The Villages Philharmonic Orchestra

Dear friends and patrons,

For our next concert, we will perform three marvelous masterpieces by Felix Mendelssohn.

Before Felix Mendelssohn, no composer had succeeded in expressing the joyful and elegant aspect of German Romanticism. Above all during his youthful years, Mendelssohn was an artistic child prodigy composing concertos and symphonies.

In addition to performing his Concerto In E minor for violin and orchestra, Renowned Violinist Fabrizio Falasca will be leading the VPO string section for a performance of the Scottish Symphony.

Musically Yours

Pasquale Valerio

Fabrizio Falasca is considered among the leading Italian violinists of his generation. He regularly performs as soloist in the most prestigious theaters and festivals throughout the world, such as the Royal Festival Hall in London, Brahms Saal of the Musikverein in Vienna, Salle Garnier in Montecarlo, Teatro Carlo Felice in Genova and the Teatro San Carlo in Napoli, to name a few.

Mendelssohn Program

Coming Live in February at The Sharon Theater

FREE PERFORMANCE

February 9th, 2023

88 keys project at the Sharon Theatre at 3pm

Francesco Maria Navelli was born in 2003 in a family of musicians. He began studying the piano very early. At the age of 13 he was admitted to the International Piano Academy "Incontri

col Maestro" in Imola with Professor Leonid Margarius. At the age of 18 he graduated with honors from the "G.Martucci" Conservatory of Music in Salerno. At the age of 19, he was

selected by Professor Benedetto Lupo as a student at the Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome.

Zoya Shuhatovich is an International Concert Pianist, Steinway Artist. She received her M.M and DMA at the Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod) State Concervatory, Russia under the tutelage of the highly regarded professor Ilja Fridman, student of the legendary Heinrich Neuhaus.

She immigrated to the US, Houston in 1993, where she currently resides. Zoya worked at the Moore’s School of Music, University of Houston from 1994 to 2002. She performs extensively in Europe: UK, France, Italy, Spain, Austria, Germany, Poland, Kosovo, Liechtenstein, Estonia.