Music Notes 🎶December 2019

December 2019

December 6 I 6-9 pm

Petoskey Downtown Holiday Open House

Stop by 219 E. Lake to see us!

December 19 I 7:00 pm

Messiah concert

Great Lakes Center for the Arts

December 20 I 7:00 pm

Messiah concert

Great Lakes Center for the Arts

January 4 I 10:30 am

Young Children's Library Series

January 12 I 4:00 pm

Sunday Series: The Complete Chopin Preludes and String Group

Messiah tickets still available

Don't miss your chance to see t he quintessential musical crown of the season! GLCO presents Handel’s Messiah with dazzling vocal solos, instrumental fireworks, and splendid choral writing making this one of the most beloved Holiday traditions. Soloists include Karen Hughes Beacom, Christine Amon, John Bragle, and Clay Thompson. Libor Ondras leads the orchestra and chorus in a performance not to be missed.

Two 7 p.m. performances! Thursday, December 19 and Friday December 20 at Great Lakes Center for the Arts. Tickets: $25-50, age 18 under Free. Tickets and more information at glcorchestra.org or call 231.487.0010

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Young Children Library Series,

beats on with percussion & rhythm

Open to the public, and free of charge, this family-friendly program is designed to introduce young children to music in an entertaining setting. The 45-minute sessions are aimed at encouraging children’s involvement and interest in music.

January 4 features GLCO musician, Tim Mocny, percussion, teaching all about rhythm. Join us at 10:30 am Saturday at the Petoskey District Library!

See the full schedule here .

GLCO musicians, Lynn Hansen and Jayne Winchester, demonstrate tempo- fast and slow- and everything in between on wind instruments as part of the Young Children's Library Series program in November.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Have a delightful holiday with family and friends, full of thanks and giving.

In honor of Thanksgiving our office will be closed Thursday Nov. 28 and Friday Nov. 29.

GLCO Spotlight

Paul Sonner is Concertmaster of the Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra as well as Traverse Symphony Orchestra. In addition to his performance with the GLCO, he is Instructor of Violin at the Interlochen Arts Academy.

Formerly Principal Second Violin and Associate Concertmaster of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, he has held positions of first violin in the Birmingham String Quartet, solo violin for Capriccio Concerts, violin in the Amabile Trio, and concertmaster for many other venues. He continues to be a featured soloist and has participated in a number of festivals including the Ojai (CA) Festival Orchestra and Des Moines Metro Opera. Mr. Sonner has served as Concertmaster and Soloist for the Bermuda (UK) Bach Festival as well as the Manitou (MI) Music Festival. He has recorded, as a “session” violinist and with the ASO, for a number of studios and labels in Los Angeles, Chicago, Birmingham and Muscle Shoals as well as for PBS and NPR.

His principal teachers were soloist Alice Shoenfeld and Chicago Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster Samuel Magad. Mr. Sonner studied in the preparatory department of the University of Southern California and has a degree in violin performance from Northwestern University (IL).

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As Northern Michigan’s champions of classical chamber music, it is our mission to entertain, to inspire and to educate. With a vast variety of concert themes, we highlight the most classic of traditional composers to the most innovative of today’s contemporaries—we truly have something for everyone!