a concert of music by great American masters. Continue reading