Luther College Dorian Orchestra Festival concerts Feb. 8 and 9
Luther College will host two concerts Feb. 8 and 9 in conjunction with the 38th annual Dorian Orchestra Festival.
Luther’s Symphony Orchestra will perform Sunday, Feb. 8 at 7 p.m. in the Center for Faith and Life Main Hall.
The Dorian Orchestra Festival Grand Concert will be held Monday, Feb. 9 at 7 p.m. in the Center for Faith and Life Main Hall.
Both concerts are open to the public with no charge for admission.
Under the direction of Daniel Baldwin, Luther professor of music, the Sunday night Symphony Orchestra performance will include Overture to “Nabucco,” by Giuseppe Verdi, Concerto for Violin in E minor by Felix Mendelssohn with violin soloist, Jubal Fulks, Luther visiting assistant professor of music, and “Scheherazade” by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
Monday’s Dorian Festival Grand Concert will include performances by the three Festival orchestras: the Dorian select Chamber Orchestra, the Dorian Festival Philharmonia Orchestra and the Dorian Festival Strings Orchestra, as well as select high school soloists.
Under the direction of Baldwin, the Dorian Festival Chamber Orchestra performance will include “Serenade” by Edward Elgar, Symphony No. 27, movement one by Mozart, excerpts from “The Red Pony” by Aaron Copland, and “Prayer of St. Gregory” by Alan Hovhannes, featuring trumpet soloist Richard Tirk, Luther assistant professor of music.
Under the direction of Spencer Martin, Luther associate professor of music, the Dorian Festival Philharmonia Orchestra performance will include “Capriol Suite” by Peter Warlock, “Hungarian Dance No. 4” by Johannes Brahms, arrangement by Merle Isaac, “Brandenburg Concerto No. 2” by Bach, arrangement by Isaac, and “It Don’t Mean a Thing (If it Ain’t Got That Swing)” by Duke Ellington, arrangement by Robert Longfield.
Under the direction of guest Conductor Scott Hosfeld of Malibu, Calif., the Dorian Festival String Orchestra performance will include “Dorian Festival Overture” by Maria Newman featuring Martin on solo viola, “Dance of the Tumblers” by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, “Night Beat” by M.L. Daniels, and “Brook Green Suite” by Gustav Holst.
The Festival ensembles are composed of 195 high school students from 18 schools in Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Missouri and Colorado.
String musicians from across the upper Midwest attend the festival to study and perform under college level instruction.
Dorian students have opportunities to both play and hear music at a high quality of performance. Festival sessions include group instruction, rehearsals, individual lessons with music faculty members, auditions for solo performances and master classes, auditions for music scholarships, and social and recreational activities.
Luther College is home to one of the largest collegiate music programs in the world with seven choirs, three orchestras, three bands, two jazz bands and nearly 1,000 student musicians. Luther students perform in large ensembles, faculty-coached chamber groups, private lessons and master classes. More than 350 music majors study music theory, ear training, history, education, composition, church music and performance.
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Maria Newman is a California-based composer (and wife of Scott Hosfeld) who has written at least three works for the Dorian Orchestra Festival. She gave the world premiere of a violin concerto at Luther, playing the solo part herself. She regularly writes music for movies and TV shows, and plays in studio orchestras, along with husband Scott. They also run a music festival in Malibu, at which Luther faculty Eric Kutz and Miko Kominami have been featured.